This article presents a study of a living system at the level of the organization. Specifically, it reviews a living systems process analysis of an urban hospital and its constituent departments. The relationship between a hospital department's performance of the living system's processes and its effectiveness is discussed. The general findings of the study and recommendations emanating from the analysis are included.
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Merker et al. (1987) studied this question.