In this course, we examined health care organizations in terms of three major aspects:

In this course, we examined health care organizations in terms of three major aspects: Cultural, Operational and Strategic; and then looked at each of the major functional areas, such as Clinical, Physician Organization, Nursing, HR, Finance, Marketing and Strategy, Environment of Care and others. Why would it be helpful for a manager, who may be working in only one department, to understand what everyone else does?