Emergency room over utilization is one of the leading causes of today’s ever increasing healthcare costs. The majority of the patients seen in emergency rooms across the nation are Medicaid recipients‚ for non-emergent reasons. The federal government initiated Medicaid Managed Care programs to offer better healthcare delivery‚ adequately compensate providers and reduce healthcare costs. Has Medicaid Managed Care addressed the issues and solved the problem? The answer is ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. Throughout
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Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance Three years ago‚ the leadership team at a major manufacturer spent months developing a new strategy for its European business. Over the prior half-decade‚ six new competitors had entered the market‚ each deploying the latest in low-cost manufacturing technology and slashing prices to gain market share. The performance of the European unit—once the crown jewel of the company’s portfolio—had deteriorated to the point that top management was seriously considering
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the time of India’s first Five Year Plan‚ the government focused primarily on the agriculture sector. A large part of capital and technology was devoted to increasing agricultural production. This was effective at the time and is now referred to as the green revolution. The success of this plan convinced the Indian Planning Commission to shift their strategy. The NM strategy drew inspiration from the USSR and suddenly focused on rapid industrialisation in the second Five Year Plan rather than the agricultural
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Capacity‚ Risk and Disaster Management Cycle. In addition to the terminologies‚ the study also seeks to explain various types of disasters. It also gives a detail of various disasters occurred in Pakistan as well their management and mitigation strategies. The paper also discusses disaster management policy at national level as well as disaster management and national plans in Pakistan. Keywords: Natural Hazards‚ Disaster Management‚ Pakistan JEL classification: I 30‚ I 00‚ A10 I. Introduction Disaster
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“The Competitive Five Forces that Shape Strategy” Hand-in Article Summary In this theoretical piece Porter explains how there are five main forces that shape competition in a company’s external environment. There are various different techniques for identifying strategic opportunities and it differs by industry. The classic five forces are: threat of entry: the risk of new entry by potential competitors‚ the power of supplies: the bargaining power of suppliers‚ the power of buyers: the bargaining
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PROBLEM 9–20 Performance Report for a Non-Profit Organization [LO1‚ LO4‚ LO6] The St. Lucia Blood Bank‚ a private charity partly supported by government grants‚ is located on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. The blood bank has just finished its operations for September‚ which was a particularly busy month due to a powerful hurricane that hit neighboring islands causing many injuries. The hurricane largely bypassed St. Lucia‚ but residents of St. Lucia willingly donated their blood to help people
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A Huge Production System Can Survive Forever? A Review of the Literature Marina Fajardo Professor Ellis Written Communication 60D 28 July 2014 A Huge Production System Can Survive Forever? A Review of the Literature Nowadays‚ General Motors is well known as a big company in the whole world. Since the foundation of the company the managers that work there need to make an effort to make profit and build the image of the company. General Motors is an automobile industry located
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Stalin: Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924. In 1928 Stalin began the First Five-Year Plan‚ an ambitious attempt to quickly modernize the Soviet economy. In the speech below‚ given in 1933 to the Central Committee of the Communist Party‚ Stalin explained the goals and results of the Five-Year Plan. The fundamental task of the Five-Year Plan was to convert the U.S.S.R. from an agrarian and weak country‚ dependent upon the caprices of the capitalist countries
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1. Executive Summary This five-year marketing plan for Tulip Clothing has been created to secure additional funding for growth and to inform employees of the company’s current status and direction. Although Tulip was launched in the UAE only three years ago‚ the firm has experienced greater-than-anticipated demand for its products‚ and research has shown that the target market of sport-minded consumers and sports retailers would like to buy more casual clothing than Tulip currently offers. In addition
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1. Analyse the Export-Import Policy of last five years with special reference to development of Special Economic Zones. 2. The year 2009 is witnessing one of the most severe global recessions in the post-war period. Countries across the world have been affected in varying degrees and all major economic indicators of industrial production‚ trade‚ capital flows‚ unemployment‚ per capita investment and consumption have taken a hit. The WTO estimates project a grim forecast that global trade
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