Dr. Byrnes Shouldice‚ Alan O’Dell From: An MBA Student Date: May 09‚ 2006 ------------------------------------------------- Subject: Problems and Plans - Operational Assessment of the Shouldice Hospital Thank you for the opportunity to consult on your Shouldice Hospital operational assessment. I understand that you have implemented a well developed focus strategy (market focus and internal focus) successfully and Shouldice achieves outstanding results by maximizing the difference
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➢ Company Overview: Shouldice Hospital is a privately owned surgical hospital which specializes in external abdominal wall hernia repair with holistic recovery services. The Shouldice facility located near Toronto‚ Canada‚ was founded by Dr. Earle Shouldice in 1945 and is the world’s leading center of excellence in abdominal hernia repair. Shouldice Hospital employs nearly 160 employees with an average tenure of 10 years. Shouldice Hospital‚ with an 80% referral rate‚ conducts more than 7‚000
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11/30/2012 “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”-- Andrew Carnegie Healthcare team and professionalism Teamwork is a small group of people‚ who are contribute their complementary skills‚ interests‚ and opinions to the unity and efficiency of the group‚ in order to achieve common goals and mutual responsibilities
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Patrick Fitzgibbons MBA 528 Case #2 11/17/2014 Mt. Sinai hospital is a Non-Profit hospital located on the West Side of Chicago that has in recent years faced increasing volumes of patients‚ demographic changes in their client’s‚ and increasing economic pressure. As a non-profit Mt. Sinai has a responsibility to provide affordable and quality care to individuals in the community despite their economic situation. This means relying increasingly on Medicaid as well as providing care to individuals
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Hospital J Case Study and Recommendations for Improvement The purpose of this case study is to examine‚ analyze‚ and interpret a given set of data for Hospital J in order to recommend changes to maximize efficiency of operations. The data provided was recorded over the course of a year in Hospital J’s emergency room. Data is attached in Appendix A. Various methods were used to determine the best course of action for the hospital in terms of staffing‚ supplies‚ and income allotment. The nominal
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as compared to that of a typical hospital? A. The hospital focused on this new procedure for treatment of external types of abdominal hernias. Some differentiating features of the Shouldice process were the arranging of abdominal muscles into three distinct layers‚ reinforcing the abdominal wall with six rows of sutures and did not involve any insertion of screen and mesh under the skin. Beyond the surgical procedure‚ it was the service process of the hospital that differentiated it from others
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A case study on Outsourcing of Hospitals Submitted by: Sadikchya Acharya MBA III(R) KINGS College MGT 620 Operations Management & Supply Chain International American University Introduction There are numerous strategies which are used to design to gain operation excellence and to gain competitive advantage through price cut and minimizing other operations cost also adding product value is one of them. Outsourcing can also be the process or people and supply chain that gives and addition
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Introduction: As an administrator of a private hospital‚ we should always upgrade the hospital setting without any reluctant as it may affect the hospital’s services standard. To be an administrator of a private hospital in the center of the city‚ Penang‚ Malaysia‚ we should have a strong power and human power to ensure the hospital are functioning appropriately to ensure the standard of the hospital always there. Although Penang which is known as Pearl Island is a small island in Malaysia but
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Shouldice Hospital Case Study Calvin Barron Liberty University March 2‚ 2010 Respectfully submitted to Prof. Scott McLaughlin Overview The Shouldice Hospital serves as a glaring example of extraordinary service and care for the impaired and needy. From carpeting and soft lighting to doting personal care from the staff‚ the Shouldice experience sets a standard of excellence for the industry. Dr. Earl Shouldice displayed an early desire for medical understanding with an age
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Health care administration‚ which is also profiled as health service management‚ is an aspect of the healthcare organization that solely directs all the hospital operations‚ health systems‚ and different entities within the health care sector. The administration is mainly inclusive of specific responsibilities that range from program development‚ staff inclusion‚ facility allocation‚ service management‚ budget allocation‚ and other duties that are highly determined by the size as well as the type
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