The Perception of Administrators at Small Independent Hospital
The Purpose of the Study
This study aims at determining why small hospitals administrators’ perception is important to administrators and hospitals. As small independent hospitals continue to keep up with the current pace of changes in the healthcare industry, it is important for the administrators to understand the value of their perception in the workplace. Essentially, when the small hospitals’ administrators understand their perception, they get an opportunity to use the perception to learn and know the financial activities in both the internal and external environment. As such, hospitals’ administrators can use this study to understand the relationship of their perception and crucial factors such as social and finance factors. The perception of the hospital administrators has a direct impact on the finance management in the hospitals; hence, this study is relevant as it brings out findings that demonstrate how the administrators can use their perception to deal with financial instability in the hospitals.
Small Independent Hospitals, Community Hospitals, and CAH
Small independent hospitals are similar to the NHS hospitals. However, in the smaller healthcare system, there is less use of designated equipment such as the stores and libraries because the hospitals are set in smaller scale aspect (Association of Independent Healthcare Organization, 2016). Contrarily, community hospitals refer to the general acute care, in which the hospitals do not support extensive teaching and the aspect of the research program. This is to say that in the category of hospitals, community hospitals are set for the purpose of treating the public, but does not focus on establishing research programs that are carried out in the NHS and small independent hospitals. Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) is another category of the hospital, but conduct different tasks from that of the independent and community hospitals. Most CAHs offer services to those located in rural areas (Baernholdt, et al., 2014).
The Importance of Administrators’ Perception in the Independent Small Hospital
Since it is apparent that the issue of financial instability in the small independent hospital has become a challenge, the perception of the administrators has useful implications toward this challenge. As such, with a working perception the hospital administration understand, this will be significant, as it will assist the administrators to focus on factors that are likely to contribute to the aspect of financial instability within the small independent hospitals (Grudzen, et al., 2013). As some of the factors that cause financial instability can make the hospitals undergo bankruptcy, it is important for the administrators to use their perception to understand the likeliness of the factor that may bring out the problem.
On the other hand, the administrators in the small independent hospitals can use their perception to prevent hospital closure due to the cases of financial instability. In most of the independent hospitals, the importance of administrators’ perception has become so rampant, as hospitals now understand significant of administrators knowing their work attitude and the way it relates to factors such as finance. The administrators in the independent hospitals can also use their perception to deal with financial challenges within the hospitals. For example, when the manager is aware his or her perception, one gets in a better position to understand the financial challenges that may affect the hospital. Through the understanding of one’s perception, the administrators can know that factors such reimbursement, implementing healthcare reforms, and the electronic record may cause financial problems within the hospitals if they are not handled appropriately (Grudzen, et al., 2013).
Reference
Association of Independent Healthcare Organization (2016). AIHO Guide to Independent Acute Hospitals for CQC Inspectors. Retrieved from: http://aiho.org.uk/doc_view/671-a-guide-to-independent-hospitals-for-cqc-inspectors
Baernholdt, M., Keim-Malpass, J., Hinton, I. D., Yan, G., & Bratt, M. M. (2014). A comparison of quality of care in critical access hospitals and other rural hospitals. Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 14(2), 1-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.14574/ojrnhc.v14i2.328
Grudzen, C. R., Richardson, L. D., Major-Monfried, H., Kandarian, B., Ortiz, J. M., & Morrison, R. S. (2013). Hospital administrators’ views on barriers and opportunities to delivering palliative care in the emergency department.Annals of emergency medicine, 61(6), 654-660.
