Analyze the critical management issues, purpose, functions, and performance measures of different departments within healthcare organizations.

Analyze the critical management issues, purpose, functions, and performance measures of different departments within healthcare organizations.

Religious Health Care operates in a community of 225,000, called Middleville. Summary statistics on Religious and its competitors, from the AHA Guide, are shown in Table 1. All of the organizations in the area are not-for-profit. Although Samaritan Hospital and Protestant Hospital have religious origins, they now view themselves as secular, not-for-profit organizations.
The governing board of Religious hired a consulting company to evaluate its strategic performance. As part of the consultant?s evaluation, several leaders of Religious? units were asked their perspective of the organization?s performance.
You are working for the consultant. Your job is to identify the issues from the response that should be considered further by the consultant team and possibly discussed with the governing board and the CEO. The firm has a rule, ?Never offer a criticism or negative finding without suggesting how the client organization can correct it,? so you must indicate what sort of correction would be recommended as part of your list. Because you know there were about two dozen other interviews, you decide you should rank your issues in importance, to make sure the most critical are discussed.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you