Building Organizational Capacity in Healthcare

Running Head: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 0
Building Organizational Capacity in Healthcare
Student Details
4/6/2019

Organizational Structure 1
Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Organizational Structure............................................................................................................2
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................8

Organizational Structure 2
Introduction
An organizational structure defines the ways in which certain kind of activities are
performed in order to meet the set goals and objectives of an organization. This report
discusses about the kind of organizational structure used by Whitlam Memorial Hospital
(WHM), a community hospital located in outer suburbs of Sydney in order to understand
about what an organizational structure is and what are its important, strengths and
weaknesses of a functional structure (Jbpub, 2019). The current organizational structure
followed by WMH is traditional and functional. The organization is aiming at introducing
new organizational structure which has the better capability of achieving high quality services
which efficiently respond to changing health need of people and patient centred. This new
structure for WMH is able to deal with the changing internal and external environments of
the organization and have potential of enhancing collaboration across teams and
communication. Hence, thesis statement for the essay is
“Healthcare system at WMH requires a better organizational structure”
Organizational Structure
Organizational structure plays an important role in the success of an organization and
every organization needs an effective organizational structure. Whitlam Memorial Hospital is
a community hospital located in Sydney, having capacity of 130 beds. Services offered by the
hospital includes surgical, acute medical, obstetric, and emergency. Due to increase in
population in the area, the hospital is focusing on increasing its range of services to meet the
requirements of the people. In order to make these changes, WMH has budget for
restructuring the facilities and structure of organization which includes speciality services
such as paediatric, renal services, cancer, trauma services, cardiovascular, community and