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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nosocomial Infections

This research paper reports on recent studies that concern the most prevalent pathogens causing nosocomial, that is, hospital-acqu...

Health Care Seeking Behaviors

Many elements converge to determine whether or not an individual will see a physician or go to a hospital, or avoid the system ent...

Using NPV to Assess a Project

The writer uses a case study provided by the student to assess the potential of a new project using internal rate of return (IRR)...

Cycle Time Throughput Time Hospital

The focus of this paper is colonoscopy procedures at a clinic. This essay discussed cycle time and throughput time, the percent va...

OSHA Guidance, Hospital Risk Management

This research paper pertains to risk management and OSHA guidelines, with particular focus paid to the topic of needle-stick and s...

Hospitals and Practitioners, Nationwide Health Coverage

This research paper examines various aspect of the Affordable Care Act within the context of the need for national health coverage...

Organization That Contracts Services to Hospitals

This paper reports a number of issues in which the organization is involved. Issues include: measurements for performance and how ...

The Protection of Hospital Computer and Information Systems

2006). Finally, the Mayo Clinic has its own take on privacy and does not only provide HIPAA guidelines, but implements very strict...

The Use of E-Commerce at the US Naval Hospital in Guam

medical field is in sharing medical records which can be financially advantageous (Maduri, 2004). It is also a practice that can h...

Enhancing Total Quality Management at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

quite a leap to effectively apply its principles to service industries, but TQM is as much at home in health care as it is in manu...

TQM in the Hospital Setting

hospital setting but wrote, "The lack of empirical research fails to provide support to claims that TQM reconciles trade-offs betw...

Hospital Management and Leadership

There are two candidates for this position, Dinga Bella and Brown Oser. Both candidates are distinguished leaders within the healt...

Hospital Expansion Project

additional staffing, but that; expansion of the Emergency Department; and changes in local demographics all point to greater staff...

Analysis Of Change Process In A Hospital

all staff members. In so doing, he also followed Kotters next step which is to communicate that vision to the staff (Kotter, 1996)...

Strategic Planning For Hospitals

and activities in which they need to engage to achieve the objectives (Kunders, 2005). Different experts suggest different approa...