Technical and scale efficiencies of Catholic hospitals: Does a system value of stewardship matter?

Kaçak

et al. 2019

JABE

The purpose of this research is to point out detail performance analysis of general teaching hospitals and investigate of the efficiency pattern of them. For this research, Data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach is used to evaluate the relative technical and scale efficiencies of general teaching hospitals. Clinical service quality development strategies must be developed to decrease hospital mortality. Hospitals must put a lot of numbers of the beds and nurses to serve more suitable scale sizes.

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comprehensive Efficiency Assessment of Turkish Teaching Hospitals: Technical, Pure Technical and Scale Efficiencies with Data Envelopment Analysis

Kaçak

et al. 2019

JABE

“…Even more important are faith-based hospitals in the US where they support the healthcare of millions of Americans and provide a type of safety net for the poor and vulnerable. [19] They are committed to the concept of social welfare, as they have to follow their moral concepts and mission, but they must also be competitive and keep their business viable, [20] which results in an often conflicting situation.…”

Section: Study Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious work environment – benefit or challenge? A qualitative study on motivation at work in a religiously affiliated hospital

Seemann

2016

JHA

Workplace spirituality and faith are important and emerging trends in business that should direct managers' attention for various reasons. Therefore, this qualitative study asks whether a religious work environment provides a beneficial or challenging factor for an organization. It examines the particular work environment of a faith-based hospital and its effects on employees' motivation and work ethics. The study adopts a qualitative approach, using semi-structured interviews. The interviews were conducted with human resources (HR) staff and nurses of an Adventist Hospital in the USA. The interviewees were purposefully selected to learn about their individual perspectives. The findings indicate that religiously affiliated organizations attract a special type of employee with a certain work ethic. The respectful, friendly and helpful treatment of colleagues amongst each other is one of the biggest differences when compared to non-faith-based organizations. Additionally people are more altruistic, humble and dedicated. In addition, the community outreach and the chance to support patients, both medical and spiritual, gives the work a special meaning. However, the study also indicates some challenges due to the religious affiliation, especially in the case of tough business decisions. Thus understanding the special features of a religiously affiliated organization and its effects on employees might help secular organizations to provide a spiritual working environment for their employees to take advantage of the beneficial effects without having to deal with the identified weaknesses.

“…Research has been conducted comparing provision of charity care and certain services by various ownership types of hospitals. Results suggest that Catholic hospitals may be differentiated from other private, nonprofit hospitals on these dimensions and would likely be differentiated from investor-owned hospitals [26,[28][29][30]56,59]. However, in the United States these studies suggested that Catholic hospitals are second to large, public teaching hospitals in the provision of charity care and socially stigmatized services.…”

Section: Mastering Ministry and Maximizing Marginmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Empirical analyses of Catholic hospitals compared to secular ownership types have shown that there are similarities on certain dimensions like financial performance and other operational performance indicators [12,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. However, in characterizing Catholic identity as the provision of certain mission-driven services that enhance fidelity to social justice and compassionate care, White and Begun [28,29] have shown that there were certain differences between Catholic and non-Catholic hospitals.…”

Section: Elements Of Catholic Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

When Institutions Collide: The Competing Forces of Hospitals Sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church

White

2012

Religions

For centuries, the Catholic Church has been a major social actor in the provision of health services, particularly health care delivered in hospitals. Through a confluence of powerful environmental forces at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the future of Catholic health care is threatened. Although United States Catholic hospitals are a separate case of private, nonprofit hospitals, they have experienced environmental pressures to compete with other hospital ownership types and, on some dimensions, Catholic hospitals are indistinguishable from other hospitals. This article conceptualizes United States Catholic hospitals as having competing institutional forces that are not always compatible. To keep pace with the changing demands of religion and the social role of the hospital, Catholic hospitals continue to redefine themselves. An adaptive framework is used to explain choices Catholic hospitals may need to make to justify their existence.