Case Study: Let It Pour

Case Study: Let it Pour

Health care systems have been a major and complex problem from the day they were formed. Hospitals must run efficiently and still maintain the letter of the law. When laws and ethics begin to mix, the recipe reeks of disaster. Lawsuits, rising health care costs, and greedy CEO’s have added to this already volatile concoction. This case study analysis will attempt to resolve one man’s crisis when he is forced to face an increasing dilemma within the fictitious hospital system.

The problems for this hospital are wide spread. The critical quandary seems to be in the interpretation of the hospital’s mission statement. The mission statement is much too broad and open to individual interpretation. Every department has its own idea of what this mission statement is attempting to convey. Even members within the same department are in disagreement over its meaning.

Another area of concern is a lack of operational ground rules. There are no set guidelines for the staff to assist in their decisions. Ethics, civic laws,