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Canada's Shouldice Hospital Ltd. SWOT Analysis

processed, but also in terms of the culture where employees feel appreciated. They are paid more than the average wage, on top of ...

Developmental EECP Plan

of the market (Christensen, Bohmer and Kenagy, 2000). The area of disruptive technology is the same one through which personal co...

Hospital Pricing and Marketing Ethical Issues

employers are increasing employees portion of premium payments or ceasing to contribute anything at all. Many employers have ceas...

Beyond Caring by DF Chambliss

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

Questions on Health Care Delivery System in the U.S.

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

Questions Regarding Issues in Managed Care

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

Saudi Arabia and Health Care

to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, an...

Medical/Surgical Nursing and Documentation

(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...

American Hospitals and Medical Mistake Causes

wrong leg amputated. Ben Kolb was eight years old when he died during "minor" surgery due to a drug mix-up. These horrific cases t...

A Needs Assessment for Diabetes Education in New York City

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

Early Educational Programs Within Public Hospitals

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

Health Care and Organizational Structure

ineffective - organizational structure on the organizations ability to function at optimal levels has been known literally for dec...

Organizational Structure of New York City's MHC

litigious society where health care workers and institutions are open and easy targets, this dearth of lawsuits reported in The Ne...

EMTs and Medications That Are Sensitive to Temperature

occur in an EMS vehicle in the summer months (McElroy, 2002). Such degradation can occur with no visible changes to the medicatio...

Hospital Setting Language Miscommunication

its founding in the late 18th century, the United States has opened its borders to people from a variety of countries and cultures...

A Case Study of Mediation and Negotiation

100 percent and also to create a neighborhood health and daycare facility. Another proposal is the creation of a preventative diag...

Hospitals and TQM

instruments not trustworthy? This is just another meaningless slogan, a cousin of zero defects" (Deming, 1986; p. 66). The...

Classifications and Divisions of Hospitals

a serious or highly unusual medical problem, a hospital devoted to the care of patients with similar conditions may be preferred. ...

Computer System Development

data needing a broad bandwidth, but also the need for security as patient files are confidential and security measures are not onl...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Problem of Uninsured Patients and New York's Metropolitan Hospital Center Operations

respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...

Uninsured Issues for Metropolitan Hospital Center of New York II

continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...

Federal Spending and Quality Care in Hospitals

2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...

External Environment of Shands Healthcare

either to reduce benefits or require employees to pay a greater share of the costs of their health care insurance premiums. Risin...

Hospital Obstetrics and Risk Management

in the standard of care. But also risk management serves to prevent such incidents and promote patient safety. Risk managers analy...

Teenager's Perspective on Speeding

Get my grandmother to the hospital right now! As far as I was concerned, the best way to do that was to drive her there as fast a...

Mentally Challenged Individuals and Contract Law

stories are legendary about people who receive their tattoos under the influence. The problem is that with mentally challenged i...

A Look at Two Mergers

the FTCs complaint is true, "alleging that the systems three hospitals extracted huge price increases from payers after the deal a...

Case Study on an Ethical Dilemma in the Workplace

The primary ethical issue lay in whether to terminate the pregnancy. The doctor of record resisted abortion as an option, in fact...

Sarasota, Florida's Doctors Hospital

I - Demonstrating Integrity at all times D - Showing concern for the Dignity of others E - Displaying Excellence and Empathy in ...