MANAGERS IN HEALTHCARE

Managers in healthcare

Managers in healthcare

Introduction

Healthcare managers provide services (non-clinical) within the core team of health services. They or their responsibility to develop a range of health services to see to the implementation of programs and evaluation. Managers of health services plan, organize, direct and coordinate the activities of financial services and development. They are responsible for finance, management of health services, the implementation of procedures and the financial system of a health facility. They prepare or coordinate the financial statements, budgeting, summary statements and other reports for analysis and financial management. They are also responsible for planning and marketing of their health facility. They hire staff and see to its formation (Longshore, 2000).Discussion

A healthcare manager must have the ability to be aware of everything, to work side by side with anyone to do things, knowing the field and work having a clear goal, to keep and spread it to his subordinates his vision so that they adhere to it with enthusiasm. We add further that the manager, in addition to having some knowledge, of the healthcare sector, they must have sociability to interact and communicate with people. Have a clear goal which should convey to their subordinates, because he is to lead and coordinate people to achieve that goal. That means knowing how to delegate, team work, listening to people, and involving them in decision making.

Service-Line Managers

Service managers possess different managerial roles depending on their job nature. Service line managers seem to emerge in large hospitals. They are found heading a certain area such as oncology, trauma services, cardiology, women's emergency or serving in a combined way as a clinician, administrator, industrial engineer for ensuring cost efficient patient care and tap resources. Some managers may be former head in administrator or senior clinicians who decided to move in management from health care field. Normally they ...