There are four specific objectives that we focus on to fulfill our mission of helping hospitals and clinics worldwide become self-sustaining.

• Mobilizing volunteer healthcare managers and consultants to provide practical management training.
  
  
• Establishing long-term mentoring relationships with healthcare leaders
  
  
• Providing short-term planning guidance and consultations
  
  
• Connecting healthcare organizations with public and private sources for capital financing.

 

 

At HDI, we know that a little management training applied in the right places can go a long way toward improving health conditions for large groups of people. We also know that by creating successful examples, we can ignite a wave of positive change for a whole nation, but it has to start by achieving results at the level of individual hospitals and clinics. Here are some of the ways we measure our impact:

• We look for improvement in profit margins, both in real currency and as a percent of improvement from the prior year. Sustainability requires positive cash flow.
  
  
• We monitor improvements in patient satisfaction as measured by internal surveys as well as stories from patients and community members.
  
  
• When new jobs are created at a hospital because of improvements in capacity and profitability, they have a rippling effect throughout the community.
  
  
• We track reductions in the ratio of income that depends on donors. When hospitals are able to pay their bills from service revenues, they expand their long-term impact in the community and free up donor support for other ventures.
  

  

  

The HDI Effective Health Care Management Workshop can be brought to emerging countries through co-sponsoring organizations such as medical missionaries, healthcare associations, and non-governmental organizations.

Qualified co-sponsors will: 

• Organize the conference in an appropriate setting
• Attract 25 to 100 participants
• Arrange for translation of course materials and presentations if necessary
• Coordinate travel and accommodations details with HDI staff
• Participate in developing support for workshop fees, materials and expenses

 

Health Development International is happy to announce the expansion of its training and consulting services for medical missions. The Effective Health Care Management Workshop from HDI is a four-day event designed to improve the performance of health care managers in emerging countries. Participants learn basic skills required to plan, organize, lead and check the efforts of people as they work toward the achievement of common social and economic goals. Experienced trainers bring timeless principles and practical examples in interactive sessions, but participants discern how to make them relevant in their own culture through group exercises.

The material presented includes:

Tasks	Skills and Activities
Planning	Needs Assessment Mission, Vision and Values Planning Goals and Priorities Sustainability
Organizing	Defining Relationships Delegating Developing Teams
Leading	Understanding Leadership Styles Motivating People Resolving Conflicts
Checking	Tracking Performance Continuous Improvement