The Implications of Value-Based Purchasing in the American Healthcare System As a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010‚ beginning in October 2012‚ US hospitals will begin having their payments from Medicare affected by the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. Essentially‚ this legislation will shift the way hospitals are reimbursed for services from a focus on quantity to a focus on quality. The following research study will examine the background of this legislation
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The Value of Culture On the relationship between economics and arts edited by Arja Klamer AM ST ERD AM UN IVE RSIT Y PRE SS The Value ofCulture The Value ofCulture On the Relationship between Economics and Arts Edited by Arjo Klamer AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS Cover illustration: Vincent van Gogh‚ Le docteur Paul Gachet. Coli. Van Gogh Museum‚ Amsterdam Cover design: Marjolein Meijer‚ BEELDVORM‚ Leiden Typesctting: Bert Haagsman‚ MAGENTA‚ Amsterdam ISBN 90-5356-2I9-2
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Cultural Plunge at an Asian Market As I contemplated on what my cultural plunge was going to be‚ it made me realize that I am lucky to say that I have been exposed and acquainted with maybe more than the usual. My ex-husband is Middle Eastern‚ I am Mexican‚ and I have homo-sexual friends‚ and have and had friends that are African-American‚ Caucasian‚ Japanese‚ Filipino‚ Jewish‚ and Korean. I finally chose to explore more of the Asian culture because although I have friends that are Asian I liked
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A COMPARISON OF ROLES OF WOMEN IN BOTH JAPANESE AND AMERICAN SOCIETY CHEYENNE BOYCE SPELMAN COLLEGE The contemporary world is changing very rapidly in various spheres of life. World economies are changing dramatically and globalization is quickly becoming an unavoidable phenomenon that everyone is becoming more and more aware of. Consequently‚ it is getting more and more important to think about what the future holds. As a student attending a woman’s college‚ I am aware of the roles
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Exploring Cultural Competencies Ashley Rozelle Bowling Green State University Being culturally competent of a student’s culture is essential for school counselors within a diverse population. In order for a school counselor to be culturally competent‚ it is essential for them to be aware of three major ideas: know yourself‚ know the student‚ and know the technique. Within these three competencies there are common themes that
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Cultural Differences: American and British Governmental and Political Structures Mark H. Barbieri ANT 101: Cultural Anthropology Daniel Beteta Jr. February 16‚ 2009 Abstract The objective of this paper is to contrast the governmental structures of two very similar‚ but different‚ cultures‚ the American and British cultures. This paper contends that although the cultures have many similarities‚ their governmental structures are quite different. This paper concludes that there are major
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Broken Bonds Family dynamics vary widely from household to household. There are those that have parents and kids who cannot spend more than a few minutes apart‚ while there are others that do not even speak on a daily basis. For the latter‚ there can be a plethora of outcomes from those strained familial relationships. “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden explores some of those issues and their complexities‚ focusing mainly on a breakdown caused by a lack of understanding of all that a father
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Need soft skills classes for Vietnamese students! Qualifications are now not the only thing that recruiters of many company look for; they also look at other factors such as the way you deal with work and the way you communicate with others. They are called soft skills. It can be seen that a lot of students graduating from university with the excellent qualifications can not get a job which they expected. Because‚ they are lack of soft skills which is very necessary for students’ jobs in the future
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TPS-FASTT “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden Title: Perhaps the poem is a description of the coziness and the joy of Sundays during winter; a time for indoors‚ family‚ hot chocolate‚ etc. I expect much imagery pertaining to cold weather‚ togetherness‚ and other winter wonderland type visuals. The word “those” is used to describe the winter Sundays‚ so therefore it is looked at as a common topic. Paraphrase: Both the son and his father got up early on Sundays‚ his father put his
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In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden‚ Robert Hayden shows the speaker’s regrets for not recognizing his father’s love during his childhood. In the first stanza‚ the speaker introduces his father. Beginning with “Sundays too my father got up early‚” “Sundays too” suggests that the father woke up early even on Sundays to help his family (line 1). Then‚ the words the speaker use to describe his father makes an imagery of the father having a harsh life. The speaker describes his father’s
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