Executive Summary This report outlines the organizational

Executive Summary
This report outlines the organizational structure of Saint Vincent Hospital. It aims at analyzing
the mission, vision, and goals of the organization using the organizational structure of the
hospital. The report contains the formal and informal organizational structure chart. The report
provides the conclusion along with some recommendations to plan and make some changes in
the organizational structure of the hospital and make it flexible for the staff members to work.

Introduction
The organizational structure is an essential element for the achievement of the
organizational goals. A suitable organizational structure helps in recognizing and addressing the
different realities of the company. It helps in proper decision-making and communication
through varying levels of management (Ashkenas et al., 2015).
The aim of this report is to shine a light on the organizational structure of Saint Vincent
Hospital, Melbourne. It highlights the overview and the publicized picture of the hospital. It
examines the mission, vision and core values of this organization. It discusses the actual
performance, and that reflected in the annual report of the organization. The primary objective of
this report is to compare the formal and informal organizational structure using the
organizational chart of this hospital. Moreover, it includes some recommendations for the proper
functioning of the hospital.
Discussions
Overview of Saint Vincent Hospital
Saint Vincent Hospital is a private healthcare service operated by St. Vincent Health,
Australia. The hospital offers a variety of services, which include medical as well as surgical
services, aged care, sub-acute care, cancer services, diagnostics, correctional health, general
practice services and a range of community services. It is a Catholic health care service, and its
mission is to provide compassionate and ingenious care to the people they serve. It brings the
love of God to needy people through the healing prayers to Jesus. Its vision is to bring the
revolutionary change in the health care services to ensure better care practices (St Vincent's
Hospital, 2019). The core values of this hospital are based on Gospel Values, which is inculcated

in the decision-making process and underlies to its Catholic identity (Whittington, 2017). Its
values revolve around its activities, which is demonstrated as Compassion, Justice, Integrity, and
Excellence. St. Vincent hospital has completed its 125 years of journey in 2018, where it has
created a tagline for the hospital that is ‘St Vincent’s Cares. Always has. Always will’ (St
Vincent's Hospital, 2019).
Its Publicized Picture
Saint Vincent hospital was previously, known as the Sisters of Charity Health Service is a
charitable hospital opened to serve the poor people better. Supporters and community kindness
have enabled healthcare to grow widely. It is one of the leading hospitals in Australia. From the
annual report, a picture is presented which shows the number of donors and the community
engaged for donations through social media. It also displays the success stories of patients cured
at St. Vincent hospital. The annual report of the hospital shows several events organized and
participated in it. These events are St. Vincent’s Fun Run, the Sisterhood lunch and Opera in the
market (St. Vincent's Health Australia, 2019). All these engagements and supports give the
positive visual representation of the organizational culture where the values and underlying
beliefs contribute to the success of the unique social environment of the hospital. From my
experience, healthcare has reflected the actual performance of the organization in the annual
report accurately. The real functioning of the hospital matches the messages indicated in the
story.
Organizational Structure
The organizational structure reflects the establishment of management level and process
of decision making that are implemented to achieve the goals of the organization. The hospitals