Provider Organizations

Healing Hands Hospital is an acute care community hospital that serves a suburban community outside of a large city with two competing large academic medical centers. Both Healing Hands Hospital and the academic medical centers have a long history of service to the region, but their business and fundamental practices are different. Your manager, Ms. Woods, Healing Hands’ Chief Operating Officer (COO), is part of the task force working on the strategic plan for the hospital and needs to understand the fundamental practices of these academic medical centers.

You have been tasked with providing this information for Ms. Woods in a 1–2-page paper that discusses the similarities and differences between academic medical centers and acute care community hospitals. Your paper should include similarities and differences regarding the following:

Mission, goals, and objectives
Staffing and management structure
Reimbursement model
Be sure to document your references using APA format.

Assignment Objectives
Explain the salient characteristics of various types of provider organizations, including mission, program goals and objectives, management structure, staffing requirements, and policies and procedures.