their healthcare spending. Congress enacted the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program under which Medicare penalizes hospitals for higher than expected rates of readmission. In 2015 CMS withheld 3 percent of reg reimbursement for hospitals having too many 30 day readmissions for HF. Heart failure accounts for more than 38 billion dollars of health care spending annually. More than 25% of pts hospitalized will be readmitted within 30 days of d/c Performance Dashboard for Congested Heart Failure
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Case: HBS Case 595-057 Q1. Why is Makita outselling B&D 8 to 1 in an account that gives them equal shelf space? (Opening paragraph) Ans. Perception of Quality - Makita have positioned themselves as a premium product in the profession power tool segment. B&D‚ as a result of its market leadership with 50% market share in consumer market segment‚ is considered an inferior brand to Makita as tradesman believe that the brand is more geared towards amateur than professional. The consumer and professional
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ALZA and Bio-Electro Systems 1. ALZA‚ a pharmaceutical company that has led the industry for over a decade‚ has been largely successful due to their unique technical innovation. Rather than specializing in discovering new drugs and treatments for medical conditions‚ ALZA instead focuses their pharmaceutical talents on developing new methods to deliver drugs to patients. From skin patches to time released capsules‚ ALZA captures their market by providing their technologies to all major pharmaceutical
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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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Huntsville Hospital (HH)‚ located in Northeast Alabama‚ is part of the Huntsville Hospital Health System‚ originating in downtown Huntsville‚ Alabama in the late 1800’s. As the not-for-profit‚ public hospital system developed‚ HH became the second largest employer in Madison County‚ Alabama with an estimated 7000 employees‚ 2000 nurses and 1000 physicians. Nine separate campuses constitute the Huntsville Hospital Health System representing more than 1500 hospital beds‚ a level 1 trauma center
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real estate was established in 1975‚ The Company is currently managing more than 2000 properties all over sharjah‚ Dubai‚ Ajman & Ras al Kaimah. Manazil wanted to expand its business and oriana hospital was a creation that would prompt their development and allow them to grow as an organization. oriana hospital is one of the properties managed by manazil real estate ‚ it is located in sharjah and it was established in 2011 . Oriana provides high quality medical services such as‚ general medicine‚ (Ear
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Blake Memorial Hospital in Marksville recently hired Bruce Reid as their new CEO. The hospital and its clinics are not generating enough income. The hospital’s costs is rising‚ the quality of care is declining and is not generating enough revenue to cover the expenses. Bruce Reid was given a $70 million budget to improve the financial health of Blake Memorial and improve the quality of healthcare services. He was allowed only less than a week to finalize the budget and present it to the board members
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Masina Hospital is more than a century old. It is the first privately run Hospital which was established in 1902.This Hospital was established by Dr. Hormasji Manekji Masina. Dr. Masina acquired the palatial building called “Sans Souci” (which means “without care”‚ though care is at the heart of its business) from the
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Overview: Hammond General Hospital is a 334 bed general hospital located in a Mid-western town of 45000 and serves a countrywide population of approximately 140‚000. Recently the board of directors at Hammond awarder the management contract of the Food Service Department to an outside company‚ Master Host Company. Master Host appointed Dave Smith as director of food service. It must be noted that this is the first time in the hospitals history that someone outside the hospital has been appointed as
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shock from the speed and lack of noise of American cars‚ to the short tempered cab driver that threatens him with a gun (Verghese‚ 2009‚ p.464). Marion was familiar with the Missing Hospital in Africa‚ and nearly oblivious to the fact that Our Lady of Perpetual Succour was understaffed and poor compared to other hospitals (Verghese‚ 2009‚ p. 467). However‚ Marion seemed to truly enjoy the long hours of caring for patient’s that Missing wouldn’t have been able to treat despite the vast amount of crime
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