ALLIANT HEALTH SYSTEMS : A VISION OF TOTAL QUALITY Alliant’s quest for quality is unequivocal when one reads what Jim Petersdorf had to say about the health care industry “To deliver value‚ hospitals would have to consider both cost and quality….” And what his successor‚ Rod Wolford said about TQM : “To make total quality management work‚ you need an overwhelming conviction that it is central to everything you do. I have this conviction…..” For a strategy to be accepted ‚ and to become successful
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By Steven Malik Shelton The Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that acquired a majority equity stake in Vanguard Health Systems with a $1.75 billion dollar investment in 2004. According to Josh Kosman‚ business reporter for the New York Post‚ private equity firms purchase businesses through leveraged buy-outs in which the majority of the money for the acquisition comes
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continues to grow‚ the need for health-care services is in greater demand‚ particularly as the population of those 65 and older is expected to surge in coming years. In response to this need‚ Marietta-based WellStar Health System Inc. is under- going major expansion upgrading facilities‚ developing new construction projects and expanding its reach through acquisitions. “Large health systems‚ like Wellstar‚ are increasingly an option for metro-Atlanta area residents seeking health care‚” Wellstar has multiple
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under the supervision of Jim Petersdorf‚ developed a long range‚ corporate strategy that is Total Quality Management or TQM. As a not-for –profit organization‚ Alliant’s mission was to become “the leading provider of value-driven‚ superior quality health care in Louisville and the surrounding region.” According to Petersdorf‚ hospitals are escalating costs‚ using the excuse of providing quality. But in reality‚ quality is still questionable. In fact‚ in order to provide true value‚ hospitals would
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Today’s health care system is in a constant state of fluctuation and commotion. It is sometimes difficult for the health care consumer to identify a valuable resource when they need one. The purpose of this paper is to explore one of the many health care resources that are available in the greater Philadelphia area and then visit this site to learn more about it. Philadelphia‚ in itself is an outstanding resource to the people of the area. In terms of healthcare resource implications this is true
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Also‚ the issue of health inequalities has deprived a lot people from basic health care and human right. Most time whenever I think of human right and health care‚ the question that comes to mind is‚ is health care is a human right? Yes‚ everybody supposed to have equal access or opportunities to health irrespective any factor hindering them. For Williams‚ who is going through COPD exacerbation‚ retired have
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diagnosis and experimentation. Research is also defined as human activity based on intellectual application in the investigation of matter. The primary purpose for applied research is discovering‚ interpreting and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe. (Ohn Levi Warner Research holding the torch of knowledge (1896) Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Washington D.C.) and also research has
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The Event That Changed My Life Crystal a Six Everest Online Composition 1-260 I met my grandson for the first time on May 10‚ 2007. I was standing there in the examining room looking at the monitor screen and looking at my grandson. I could see him moving from side to side and up and down. It was the most marvelous thing anyone can witness in his or her lifetime. I then realized the look on the doctor’s face and that in it spoke the words that were unspoken. She started explaining to us
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alliants was facing the problem of in cordiality to the total quality management philosophy. For alliants to eliminate the problem the quality process still needs a jumpstart ‚even the physicians show broader there view point‚ implementation of an IT system that fully supports total quality management by getting them the data and the important facts it need to have to in cooperate innovation in future in their organisation. Even the CEO wolford said that he cannot talk about any one area which is doing
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FACTORS TO BE ADDRESSED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IDEAL MODEL OF HEALTH CARE By Name: Course: Tutor: Institution: Date: Introduction Ideal healthcare system will be the one that works for all the individuals in the community without disparity or confusion. With an ideal healthcare system‚ members in a community will get adequate access to care‚ basic information‚ better research and information for the patients (Yvonne‚ 2009).In this paper; I will discuss the various
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