Chapter 2: Health Care Administration in AT

Involve critical self-examination to bring about organization improvement

• Strategic planning

• Vision statement

• Mission statement

• Accreditation

A concise statement that describes the ideal state to which an organization apires

• Mission Statement

• Vision Statement

• Strategic Plan

• Accreditation

A written expression of an organization’s philosophy, purpose, and characteristics

• Vision statement

• Mission statement

• Accreditation

• SWOT analysis

Defines organizational activities in the short term, usually no longer than 2 years

• Operational Planning

• Strategic Planning

• Policies

• Processes

Expresses an organization’s intended behavior relative to a specific program subfunction

• Policies

• Procedures

• Practices

• Program Evaluation and Review Technique

A collection of steps designed to direct the most important tasks of an organization

• Policies

• Processes

• Procedures

• Practices

Provides specific directions for embers of an organization to follow

• Policies

• Processes

• Procedures

• Practices

The action that takes place in response to administrative problems

• Procedures

• Policies

• Processes

• Practices

A method of graphically depicting the time line for and interrelationships of different stages of a program

• Program Evaluation and Review Technique

• Processes Evaluation and Rehabilitation Techniques

• Policies Evaluation and Review Techniques

• Processes Evaluation and Rehabilitation Techniques

It requires justification only for those expenses that exceed those of the previous budget cycle, often results in falling behind due to prices of supplies rising faster than inflation

• Spending-ceiling model

• Spending-reduction model

• Zero- based budgeting

• fixed budgeting