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Developing Customer Services Measures for a Balanced Scorecard

and Smith, 2006). This in turn will create a relationship with the patient that facilities the achievement of these goals (Walshe ...

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...

Now Night Nurses on an Intensive Care Unit

of this decision. Ecological theory is an attempt to bring in many different influences in order to understand how a society ...

Magnet Status and Evidence-Based Practice

official entity until 1993. Today it addresses an array of nursing issues. The goals of the program are: * "Promoting quality in...

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

Doctors Hospital Of Sarasota Analysis

are experiencing high growth rates. There are three facilities, hospitals & Medical Centers, in Sarasota County and two medical ce...

Hospital Database Use

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

FedEx Case Study

and as they are in existence they also add costs to the value chain, but are necessary and as such they must be seen to actively a...

Acme Hospital Information Technology Project Plan Synthesis

cost billions to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its...

Acme Hospital Project Plan Forecast

As scheduled, the project will begin on June 27, 2006 and end on August 10, 2006, for a duration of five weeks. No more than...

Overview of a Hospital's Reduced Rate Prescription Drug Plan

to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its investment in...

Marketing Activity - Promotion : Case Study

the themes, graphics and copy effective? No * Are the chosen media adequate? No Public Relations (which includes publicity) * Do...

U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam : Competitive Analysis

mission statement directs the activities of the hospital. Not only does the hospital provide the care, they provide education to p...

Pricing at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

essentially sets prices for all of American health care, as explained below. Aside from pricing according to production cos...

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...

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...

Gary Pisano's 'Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

Reduction of ICU's Nursing Ratio and Change Management

The reason is that the hospital has been unsuccessful in recruiting an adequate number of qualified nurses. Ultimately, the blame...

A Country Hospital Uses Cross Training

the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those nurses ...

Australia and Average Length of Hospital Stays

the mid 1990s this was seven days (Duckett, 2002). However, there have also been cuts in the provision of rates for the stays at p...

Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

Financial Plan for EECP Development

system." As angioplasty has progressed in its technological characteristics and has been subject to spiraling costs for several y...

Hospital Utilization Management

information brochure that described the standard course of care for CHF patients (About Virtua, 2004). The team modified the flow ...

Overview of a Hospital's Information Technology Department

more user friendly in the future, at the moment they are somewhat complex, so "how well a hospitals system functions now can be cr...

Review of Lethal Dose by Steven Snodgrass

cringes with the thought that the technological advancement of bioethics has rendered an offshoot as unsavory as euthanasia wards....

Hospital Rapid Response Team Implementation

been as long as 8 hours prior to dying (IHI, Getting, 2005). Had additional services been provided, the patient would not have die...

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 ...

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...

Oral Hygiene Protocol and Nursing Practice

Hanson (2004) recommends a toothbrush, but specifies that it should be soft and that non-abrasive toothpaste should be selected. P...

Does Organizational Change Need to People to Change?

in an environment that is constantly changing. If organizations are an open system they cannot be controlled in a logical manner (...