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Services Within 5 Miles of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

connections to finding after school day care, as well as connections to paying bills and locating special needs information. There...

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 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...

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...

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...

Leininger's Culture Care Nursing Theory

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

Nursing: Article Reviews

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

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...

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...

Communication Management Between Doctors & Nurses

Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...

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...

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...

Strategy Assignments

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

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...

Humanistic Leadership & Nursing Unions

with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...

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...

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 ...

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...

The Hospitals Must Not Close

Indeed, it is more advantageous to allow the hospitals to stay open, and if they do not meet expectations, then they will just fai...

Organizational Structure and Patient Care

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

Evaluation of "Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases"

of outcomes of care - Source of unnecessary - and high - costs - Fragmented state to state - Based on varied data * The problem ha...

MRSA Infection

a part of the normal flora of human beings and colonizes the anterior nares (Nicolle, 2006). However, it is also a significant pat...

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...

Employment Law and the US Naval Hospital on Guam

When all other approaches have appeared to have failed, or if the individual commits an act for which accommodation is not an opti...

Competitive Advantage: U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

reassuring people that if they come to the hospital, they will get the best care possible, with the latest technology, and be retu...