MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE

Analyzing the Management Structure and Organization Design



Executive summary

This paper analyzes the management structure and organizational design of the Joint Commission. For this purpose being an outside consultant brought into organization I will analyze the management structure and organizational design of this health services business with the help of in-depth profile of the Joint Commission. This analysis will be performed on the bases of organizational theories I have learned in this course, I will determine how the company can be run more efficiently and effectively. Finally the findings and recommendations will be presented in end of the analysis report.

Analyzing the Management Structure and Organization Design

Introduction

The Joint Commission has a 30 year history of providing a framework for comprehensive emergency management for hospitals. Their standards require that organizations identify the potential emergencies that could affect them and develop a plan that addresses the four phases of emergency management activities: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Emergency operation plans must also address command structures, backup communications systems, building evacuations, and coordination with other community health care organizations and emergency responders. (Eadie, 2000) Additionally there must be mitigation activities that have been designed to reduce the risk of and potential damage due to an emergency and recovery strategies in place designed to help restore the systems that are critical to resuming normal care, treatment and services.

Effective January 1, 2008, the emergency management standards (EC.4.10 and EC.4.20) for hospitals, critical access hospitals and long term care facilities have been revised to reflect an "all-hazards" approach to emergency preparedness that will permit appropriate flexible and effective responses. These revised standards emphasize a "scalable" approach that will help manage the variety, intensity and duration of the disasters that might affect an organization or an entire community. (Eadie, 2000) This White Paper will focus on water sustainability as it relates to Joint Commission requirements. The discussion will delineate response efforts when the organization cannot be supported by the local community for at least 96 hours in the six critical areas required by the Commission. Through this discussion, the reader will be introduced to how First Water, and its advanced water purification technology, can help achieve the desired sustainability and recovery. Whenever an emergency impacts the ability to have clean water for drinking, food preparation, sanitation, decontamination, bathing or a myriad of other uses, facilities are faced with the painful choices of going on diversion, evacuation and/or closure. (Goossens, 1993) The technology to purify available non-potable water can keep a facility operational through extended water bans for weeks or longer. These systems ensure cost effective continued operations for many potential threats to the hospital and community.

While the Joint Commission suggests that an acceptable response when water is unavailable or compromised would be to temporarily close or evacuate a facility, the First Water technology can help prevent such a cost sensitive and care disruptive decision. (Goossens, 1993) With hundreds of hospitals in the United States, and thousands internationally relying on First Water, the solutions are well suited to meet ...