MSc in Health Care Management 2011 Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland‚ Dublin. Module 1 Student ID: 11110201 Date: 14.11.2011 Word Count: 2990 Managing People and Organisations Assignment: Case Study: Leading Organisational Change: Improving Hospital Performance • Critically discuss the sources of resistance encountered by Tracey Burns and her team? Support your discussion with evidence-based literature. • Explore the approaches they used to manage the resistance
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Issues2 III.Recommendations6 IV.References7 I.Introduction Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is propriety‚ hospital management company founded in Nashville‚ Tennessee in 1968 with only one‚ 150-bed hospital and then grew to become the nation’s largest hospital management company. As of 1981‚ HCA owned or managed 349 hospitals in the United States and overseas. During the 1970s‚ HCA achieved its growth by acquisition of existing hospitals and construction of new ones. During the period of 1968-1981
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Abstract The team has planned to develop a Hospital Automation System for the well knownhospital called Pannipitiya Nursing Home. Currently the client company depends on an error – prone software system and a large amount of manual work. Development of a new systemwill help the client company to minimize the work load they handle manually and to eliminatethe faults and errors of the existing software system.This proposed system handles the entire hospital work load under seven major functions namely;
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topic “Making Vaccination Mandatory for All Children”. Kristen A. Feemster‚ a physician and health services researcher‚ feels that vaccines must be compulsory for all children. She believes that vaccines not only protect individuals but also their neighbor. Feemster says that “Vaccines protect our neighbors --like following traffic laws‚ drug tests at work‚ paying taxes”1and
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Marketing 351 TWR 18:00 – 20:20 Summer Semester July 2‚ 2008 Social Enterprise Overview Colette’s Children’s Home (CCH) is a non-profit emergency and transitional housing program for homeless single women and homeless women with children‚ with five facilities in the Orange County area. The organization was founded by Pamela Hope‚ Kevin Craig and William O’Connell nearly a decade ago‚ and holds its headquarters in Huntington Beach‚ California. The organization attempts to reunify
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Introducing philosophy to children is a very controversial subject. Michael S. Pritchard‚ the author of Reasonable Children‚ explores the concept of introducing philosophy to children within the schools before they enter their college years. Pritchard assumed that the study of philosophy should begin at a college level. At the start of this assignment my first reaction was similar to Pritchard’s‚ philosophy starts during the college years. I could never imagine discussing
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Supply Chain Management in Hospital: A Case Study Samuel Toba • Mary Tomasini • Y. Helio Yang San Diego State University‚ San Diego‚ CA It is a common misunderstanding that hospital purchasing is just a functional part of operations rather than a strategic means to achieve financial cost savings. The supply chain process is the essential link for all programs and services offered by a hospital‚ and hence any improvement in managing the supply chain can positively impact bottom line profitability
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Topic: Street Children Name of candidate: Kamar Mclean Name of school: Brown’s Town High School Teacher’s name: Mis. Green Center#: 100136 Candidate#: 100136 Territory: Jamaica Year: 2015 Table Of Contents Content Page Introduction…………………………………………………………………….. Acknowledgement………………………………………………………………. Chapter 1 Statement of the Problem…………………………………………………………. Reason for selecting Area of Research…………………………………………… Research Questions………………………………………………………………. Method of Investigation…………………………………………………………
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Tatiana Tripp Trader Joe’s Case Study Analysis COM 742 11/19/2014 The current problem is that advertising and growth can lead to an end of the “quirkiness” that is currently Trader Joe’s strongest attribute. Already‚ a bit of authenticity from the original stores has slipped away from expansion. A former employee‚ as shown in the case study‚ said “In the early days we never tried to be a neighborhood store.”1 There is no question that trying to incorporate more traditional advertising and thus‚ competing
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Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Project Hospitals like any commercial business interest rely on the principles of best practices in the treatment of its patients. Without a standard of care provided through these practices‚ hospitals would fail to provide the basic service that they are designed to provide. Similarly‚ these standards of best practices extend across the entire organization from clinical functions
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