Healthcare Organization Process Management

Human Resource and hiring process at HFHS Introduction Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) is one of the nations leading comprehensive, integrated health systems providing acute, specialty, primary, and preventive care services along with a commitment to teaching and research. Founded in 1915 by auto pioneer Henry Ford, it is committed to improving the health and well-being of a diverse community in Detroit and the surrounding southeastern Michigan region. The system is anchored by a 903-bed tertiary care hospital and by the Henry Ford Medical Group, one of the nations largest group practices with 800 physicians in forty specialties. In addition, the system owns an insurance company the Health Alliance Plan, which serves more than3,000 employer groups and 540,000 members. The system has approximately 12,700 full-timeequivalent employees has more than 2.5 million annual patient visits to physicians admits 65,000 patients to its hospitals and generates revenue of 2.4 billion. Overall, more than one million residentsin southeast Michigan receive care from HFHS. As it looks ahead to the end of the first decade ofthe twenty-first century, HFHS faces a number of challenges including (1) changing demographics,(2) continuing advances in medical technology and the biomedical sciences, (3) the growth of information technology, (4)