Organizational Issues in the Team Delivery of Comprehensive Health Care

Many of these efforts involve the creation of interdisciplinary health care teams. Today HEW is actively recruiting such teams for use throughout the country. Hospitals are experimenting with different methods of team delivery of ambulatory care. Community health centers are developing team delivered comprehensive care to communities where the patient unit is a family. Administrators of such centers face many new and complex issues in organization management. These issues center around the organization of the health team, the structure of the total organization, educational policy and practices, staff motivation and community relations-to name a few. There exists a body of experience, mostly in nonmedical organizations, where the application of behavioral science based knowledge about organization functioning has significantly improved their effectiveness. Some of this knowledge and ex-