Due Date: 15th June 2013 (midnight) Value: 45% You have recently been employed as the Director of Informatics for the Metro Hospital in Brisbane. The Metro Hospital is a 363 bed facility on the Northside of Brisbane. The services include general surgical‚ general medical‚ oncology‚ vascular‚ ear‚ nose and throat‚ palliative care‚ ophthalmology and maternity and children’s services. It has good links with the General Practitioners who fall into the catchment area for the Metro North Medicare Local
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Patient Safety—Case Study #2 Sierra Billman‚ Morgan Burkholder‚ & Crystal Montgomery Indiana University School of Nursing Protecting Our Patients Patient safety is an area in which every hospital strives to excel. Patient safety is when an error is prone‚ but staff prevents it before it happens. There are hundreds of hospitals in the United States that want to improve patient safety. One case of this would be The Veterans Health Administration implementing changes to decrease the likelihood of
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Case Study: Edgewood Lake Hospital - Leadership in a Rural Healthcare Facility During Challenging Economic Times [NAME] [DATE] Case Study: Edgewood Lake Hospital - Leadership in a Rural Healthcare Facility During Challenging Economic Times Edgewood Lake Hospital (ELH) which opened in 1945‚ is a 30-bed‚ independent‚ not-for-profit hospital located in rural northern California. It provides inpatient and outpatient services to the close-knit community that resides within the forested and lakeside
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Dell’s Value Chain 1. How has Dell used its direct sales and build-to-order model to develop an exceptional supply chain? Dell has used its direct sales and build-to-order model to develop an exceptional supply chain by taking customer feedback very seriously. Dell uses the feedback to further evaluate and when necessary‚ implement change to improve their supply chain. The company maintains close-knit relationships with customers‚ and maintains very close‚ professional relations with their suppliers
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-0.75 Beta coefficient of 0.5 It looks like security B is more risky because it has about the same as market return. Anything with positive beta has high risk compare to the one with negative beta. Stock analysis use beta to measure stock risk. High . A negative beta implies that security A would stabilize the returns on a portfolio since the returns on A are negatively correlated to the market. The riskiness of a portfolio is determined by its beta value. Security A has a negative beta (-0
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Strategic Value Chain Analysis Wednesday‚ December 04‚ 2013 8:48 AM "Competitive Advantage" 1986 Companies are not groups of people‚ they are sets of activities. There are 2 sets of activities: Cost and willingness to pay (WTP) PRIMARY: In-bound / raw material ==> Process ==> Marketing ==> Service SECONDARY: Accounting‚ Exec Management‚ CIA Cost of distribution drivers (for cinnamon buns): # of stops (greater # raises cost) # of packages they drop per stop (greater # lowers
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pain‚ and shortness of breath. He received coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery to repair 4 blood vessels. This patient has a history of coronary artery disease‚ hypertension‚ chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)‚ hyperlipidemia‚ and a partial colectomy due to cataracts. My preceptor and I took care of Mr. C the day he received the CABG surgery. The patient returned to the CICU very drowsy and restless. As a few hours went by we noticed he was having multiple hallucinations.
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7 Questions 1. Patient goes to the GP. GP examines the patient and in some cases the GP will refer the patient to the hospital. In the hospital the person will be examined by a doctor and maybe there’s a surgery. After the surgery he needs to go to the local pharmacist for his medicines. The pharmacist sends him a bill. The payment of this bill will be arranged between the patient and the health insurer. 5. Four external factors that influence the costs of the hospital are: If the government
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J Bus Ethics (2014) 123:11–22 DOI 10.1007/s10551-013-1796-x Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Value Chains: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going? Peter Lund-Thomsen • Adam Lindgreen Received: 28 June 2013 / Accepted: 2 July 2013 / Published online: 10 July 2013 Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Abstract We outline the drivers‚ main features‚ and conceptual underpinnings of the compliance paradigm. We then use a similar structure to investigate the drivers‚ main features
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Demographic characteristics A total of 5‚617 patients were seen at Limbe Regional Hospital ED over the study period with 88.2% of these patients residing in the Limbe municipality (Table 1). The average age of patients was 26.8 years [CI: 26.4‚ 27.2] with a median age of 26 years [IQR: 19‚ 34]. The peak age incidence of injury was 20 to 29 years (36.5%) followed by patients aged 30-39 years (22.4%) and 10-19 years (15.3%) (Figure 1). About two-thirds of patients were male (67.6%) (Table 1). Students comprised
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