Health Benefits



Health Benefits

Introduction

Any organization or business cannot succeed if its administration does not provide facilities to the human resource of the organization that is the employees. If the employees are provided with good monetary as well as non-monetary benefits like excellent quality health care facilities, they cannot not only be retained but also be retained in a profitable manner by increasing their productivity. Health care organizations are no exception to this rule.

Discussion

Health care organizations are the organizations which receive funding from health authorities to provide the localities with health care facilities. The administration of the health care organizations mostly focuses on providing the localities with health care facilities. But they also need to provide their employees with the best of the health care benefits as well as incentives. This is going to make them satisfied, make them more loyal to their organization and will help them increase their performance.

Some Fast Facts

In the year 2009, there were around 385,000 cases of sharps related injuries that were sustained by the personnel of the healthcare annually. Around 1000 incidents of accidental injuries occur in the hospitals daily. Around 35% nurses reported the incidents of contaminated needle sticks two or more times in their nursing career. Another 39% nurses reported that they were not treated or evaluated after their most recent needle stick injury. It was also reported that around 75% of these needle stick injuries involved a non-safety syringe despite having many acts that mandate the use of safety syringes. 28% of these injuries took place when the nurse was giving an injection to a patient. 19% happened when the nurse was disposing off the non safety device and around 19% occurred before or during the activation of the safety feature (American Nurses Association, 2008).

These facts and figures provide an overview of the current situation of the health facilities that are provided to the health care employees. The role of the administration is very important in making such policies and actions which ensure that the health care providers are also provided with health care facilities and benefits.

Benefits for Employee in Healthcare Organizations

It is the duty of the administrator if the healths care organizations, specifically the human resource personnel, to design such policies which ensure that health care benefits are provided to the employees. As the administrator, one should be alive to providing the basic health care facilities to the employees. The most basic of them include providing the employees with dental coverage either within the organization, if present, or through other health care units functioning in this specialty. They shall also be provided with vision coverage and employee life and AD&D insurance, Disability insurance needs also be mandatory provided. Other policies vary from organization to organization. But these are the most basic of them that all the organizations shall be providing to their employees.

Evaluation of Benefits Provided

Most of the organizations of today's world hire specialized personnel for the planning as well as the implementation of the health care benefits policies to be ...