I. Central Problem The Marion Camp Memorial Hospital is currently suffering from quality deterioration due to management’s lack of quality control The group recognizes that the ultimate cause of the deteriorating quality of the hospital’s services is due to the management’s incompetence and because of this‚ various problems have arisen. For example‚ it was mentioned that the support staff were semi-skilled or unskilled which only shows that management has no clear set of standards in hiring
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financially feasible for the organization by lowering their healthcare spending. Congress enacted the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program under which Medicare penalizes hospitals for higher than expected rates of readmission. In 2015 CMS withheld 3 percent of reg reimbursement for hospitals having too many 30 day readmissions for HF. Heart failure accounts for more than 38 billion dollars of health care spending annually. More than 25% of pts hospitalized will be readmitted within 30 days of d/c
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special way of caring for people with terminal illnesses and their families. It is a multidisciplinary health care program that is responsible for palliative and supportive care with consideration of the patient’s and families wishes. Hospice focuses on care‚ not cure. Hospice care is important because it provides many benefits that aren’t possible in a traditional acute or long-term health care setting. Within hospice‚ the family of the patient is directly involved in making decisions and helping
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To: Kathryn Angell‚ Chief Administrator‚ University Health Services Clinic Date: July 8‚ 1980 From: Consultant A‚ PMII Re: Proposal to Improve Performance at University Health Services Clinic After reviewing the data you have given me‚ I decided on the following measures to ensure the UHS Walk In Clinic runs more efficiently while at the same time providing a pleasant experience for patients. The switch to the triage system has succeeded in decreasing the overall wait time‚ however there
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Metro Hospital in Brisbane. The Metro Hospital is a 363 bed facility on the Northside of Brisbane. The services include general surgical‚ general medical‚ oncology‚ vascular‚ ear‚ nose and throat‚ palliative care‚ ophthalmology and maternity and children’s services. It has good links with the General Practitioners who fall into the catchment area for the Metro North Medicare Local. Your mandate is to lead the hospital to achieve level 7 of the HIMSS EMR Adoption Model by 2025. As a Health Informatics
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9/11 Memorial Tragedy struck our nation in New York City on September 11th‚ 2001. That September morning was much like any other until 8:46 a.m.‚ when terrorists‚ with links to al-Qaeda‚ flew two planes into the World Trade Center and killed thousands of American citizens. This day would forever be known as 9/11. Amid the destruction and confusion‚ there was an emerging controversy about how our nation would respond to the attacks. An international competition was held to design a memorial for the
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sectors‚ pharmaceutical sectors‚ and hospitals (Fekadu et al.‚ 2015). Hospital wastewater (HWW) can contain hazardous substances‚ such as pharmaceutical residues‚ chemical hazardous substances‚ pathogens‚ and radioisotopes. Due to these substances‚ hospital wastewater can represent a chemical‚ biological‚ and physical risk for public and environmental health (Carraro et al.‚ 2017). Nevertheless‚ very frequently there are no legal requirements for hospital effluent treatment prior to its discharge
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Hospital J Case Study and Recommendations for Improvement The purpose of this case study is to examine‚ analyze‚ and interpret a given set of data for Hospital J in order to recommend changes to maximize efficiency of operations. The data provided was recorded over the course of a year in Hospital J’s emergency room. Data is attached in Appendix A. Various methods were used to determine the best course of action for the hospital in terms of staffing‚ supplies‚ and income allotment. The nominal
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A case study on Outsourcing of Hospitals Submitted by: Sadikchya Acharya MBA III(R) KINGS College MGT 620 Operations Management & Supply Chain International American University Introduction There are numerous strategies which are used to design to gain operation excellence and to gain competitive advantage through price cut and minimizing other operations cost also adding product value is one of them. Outsourcing can also be the process or people and supply chain that gives and addition
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Parkland hospital is Dallas County’s public hospital and the primary teaching hospital for UT Southwestern Medical Center. It has been ranked as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” for 17 consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report. It is an imposing 2.5 million square feet‚ 17- story facility which opened the doors to its new facility in 2015. David Lopez is the chief operating officer (COO) for the Parkland organization‚ a position he has held since 2016. His academic background includes a Bachelor
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