Shouldice Hospital Case Study Calvin Barron Liberty University March 2‚ 2010 Respectfully submitted to Prof. Scott McLaughlin Overview The Shouldice Hospital serves as a glaring example of extraordinary service and care for the impaired and needy. From carpeting and soft lighting to doting personal care from the staff‚ the Shouldice experience sets a standard of excellence for the industry. Dr. Earl Shouldice displayed an early desire for medical understanding with an age
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Case Summary of Shouldice Hospital Ltd. Shouldice Hospital is a “focused factory:” a hospital with a specific area of expertise that gives it competitive strength resulting in lower cost‚ higher quality service for its patients‚ and better pay for and loyalty from its employees. Specializing in external abdominal
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Design of a Hospital Bed The topic discussed showed the application of electronic‚ mechanical and programming knowledge to improve a hospital bed that allows it to be an automated lateral turning bed. The research was done due to the lack of funds and budget of Philippine Hospitals to provide patients with a turning bed that is very expensive for them. The paper showed several functions like turning the bed into a certain angle‚ making it automatic‚ that can be controlled using the control panel
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Case Study Shouldice Hospital Limited 09. November 2011 1. How does Shouldice compete? Identify at least three characteristics of Shouldice´s operations that contribute to its competitiveness. The four most important influences on competiveness in a company are cost‚ time (speed)‚ flexibility and quality. Cost and time should be held as small as possible‚ flexibility and quality as high as possible. In the Shouldice case we added another category: customer service. For the categories
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Issues/BackgroundShouldice Hospital limited was started in 1940 by Dr. Earle Shouldice for treating Hernia. The method of surgery adopted by Shouldice Hospital was unique in a sense that it introduced the concept of flow shop in carrying out surgeries alongwith simplicity in surgery. Because of this uniqueness and simplicity‚ the demand for surgeries at Shouldice increased and Shouldice has reached a point where it has to increase its capacity to reduce the wait times being faced by the patients
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study‚ one problem can obviously been observed- paradox of change. Shouldice is operating at its "best operating level"(as we can see from the case)‚ a specialized work force but it is failing to meet all the demand for its chosen market niche. Adding additional capacity to meet market need may upset the existing work force and lower quality of operations. Failing to meet market requirements may cause competition that would lead hospital to loss market share. I make a SWOT analysis for better understanding
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analyzing the number of hospital beds per 1k population in Florida and trying to come up with some interesting findings which will help com-paring Florida with rest of the US and if possible will lead to a predictive model showing how different driving factors are related with the number of hospital beds per 1k population in Florida. Summary Statistics and Explanation • Number of hospital beds per 1k population has been calculated taking the ratio of Total number of hospital beds in a country to the
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of Situation and Identification of Problems 1.1 Service The Shouldice Hospital competitive advantage is that it only conducts external hernia operations and is specifically designed and operated to provide the highest probabilities for successful treatment with “country club like” patient service. Hernia operations typically have a 90% success rate‚ with Shouldice hernia operations boasting over a 99% success rate. The Shouldice competitive advantage can be summarized into: Surgical technique:
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2.Abstract The team has planned to develop a Hospital Automation System for the well knownhospital called Pannipitiya Nursing Home. Currently the client company depends on an error – prone software system and a large amount of manual work. Development of a new systemwill help the client company to minimize the work load they handle manually and to eliminatethe faults and errors of the existing software system.This proposed system handles the entire hospital work load under seven major functions
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This System will be a combination of smaller modules such as Admin‚ Doctor‚ Reception and Patient which will be interlinked.These modules further will contain sub routine modules. The system is specially aimed at catering to the needs of hospitals currently not having any such systems or has over grown their needs over a course of time. Current systems work according to the standard guidelines which do not serve optimally due to absence of services or
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