Rethinking healthcare quality and prestige: is this a manager's number one problem?

Veronica Morales-Burton and Sofía A. Lopez-Ramirez

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Abstract: Healthcare institutions are organizations driven to provide medical assistance at a certain level of quality service and safety. To achieve the recognition of excellence, these entities can undergo accreditations and comparisons with other institutions of their kind through ranking systems in order to validate patient, organizational, and academic institutional standards. Usually, the goal is to obtain prestige and recognition as well as positive feedback toward the institution, motivating improvement. In this scenario, the manager's role is to communicate these results and propose strategies to maintain or increase healthcare quality. The following article discusses the fundamentals of the processes of accreditation and ranking systems, the importance of health managers on the complexity of these processes and on achieving an institution's goals and vision, but also intends to provide a critical view toward the desire for prestige a hospital envisions within the feedback when its biggest aim should be directed to improve in benefit of the patients and workforce conditions.

Keywords: accreditation (institutions); health care economics and organizations; health services administration; healthcare quality assessment; organization and administration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 N0 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 5 pages
Date: 2022-03-29
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Published in Frontiers in Public Health, 29, March, 2022, 10. ISSN: 2296-2565

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