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MEMORANDUM

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Trends in the Healthcare Administration Industry

We usually imagine a hospital or doctor’s office and the treatment of patients when considering healthcare. Did you know that healthcare is a business like any other business? Skilled leaders and employees are required to keep things running efficiently within a healthcare facility. Healthcare administration runs staffing for medical organizations and institutions. This industry’s main goal is to gain and manage quality staff to ensure the organization or institution functions efficiently. In this memo, three trends within the Healthcare Administration will be discussed: a growing field, leadership skills, and evolving positions.

Discussion of Three Trends

A Growing Field

Healthcare administrators runs staffing for medical organizations and institutions, as well as sharing some responsibilities with healthcare management to ensure the facility is running the way it's supposed to. Just 8 years ago, a number of new government initiatives, combined with the increasing role of information technology, has led to a general restructuring in healthcare institutions. Organizations need people to deal with the new technology, services, regulations, health recording methods, and government requirements, which means hiring more administrators (Stone, 2013).

In the past year, pre and post COVID-19 outbreak, more facilities have moved to telemedicine. The need for not only Health Information Technology (HIT) employees have grown, but healthcare administrators are also vital to the overall success to administer healthcare for those in need. Administrators bridge the gap between the facility and vender concerning resources, supplies, and devices needed for patients.

Leadership Skills

Healthcare administrators are responsible for the daily operations of a facility. Tasks such as supervising nutritional needs of patients, identifying staffing needs and hiring accordingly, ensuring food safety guidelines are met, and ensuring that safety standards for patient care are met and surpassed. A facility cannot operate without administrators working behind the scenes. Leaders are vital in ensuring effective daily operations are achieved. Administrators ensure everything and everyone operates within its policy and procedures. Candidates and hires are encouraged to have taken leadership courses to assume certain management/mid-level positions within a facility.

Evolving Positions

Healthcare administration is one of the fastest-growing careers in the US, but in an increasingly complex and fragmented landscape, healthcare administration is becoming more of an umbrella term than a specific career. New innovations in healthcare aren’t simply upgrading the old, they’re entirely reinventing the new, and there are new job titles and career opportunities emerging as a result (Gustafson, 2021). Continuing education is the key for a career transition or promotion. Positions such as Program Coordinator, Health System Administrator, RN Manager Clinic, Director of Patient Care Services-RN, or Patient Care Team Manager RN requires dual degrees.

Conclusion

Based on the above discussion of three trends, employers are encouraged to hire skilled and educated leaders and employees to keep their operations efficiently within the healthcare facility. Employers must ensure that the best candidate has the proper education and the perfect fit of the position that is open for hire. Potential employees must have the education, dual degree and skills preferred, to effectively support the overall mission- the patient. Evolving with each healthcare’s multi- industry and creating positions is also a must- to ensure that patients receive care. Employers, employees, and candidates must ensure they are educating themselves on the trend of Healthcare Administration.

References

Glassdoor job Search | find the job that fits your life. (n.d.). Retrieved March 3, 2021, from https://www.glassdoor.com/Job-Descriptions/Health-Administrator.htm

Gustafson, K. (n.d.). Five emerging careers in healthcare administration. Retrieved March 03, 2021, from https://www.mhaonline.com/blog/five-new-healthcare-administration-careers

Healthcare administration Guide. (2021, March 01). Retrieved March 03, 2021, from https://www.allalliedhealthschools.com/specialties/health-care-administrator/

Stone, I. (2013, November 29). Trends for healthcare ADMINISTRATION GRADUATES. Retrieved March 03, 2021, from https://www.topmastersinhealthcare.com/trends-for-healthcare-administration-graduates/