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PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

Hospital Social Work

evolving to meet the needs of contemporary society (Globerman, White and McDonald, 2002, p. 274). For example, the Department of S...

Transformational Leadership/Nurse Retention

profession. The current nursing shortage-Why retention is important Basically, this shortage results from "massive disrupts in t...

Hospital Administration and Retention

at improving management systems and supporting a positive organizational culture based on employee commitment. Body Introduc...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

A HOSPITAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM

Types of medical data and information records relevant to this project. The importance of uniform terminology, coding and...

Theories of Organizational Change

The process of successful change was observed by Lewin as occurring in three stages; unfreezing, change and refreezing (Lewin, 195...

The Use of Healthcare Portals for Miami Valley Hospital

of healthcare portals, designed to introduce access to a variety of sources of healthcare information and improve patient services...

Using Crew Resource Management In Health Care

into other industries. Medicine and health care is one of the industries that have begun adopting the CRM process. In fact, the In...

Strategy Assignments

by 2010 (About Healthy People, n.d.). It has survived four presidents and several changes in congressional leadership based on pa...

Johnson and Johnson Culture and Change

where employees are important stakeholders as seen with the "Live for Life" employee health program initiated in 1976, which was ...

Iatrogenic Infection

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

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

Creating a Consulting Firm

of health care is in and remains in flux as we seek systems that not only work in the present but also are sustainable over time. ...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Lomita Hospital Case Study

of the different types of procedure; the result is a weighted average cost calculation. The department must contest this if the so...

Identification Of Alternative Plans And Actions To Improve Levels Of Performance

so as to implement an effectively working TQM program. However, in order to achieve the highest plateau in relation to quality, D...

Miami Valley Hospital & Performance Management

degree (Barnes, et al, 1999). At a time when many healthcare facilities were moving away from clinical ladders, Miami Valley Hos...

Duke Children’s Hospital; Introducing the Balanced Score-Card

of dissatisfied customers (patients and their parents) ad they were making losses which were increasing. The drive for change ofte...

Learning and Growth Objectives

of that knowledge and create cost savings with the way it is implemented, such as new procedures, or new ways of managing old proc...

Balanced Scorecard Objectives

numbers and then as a percentage on yearly basis. The measure in the first year for reference only, in the second year the numbe...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

Business Process Objectives

quality of the customer service. The measures here will be against the expected levels from past visitors as well as the levels co...

Staffing the VA Outpatient Clinic

and a domiciliary residence for homeless veterans (Mountain Home VA Medical Center, n.d.); the Knoxville CBOC frequently sends its...

Balanced Scorecard; Financial Objectives

as such this will also lead to patient satisfaction. The cost per patient or per visit may be measured in financial terms; this ...

Parental Involvement in Caring for Hospitalized Children

a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...

Research Study Proposal/Hand washing

to wash their hands both before and after attending each patient. However, one physician-investigators asserts in reference to doc...

Marketing and Budgeting for a Recycling Project

eliminate the risk of non compliance and simply use new equipment each time. With mass production techniques it was possible to pr...

The New York Hospital Closure Controversy

The NYSNA representative agrees, suggesting that closing hospitals is not a good way to deal with the health care crisis ("Prevent...

Intensive Car Unit New Graduates' Retention

employees feel valued; the conditions in their working environment; and resources and salary. Cline, Reilly and Moore (2003) con...