Question

1. Why Hospitals must be licensed from the higher health authorities in their countries in order to be allowed to provide any type of health care services? Whilst, it is not necessarily for hospitals to be accredited in order to provide such services.
2. Administrative and health care scholars and practitioners agreed that "coordination in business and healthcare organizations is the essence of managerial functions of managers. Do you agree or not? Defend your answer.

Answer 1

1.Hospitals must be licensed from the higher health authorities in their countries in order to be allowed to provide any type of health care services but it is not necessary for hospitals to be accredited in order to provide such services.

Accreditations are recognitions from non-governmental third-party agencies that someone has met pre-determined standards. Licensure is a formal recognition by a regulation agency that someone is proficient in a skill to practice it in an area, often a state.

As accreditation is a non governmental third party agency it is not necessary for the hospitals to provide any type of health care.

2.Yes I agree with the statement.

Yes, Coordination is indeed the essence of management. By Coordination, we mean a path through which the group functions are linked up. It binds the people of the health care organisations and their activities to ensure a smooth functioning of the work.

Coordination is regarded as an essence of management rather than a separate function of manager because of following reasons:

1. Coordination is needed to perform all the functions of management starting from planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling.

2. Coordination is required at all the levels from top level management to middle level management to lower level management.

3. Coordination is the most important function of management in order to endure and run successfully for a long period of time as it minimize the wastage of resources in the organization.