Selected organizational features of certain Polish health care institutions

A special feature of the Polish health care system in the 70s was the process toward organizational centralization. This consisted in integrating independent organizational units into larger, more complex ones, and transferring the processes of decision-making to higher management levels. This transition was introduced in 1975. One of its effects was incorporating into one organization all health care systems in a given area, primary care hospitals, specialist care units, laboratory bases, emergency and social welfare agencies and subsuming all these institutions under one management. The ensuing organization was named the Health Care Complex (HCC). It is interesting that in the HCC area other organizations were founded to cover industrial workers. These were called Occupational Health Care Complexes (OHCC). This paper deals with a description of a variety of OHCC organizational structures, an analysis of the relationships between different parameters of organizational structures (leaving aside, however, their casual interpretation), and an examination of the possibilities for applying empirical data to OHCC organizational structural analysis.