4 Surprising Causes of Hospital-Acquired Infections The last place anyone imagines they will get a severe infection is at a hospital. Yet according to statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention‚ over 1.7 million people are affected by a nosocomial or hospital-acquired infection (HAI) every year. The severity of the infection can widely vary‚ but these infections are also responsible for over 99‚000 deaths annually. These infections could could appear as early as 48 hours after
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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 Roman Empire‚ founded by Augustus Caesar in 27 B.C. and lasting in Western Europe for 500 years‚ reorganized for world politics and economics. Almost the entirety of the civilized world became a single centralized state. In place of Greek democracy‚ piety‚ and independence came Roman authoritarianism and practicality. Vast prosperity resulted. Europe and the Mediterranean bloomed with trading cities ten times the size of their predecessors with public amenities previously unheard of courts
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domes‚ arches‚ and vaults. They added bricks to these structures to improve the strength of the building. After adding the bricks‚ they put on an extra layer of marble for decoration. One of the biggest improvements that the Romans made in architecture was the invention of the arch. These arches added a great amount of weight to the structure. To help support this weight‚ the Romans invented a type of building material that is called a keystone block. The force on top of the arch was directed
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The Healing Hospital – A Daring Paradigm Katherine Perona 02 June 2013 310HL-V – Spritiuality in Health Care Prof. Verree Laughlin The Healing Hospital – A Daring Paradigm 2 The medical community has reached a very important nexus in terms of providing care to the injured and infirm that find themselves in a hospital environment. The so-called Healing Hospital represents a radical shift
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Management in Architecture ARCH 403; Spring 2013 Final Assignment Student Name: Fatih Ersin Student ID: 0920049 Project name : TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OF A CINEMA MULTIPLEX BUILDING Project location : Kosevsko Brdo‚ Municipality of Centre‚ Sarajevo‚ BiH Investor : Private sector investor/client Project Budget : 2.3 million € Project Duration : 4 months Target Group : Students‚ Residents Project Manager : Fatih Ersin 1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION 1.1. Project Description
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A Resilient Architecture for Automated Fault Tolerance in Virtualized Data Centers Wai-Leong Yeow‚ C´ dric Westphal‚ e and Ulas C. Kozat ¸ DoCoMo USA Labs‚ 3240 Hillview Ave‚ Palo Alto‚ CA 94304‚ USA e-mail: wlyeow@ieee.org‚ {cwestphal‚kozat}@docomolabs-usa.com Abstract—Virtualization is a key enabler to autonomic management of hosted services in data centers. We show that it can be used to manage reliability of these virtual entities with virtual backups. An architecture is proposed to autonomously
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Topologies and Network Technology NTC/361 Monday‚ August 8‚ 2011 Thomas Krawczyk Topologies and network technology In every project‚ it is important to have a goal‚ and that goal should be the foundation on which a project team spring into action. The foundation should involve an infrastructural plan‚ and the usability of the components of the infrastructure. A project plan‚ as in any other plan‚ should outline the premise of the project and answer some basic questions like why
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Bataan Primary Arsenal "Kalusugan" Hospital Lamao‚ Limay Dr. Carolina Banzon Medical Director Dr. Wynne Gubuan Medical Director Dr. Alberto de Leon Medical Director Dr. Barbara Reyes Medical Director 25 beds Bagac Medicare And Community Hosp. Jose C. Payumo Jr. Memorial Hospital Orani District Hospital Bgy. A. Ricardo‚ Bagac 15 beds San Ramon‚ Dinalupihan 50 beds Ma. Fe Subdiv.‚ Orani 45 beds Balanga City Primary Bataan Doctor’s Hospital Dona Francisca Subd. (047) 237-2009
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COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT‚ NIT ROURKELA | CLOUD COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE | COMPUTER NETWORKS REPORT | ANKITA JENA 10/11/2012 | WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING? Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient‚ on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.‚ networks‚ servers‚ storage‚ applications‚ and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Cloud computing incorporates
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