Happyville Hospital and Sunnyville Hospital are located across the street from each other, and the respective hospital boards have voted to merge the facilities into the Limestone Health Care System. You have been promoted to department manager of the combined Health Information Management (HIM) Department. Your first task is assessing current staffing levels and proposing a new organizational structure. I would like to let you know that your recommendation must be developed based on the data and in a format appropriate for presentation to hospital administration. Based upon the following information, assess the current productivity reports of both HIM departments and prepare a department budget. Consider this a professional business document.

• Summarize the following information, in two to three sentences, in the form of an executive summary:
  • the central point of the analysis
  • the purpose of the analysis
  • the recommended actions
  • the benefits or consequences of the recommendations
• Assess the current staffing levels.
  • Propose a new organizational structure.
    • Your recommendation must be developed based upon the data and in a format appropriate for presentation to hospital administration.