Shouldice Hospital Limited: Institutional Analysis, Recommendations (Case Study Sample)

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Shouldice Hospital Limited
Executive Summary
The Shouldice Hospital is an institution that deals in exclusive practice of human health, dealing in diagnosis, care and cure of exclusive abdominal and general related complication-patients. The hospital was initiated by Dr. Earle Shouldice, whose name is bears, back in 1940. The hospital practices easy ‘bread and butter’ diagnosis and healing surgical procedures, which are characteristic of the hospital. Since its inception, the hospital has developed a significant range of dynamic solutions and advances in abdominal medicine, away from the practices used originally by the founder Dr. Earle Shouldice. In its practice, the hospital employs ease in handling of patients, simplicity in medicine and real applicability in the general field of health.
Institutional Analysis
This institution uses a branched continuous governance system in its administration. This acts in line with its initial simplicity characteristic nature, and its founder’s values. It has an exclusively administrative board of seven directors, guiding major financial, innovation, planning and administrative procedures. These persons have overseen the major decisions the shape the nature and daily running on the medical institution. The executive committee, comprised of persons from the general workforce, is responsible for the daily decision making in the institution, and oversee the hospital administrator.
Recommendations
In line with the hospital’s administrator’s remarks, the hospital should make bolder steps in the publicizing of their agenda. As much as the hospital is limited in terms of government restrictions on experimental (unwarranted and standard) procedures in healthcare. The reality of publicity of such an institution will lie in the reception of the public to the methods applied in the hospital. As much as other doctors (outside the institution) claim that the methods don’t work, the marketing of these methods will make the whole healthcare community realize the importance of the application of such methods.
The health institution will also benefit from the invitation of other medical practitioners to observe and analyze the authenticity and applicability of their methods in their (other doctors) fields. Medicine, as a health science advances by the borrowing and remodeling of innovations. Apart from benefiting the hospital by clearing the controversies, this measure would also help in the greater good of developing surgical medicine.
The founder, Dr. Earle Shouldice, had the dream that the operations of the institutions could be expanded, with the inclusion of a Saturday program that increases capacity, allows for more operations to take place an maximizes the use of the available resources. This measure could be advanced further by the application of a satellite program in another medical institution, where the hospital’s methods are employed, with the maximi...