[ survey of organizational health in university hospitals of Isfahan]

Background and Objectives: Hospitals, due to their role in improving the health of populations, should have adequate organizational health. Organizational health is critical for organizational productivity. This study aimed to evaluate the organizational health of university hospitals of Isfahan, Iran

Methods: This descriptive-analytic and cross- sectional study was conducted in 7 hospitals in 2015. A researcher-made questionnaire with 18 dimensions and 54 questions was used to gather data. A total of 283 hospital employees were randomly selected from seven hospitals. Data analysis was performed through SPSS21 and using descriptive statistics such as frequency, percent, mean +/- SD as well as inferential statistics like regression and ANOVA

Results: The mean score Mean score of organizational health in studied hospitals was 3.08 +/- 0.63 from 5. Organizational health was good in one hospital, moderate in five hospitals and poor in one hospital. Dimensions of morale, planning and formality had the highest and dimensions of justice, decision- making and control had the lowest scores. Intra-ward relationships, efficient use of resources, adaptability, leadership and independence showed the most effect on organizational health. Specialty hospitals had better organizational health compared to general hospitals. There was significant relationship between managers' work experience and organizational health

Conclusion: University hospitals of Isfahan have moderate organizational health and hospital managers should apply necessary activities for improvement of organizational health

most important factors that patient chose public or private hospital in 1387 year

Introduction: the purpose of this study is to determine the most important factors that patient chose public or private hospital in 1386- 1387 year. Method; this research is a descriptive - comparative and sectional study. In this rescearch statically community include patient who are in-patients in private and public hospitals in Tehran, Iran, and Beheshli university Whit use of simple and randomly sampling a total of 360 patient assesscd through Random choose. assessment tools in this research war; researcher questionnaire which was made in 3 part. First pan include 25 questions that had 5 uprims from tikert system scoring nletllnd. Second part incllrdt 2 qucstions that had 2 options whicll was yes or no and third parlincludc 2 opcn questions which they validity obtained from content asscssmcnl. Corrclalion qucstionnairc nhtaincd 90. we used SPSS fur dara - smtistical trials such as - trials and T trials and Manwitny and Fridman and logistire regre SS IOn test. Results: bnsud on the linding. the most important factors in the chonse of puhlic hospital include: clipcticnccd physician. Rclat ionship knveen physician and patient and Frequent physician attendance, physiciatl popularity and the most important factors in the chousi: of private hospilals are uxpcrimrccd phsicirrn.Kclrrriunship that 5cm physician and patjmt and Frcquent physician attendance in wards. physician practice in hospital. And between empowerment fxtnrs fur the choose of public hospital arc [hospilal cosr: fitcrors 2] palicnt incomc factors and hetwcen cttlporrrerlnent factors for choose of privatc hospitals are 1] pnt ient income fkcror 2] huspihl cost faclots [p< 0.05]. Conclusion the patients uchv sclcer rhc privalc and govctintal hospitals say that there lnain rescan for this sclcction is the ailability of experieiced physicians. The treatment cost in hospitals and paticnts incum arc miin rcsciins Tor sdcclion of hospitals