The process of defining the hospital care profile in federal hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Published in: Ciência & saude coletiva Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 209 - 220
• Main Authors: Binsfeld, Luciane, Rivera, Francisco Javier Uribe, Artmann, Elizabeth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Portuguese
• Published: Brazil Associacao Brasileira de Pos-Graduacao em Saude Coletiva - ABRASCO 01.01.2017; Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva
• Subjects: Brazil; Delivery of Health Care, Integrated - organization & administration; Hospital Administration - methods; Hospital Administrators - statistics & numerical data; Hospitalization; Hospitals, Federal - organization & administration; Humans; Interviews as Topic; Organizational change; United States; Brasil; Brazil; Rio de Janeiro Brazil
• DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232017221.12822015
• ISSN: 1413-8123

This article analyzes the process of shaping the care profile of federal hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro. This is a qualitative, descriptive study that draws on semi-structured interviews with hospital administrators. Data analysis used the Collective Subject Discourse approach. Managers believe this process is the result of a set of emerging strategies, proposals and need for change, which result in adaptive reactions that hospitals develop with no coordination between them to resolve problems identified by professionals and managers. The process is analyzed much more from a political point of view than from a rational and systemic one. Some of the experience with the hospital mission, such as the focus on a strategic approach, already signals a more collegiate approach to defining the profile of care, where the hospital is one component of an integrated network of services, with a decision process that is less incremental and more integrating.