The Case of the Unhealthy Hospital Anthony R. Kovner Harvard Business Review No. 91506 SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 1991 HBR Anthony R. Kovner The Case of the Unhealthy Hospital Bruce Reid‚ Blake Memorial Hospital’s new CEO‚ rubbed his eyes and looked again at the 1992 budget worksheet. The more he played with the figures‚ the more pessimistic he became. Blake Memorial’s financial health was not good; it suffered from rising costs‚ static revenue‚ and declining quality of care. When the
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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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Topic: Acute Hospital Care Course: Health Care and Insurance Date: November 28th‚ 2012 Acute Hospital Care Acute care is medical treatment at a hospital which is short-term. Acute care is a level of health care in which a patient is treated for a brief but severe episode of illness‚ for conditions that are the result of disease or trauma‚ and during recovery from surgery. Acute care is generally provided in a hospital by a variety of clinical personnel using technical equipment‚ pharmaceuticals
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Case: Aravind Eye Hospital * What is Aravind’s mission? How successful is Aravind at achieving its mission? The mission is to bring eyesight to the masses of poor people in India‚ Asia‚ Africa and all over the world. To provide quality care as a non-profit eye hospital. To spread the Aravind model and offer hope in all parts of the world. Aravind has grown from a 20-bed hospital in 1976 to 1224 beds in 1992 as one of the biggest hospitals of its kind in the world. The Aravind organization
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APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Signature Date: ……………………………………… Chapter 1 1.1. INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT Hospital administrators are often overwhelmed with information about a bulky number of patients and their stays to the hospital that need to be organized and kept up-to-date. The patient management system is a web based application that is designed and developed for hospital administrators and doctors to organize information on patient visits. The system intends to facilitate several steps
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Hospital History • Overview • Pennsylvania Hospital (1751) – Oldest voluntary hospital • Focus on sick‚ poor‚ homeless • Not a focus of care for physicians – Primary care in home/office • Mental illness – First mental hospital in 1772 1 Hospital History (cont.) • Growth of urban areas – Growth of hospitals – Focus on research‚ teaching‚ medical schools • Major discoveries – Anesthesia • Ether • Antibiotics • Sulfa Drugs‚ penicillin (decreased infection rates and mortality)
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Contents: 1. Description of hospital institution 2.1. Certifications and quality assurance 2.2. Mission of the hospital 2.3. Vision of the hospital 2. Model of clients 3. Needs and preferences 4. The process model 5. Process model of getting permission from event administrator 6. Organization map 7. Summary 8. Literature 1. Description of our hospital institution Hospital in Puszczykowo is multi-profile hospital. In terms of equipment‚ number
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Project Tittle: IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERISED HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Problem statement Statistics from the ministry of health report on the state of regional referral hospitals in Uganda indicates that more than 80% of the hospitals still use the book register system for example a file is opened for each patient that is admitted to the hospital‚ keeping financial records in books among others. The report further highlights that there are poor relations between patients and the medical
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Civil Hospital Karachi is a 1900-bed tertiary care public hospital that imparts both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training. It is one of the teaching hospitals affiliated with the Dow Medical College[1] now the Dow University of Health Sciences. Civil Hospital Karachi is arguably the largest teaching hospital of Pakistan‚ catering not only to all areas of the province of Sindh but also the neighboring province of Balochistan as well. -------------------------------------------------
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Experience in Apollo Hospitals‚ Dhaka: My project was to write about a real life service experience and for this project I interviewed Ms. Rezina Nazneen‚ who is a faculty in Independent University of Bangladesh. I decided to write about her experience in Apollo Hospitals‚ Dhaka. She had a surgery there and for this surgery she experienced 6 days of service from Apollo Hospitals. She was expecting her second child and for the infants delivery she chose Apollo Hospitals‚ Dhaka. There were several
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