Capital Project HCS/571 Capital assets are generally purchased to improve quality of care‚ or to provide needed equipment for a new service or expansion of an existing service. The key element in capital budgeting is that the building or piece of equipment being acquired has a lifetime that extends beyond the year of purchase and it is a capital asset or long-term investment for the hospital. Capital assets are good financial investments for the organization.(Finkler‚ Ward‚ & Baker‚ 2007)
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Definition of Terms Nicashia T Brown Dr. S Paone August 19‚ 2013 HCS 533 AMR- Ambulatory Medical Record- An ambulatory medical record (AMR) is an electronically stored file of a patient’s outpatient medical records‚ which includes all surgeries and care that do not involve being admitted to a hospital. The importance of AMR’s is that they only apply to outpatient medical records. Outpatients procedures or services are performed so frequently that at times it can be
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Alzheimer’s Disease Brittany Mathis HCS/245 July 14‚2013 Tynan Weed Abstract Alzheimer’s has many causes and affects each patient differently. There have been studies done that have found that older African American’s are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s than older whites. A cause of Alzheimer’s has not been completely identified yet‚ but genetic and environmental factors are known to increase the risk. While we all know that Alzheimer’s is a complicated disease there are
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Circulatory Diseases Directions: Complete the T-Chart Below. Select 10 diseases from this website: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/organ/circulatory_system.htm List the disease‚ and write a short summary of what the disease entails. |Circulatory Disease |Disease Description | |Heart Disease |Heart disease involves the heart‚ and usually blood vessels. The different types
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Among the current fields of research in Biotechnology‚ research on drugs and vaccines targeting viral diseases such as HIV/AIDs has been of major importance given the high prevalence of these diseases across the world. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a type of virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immune-deficiency Syndrome) (HIV and AIDS‚ n.d). The virus devastates the body’s defense mechanism‚ leaving a victim highly susceptible to opportunistic infections such as those caused by bacteria‚ fungi
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SPH 245 Worksheet: Chp. 2 Pt. 2 29. One of the negative traits of the Aztecs is their tendency toward military oppression. 30. One of the positive traits of the Aztecs is their cultivation of a very refined‚ sensitive‚ and morally base culture. 31. The Aztecs and the Greeks were compared in that they both combined the body (materialism) and soul (spirituality). 32. Females weren’t considered the "other" because of an ideology which stressed tribal identity over gender‚ and common
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IT Project Implementation Failures HCS/483 September 19‚ 2012 Dr. Alex Kadrie IT Project Implementation Failures An IT implementation process can be long and tedious‚ or short and simple‚ depending on the size and needs of an organization. While implementing this process it is important to understand the roles and responsibilities of each step. Sometimes when the process is not thought out correctly‚ IT failures happen. IT failures are common reasons that systems do not
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Economics Issues Nowadays‚ health care cost a lot. The reason why health insurance exists is to help individuals and their family financially in case something unexpected illness or accidents happen. For example‚ individual may choose to purchase coverage to have a back up in case of something catastrophe happens‚ therefore they can still be safe on a fixed payment. Somewhat paradoxically‚ insurance has remained one of the income opportunities of certain corporations. Revenue can be increased in
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Functional Roles of Human Resource Department Functional Roles of Human Resource Department One of the most important roles of the human resource department of any company is that of recruiting and ascertaining of quality staff and worker. In the health care environment it is even more valuable to have a quality human resource department familiar with the nuances of the different types and classification of the individual job description within the health care industry to find the appropriate
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Memo Assignment Linda Tompson HCS 514 December-Monday 2nd‚ 2013 Lori Walker Memo Assignment Memorandum TO: Gideon Cross‚ CEO FROM: Linda Tompson‚ Office Manager DATE: December 1st‚ 2013 SUBJECT: Current state of Pawhuska Medical Clinic (PMC) Facility Design Pawhuska Medical Clinic specializes in family medicine. PMC is one-stop clinic for comprehensive care and testing. PMC has incorporated both centralized and decentralized design. The centralized design starts with managerial
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