Effect of Change on Hospital Employees: Anticipated Effect of Large Organizational Shift on Genesys Health System Employees

Abstract

In 1997, Genesys Regional Health Care System (formerly the St. Joseph Health Systems of Flint, Michigan) sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Nazareth, Michigan, will open a new acute care facility in Grand Blanc, Michigan. This new hospital will be the focal point of a medical mall complex which will include comprehensive outpatient services along with specialty physician offices in a convenient, easy access structure. The new facility also will achieve the consolidation of the four acute care hospitals within the Genesys Health System (Flint Osteopathic Hospital, Genesee Memorial Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital, and Wheelock Memorial Hospital), and will fully integrate both the allopathic and osteopathic medical staffs from all hospitals (Kelly, 1992). This paper hopes to pull together for discussion the analysis of multiple change agents within the Genesys Health System, investigate the outward effects of change, determine the readiness of staff to participate in this venture, and suggest some plan of action to assist employees through this monumental process.