Healthcare Management

Budgeting, Planning and Communication



Healthcare Management Budgeting, Planning and Communication

Introduction

The management of the healthcare system is vital to ensure the staff satisfaction and to provide patients with appropriate health care services. The management incorporates different processes with the involvement of skillful professionals. Budgeting, planning and communication skills are the elements that are pivotal for the management of the organization. The overall management can greatly affect the reputation of the health care system and maintain the competency level amongst the healthcare organizations (Garman, Fitz, Fraser, 2006). This paper discusses these important elements and their importance in the management of the health care organization.

Discussion

Health care management means the management of the health care system. The health care system has many organizations and management of these organizations can greatly affect the quality of the health care services provided. The system incorporates a diversity of healthcare professionals, including the doctors, nurses and the Para medical staff, the patients, the stake holders and other financing and supporting bodies. The management of the system incorporates the necessary steps taken to manage all of these individuals, providing that their satisfaction guaranteed with the deliverance of best services. The main components of the system involve following patients (IBM, 2009):

Budgeting

Planning

Communication

Budgeting

The budgeting includes the financial and strategic planning of an organization. The financial policies are applied in the decision making process of the organization. In order to implement any change or to take any effective step, it is important to set the affordable budget of the process first (Sussman, 2003). Budgeting is one of the vital elements of an organization, as it can ensure the financial well being of the setup. It is important that the planners should work on the cost effective strategies with limits possible money expenditure, without compromising the quality of the process. The budget incorporates the in the house and out house expenditure of the organization.

Approaches

In the healthcare organizations, two kinds of budgeting approaches are used

Top to down

Down to up top

The top to down approach refers to the budget planning in which the budget is set at the heads level, however, the main approach is the bottom to top approach, in which the budget is made on a departmental level and put in front of the organizational heads. These heads then evaluate and confirm the budgeting plan (Sussman, 2003).The budget is developed on than the shared set of assumptions of the organization by ...