Answering each question with short answers with references.

Questions are from the book " Health Care Operations Management a systems perspective" and are from chapter ne and two.

1. 1. Does operations management affect a hospitals competitive advantage?
2. 2. What are the key trends affecting hospital operations
3. 3. Who is considered the father of scientific management
4. 4. How are decisions made in organizations
5. 5. What are the basic steps of a rational management decision making process
6. 6. What are the common sources of cost increases health care
7. 7. How does the medical care consumer price index relate to cost increase for other items
8. 8. What are four things can be learned from scientific management
9. 9. What are the three reasons decision making process in health care are more ambiguous that in other organizations
10. 10.How does evidence based medicine support operations management techniques

2. 1. Is health care a business
3. 2. What are five of the key factors that distinguish a hospital from other industrial organizations
4. 3. Define an average hospital in terms of size (employees, revenue, beds)
5. 4. Which types of hospitals exist, and whom do they serve
6. 5. What is the role of teaching hospital in the health care industry
7. 6. What makes governance of academic hospitals more complex than that for community hospitals
8. 7.Whichrecentpoliesoractshaveinfluencedhealthcareoperationsmanagement

Thoroughly answer the following from chapter one:

1. Health care organizations routinely make complex organizational decisions. As an example, a decision to modify the physical layout or space of a department, r alter the schedules of a nursing unit, will affect patient care in many ways. Because so many stake holders are involved, which process for making management decisions do you think will be followed? How would you use the decision making process to make important decisions such as this in an organization?