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A 5 page paper discussing the organizational structure at MHC, one of New York City’s several public hospitals. The organizational chart and the presence of various labor unions at the hospital indicate that organization is rigid and unyielding, but quality measures, JCAHO certification and newspaper accounts of events at the hospital suggest otherwise. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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File: CC6_KShlthCaOrgStMet.rtf
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Hospital Center is a member of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) serving an area including most of East Harlem and defined on one boundary by Fifth
Avenue, for a patient mix presenting the full range of economic circumstances and resultant access to health care. A significant portion of the geographic area that the hospital serves
is comprised of low-income residents likely live in single-parent families suffering from low education levels and high rates of poverty and unemployment (Organization Analysis, n.d.).
Structurally, Metropolitan Hospital Center is only one of the hospitals and other health services facilities comprising HHC. As such, it does not entirely determine its own destiny,
but rather reports to the president of the larger HHC organization. Quality Issues Various news stories published over the past several years reveal
that the Metropolitan Hospital Center has been the target of a few lawsuits of varying natures. Most notable about these news items is their relative rarity in database searches,
however. The search returning the greatest number of results (EBSCO Host, MasterFILE Premier database) returns only three such accounts cumulatively dating from the beginning of 2000. In our
litigious society where health care workers and institutions are open and easy targets, this dearth of lawsuits reported in The New York Times and other local newspapers speaks well of
the level of quality of care practiced at Metropolitan Hospital Center. 1. Assess the organizations definitions and measure of quality. HHC maintains the
website for the Metropolitan Hospital Center (MHC), displaying on the site the tagline, "Building on a Tradition of Excellence" (Metropolitan Hospital Center, 2004). The hospital was founded in 1875
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