Case Study “Paul Levy: Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center” April 26‚ 2015 Jose Joe Rodriguez HSM 500 Management & Organizational Theory & Practice Situation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center‚ located in the heart of Boston’s academic medical area‚ is a 513-bed hospital noted for its high-class academic medical center that was known not only for the quality of its research and teaching‚ but especially for its quality of care. The flux
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Fear‚ isolation‚ and the shear will to survive. The selection “I Survived the Blizzard of ‘79” by author Beth Ann Fennelly has a forceful impact on its reader because the use of personification amplifies the severity of the storm and in using personification Fennelly helps to understand the age of the characters. Throughout the entirety of the selection one thing remains prevalent when discussing the use of personification and that is the severity of the storm. One example of this is the line “This
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Comedic JuxtapositionIn Beth Henleys play‚ Am I Blue‚ two main characters are presented. The two characters‚ Ashbe and John Polk‚ exert diverse personality traits‚ which cause comedic situations to arise within the play. It is often the case in comedy that two characters will present characters that obtain various apparent differences. Ashbe has an overtly eccentric personality while that of John Polk is comparatively mild and plain. From the moment the two become acquainted‚ amusement ensues due
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Life As We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer is a fictional book about the moon getting hit by a huge astroid. In this novel the people have to live through this event. It may not sound like a big deal but the moon controls a lot actully like tsunamis‚ earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. This book focuses on one family and there troubles. I love the authors writing style in this book. First of all its written as a teenage girls journal so as i reader i get to know everything thats going on for her
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Life As We Knew It ALTERNATE ENDING I told my mother that I was going to the post office hoping to have a letter from my father. My mom said “Miranda‚ I heard that things should get better soon and this will be all over with‚ please be quick and be safe‚ it will all be over soon.” That gave me some hope. I left my skis in the house‚ knowing what I was going up against. I stepped outside into the blizzard‚ expecting the worst and not returning home. When I finally got to the post office‚ I realized
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facilitated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) from ailing to thriving. The organization faced many dire issues including financial crisis‚ poor quality of patient care‚ and low staff morale. This grim outlook required a strong transformational leader. Levy displayed all the characteristics of a powerful and effective leader by embracing intellectual stimulation‚ individual consideration‚ and charisma which enabled him to lead them through the crisis. Levy was able to inspire the Beth Israel
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How would you describe the situation Levy inherited at the BIDMC? What challenges did he face? Why did previous turnaround efforts fail? (4 points) Two unique corporate cultures‚ Beth Israel Hospital and Deaconess Hospital merged in 1996 to become Beth Israel Deaconess (BID). To compete with Partners‚ BID and a few other hospitals combined forces and formed Care Group Systems (CGS). Lacking leadership commitment‚ BID was in chaos and consistently posted operating losses in millions of dollars
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The environment that we live in can shape or change a person’s personality to who theybecome. This is one of the depictions in the one act play "Am I Blue‚" written by Beth Henley. This play illustrates the two main characters‚ John Polk Richard and Ashbe Williams‚ of havingvery different influences and very different personalities‚ however their different personalitiescome together‚ and they realize how influenced they truly are by their surroundings and by eachother. John Polk and Ashbe come
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Paul Levy: Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center How would you describe the situation Levy inherited? The Beth Israel Hospital and Deaconess Hospital were consolidated and became Beth Israel Deaconess (BID) in 1996. BID operated under the Care Group Systems (CGS)‚ which was an affiliation of some Boston-area hospitals. The BID hospital system was in anarchy. There were significant operating losses‚ amounting to millions of dollars each year. BID management seemed incapable
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no-win situation; it is difficult if not impossible to benefit from such an experience. But how does trauma affect the current state of the victim? More importantly‚ how can we sympathize with victims of incomprehensible trauma? Leila Ahmed‚ Beth Loffreda‚ and Martha Stout with their respective works‚ On Becoming an Arab‚ Selections from Losing Matthew Shepard‚ and When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning it was Friday discuss the use of distancing in response to trauma in one’s past. Remarkably‚ human beings
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