Hospital Management By Health Services Management Professionals: The Change Paradigm
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The role of hospital management in enhancing healthcare quality is crucial, necessitating competent managers with specialized education in Health Services Management. This study explores the shift towards utilizing Health Services Management graduates in hospital management, focusing on a hospital as a developing country. Methods: , this qualitative case study, investigates the rationale, methods, and outcomes of employing Health Services Management graduates as a change paradigm. Purposive sampling and semi-structured interviews with 12 participants elucidated management experiences under this approach. Thematic analysis using an inductive approach was employed for data analysis. Results: Analysis revealed six main themes and 26 sub-themes, including structural, process, cultural, performance, and resource reforms, alongside resultant consequences and outcomes. Conclusion: Transitioning from traditional managers to Health Services Management graduates in hospital management presents various reforms across structures, processes, resources, culture, and performance. These reforms may yield positive outcomes such as increased patient and staff satisfaction and enhanced operational effectiveness. This hypothesis warrants further investigation in similar contexts
Abstract
The role of hospital management in enhancing healthcare quality is crucial, necessitating competent managers with specialized education in Health Services Management. This study explores the shift towards utilizing Health Services Management graduates in hospital management, focusing on a hospital as a developing country.
Methods: , this qualitative case study, investigates the rationale, methods, and outcomes of employing Health Services Management graduates as a change paradigm. Purposive sampling and semi-structured interviews with 12 participants elucidated management experiences under this approach. Thematic analysis using an inductive approach was employed for data analysis.
Results: Analysis revealed six main themes and 26 sub-themes, including structural, process, cultural, performance, and resource reforms, alongside resultant consequences and outcomes.
Conclusion: Transitioning from traditional managers to Health Services Management graduates in hospital management presents various reforms across structures, processes, resources, culture, and performance. These reforms may yield positive outcomes such as increased patient and staff satisfaction and enhanced operational effectiveness. This hypothesis warrants further investigation in similar contexts
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