Keeping people healthy and saving lives

Health care is about keeping people healthy and saving lives, but it is also about taking care of people-being caring-when they are sick and scared, when they are ashamed and vulnerable, when they are suffering from dementia, when they are dying, and when they are losing a loved one to dementia or death.

Imagine that you are an administrator at a hospital. It has recently been proposed that your hospital open a so-called bioemporium to house neomorts. There’s no question that a bioemporium housing neomorts holds untold potential for efficiencies and maybe even profit. But would a bioemporium housing neomorts be consistent with what health care is about: again, not only keeping people healthy and saving lives, but taking care of people-being caring?

Don’t feel that you need to answer no, it wouldn’t be. Do use Hall’s organizational goals approach/mission statement perspective to formulate an answer to the question: Should your hospital proceed with opening the bioemporium? Draw from the mission statement of the hospital of your choice. (Choose a hospital; cast yourself as an administrator there. If you work at a hospital, consider choosing it!) Consider also the possible effects on your hospital’s various stakeholders.