Who should use the Hospital Assessment Tool?
Hospital managers can use the tool to increase efficiency and boost revenues in the short-term. An assessment can reveal where the greatest potential for increased revenues lies and what changes would help realize that increase. For the longer term, both private-sector mission hospitals and public hospitals can use the tool to improve management. Finally, the Ministry of Health can use the tool in its move toward decentralizing provincial hospitals. With information provided by the assessment, government could make decisions about the granting of autonomous status and make the necessary plans to ensure it happens. The government may also use the assessment to develop criteria for financial grants to hospitals that are nearly ready, with confidence that the hospital will then be able to make the transition successfully. The benefits The Hospital Assessment Tool helps keep the hospital in good health. The picture the tool provides of the overall day-to-day operations of the hospital can
