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Change Is Coming research project
This Learning Exercise refers to the organization chart in Figure 12.1. Because Memorial Hospital is expanding, the board of directors has made several changes that require modification of the organization chart. The directors have just announced the following changes:
The name of the hospital has been changed from Memorial Hospital to Memorial Medical Center.
State approval has been granted for open-heart surgery.
One of the existing medical–surgical units will be remodeled and will become two critical care units (one six-bed coronary and open-heart unit and one six-bed trauma and surgical unit).
A part-time medical director will be responsible for medical care on each critical care unit.
The hospital administrator’s title has been changed to executive director.
An associate hospital administrator has been hired.
A new hospital-wide educational department has been created.
The old pediatric unit will be remodeled into a seven-bed pediatric wing and a seven-bed rehabilitation unit.
The director of nursing’s new title is vice president of patient care services.
ASSIGNMENT:
If the hospital is viewed as a large, open system, it is possible to visualize areas where problems might occur. In particular, it is necessary to identify changes anticipated in the nursing department and how these changes will affect the organization as a whole.
Depict all of these changes on the old organization chart, delineating both staff and line positions. Give the rationale for your decisions. Why did you place the education department where you did? What was the reasoning in your division of authority? Where do you believe there might be potential conflict in the new organization chart? Why?