ACHE BOG EXAM QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
✔✔Ultimate responsibility for the mission statement rests with the:
a. CEO and medical staff
b. Governing board
c. Community and CEO
d. Chief executive - ✔✔B.
✔✔A key reason for choosing board members is because:
a. Other board members want to listen to their opinions
b. Of what they can do for the organization
c. They have high status in the community
d. Physicians will listen to them - ✔✔B.
✔✔The bylaws of healthcare organizations should include which of the following:
a. Committee scope and function
b. The privileges of the medical staff
c. The names of the stockholders in the organization
d. Composition of the governing board, committees and officers - ✔✔D.
✔✔The interpretation of the healthcare organization's role with respect to healthcare
values would
a. Establishing corporate goals and major institutional policies.
b. Ensuring that the community served by the facility is well-informed about the
organization's goals and performance.
c. Developing a mission statement indicating the organization's fundamental purpose or
reason for existence, in order to guide organizational behavior.
d. Creating a corporate vision of the organization's governing authority. - ✔✔C.
,✔✔The ethical precepts (organizational philosophy) that guide an organization's
activities are found
in a variety of sources that are:
a. Reflected in everyday sessions
b. The sole province of senior management
c. Part of the governing body's formal actions
d. Written and unwritten - ✔✔D.
✔✔The development of PPOs was originally intended to:
a. Guarantee that hospitals maintain their occupancies
b. Promote networks that would evolve into multi-hospital systems
c. Offer an alternative to the health maintenance organization
d. Force high proceed hospitals out of the local markets via discounts - ✔✔C.
✔✔The key to enhancing board effectiveness is:
a. Getting the right people to serve on the board.
b. Supporting and selecting the right CEO.
c. Orienting and training the CEO.
d. Organizing the boards work. - ✔✔D.
✔✔The role of the healthcare organization ethics committees is likely to be greatly
expanded in the future, primarily due to the:
a. Increased involvement of management in clinical decision making
b. Necessity for management to respond to licensure and accreditation requirements
c. Ability of current technology to extend life, without reference to the quality of life that
is
sustained
, d. Involvement of patients and their families in the clinical decision making process -
✔✔C.
✔✔Which of the following would not be included among the factors used to measure
organizational effectiveness?
a. Total revenues
b. Operating margin
c. Consumer satisfaction
d. Return on investment - ✔✔A.
✔✔It would be incorrect to say that:
a. An organization's image is a function of all that the organization has done as well as
what it has attempted to communicate
b. People's images of an organization always reflect their true attitudes toward the
organization
c. An organization's image is largely the result of public relations, advertising, selling
and
communication efforts
d. Responsibility for the creation of the organization's image does not lie merely with the
marketer - ✔✔C.
✔✔Before submission of the annual business plan to the governing authority, the plan
should be
Developed by:
a. Recommendations from the finance committee, on the basis of its estimate of income
for the budget year
b. The heads of the profit centers, considering each center's anticipated revenues and
Expenses, with the CEO collating
c. Key executives, after receiving recommendations from the heads of operating
divisions
d. The heads of the operating divisions, with the CEO collating - ✔✔C.
✔✔A hospice may be described as a/an:
GRADED A+
✔✔Ultimate responsibility for the mission statement rests with the:
a. CEO and medical staff
b. Governing board
c. Community and CEO
d. Chief executive - ✔✔B.
✔✔A key reason for choosing board members is because:
a. Other board members want to listen to their opinions
b. Of what they can do for the organization
c. They have high status in the community
d. Physicians will listen to them - ✔✔B.
✔✔The bylaws of healthcare organizations should include which of the following:
a. Committee scope and function
b. The privileges of the medical staff
c. The names of the stockholders in the organization
d. Composition of the governing board, committees and officers - ✔✔D.
✔✔The interpretation of the healthcare organization's role with respect to healthcare
values would
a. Establishing corporate goals and major institutional policies.
b. Ensuring that the community served by the facility is well-informed about the
organization's goals and performance.
c. Developing a mission statement indicating the organization's fundamental purpose or
reason for existence, in order to guide organizational behavior.
d. Creating a corporate vision of the organization's governing authority. - ✔✔C.
,✔✔The ethical precepts (organizational philosophy) that guide an organization's
activities are found
in a variety of sources that are:
a. Reflected in everyday sessions
b. The sole province of senior management
c. Part of the governing body's formal actions
d. Written and unwritten - ✔✔D.
✔✔The development of PPOs was originally intended to:
a. Guarantee that hospitals maintain their occupancies
b. Promote networks that would evolve into multi-hospital systems
c. Offer an alternative to the health maintenance organization
d. Force high proceed hospitals out of the local markets via discounts - ✔✔C.
✔✔The key to enhancing board effectiveness is:
a. Getting the right people to serve on the board.
b. Supporting and selecting the right CEO.
c. Orienting and training the CEO.
d. Organizing the boards work. - ✔✔D.
✔✔The role of the healthcare organization ethics committees is likely to be greatly
expanded in the future, primarily due to the:
a. Increased involvement of management in clinical decision making
b. Necessity for management to respond to licensure and accreditation requirements
c. Ability of current technology to extend life, without reference to the quality of life that
is
sustained
, d. Involvement of patients and their families in the clinical decision making process -
✔✔C.
✔✔Which of the following would not be included among the factors used to measure
organizational effectiveness?
a. Total revenues
b. Operating margin
c. Consumer satisfaction
d. Return on investment - ✔✔A.
✔✔It would be incorrect to say that:
a. An organization's image is a function of all that the organization has done as well as
what it has attempted to communicate
b. People's images of an organization always reflect their true attitudes toward the
organization
c. An organization's image is largely the result of public relations, advertising, selling
and
communication efforts
d. Responsibility for the creation of the organization's image does not lie merely with the
marketer - ✔✔C.
✔✔Before submission of the annual business plan to the governing authority, the plan
should be
Developed by:
a. Recommendations from the finance committee, on the basis of its estimate of income
for the budget year
b. The heads of the profit centers, considering each center's anticipated revenues and
Expenses, with the CEO collating
c. Key executives, after receiving recommendations from the heads of operating
divisions
d. The heads of the operating divisions, with the CEO collating - ✔✔C.
✔✔A hospice may be described as a/an:
