Organization of a Health Care Facility

Running head: ASSIGNMENT 4

ORGANIZATION OF A HEALTH CARE FACILITY

Assignment 4

HSA 515

Organization of a Health Care Facility

As a chief operating officer, you are responsible for a 15-bed Emergency Room (ER). You have received many complaints within the last year regarding inadequate patient care, poor ER management, long wait times, and patients being sent away because of lack of space, staff, or physicians to provide appropriate care.

Diagnose the root causes of the complaints about the clinic.

In a 15-bed Emergency Room (ER), overcrowding of patients is the root cause for inadequate patient care in the ER. The increase in patients throughout the years with limited staff has become an issue for emergency rooms. The increase in patients is created...