title: Administrative use of systems analysis to troubleshoot a problematic work situation.
abstract: The deinstitutionalized mentally ill continue to seek housing. The present private nursing home industry has sought to fill this population's needs by expanding their business endeavors to low cost residential facilities. The industry, of course, must seek a profit. These investors, however, lack a thorough understanding of the exact housing needs of the people from whom they seek their profits. Failure to establish a residence with a health stabilizing program sufficiently strong to mitigate the residents' health deficits produces a loss that is both financial and human. Many residential administrators are faced with trying to understand and remedy the situation in which they find themselves. The following case study illustrates this point and offers some administrative tools for assessing and communicating to investors the adjustments necessary in order to promote a profit from providing a residence for health impaired populations.
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D002017:Budgets; D006040:Goals; D006269:Health Facilities, Proprietary / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D011340:Problem Solving; D012112:Residential Facilities / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013597:Systems Analysis