Summary Columbia Memorial Hospital is an acute-care hospital operated by Health Services of America. It is a for-profit healthcare facility. Mike Reynold‚ who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the facility is concerned about the profitability of
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INTRODUCTION. Hospitals are health care institutions that are normally located in areas that are densely populated. There are over 17‚000 hospitals in the whole world. In accord with the original meaning of the word‚ hospitals were originally "places of hospitality"‚ and this meaning is still preserved in the names of some institutions such as the Royal Hospital Chelsea‚ established in 1681 as a retirement and nursing home for veteran soldiers. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital#General) In
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Background Literature Hospitals are the most important base for health care in a community especially when it comes to a disaster‚ the function of a hospital has to be in a high quality and also the communication‚ transportation‚ and prevent distribution between hospitals have to be good as well. The Incident Command System (ICS) was created in 1970 in response to a series of wildfires in Southern California in the United States. The goal of ICS was to create a simple communication and establish
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Kenichi Ohmae quoted: strategy is analysis plus intellectual elasticity so that advantageous responses can be made to changing situations. Suburban System Rural Hospital failed to neutralize vulnerabilities and to modify the strategic plan to meet continuous challenges of the facility to accomplish success. Therefore‚ the deteriorated hospital is languishing and desperately needing a capital injection to modernize the obsolete infrastructure. Even though it is located in the suburbs of a rapid growth
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Rulemaking Guide: Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Introduction Within the public administration sector‚ there are a number of rules‚ regulations‚ rulemaking processes‚ procedures‚ and administrative agencies that the organization must adhere to when running a successful business. The members of Learning Team A has been assembled and put on an administrative team for Massachusetts General Hospital Boston to compile a rulemaking guide; to assist management as well as employees grasp the
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Public hospitals are funded by the government and render health care services to the people who cannot afford to pay high expenses to their health care needs. These hospitals serve anyone and every person that needs help especially the poor ones. Public hospitals are not equipped with the latest technologies in medicine. But then‚ most Filipinos seek for advice from these government hospitals because charges are not implemented. They may or may not operate profitably. Their main function is to provide
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Aravind was one of the biggest providers of eye care services‚ having conducted 16‚747 cataract surgeries in 2009/10‚ compared with 488‚666 cataract surgeries performed in Tamil Nadu. The productivity in terms of number of surgeries was low for other hospitals compared with that of Aravind. The cataract surgical rate per million people in Tamil Nadu was 7‚633‚ compared with the national average of 4‚425. Gujarat had the largest number of eye camps‚ and cataract surgical rate per million people in Gujarat
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House Supervisor at Pekin Hospital‚ believes that her job is a hectic‚ but wonderful job‚ because she gets to help patients that are going through tough times‚ deals with
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should the hospital board make for next year and the next five years? After reviewing the balance sheets for the Patton Fuller Community Hospital for the next fiscal year‚ it shows that the hospital will break even. For the year the hospital is making enough money that will cover all of their debts. The hospital will not make any profits. To avoid debts of the hospital from increasing‚ the hospital will need to increase their revenues. Healthcare organizations need to realize hospital revenue management
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Readmissions to the hospital has been projected to cost the U.S. approximately 17 billion dollars annually‚ of which 90% of those readmitted were unplanned (Weiss‚ Yakusheva‚ and Bobay‚ 2011). For those patients who have a primary care provider and actually follow up as instructed within 1-2 weeks‚ 2/3 of those primary care providers will have not received a written discharge summary of the patient’s stay. On the other hand‚ a large percentage of patients either do not have access to primary care
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