1.) It seems that Providence Medical Center uses Evidence-based Management in the decision making for their whole organization. They are utilizing their tools to make changes within the organization, in turn involves better care for patients, saving patients money, and also saving the Hospital money. As Stanford business scholars Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton said evidence based-management is based on the belief that “facing the hard truths about what works and what doesn’t will help organizations run better.” The Administration at Providence Medical Center encouraged all of the internal staff divisions to contribute their ideas to help lower costs and improve patient care. Since they were open to suggestions from all staff, they embraced the challenges of innovation. For example the nursing team came up with an idea to help reduce falls by patients when they are walking about in their rooms. Their evidence-based idea was a success and reduced the falls of patients. I think evidence based-management seems like a good way to run a hospital, or any type of or organization for that matter. The Management of the organization, company, ect. Develops ideas, and rationally decides which will be the most effective with what they are working towards changing. After putting their changes in motion, the company can check the results of their changes within a time frame, and then decide whether there is any evidence of improvement.
2.) Providence Medical Center implemented scientific management by using mathematics for a variety of things while they were deciding which changes improved the way the hospital was operated and in making new plans. For example providence maintained mathematical model studies to evaluate how their changes affected each operation in each division. The difference in numbers for day’s patients stayed in the hospital, the number of accidental