Like other organizations, transport teams require a clear vision to achieve objectives and enable managers and administration to meet important organizational goals
Within this framework, administrators who are part of the team, within the sponsoring organization but not part of the team, and from referring hospitals must all understand the team structure and function.
As with many businesses, transport systems must operate within justifiable and often relatively fixed budgets. In this chapter, we describe administrative issues important to successful administration of a transport team.This chapter makes reference in general to transport team leadership, hospital administrators, and transport administration. Administrative roles, leadership qualifications, and responsibilities are discussed more specifically in Chapter 4. Reference to transport team administrative leadership in this chapter refers to titles such as transport team program director, transport team medical director, and transport team coordinator. Hospital or institutional administrative leadership refers to members of the hospital administrative leadership team responsible for program coordination, development, and monitoring.