E. Determine what beginning actions need to be taken in order to identify and advocate for healthcare policy change. Beginning actions to identified and advocate changes in healthcare policy is to become aware that there is an issue. Main issues in the US healthcare are that there is millions of Americans without proper health coverage‚ which results in health disparities and unfairness (Morgan‚ 2012 chapter). Other areas needing action for policy changes and advocating are safe nursing staffing
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Fractals in Healthcare Organizations In this week’s discussion board we were asked to apply the concept of fractals to organizations‚ groups‚ and teams. A fractal as explained by Gialamas‚ Pelonis‚ and Medeiros (2014)‚ “is a rough or fragmented geometric space that can be split into parts‚ -or neighborhoods – each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole.” More simply put fractals are much like a head of broccoli where each individual floret greatly resembles the whole
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1. Why does Apex find AccessLine to be an attractive investment? What are the risks? Basically‚ Apex was attracted by the new technology and the unique business model of AccessLine. And‚ it was at the early stage and was not invested heavily by other professional investors. The positive cash flow was an important factor that makes Apex felt confident. It means that the market actually existed and customers understand the concept of technology‚ reducing the entry risk. With the domain knowledge
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Introduction: Apex Investment Partners was founded in 1987 by James A. Johnson and the First Analysis Corporation. In its eight-year life‚ the VC had raised three funds. The two first which are already closed had‚ together‚ a committed capital of around $70M. There were mainly concentrated in four areas: • • • • Telecommunication‚ information technology and software. Environmental and industrial productivity-related technologies. Consumer products and specialty retail. Health-care and related technologies
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Increasingly‚ senior citizens prefer to receive healthcare services in the comfort and familiarity of their own homes. Nightingale Home Healthcare is aware of this growing need for quality home healthcare services. The company has been in the industry for 17 years and is known for using emerging technologies to deliver efficient and practical home healthcare solutions. For instance‚ it was the first health care agency of its kind to install home monitoring systems that could track the vital signs
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HCA 311 Health Care Financing & Information Systems Instructor: Qiana Amos Business Plan September 25‚ 2012 As part of its ongoing efforts to improve access to health care in poor areas‚ Houston Medical Center is subsidizing the start-up and first year of operations of a new family medicine practice‚ Vernon Williams Medicine Clinic. The clinic will be owned and managed by Dr. Vernon D. Williams‚ MD as a sole proprietorship
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Tenet Healthcare Corporation Tenet Healthcare Corporation (Tenet) a health care services company runs primarily general hospitals and other ancillary healthcare facilities. They are one of the largest investor-owned hospitals companied in the US. Tenet owned or operated 49 acute care hospitals( to include the infamous Memorial Hospital in the state of New Orleans famed after the horrific events following hurricane Katrina)‚ and 59 outpatient centers in 11 states an 89 outpatient centers serving
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Interwest Healthcare Corporation Case Study Saint Leo University Summary Interwest Healthcare is a nonprofit organization that uses a management information system to house their patient’s intake‚ treatment‚ and release information at the 10 hospital’s owned by the company. Their chief financial officer (CFO)‚ Vijay Singh‚ worries that the company will possibly face management planning issues as well as the possibility of losing their federal funding due to hospital staff members entering information
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Beverage Partners Worldwide The Coke and Nestlé Joint Venture Adventure A joint veture is a business agreement in which the parties agree to delevop‚ for a finite time‚ a new entity and assets by contributing equity. An important joint venture over the years was Coca Cola and Nestlé. They both selled refreshments and they thought to sell the ready-to drink tea called NESTEA. Normally when companies join together is in order to benefit of something the other companies has that your lack off. For
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Intimate Partner Violence Intimate partner violence encompasses numerous types of violence. This includes physical acts of violence which is defined as “intentional use of force with the potential to cause death‚ disability‚ injury‚ or harm” (Krebs‚ Breiding‚ Browne & Warner‚ 2011). Sexual acts of violence is the general term used to describe the use of physical force to engage or attempt to engage in sexual activity without consent or willingness of the second party. The term stalking includes being
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