University of South Carolina, Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, Dept. of Health Administration, June 27, 2001

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HADM 766

HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION - I

Summer I 2001
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., M-F, except as noted in the syllabus

Instructor: Prof. Roger L. Amidon
Phone: 803-777-5044
e-mail: amidon@sc.edu

Facilitator: Katherine G. Stephens, VP, Educational Services, Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital

Purpose of the Course

The modern healthcare organization has been described as a "therapeutic organization" whose purpose is sustain the growth of the technical and human capabilities of its healers in the service of its community. It does this recognizing the primacy of patients' best interests at all times. Sustained growth demands a commitment to constant improvement in community health. Fragmented, episodic services are slowly but inevitably being replaced by a community-based continuum of health services coupled with a deeply ingrained sense of personalized caring by every member of the HCO. The general purpose of this course is to show how this can be done. Our text, The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization, is equal to the task.

All the communities of this nation must take the action necessary to provide comprehensive personal health services of high quality to all people in each community.

Health Is a Community Affair,
National Commission on Community Health Services, 1966.

Hospitals and health care systems have a major responsibility to the community, not only in terms of patient care, but also in the social and economic issues that affect health,
such as education, violence prevention, jobs and housing.

Gail L. Warden, President & CEO
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, 1996


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