The country of Columbia found at the northern tip of South America‚ was first recognized in 1819. Within Columbia‚ there are five geographic regions; the Caribbean coast‚ pacific lowlands‚ Andes highlands‚ Orinoco Savanna and the Amazon Rainforest. The regional cultural traditions are mixed‚ with a broad assortment of distinct groups that have unique customs‚ accents‚ and social patterns. Within the Caribbean region of Columbia‚ the predominant ethnic group is the Pardo‚ a mixture of European‚ indigenous
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In 2016‚ Dr. Alexander Nonesuch‚ a doctor at Sunshine Hospital in the State of Discontent‚ failed to disclose that he was transgender on his employment application before he started working there in February 2015. Dr. Nonesuch‚ the plaintiff‚ married his wife‚ Renata Mercure‚ in June 2015. Since Renata was expecting twins on April 1st‚ 2016‚ Dr. Nonesuch requested paternity leave and to add his wife and children to his retirement plan. Since the hospital’s management and the board saw Dr. Alexander
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The New York and Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) is a leading provider of inpatient‚ ambulatory‚ and preventive care services in and around New York City. NYP is one of the nation’s largest health care facility that has over 2 million patient visits‚ about 15‚000 births‚ and processes over 310‚000 emergency room patients every year. This hospital‚ ranked #1 by U.S. News and World Report‚ has six campuses‚ including two that are affiliated with medical schools. NYP has approximately 2‚600 beds and employs
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Columbia’s Final Mission video case is designed to help you understand how failures occur and how you might prevent them in your own organizational life. You have previously been assigned to play a role as a manager or engineer role and central figure in the team that managed this mission. Your password for your role is on the role group assignment page in Blackboard. You reach this page by clicking on Groups from the course home page‚ locate your assigned role and click on that group. If you
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forcing of hospitals to find innovative ways to reduce the cost and increases negotiating clout with suppliers and payers (Brown et al. 2012). With increasing operational cost‚ hospitals spend more of their funds on compliance‚ technology and physician employment. One of the very reasonable outcomes often seem to be integrated hospital network consolidation which can reduce the cost and increase the quality of the service (Brown et al. 2012).Although The Merger of Two Competing Hospitals case study involves
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CASE STUDY 8.2: MIDLANDS HOSPITAL (NHS TRUST) 1) Social networks enable knowledge to flow between groups and organizations. There are two major theoretical approaches to such networks. The first one underlines the role of network as channels for the flow of knowledge. The benefits of this network are the connectivity it provides between individuals and organizations. The second one sees social networks as communities and emphasizes the quality of relationships within them. Communities may
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Assignment #1: Shouldice Hospital case 1. How does the hospital’s operations strategy support its business strategy? 2. How well is the hospital currently utilizing its beds? 3. Evaluate the effects of the following two alternatives on the utilization of the bed capacity. a) a. Adding operations on Saturday (assuming that 30 operations would still be performed each day). b) b. Increasing the number of beds by 50 percent (assuming that the hospital would increase the number
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you would have to get rid of all the drug laws”. Although Ron Paul was an American politician‚ the quote is very fitting for one of the most notorious and leading producers of illegal drugs in the world‚ Colombia. Drug production was introduced in Columbia in the 1960s with production of marijuana‚ which was a gateway to the production of Cocaine in the early 1970’s. Why the production‚ and formation of huge Cartels‚ just to produce and distribute a psychoactive drug? Money! The return is huge and
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the provost. The provost being the head of both the medical school and teaching hospital is the most influential person and is in the best position to initiate decisions in solving the gap and inconsistencies between the two institutions. The case also indicated that the top management is the only one common among the two institutions so to address the problem occurring among the medical school and the hospital. The events that have transcribed in the renal unit should have been prevented also
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Weber v. New York Columbia Presbyterian Hospital: A story of change Lesa Gray National American University Abstract In this paper we will review the medical malpractice case filed with the Brooklyn Supreme Court‚ Weber v. New York Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. I will discuss how this case is more than a medical malpractice case‚ that it is a case about change and how one father vows to change the way health care is carried out. I will also discuss the possible outcomes in this
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