Community General Hospital Organizational Chart Assignment Community General Hos

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Community General Hospital
Organizational Chart Assignment
Community General Hospital is a 200 bed community hospital located in the suburbs. The Health Information Management Department is composed of the following staff:

Assignment:
Part 1: Construct an organizational chart of Community General Hospital’s Health Information Management Department.
Part 2: Provide a brief assessment (approximately 2-3 paragraphs) of the department’s organizational formation. Include whether you feel the department is aligned appropriately or in a manner that would work the best for the staff. Include why or why not you feel the department is aligned appropriately? Would you recommend any changes to the department design? If so, what are those recommendations?

# of staff Title Reports to: 1 Director, HIM VP, Finance 1 Supervisor, Coding Director, HIM 1 Supervisor, Transcription Director, HIM 1 Supervisor, Record Processing Director, HIM 1 Department Secretary Director, HIM 1 Tumor Registrar Director, HIM 1 Birth Registrar Supervisor, Record Processing 4 Medical records clerks Supervisor, Record Processing 2 Outpatient coders Supervisor, Coding 2 Inpatient coders Supervisor, Coding 1 Abstractor Supervisor, Coding 3 Record analysts Supervisor, coding 3 Transcriptionists Supervisor, Transcription 2 correpsondence secretaries Supervisor, Record Processing

Explanation / Answer

1. Organizational chart is as below:

a. VP, Finance

b. Director, HIM (under VP Finance)

c. Supervisor Coding, Supervisor Transcription, Supervisor Record Processing, Department Secretary, Tumor Registrar (all under Director HIM)

d. Birth Registrar, Medical records clerks and correpsondence secretaries(under Supervisor Record Processing)

e. Outpatient coders, Inpatient coders, Abstractor and Record analysts (under Supervisor, Coding)

f. Transcriptionists (under Supervisor, Transcription)

2. In my opinion, department is aligned appropriately or in a manner that would work the best for the staff because there are different functions in the department which are complimentary to each other and balance the whole department. All these functions have specific roles and responsibilities which they are capable of carrying out with the staff available.

Certain changes to the department design are:

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