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Health Delivery Organization: A Case Study

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a. According to Yoder-Wise (2015) complexity, formalization and centralization are characters that classifies a organization.(p. 141) All of these characteristics apply to Health care organization, but to what degree does a healthcare organization use each of these characteristics? In today 's Health Delivery organization I see a vision or movement toward shared governance. With this being said Health organization are more focused on decreasing hierarchies or complexity and using decentralization; Magnet Recognition Program is an example. (Yoder-wise 2015 p. 149) I have choice these to component because I have noticed a lot of hospitals achieving or wanted to achieve Magnet status. With the shared governance model management and administration

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