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Hospital-Acquired Infections and the Vulnerability of Medicare

costs to the tune of more than $10,000 dollars and also have to stay in the hospital an average of 3 to 4 days longer than they wo...

Projections for 2010 at the Patton-Fuller Community Hospital

be noted that the 15% is of a relatively small amount, so the monetary value is not a particularly large increase. However, when l...

Implementing Six Sigma at the Academic Medical Hospital

manner. This is an important time for AMH as the system can be rolled into other departments. 2. Current Issues and Opportunities...

MATERIALS MANAGEMENT AND HOSPITALS

taking on the role of a newly promoted operations manager of a small hospital. The writer, in this scenario, has been asked to cre...

A Comparison of Two Hospitals

for a health care organization. Genesys took on an elaborate task in creating a wellness center where state of the art care can be...

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Jackson Memorial Hospital is an accredited, non-profit, tertiary care hospital located in Miami, FL (Jackson Memorial Hospital, 20...

Implementing Service Line Approaches in a Hospital Department

a framework including a definition of each line, many hospitals appear to get stuck at this stage due to the difficulty in untangl...

Decision Making at Happy Hospital Budget, Performance, and Ethics

properly! Budget and performance reports are a...

DUKE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AND BALANCED SCORECARD

Focuses on how Duke Children's Hospital relied on the balanced scorecard system for improvement. There is 1 source listed in the b...

Marketing a Hospital

the west Los Angeles market, this requires an increase of 9% as the hospital currently has a 6% market share. This should be achie...

Analysis of Pharmacies

a dilemma in the United States, a dilemma in the true sense of the word in that there is just no win-win solution. When we conside...

Improving Human Resources in Health Care

The vision is to be a leader in providing high quality health care services. Their values include a customer-focus and to exceed t...

Value of Ratios

been a significant increase in the level of performance, with this we can see a significant change shown in table 1 below Table 1 ...

Quality Improvement in Health Care

than nurses, executives and managers at those hospitals. St. Lukes Medical Center St. Lukes is a 154-bed hospital located in S...

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING AND HEALTH CARE

basic change in both direction and strategy that would impact the way in which an organization is structured (Business Definition ...

Do Not Resuscitate Orders

This paper argues that DNRs should be eliminated form the hospital setting. An annotated bibliography (containing four sources) c...

Interview with Director of Critical Care

a top priority for many hospitals; however, the competition among hospitals for these nurses is intense (Thomason, 2006). Problem...

Issues in Clinical Practice: Infant Abduction

justify its relevance to health care. The severity of infant abductions from hospitals should not be gauged by the frequency of oc...

Reflection on a Project To Reduce Oxygen Supply Costs

care. The idea of reducing the costs associated with oxygen while not having a direct impact on staffing levels of quality of care...

Health Issues in Managed Care

This research paper offers brief discussion of 3 issues pertaining to managed care, which are the advantages and disadvantages of ...

Preventative and Curative Health Care: An Economic Approach

also provides a valuable example of the economics of health care in general as obesity has been associated in recent literature wi...

Comparison of Various Types of Healthcare Organizations

and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...

Saving the Bilby Graveyard

all be traced, making the site one that not only documents history, but puts it in a meaningful context for the resident and visit...

Filmless Radiographic Imaging - An Overview

obvious. By and large, film cameras have been replaced with consumer grade digital cameras, and more people now take photographs w...

PRESSURE ULCERS, HAC AND PREVENTION

which to do this. Pressure Ulcers and the Hospital Acquired Condition The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as w...

Six Images for Change

nurturer. Sharif (2010) takes this further and brings in the type of change such as intended change, partially intended, and unint...

The Use of Presurgical Washing

& Wann-Hansson, 2010). The use of evidence-based best practice protocols introduced preoperatively by nursing staff can help to r...

Implementing and then Assessing the a New Web Based Communication Strategy

The writer looks at a hospital planning on implementing a web chat facility on their corporate web site to increase communication...

Practices for Budget Management and Monitoring

compromising organizational goals. The first thing one should look at is revenue. The 2009 revenue for the hospital is reflected...

Needs Assessment and Simulation

evaluated stated that they are predominantly "hands-on learners." Eight of the 10 nurses evaluated stated they were hands-on lear...