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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Key Events in World News [Year 2012] Note: The CSS Point is not responsible of any fact/information mentioned in this booklet. This Booklet is compilation of important events of year 2012 from different websites. Main source: http://www.infoplease.com www.css.theazkp.com www.facebook.com/thecsspointOfficial Table of Contents Name of Month 1. Key events in world news for the month of January 2012 2. Key events in world news for the month of February 2012 3. Key events in world news
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What Makes a Top 100 Hospital Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center – What Makes a Top 100 Hospital Castellanos‚ Juan Manuel DeVry University What Makes a Top 100 Hospital? Since 1993‚ the Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals program has used both independent and objective research to guide hospital and health system performance. In this process‚ they analyze public data sources to compare hospitals to similar organizations. The 100 Top Hospitals program uses a balanced scorecard that incorporates
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JAMAICA HOSPITAL VS QUEEN HOSPITAL CENTER Jamaica Hospital vs. Queens Hospital Center Nakisa Frazier Excelsior College NUR 431/ Introduction to Health Care Delivery Systems Professor Melanie Bujanda Romero 11/25/2012 If you ever had to wait to several weeks or even months to see a doctor or specialist‚ you would know how anxious the wait can make you feel. You can easily become simply frustrated or even concerned about a possible negative
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A Memorable Event in My Life The most memorable event in my life is watching a dead body sitting up at 4 o’clock in the morning‚ and it happen at the funeral parlor. In addition‚ I have to say this is the only time I pee on my pants‚ because it’s scared me hardly! Everything has to start 2 years ago‚ I am a funeral worker‚ or another word to say I am an undertaker‚ my father plays piano on the funeral for at least thirty years‚ and my grandparents also work almost the same profession‚ so seeing
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Executive Summary Change in an organization is not only inevitable but necessary and it is no different for Huntington Memorial Hospital. To continue offering quality of care that is evidence based and that delivers on the unique value proposition in line with its mission‚ Huntington Memorial Hospital is switching to an automated and electronic prescription system. This system will inject effectiveness in the organization‚ reduce human errors greatly and will also enable the organization to deliver
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nursing a negative image. Florence Nightingale changed the profession of nursing. She made the nursing a more acceptable profession and was able to attract a better quality of women in to the field. Her appearance in nursing was an important event in the history of nursing. During her time the creation of nursing training schools happened. Formal nursing schools in America were first established in 1862 (Judd and Sitzman‚ 2014). Dr Zakrzewska opened a hospital in New England which had its own nursing
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Brace Yourself The stories and endless television series of traumatic emergency room visits can’t compare to the actual thing‚ especially when the story is through the eyes of an eleven year old. The event still lurks in my mind. It all happened so fast‚ yet it still replays slowly in my head today. I have been quite the daredevil since a young age‚ starting out on a bicycle without training wheels at the age of two. I have loved biking my whole life and have never had a fear of anything that
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100 Ideas For Your Student Council School Events 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Arm Wrestling: Hold an all school arm wrestling competition. You can have boys against boys‚ girls against girls‚ or coed. It could be a money maker by charging people to enter. Don’t forget prizes! Basketball Tournament: You could do three on three‚ teachers vs. students‚ or teachers vs. teachers of a rival school.
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INTRODUCTION Event management is the management of events‚ so as to speak and put it in very simple terminology. Managing an event requires a set of skills that can be derived with experience‚ talent and today‚ there are colleges and institutions that offer event management as a topic of study and education. Introduction to event management can be easily explained with the basics of knowing that events are a large deal. For corporate as well as non corporate‚ events are a big deal and have to
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