Hospital Organization

When looking at the organization of a hospital, the structure may be vertical or horizontal. The vertical structure shows a top-heavy organization that has additional layers of senior administration. This structure often includes the Board of Directors, CEO, chief operating officer and many vice presidents before getting to the individual departments in the hospital. The horizontal structure often eliminates the chief operating officer and vice president of administration to create a flatter structure.

 

•Hospitals are like "communities within communities."

•Hospitals serve a community need.

•Hospitals are staffed by various types of workers.

 

Radiology Organization

The imaging department, like the hospital, has its own structure. In most imaging departments, there is a director, a manager, coordinators or lead technologists of each modality and then the technologists in each modality.