Administrative Structure of A Hospital

A hospital administrative structure can help to operate a hospital effectively.

About A Hospital Administrative Structure

Modern day hospitals are complicated administrative structures, they have to function very precisely to ensure optimal patient care. A typical hospital consists of three elements: a well functioning governing body, and both highly trained and competent medical staff and hospital staff members.

Governing Body: directors

Board of Directors, as the executive body that governs hospital organization, are responsible for organizing medical, dental and midwife staff hospital privileges and duties.

Medical Staff

The medical staff includes physicians dentists, psychologists, psychiatrists, podiatrists and specialty, are directly linked to the hospital organization. An elected Chief of (Medical) Staff serves as a liaison to hospital Administrator.

Hospital Staff Members

Hospital Staff Members includes many different practitioners, attending physician, residents, interns, specialists, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, nurse practitioners and physician‘s assistants.

A simple guide on how to a hospital administrative structure will be introduced. Just free download our Edraw Administrative Structure Chart software.

How to Create the Administrative Structure of A Hospital

With Edraw, you can create clear and comprehensive hospital administrative structure and medical organizational chart with no prior experience

1. Open an administrative structure drawing page

On the File menu, go to New > Organizational Chart, and then double click the icon of Organization Chart in templates window to pen a blank drawing page for creating a hospital administrative structure.

2. Add administrative structure shapes

From the left library, drag and drop the shape to the canvas. Click the floating action buttons to add colleague and subordinate shapes.

3. Add administrative structure contents

Double click a shape to type in text. -> Press Ctrl + 2 to add more text boxes. Press Ctrl + shift + 2 to adjust text box.Choose a different font under Home tab. Customize the size, color and alignment by clicking the relevant menus.

4. Save or export completed hospital administrative structure

Click Save on File tab to save as the default format or choose Save as on File tab to save as other formats.

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Create Municipal Organizational Chart in Minutes

Creating municipal organizational charts would be a breeze with Edraw Organizational Chart Maker.

About Municipal Government Structure

A municipal government may encompass rural territory or small communities such as towns, villages and hamlets. They are responsible for local services such as water supply, sewage and garbage disposal, roads,libraries and so on.

A municipal charter is the legal document that defines the organization, powers, functions, and essential procedures of the city government. The charter also details the form of municipal government, of which there are historically five forms: council-manager, mayor-council, commission, town meeting and representative town meeting.

Following is an overview of a municipal government structure.

A step-by-step guide on how to create a municipal organizational chart will be introduced. Simply free download Organizational Chart Maker.

How to Create A Municipal Organizational Chart

With this Organizational Chart Maker, a municipal organizational chart could be completed easily and quickly.

1. Open a municipal organizational chart drawing page

Go to File menu > New > Organizational Chart, and then double click the icon of Organization Chart in templates window to pen a blank drawing page for creating a municipal organizational chart.

2. Add municipal structure shapes

From the left library, drag and drop the shape to the drawing page and then click the floating action buttons to add colleague and subordinate shapes.

3. Add municipal structure contents

Double click a shape to type in text. -> Press Ctrl + 2 to add more text boxes. Press Ctrl + shift + 2 to adjust text box.Choose a different font under Home tab. Customize the size, color and alignment by clicking the relevant menus.

4. Save or export completed municipal organizational chart

Click Save on File tab to save as the default format or choose Save as on File tab to save as other formats.

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Top 12 Benefits to Use Organizational Chart

Organizational chart is a good tool to chart the organization structure.

Fundamentally, organization charts benefit users for its visual communication of information which is more effective than pure text. The following are some top benefits to use organizational chart:

1. Organizational chart helps build and design the organization structure to meet the business' objectives.
2. Organizational chart can guide the employees to know their rights and responsibilities.
3. Organizational chart help divide the functions of a company, enterprise or department.
4. It also shows the relationships between the organization's staff members.
5. With organizational chart, it's easy to find whether the officer's workload is too heavy.
6. It's easy to find whether the unrelated persons undertake the work of several loose, no relationship.
7. Find out whether an employee is incompetent in this work at important positions.
8. Make everyone clear within their organizations and improve employee performance.
9. Other departments are also able to understand and enhance the coordination of the organization.
10. It's easy to see the promotion channels open.
11. Some managers can use the organizational chart tool to analysis budget, design work team and generate reports.
12. Organizational chart often outline employee tasks and which manager is responsible for overseeing each employee.

Here is an example to demonstrate how amazing it is.

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The above mentioned bonuses of org charts are all from the perspective of business management; they can also bring more benefits in other fields. For example, it offers a paperless office strategy which is environmentally friendly by saving more paper. At the same time, electronic document means more convenient access of employee information, enabling human resources manager to view it anytime anywhere.

Basic Organizational Chart Symbols

Pre-drawn basic organizational chart symbols represent manager card, position card, round card, simple card and 3D card, etc. These symbols help create accurate diagrams and documentation.

Edraw organizational chart includes plenty of card shapes, manager card, position card, simple card, multi-style card, fixed two rows card, fixed three rows card, 3D card, etc. With these special photo shapes, your organizational chart will look more interesting and attractive.

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Basic Organizational Chart Symbols

Basic Organizational Chart Shapes

Position card is a card designed for recording a position.

Fixed card is a kind of card that can not be adjusted or changed.

3D card is a card that appears to be three-dimensional as it is moved.

Header is a unit of information that precedes a data object.

Footer is a person or thing of a specified number of feet in length or height.

Border is the edge or boundary of something, or the part near it.

Need fresh looking basic organizational chart symbols for your design? These basic organizational chart symbols are a cinch to pop in. And their crisp, fine detail will make spectacular, easy-to-understand diagrams and presentations to your customers.

Variations of Org Chart Shapes

If a card shape is consist of above 2 subshapes, you can resize a certain subshape.

A few seconds after you select a shape, click on the area of the target subshape.

The selected subshape is bounded by a blue dashed line with blue selection points.

Drag the selection points to resize it.

Included is a 3D Card shape. It is designed with a yellow control point, which makes the shape versatile.

If you resize shapes one by one, it will be hard and time-consuming to turn them into the same size. Edraw offers a quick way to deal with this issue.

Select all target shapes.

Press Tab key to choose the shape size you want.

Go to Arrange group of Home Menu.

Click Same Size under Size.

Functional Organizational Chart

Functional organizational chart is structured with few managers at the top and most people at the bottom, organized by the tasks they performed.

Job classifications were well defined and authority was top-down. Control was maintained by setting rules and establishing standard procedures.

For example, an executive may report to the president. Companies that use functional organizational chart split their departments into functional areas, such as accounting, finance, develop, marketing and law.

Functional organizational structure includes vice presidents, executives, directors and managers in a company.

As opposed to small organizational structures, functional organizational charts are useful for a large degree bigger companies.

The functional structure groups employees together based upon the functions of specific jobs within the organization. For example, a software development company can use the following functional organizational chart:
President
- Sales Department

- Engineering Department

- Customer Relations Department

- Accounting Department

- Administration Department

The following example organizational chart shows a functional organizational chart of a company.

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Three most commonly-used organizational structures types including functional, hierarchical and matrix organizational structure will be introduced in this article.

Whether an organization is large or small, they need a defined organizational structure to help or hinder its progress toward accomplishing these goals. Here are three main organizational structure types:

• Functional Organizational Structure
• Hierarchical Organizational Structure
• Matrix Organizational Structure

Three Most Commonly-used Organizational Structures Types

Following are detailed introduction for those three organizational structure types.

1. Functional Organizational Structure

Functional Organizational Structure, one of the most common types of organizational structures, groups individuals by specific functions performed. The advantage of this type of structure is that It works perfect when small companies are heavily project focused.

2. Hierarchical Organizational Structure

Hierarchical Organizational Structure, is often used in larger companies that operate in a wide geographic area.

3. Matrix Organizational Structure

Matrix Organizational Structure is a hybrid of divisional and functional structure, which is used for reporting levels both horizontally as well as vertically. It is often used when the firm has to be highly responsive to a rapidly changing external environment.

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Practical Skills for Making Professional Organizational Chart

Create an up-to-the-minute organization chart and set-up your organization charts quickly using some practical skills.

You can also turn organization charts into dynamic communication and management tools by storing data in the shapes, such as department or telephone number, or even protected confidential information about employees, such as salary or start date behind the scenes. We've created a video tutorial to help you get started with Org Chart: Video Tutorial - How to Create an Org Chart

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To Draw an Organization Chart

From the Organization Chart Shapes stencil, drag the org chart shape onto the drawing page. Shapes can be Executive, Manager or Staff. Double click to edit the name.

Use Quick Button to Create Organization Relationships

Select a shape, then you can click the quick button to add subordinate or colleague quickly.

Link Your Organizational Charts Together

It's easy to add hyperlinks to the shapes and pages in your diagrams. The hyperlinks can go to:

1. Another page in the same drawing.
2. A page or shape in another drawing.
3. A document other than a drawing.
4. A Web site.

Modify Photo in the Organizational Chart Shape

You can click the photo to select it. Then click the Action Button. In the pop up menu, you can click the Replace Photo item.

Define Data for the Organizational Chart Shape

You can select an org chart shape. Then press F4 short key to define property for the shape. You can also double click to edit the text in the shape.

You can also use the Organization Chart Wizard to generate a new organizational chart from the Microsoft Office Excel or text data file.

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