Linen and Laundry Service Edward McCauley B.S.‚ M.B.A. CEO‚ United Hospital Services 2009 ASHES Annual Conference September 20-24‚ 2009 Reno‚ NV Topics to Cover • • • • • • • • • • Different Types of Healthcare Laundries Management Structure of Laundries Keep OPL vs. Outsource Computation Pound vs. Piece Pricing Causes of Linen Losses Products and Services Offered Linen Service Contract Language Linen Service Installation Evaluation of Linen Service Summary and Questions
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Inpatient and Outpatient Hospital Services Hospitals provide different services‚ for example inpatient and outpatient. Although both services are provided within the hospital and have obvious similarities there are also major differences. The codes used within each service are affected by the differences between the services. Inpatient hospital services are services that provide patients a place to stay overnight. Inpatient care facilities can also be provided for special services. A couple of examples
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Case Study 1: Shouldice Hospital Limited 1. What has the leadership of Shouldice been excellent at? Shouldice leadership has been able to develop one of its surgical service lines‚ inguinal hernia repair‚ to an “internationally-recognized” brand. This has allowed Shouldice to dominate the market share and create a demand for its specialized services resulting in financial stability. The creation of this brand also has a strong influence with how the organization functions and how it is perceived
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1. *How does Shouldice compete? Identify at least three characteristics of Shouldice’s operations that contribute* to its competitiveness. Shouldice Hospital Limited seems to be a well organized Hospital with a unique technique to operate hernias. In this hospital only external hernias were operated. This is the mayor fact for their success. The doctor´s‚ the nurse´s and even the design of the facility is only targeted of the patient’s needs that have or had a hernia surgery. To reduce
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Quality of the service is the degree of conformance of all the relevant features and characteristics of service to all the aspects of the consumers’ needs limited by the price and delivery s/he will accept. Quality can be viewed from two perspectives: Internal quality based on conformance to specifications External quality based on customer-perceived quality Gain competitive advantage‚ maintain loyalty Increase value (may permit higher margins) Improve profits Expected Service CUSTOMER
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Rethinking School Inspection in the Third World: The case of Kenya Zachariah Wanzare‚ O. Abstract Many countries throughout the world have developed some means of monitoring the quality and standards of their education systems. In most cases‚ the monitoring process involves supervision by inspection of educational institutions such as schools‚ and other aspects of the education systems. The critical role of inspection as one of the dominant strategies for monitoring and improving the performance
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and efficiency of health service delivery by creating conducive environment for health professionals just focus on clinical services Preconditions for outsourcing Outsourcing is possible if it ensures 1.Reduction in cost of providing the services 2.Quality improvement (of service provision) with the same level of cost 3.Reduces workload of hospital management body so that they focus on provision of clinical services Advantages of outsourcing food services in hospitals 1) Improves the small
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FACILITIES PROVIDED IN PRIVATE HOSPITAL 2.10.1 CUSTOMER SATISFACTION Yang (2003) outlines some methods of measuring device service quality from both the Customer’s perspective and management perspective. SERVQUAL is a model developed by Parasuraman in 1993 based on “gap model” which defines service quality as a function of gap between Customer’s expectation and the actual delivered. This method widely used by scholars and practitioners. The other method to measure service quality is Customer Surveys
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The difference between medical‚ public health and human services model is that medical model sees the person that is coming for help‚ usually they are people who problems are disease or sickness. The patients that are sick or ill depend on physicians or service providers to provide them treatment or a cure for their disease or sickness. The public health model is the connection of medical and human services models‚ it worries about the diagnosis and treatment of people with the use of medicine and
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Service Delivery Models Disabled students educated within a regular education classroom are provided access to an inclusion service delivery model. Inclusive education is supported through IDEA‚ as students with disabilities are entitled to appropriate educational environments that are deemed least restrictive in nature (Downing & Peckham-Hardin‚ 2007). The provision of all academic instruction is generated from the general education teacher in an inclusion service delivery model. Differentiated
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