Role of the Hospital Administrator in Healthcare
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Role of the Hospital Administrator in Healthcare
The role of hospital administrator’s in the healthcare reform is one that
will be always changing. The administrator has to know what are the new laws,
rules, regulations that are out, coming out, and will be changed within the next
few
years.
They
need to
stay on
top of
all that
information and still be on top of their day to day tasks. How things used to work
in the facility will no longer be the best for the company and it is the hospital’s
administrator’s task to figure out the best solution.
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Role of the
Hospital
Administrato
r in Health
Care Reform
Healthcare Policy paper
Jessica Mandra
Role of the Hospital Administrator in Healthcare
The history of the hospital administrator role as evolved. In the
beginning of hospital’s there was really no support for the patients.
“This all changed, however, with the innovations in medicine,
anesthesia, modern surgery and medical tools in the earlier 20th
century. Hospitals began to open their doors to the sick, prepped
with the tools and knowledge to assist the ailing. Just between
1875 and 1925, the number of US hospitals grew from about 170
to over 7,000!”[CITATION htt \l 1033 ] That is a huge growth in
hospitals’ over those 50 years. “According to the AHA (American
