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insurance cost, 2004). The rising costs are bringing hardships to insured and uninsured alike; the single biggest cause for person...

of the consumer and using appropriate marketing strategies can hospital executives ensure greater customer satisfaction and repeat...

(Kemp, 2005). In American mainstream culture, making eye contact is expected, as this indicates that the other person is listening...

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

the degree to which homosexuality may be a medical condition. The medical profession has since moved on from this approach and the...

federal government provides direct health care services to specific demographic groups: "First Nations people living on reserves; ...

Resource Management Systems," 2007). Acquisition relates to recruiting employees as well as the selection process ("Contemporary P...

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Prospective Payment System (PPS), reimbursement rates going to both hospitals and physicians have declined significantly. In react...

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

to meet all the competitive needs of health care organizations in a capitalistic environment: the Integrating Healthcare Enterpris...

colleagues developed the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) at the University of Rhode Island Cancer Prevention Research Center in the e...

resources for competitive advantage. For some organizations, this means spending more on material resources. Truly competitive org...

it is important for the analysis to know which managers have been questioned. In the analysis the sample may be divided into diffe...

practical skills will carry over well to the fellowship program at Emory Healthcare. 2. How does establishing patient-and family-...

could not " support a Bill that will damage the care and services that GPs deliver to patients and ultimately bring about the demi...

not to suggest there will be an onslaught of patients suddenly banging on hospitals and doctors offices and demanding care. But th...

(2007), propose a definition where the different stakeholders; including the clinicians, patients and others such as researchers, ...

for example the use of different Total Quality Management (TQM) tools (Mintzberg et al, 2008). The use of performance measurement ...

it is appropriate, such as when a novice nurse is faced with a crisis. There are times, and stages in a career, when employees can...

a study whose purpose was to determine the way in which patients perceive patient education efforts. This research revealed that c...

action, along with a generous dose of determination and the application of intelligence, are essential to success. Therefore, in...

community decisions that enhance health" (Thomas, 2006, p. 1). Relevancy of effective communication with other healthcare profes...

HIPAA is actually protecting patients privacy and confidentiality (McBride, 2008). Granted, the respondents were of a particular s...

cost, but one that tries to find a way of assessing and managing the conflicting needs of the different stakeholders. The manager ...

than on the payment of premiums. As this suggests, the EHT funds are similar to the OHIP premiums in that these funds are likewise...

the state has focused on methods for improving access to care by gaining the support from organizations like Health Access Califor...

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

US to a disproportionate degree. These groups include African Americans, Hispanics, and minority women and children (Dancy and Dut...

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...