Organizational Capacity and Change | Essay

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY
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ORGANISATIONAL CAPACITY AND CHANGE
It is critical to understand that the health care organizations such as the hospitals have
a lot of services to be provided from its various multidisciplinary departments and these
services are often very much strategized and delivered in context to the population that
immediately surrounds the social and the natural environment of the hospital or the health
care organization itself (Montgomery et al., 2019). The departments, the workforce and the
disciplines plus the wards and the services relates a lot, in fact very vastly and imperatively
with the needs of the population in the community or the communities present around the
health care organization. Similarly, in this case, the health care organization named Chiefley
District hospital in the suburbs of Sydney Australia has recently increased its hospital
facilities to address the needs of the community or rather address the changing needs of the
community in a much better manner and it is important to understand that the needs
assessment is another important tool to understand the changing health, social, mental,
psychosocial, cultural and sociocultural needs of the community and the health care delivery
system has to be strategized by the health care organization in the same manner. Previously,
the Chiefley District Hospital had a 130 bed facility that could address the health needs of the
community in the suburbs but as mentioned over the year, the population of the regions in the
suburbs of Sydney has increased very much and it is important to understand that the existing
facilities and the existing health care services provided by the Chiefley District Hospital were
no more enough or apt for the new needs of the diverse age group communities. As per the
case study, the previous services delivered by the hospital was acute medical services,
specialist services such as gynecology and obstetrics services, acute emergency and surgery
and this was once enough to address the needs of the suburban community about ten years

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ago. In these ten years, the population of the area has increased and changed mostly
importantly and the community now has various retirement villages with many more old
people and the young families have started to reside in the community as well such increasing
the number of children and the young parents who are not yet middle aged. Thus, after
reviewing the changing needs of the community, the Chiefley District hospital has increased
the bed facilities from 130 beds to 300 beds now in order to address the diverse needs of the
diversely populated community and the new departments have also been started in the
hospital which are pediatric, cancer or oncology, renal, aged or geriatric care, cardiovascular,
trauma care and the community care services departments.
ANALYSING STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES IN RELATION TO VISION AND
MISSION OF THE ORGANISATION
As the hospital organization uses a traditional type of bureaucratic structure which
means the authorities, decision making, powers and the work is divided between various
departments and disciplines that is present in the health care organization (Day, Crown &
Ivany, 2017).. It is importantly to note that a traditional bureaucratic system, as in the
Chiefley district Hospital has various specializations in terms of health care services and each
of them compose of a different department and as ‘division of labor’ is the most important
and more concept of a bureaucratic system – in the same, lies the very strengths and the
weaknesses of the very system (Stoops, Williamson & Braa, 2018). The strengths of the
newly undertaken organizational change in Chiefley District hospital are many and first one
can be attributed to the fact that the increased number of medical and health care specialties
along with new number of increased bed nurse that is much more than the previous of bed
facilities would be able to address the needs of the new population groups in the community