Introduction
ATDAS is an acronym for Alliance for Donation and Transplantation Awareness and Support. This name is built in concrete explanation of the role that the company plays in the community. It is an indication that the name was founded on critical analysis of its purpose as a result of concrete argument or discussion between its stakeholders. It was founded in July 2005 by two transplant recipients; Jennifer Sutt, a kidney and pancreas transplant recipient as well as John Mitas who was a Liver transplant recipient. The two individuals were volunteers and support group facilitators at their transplant center (ADTAS, 2012).
The purpose of the organization is anchored to the vision and mission statements of the organization. The founders envisioned that ADTAS should lead in support and representation of individuals who underwent transplant as well as those ones waiting for transplant together with their caregivers, loved ones and family members. This defines one of the main purposes of the organization which is to eliminate the habit of patients to wait for so long before their problem is sorted. The organization also voluntarily educates the public on the significance of promoting and supporting marrow, organ, blood and tissue donation awareness (ADTAS, 2012). Through the above mentioned activities the organization also promotes brawny sense of ethics in ADTAS as well as all affiliates of the organization. The organization consistently carries out education campaigns on the significance of the described donations in saving lives that could have lost if people did not volunteer.
Population served
The population that the organization deals with is entailed by individuals who are need for various organ donations. These are individuals whose needed organ is not functional and another one is needed for transplant. Anemic patients form a portion of the population that ADTAS is vehemently considerate about. The other population that organization is extremely serious with is the one made of patients suffering from bone marrow related diseases and their bone marrow needs to be changed (ADTAS, 2012). Also, the organization has been responsible of the rising population of individuals in need of liver, pancreas and kidney transplants. The organization has not defined the age of the patients that it considers in delivery of its services. Therefore, its services are open to all ages provided one is suffering from the medical problems that the organization targets to solve. The best portion of the population that the organization is concerned of is made of individuals who may take an exhaustively long time before realizing that they are suffering from a given health condition.
Geographical and environmental issues
The realization of the purpose of the organization may depend mainly on geographical or environmental issues that surround the organization. Therefore, audit on these issues would be extremely significant to the organization as well as other interested parties. The organization is located in Riverside, California, giving it an upper hand in support by the government as it is one of the few organizations in the region offering donations services. Being situated in a major city in the United States, the organization faces a challenge on expansion. It is extremely difficult to access land in the city to expand the organization for it to handle more patients as well as increase its activities. Also, the company faces an issue on the challenges that big medical organizations pose to ADTAS (ADTAS, 2012). Although, the organization has done an extremely recommendable job in dealing with problems that individuals who lack access to organs donations face, there are roaming challenges that have been posed by the hospitals within the locality of ADTAS. This bars the organization from extending excellent services to the public, whereas those organizations do not offer any help to the population facing the problem. Following the location of the organization in the city of California the facility has remained in accessible to most people following the high population of the city.
Professional services
As a medical affiliated organization, ADTAS is made of various medical professionals. The need for professionals in the organization is to ensure that it fulfills its mission of saving the extensive list of patients awaiting donations. The organization offers surgery services to patients whom they realize they need exclusive care following their poor health condition. In this case, surgeons are required to carry out the transplant as well as evaluate the most suitable donor. Also, professionals are needed for proper diagnosis of the actual problem that the patient may be experiencing. Pediatrics is also common in the organization as there are children as well as infants who also require exclusive services from the organization. The organization offers services to the old and the young in the society. The need for different professions in the organization is to deal with the problems facing the population in the region in an exhaustive manner. Professionals understand the smallest bits that may be tricky when dealing with certain health problems (ADTAS, 2012). Therefore, ADTAS has been keen enough to involve these professionals in realizing their main aim of saving lives that may be lost if necessary measures are not undertaken in time.
Social issues
In most cases, individuals who die out of waiting for too long or lack of any response from medics are the poor. Therefore, the largest portions of the groups that the organization tries to save are the poor who may not afford expensive facilities of transplant as offered in other medical facilities. Although, in the United States there is medical insurance which is supposed to take medical care for all citizens of the country, not all citizens can pay for the insurance cover. In most cases, poverty comes with lack of education. This explains one of the social issues that the population faces. Lack of proper understanding of the various problems that may come up when organs fail has been a major problem surrounding the society. Therefore, it is upon the organization to extend the hand of knowledge to the society. People are not aware of the various platforms that they may use to assist their patients in acquiring specialized transplant as well as look for donors who are ready to offer their organs. Some people have been confined to some beliefs that are usually against some medical activities such as transplant. This being an extremely serious social issue among the members of the population undergoing this problem, there is need for the organization to educate individuals on the significance of such medical activities (Clavien, 2012). This will assist in eliminating the alarming levels of people who die out of social ties that prevent them from accessing the required medical attention to deal with certain health problems that may require transplant or donation.
Communication in the organization
The excellence of the organization must be anchored to proper communication systems. In any organization, communication is extremely vital in ensuring all activities go as required. It is through communication that problems are noted and later resolved. Communication may be inclined into internal communication as well as the larger communication. ADTAS has set up reliable communication plan that aids the organization in dealing with internal problems as well as the community to which services are rendered. The organization has set up concrete measures that aid the members of the organization to communicate. ADTAS has set a system through which the members of the organization communicate. There is a platform that has been created to assist individuals in the organization to share ideas in case a problem comes up. The organization has also been divided into leadership structures where there is the overall leader who is supposed to undertake the management role of the organization. This is the person who is supposed to deal with any form of communication discrepancy that may arise. However, the organization has ensured that there exists proper relationship among members or practitioners in the organization. For excellent communication with the public the organization has a detailed contact section that gives proper address through which patients and the public may contact the organization. The public can contact the organization on: P.O. Box 8503 Riverside CA. 92515. Telephone number: (951) 689-2822 or (909) 795-7411, email address: and the website is http://www.freewebs.com/adtas/ (ADTAS, 2012). With this detailed contact for the organization, it is easy for the public to communicate with the organization in case any problem comes up or any individual requires urgent attention.
References
ADTAS. (2012, September 12). ADTAS.Alliance for Donation and Transplantation Awareness and Support. Retrieved August 5, 2013, from adtas.webs.com/
Clavien, P. (2012). Medical care of the liver transplant patient (4th ed.). Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
