RBOCS is a breakup of AT&T when the United States filed a suit against them for antitrust issues. In January 1984, AT&T split up into several independent companies, which are being called “Baby Bells”. To name a few of the companies that consist of the RBOCS AT&T, Verizon, and Century Link.…
· RBOCS: Regional Bell Operating Companies is one of the local exchange carriers created by the breakup of AT&T in 1983. The number of RBOCs has shrunk through mergers since then from seven to just four: Verizon, Qwest, BellSouth and SBC. They compete for local business with CLECs. RBOCs were originally allowed to offer services only within specific regional areas, or LATAs. Under the terms of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, they are allowed to move into long distance and compete with interexechange carriers as they prove to state and federal agencies that they have opened their local markets to competition.…
As a manager, his day-to-day duties are accountable for the productivity, diversity, public scrutiny, confidentiality, customer expectation, safety, customer demand and participation to his employees. Considering that every health care manager’s responsibilities and duties may varies in every health care organization. As a manager he must understand the in and out of the business, and the involvement of his employees, and other stakeholders that directly or indirectly impact its success. Stakeholders refer to patients, suppliers, competitors and institutions that are affected in one way or another by organization’s performance. Furthermore, patient is the number one who utilizes the goods and services produced by health care organizations.…
Exceptional customer service is vital to any type of business. However, this is especially important in an environment where people especially sick people are at your door sick and are as are feeling bad and are looking for help from our hospital or doctor’s office. As Hillestad & Berkowitz, (2004), states “Marketing is about listening carefully to customers, understanding their needs, and providing the best possible service to meet those needs before implementing tactics” (pg. 9). It is very important to have the hospital’s mission statement, the vision on what the goals are for the hospital, and the values to reveal what is expected from our employees. The hospital expects our employees to care for the patients and more than the customers’ needs, we need to makes sure the family is respected and is looked after as well. If the hospital has a good human resource department, the training would be first and foremost customer first in their customer-oriented component and this would included in the strategic plan for a 250-bed hospital. By emphasizing the importance of the hospital’s mission of having a patient front and centered and respecting their customs traditions and culture.…
Bi Describe the terms and conditions of your employment as set out in your contract of employment or employment agreement.…
This paper will discuss the importance of the physician/hospital-patient relationship and how it relates to the Healthcare Administration profession. Also it will discuss the laws of contract principle and breach of warranty and how they affect the healthcare setting.…
Most healthcare consumers do not experience the healthcare system until they have a need for services. They also have limited knowledge regarding the services they are to receive. Therefore, when consumers evaluate services they receive, they form their opinions through their experience and observations such customer service, the cleanliness of the facility and the ease and effectiveness of the service. Focusing on the service provided will build reputation as would lead to recommendations. Focusing on just the image would not have the same effect. However developing a good reputation increases customer base which will have a positive effect on the organization’s corporate…
In this report, the writer evaluates the needs and expectations of the Nando’s primary segments and describes the service characteristics which are related to the key factors of consumer satisfaction. Nonetheless, this report contains the analyses of the service quality encounter based on personal experience. Service Blueprint and Heart Monitor are used in this report to analyse the service quality in the Nando’s restaurant. In this report, the writer includes his personal experience towards Nando’s product and the actual and potential quality problems faced by secondary segment. There are several suggestions are provided in the report for eventual services improvement at the Nando’s restaurant.…
During most customer service experiences, the “customer” is looking for one solid factor to occur: Satisfaction. Satisfaction can be found through providing the customer with each and every one of the aspects listed above. It can also be broken down into hundreds of different needs and wants but there are six main aspects to consider during every customer service encounter. These facets include: the customer, organizational culture, human resources, products & deliverables, delivery system and service.…
Patients are the main stakeholders in health and social care. They mainly expect proper treatment and timely consultation, effective and patient centered approach. Society expects the fulfillment of safety measures of the society. Administrator tries to fulfill the expected quality of the clients and follow the regulation set by health…
The outcome service of hospitals begins with the patient’s perception of caring and concerned physicians who demonstrate attributes of attentiveness, dignity and respect, effective…
In every health care places follows the organizational policy and procedure. The main purposes of the policies to ensure all services are delivered to the highest standard, in line with the Care Quality Commission Essential Standards of quality and safety, current legislation and best practice. To ensure that staff and service users are not discriminated, provide services to their own choice, service users are treated with respect, service are delivered equally and fairly. The aim of policy’s to improve the service level and overall performances.…
We developed SPO framework the area of services, which need improvement in Mildred’s case. Below is the figure 1.1, which shown structure process and outcome in Mildred’s case from preoperative stage to postoperative stage and what actually happened in Mildred’s case video and what is not showed in video, which require improvement. By comparing the result between two columns, it is easy to describe the areas where the quality of health care services can be…
With the economic problems, there are still opportunities in the healthcare industry. Patient satisfaction is a plays a key factor of quality of care (Morris, Jahangir, & Sethi, 2013). Without patients, healthcare facilities would have no use. Patient satisfaction is based on the expectations of the patient’s attitude and care. A patient's expectations of a good service could depend on age, gender, illness, his or her attitude toward the problem and the circumstances (Prakash, n.d.). Patients expect their doctors to live up to the expectations to satisfy them. When I am being hospitalized, my personal expectations are respect, care, communication, courtesy, concern, and professionalism.…
Customer satisfaction and loyalty are two important indicators for business. If organizations can meet customer expectations, it only can help improve customer satisfaction but not loyalty. However, if the quality can exceed customer expectations, it can help improve and sustain customer loyalty. There are tremendous practices for performance excellence in terms of customer focus. For example, identify different customer groups and understand their needs, create an organizational culture that encourages feedback and suggestion for improvement, provide various channels to get feedback from external and internal of the organization, and enhance customer relationships. It can help the organization identify the strengths and weakness of their service and products to improve their quality. There are five key dimensions of service quality, namely reliability, assurance, tangibles, empathy, responsiveness. Let’s take Lingnan Express (Canteen) as an example. The major customers are Lingnan students and teaching staffs. Customers expect to get satisfactory food in a low price in canteen which at least should be lower than fast food restaurants outside campus. Therefore, canteen provides HKD 12.5 Sang Shing Rice for students only and other Chinese fast food combo in a price range between HKD 23 and HKD 28. Even though the price is much cheaper than other fast food restaurants, the business of canteen is far from satisfaction. Thus, in order to boost its business, canteen provides various ways for customers to give feedback. For example, they invite students representatives from different years of study and student societies to have a meeting at the beginning of each academic year to know the needs of customers. Because of the adjustment of schooling schedule, students tend to have lunch after 2pm. Thus, canteen adjust their lunch time til 2:30pm and begin to provide afternoon tea afterwards. Canteen also ask the front line waitresses for advice to improve…