Hospital Administration Vs Hospital Administrator :: Hospiad

Hospital administration is the management of the hospital as an Organisation. The administration is made up of medical and health services managers and assistant administrators.

The duties of the administrator, depends on the size of the Hospital.Role and responsibility varies according to the hospital size and Objective.

A Hospital Administrator Should have a specialized Post- graduation degree in Hospital Management. He must have Specific Attributes with Managerial and Administrative skills.

He has to have specific roles and responsibilities not only for hospital but also for the patients and community. 

To know what are the qualities of a good Administrator and what role he has to perform go to the Presentation.

Changing Role of Hospital

Growth of hospital organisation is slow but steady.

Gone those old days concept of ‘poor house’ where the relatives leave their patient to suffer and die. Then came the era of evolution of Hospitals where sick patients were kept overnight for treatment and cure.


Since then the role of Hospital is gradually changing from cure to health care and further to community care.

Change of Hospital role is related to change in technology and more knowledge about cause of disease and its prevention super added by many legal bindings and challenges.

The modern Hospital has become a complex organisation with new roles and extensive functions. With change in hospital role the manager’s view point in hospital management is also changing.

Let us find the changing role of the hospital and how new functions have been added to expand the Hospital role through this presentation:

Hospital As an Organisation

After knowing the hospital as a system, let us know how hospital functions as an organisation.

Organising is the process of grouping the various activities in to workable units and connecting them through authority, control and co-ordination so as to perform identified jobs for achieving organisation objectives.

Every organisation has a structure called ‘Organogram’ and the structure varies according to function.

Each organisation has distinct structure, objective and function, therefore differs from each other.

Organisation structure forms the basic skeleton of the organisation, which are:-

a) Helps to identify in consistencies and complexities in the organisation structure.

b) Helps to identify major line of decision making authority.

c) It indicates the employees there position, status and role in the organisation.

Each organisation, therefore has its own peculiarity to ensure its effectiveness.Similarly hospital is a social organisation and a rational combination of the activities of a number of persons with different level of knowledge and skills for achieving a common goal of patient care through a hierarchy of authority and responsibility.

Hospital organisation is very peculiar and differs from other organisations. Hence called a ‘MATRIX’ organisation.

To know what are the peculiarities of hospital, how it functions as an organisation, how it differs from other organisations, let us see this simple presentation.

Hospital as a System: A Presentation :: HOSPIAD

Dear Readers,

As discussed in the previous blog on ' Hospital As a System', here is a small presentation for you to understand it better.





Hope you find it helpful.

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