Case Study Analysis: Faith Community Hospital
The article entitled: Let it Pour - My First Assignment as Executive Assistant, exposes three major problems that Faith Community Hospital is faced with. Chris Smith, a recently promoted Executive Assistant, has been enlisted to assist the troubled Chief Executive Officer diagnose and solve these issues. Chris is a recent UOPHX graduate who is very excited to have been chosen to help the CEO with such an important task. The problems which this article exposed appear to be crucial to the overall operational success of the hospital.
Identifying The Problems
After carefully analyzing the case study, two primary issues appear in to be at the root of many of the organizations problems and thus Pat's (CEO) problems. The first problem stems from the fact that: "medical errors cause tens of thousands of deaths each year, close to 100,000 in hospitals alone" (University of Phoenix material, n.d.).
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The CEO is concerned with the ethical, moral and legal aspects of Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) directives and the effects that religious beliefs have on the hospital's customer base. DNR directives hold the patients right to refuse treatment in high regard. Many terminally ill patients opt for DNR directives when they feel all other avenues have been explored and their chance at good quality of life have been exhausted. This is a very sensitive topic and has been actively debated for many years. The CEO has...