What is hospital administration?

Hospital administration refers to the management and co-coordination of all the activities within a hospital. It entails finding out what needs to be done, how needs to be done and directing and supervising the accomplishment of the activities leading to delivery of health services.

Key areas of responsibility in hospital administration include

Financial management: Overhead control, cost containment, income realisation and presentation of financial statements.

Human resources management:Organization and management of staff and workforce; recruitment and staffing; staff training and development and staff performance appraisal.

Operations management:

Patient care management: Co-ordination and planning of services for the purpose of delivering quality and appropriate levels of care, and controlling for patient access to systems and-flow.

Strategic planning: Establishing long term and short term plans that would be appropriate to the hospital.

Regulatory compliance: Granting compliance for local and international laws and regulations concerning health, safety and quality of service.

Marketing and public relations: Advertiser of the hospitals services, and approval and support of the overall image of the hospital to the general public.

Modern hospitals mainly depend on the support of managers to achieve organizational goals of being able to serve society with the best quality services.