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About Sue Brissette
Expertise
I'm happy to answer questions about how hospitals operate, policies, accreditation, dealing with hospital employees, being a patient in a hospital, hospital administration careers and most any other hospital-related question.

Experience
I spent 12 years as a hospital administrator, including roles as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer during my 30 year career as a healthcare executive. I have also been an executive in a national healthcare management company and now run a healthcare consulting business.

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Group Practice Management Journal Health Information Management Journal Southern California Physician www.healthworldnet.com

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B.S. Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA M.S. Health Policy & Management, Harvard School of Public Health

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Cardiovascular Associates of the Virgin Islands MedQuest Ultimate Transition Fitness Emeryville Medical Groups Occupational Medical centers PeopleCARE Intivia Healthworldnet ESources AussieMed MedCARE Nereus Medical International Hayes Consulting Sohnar ConceptShare

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Hospital Administration - Hospital management in Canada

Expert: Sue Brissette - 11/5/2009

Question
Hi,
I hope you will answer my questions. I'm postgraduate (doctorate) student(Hospital management and organization programme)Marmara University in İstanbul,TURKEY. I'm studying about "Hospital Management in Canada" now. I can find any source about this subject Turkish or English. I'm in need of hospital management and organization, organization structures, hospital history, etc. Please help me, otherwise, I will fail the course.
thanks in advance,
Sincerely.

Answer
Hi,

I think your problem is that you need to look at Canadina healthcare and find hospital infro within that subject.

However, here is a link to the history of hospitals in the US and Canada
www.cbmh.ca/index.php/cbmh/article/view/222/221

Here is a link to an article about hosp mgt degree programs in Canada - they might be a good source of info.
http://www.chmonline.ca/issuearchive/JanFeb%202008/education.pdf

and here is a brief excerpt from Encyclopedia Britannica - I believe the article is longer. Your school prob has premium access so you can read the whole thing.

Best of luck,

Sue

Ownership and control
In most countries outside of North America nearly all hospitals are owned and operated by the government. In Great Britain, except for a small number run by religious orders or serving special groups, most hospitals are within the National Health Service. The local hospital management committee answers directly to the regional hospital board and ultimately to the Department of Health and Social Security. In the United States and Canada most hospitals are nonprofit and are neither owned nor operated by governmental agencies. Many of them are associated with universities; others were founded by religious groups or by public-spirited individuals. Mental hospitals traditionally have been the responsibility of the state governments, while military and veterans hospitals have been provided by the federal government. In addition, there are a number of municipal and county general hospitals.
Financing
Almost universally, hospital construction costs are met at least in some part by governmental contributions. Operating costs are taken care of in a variety of ways. Ultimately, a substantial portion of the expenses not covered by private endowments or gifts is met by contributions from the general funds of some unit of government or out of funds collected by insurance carriers from subscribers. In countries in which hospital insurance is not universal or its coverage is incomplete, some of the operating costs are met by charges on uninsured or inadequately insured patients.
The carriers of the hospital insurance in a particular country may be governmental agencies, private corporations or agencies, or both. In Britain, for example, under the National Insurance Act, the government is the carrier. All persons who have reached the minimum school-leaving age and are not full-time students, beyond the age of retirement, in prison, or receivers of benefits from the insurance and who do not have less than a certain minimum income are contributors under the plan whether employed by others, self-employed, or nonemployed. Employers also contribute.
In the United States persons who are employed by others or are self-employed make compulsory contributions toward a form of national hospital insurance, Medicare, which pays a large portion of the hospital costs of persons at the age of 65 or over. Employers then make matching payments. A majority of the persons ineligible, by reason of age, for benefits under the Medicare program are enrolled in some other form of hospital insurance, such as one of the plans offered by the commercial insurance companies or one of the independent plans, including community and community-controlled plans and those operated by unions, employers, welfare funds, and private medical clinics.
In the United States, even with federal participation under Medicare and Medicaid (a program for persons
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