SUBJECT: Healthcare Management and Organizational Behavior
TOPIC: Healthcare Service Lines
Healthcare organizations use various strategies to minimize expenditures while improving the quality of care in their service lines. A few healthcare organizations take a well-defined approach in which service line governance is shared and others use a mixture of methods.
Review the following article about healthcare service lines:
http://www.hfma.org/Leadership/Archives/2014/Summer/8_Stages_to_Service_Line_Growth/
Explain how a healthcare service line is structured. Generate a nursing service line and an outline of each division in the service line. Explain how a service line can be implemented to reduce operating cost for a healthcare organization.
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e: Organizational Behavior, Theory, and Design in Health Care
Author: Borkowski, N.
Ed./Copyright: 2
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/ 2016
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 978-1-284-0508
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Healthcare Service Lines
Service lines is the grouping of different products related to particular division of service in an organisation. Service lines are strategies used by organisations in order to maximise profitability and returns (Smith, Finkler & Calabrese, 2018). Also, this is done to ensure all services are delivered at an optimal level without affecting each other. Services lines have been adopted widely in healthcare organisations to ensure each line of duty offers its service. More healthcare organisations are using this strategy to improve management and facilitate proper service delivery.
Structuring of service lines in healthcare sectors is done to facilitate proper management and to drive financial growth in the health centres. The structuring of healthcare service lines involves the empowerment of line leaders, starting with strong leaders and appointing mangers (Buchbinder, Shanks & Kite, 2019). Service lines require strong leadership which are ready to transform the healthcare organisation to facilitate its growth and development. In healthcare, service lines are set up in a way that makes them easier to manage and helps the health centers make more money. Healthcare service lines are set up by giving line leaders more power, starting with strong leaders and naming managers (Buchbinder, Shanks & Kite, 2019). Service lines need strong leaders who are ready to change the organization in order to help it grow and develop. Empowerment of leadership ensures proper leaders are selected to drive the strategic line of service line management. Also, starting with strong leadership ensures a department or service line is fully efficient and delivery its services diligently with transparency. In this case, the service line managers need to have both clinical and management knowhow for the strategy to work. Moreover, the healthcare organisation needs o appoint leaders who are going to take up the service lines and facilitate growth. In this case a physician can had the general issues service line a dentist to lead the dental service line (Borkowski, 2016).
Conclusively, healthcare service lines are critical in an organisation. They help ensure strategic management as well as spur financial growth. To structure a healthcare service line there is need to empower leaders, strengthen leadership and appoint service line mangers to take up the tasks.
References
Borkowski, N. (2016). Organizational Behavior, Theory, and Design in Health Care. Jones & Bartlett Learning. 2nd Edition. ISBN: 978-1-284-0508.
Buchbinder, S. B., Shanks, N. H., & Kite, B. J. (2019). Introduction to health care management. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Finkler, S. A., Smith, D. L., & Calabrese, T. D. (2018). Financial management for public, health, and not-for-profit organizations. CQ Press.
