St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and a research facility located in Memphis, Tennessee. It was founded in 1962 as a non-profit medical corporation and has over the years given a helping hand to the less fortunate in the society by giving free medical services. Patients in St. Jude get free services whether covered by insurance or not. This well-known organization has been a helping hand to the society and has been ranked one of the best children hospitals in the region. St. Jude has a goal that is conveyed in four words: “Finding cures. Saving children.”
There are five types of organization in the hospital that share many similarities and differences as well. These are: emergency services, hospitals, diagnostics or laboratory facilities, home health care and assisted daily living (Yogesan, 2012). A look at Home Health care and Assisted Daily Living depicts that one requires a highly skilled level of care provided by the doctors. Under Home Health Care, the doctor plays the role of encouraging patients to obtain necessary medical care which is provided by skilled nurses. Assisted Daily Living Homecare on the other hand involves engagement of a caregiver who provides assistance to residents when taking their medication.
Emergency Services and Hospitals on the other hand are structures with completely different features. Emergency Services comprise of 24-hour urgent care rooms that are designed to take care of life threatening emergencies and non-life threatening emergencies (Pui, 2012). Most nurses and doctors are therefore on duty always. Though Emergency Services are not part of the hospital, they share the same amenities in regards to equipment with other departments. Diagnostic or Laboratory facilities are completely different because their facilities are specially designed for laboratory purposes only (Lichtman, 2000). With all these similarities and differences, these organizations have to adhere to all regulations of the hospital.
Leadership Communications
In order to ensure alignment of organizational goals through communication, The Emergency Medical Services have a responsibility of reducing unnecessary disability and death. As a champion for stakeholders, leadership is critically upheld to ensure respect and trust in all operations of St. Jude.
In St. Jude Hospital, a number of regulations are put in place to ensure good coordination in management. Every organization has a body that inspects compliance to rules and regulation of the institution on a daily basis (Quintana, 2012). To ensure safety of all stakeholders in St. Jude, the support and management has invested well in Risk-management.
References
Yogesan, K., Goldschmidt, L. P., & Cuadros, J. (2012). Digital teleretinal screening: Teleophthalmology in practice. Berlin: Springer.
Pui, C.-H. (2012). Childhood leukemias. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Lichtman, M. A., & Spivak, J. L. (2000). Hematology: Landmark papers of the twentieth century. San Diego: Academic Press.
Quintana, Y., & Van, K. V. A. (2012). Advancing cancer education and healthy living communities: Putting visions and innovations into action. Amsterdam [etc.: IOS Press.
