Organizational Profile Of Shriners Hospitals For Children

PAGE 1 Running Head: ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE An Organizational Profile of Shriners Hospitals for Children John W. Brouillette University of Louisville Bradley Carpenter, Ph. D. Department of Leadership, Foundations and Human Resource Education ELFH 490-98 May 29, 2015 ? Introduction This paper will analyze Shriners Hospital for children, a non-profit hospital system owned by Shriners International, through the theoretical lens of Bolman and Deals Leadership Frameworks (1997). This paper will define structural and symbolic aspects of the organization, analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats through structural assessment to identify growth and risk potential, and propose possible solutions for identified issues. Shriners Hospitals for Children is a non-profit hospital system that maintains 22 hospitals for children in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 18 of the hospitals provide orthopedic specialization; three hospitals focus on burn care, and one hospital offers burn, spinal, and orthopedic care. The first hospital was opened in Shreveport Louisiana, in 1922 by Shriners International, a fraternal organization for men. The hospitals provide cutting edge care for a variety of condition, actively engage in research for cures to childhood diseases and improvement to orthopedic and burn treatments (Schumaker, 2005). Shriners Hospitals for Children has aShow MoreRelatedThe Blocker Burn Unit At The University Of Texas Medical Branch ( Utmb )1739 Words   |  7 Pagesonly sustained operations but also briefly expanded to provide pediatric burn care when Shriners Burns Hospital was subsequently unable to reopen post hurricane. This paper will detail the realities confronted by the BBU both currently, and in the future, with an exploration as to those implications on fiscal outlook and provision of care. Current Realities of the Blocker Burn Unit (BBU) Burn Care Hospitals The American Burn Association (ABA) is the accrediting body for burn centers in the United