Shouldice Hospital Case Study Calvin Barron Liberty University March 2‚ 2010 Respectfully submitted to Prof. Scott McLaughlin Overview The Shouldice Hospital serves as a glaring example of extraordinary service and care for the impaired and needy. From carpeting and soft lighting to doting personal care from the staff‚ the Shouldice experience sets a standard of excellence for the industry. Dr. Earl Shouldice displayed an early desire for medical understanding with an age
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The Good Shepherd mosaic lunette appear to be completely disparate‚ in actuality‚ both provide poignant renderings of Christ. They were created in distant periods; The Gero Crucifix was commissioned and made around 970 CE by archbishop Gero while The Good Shepherd was thought to have been commissioned by Emperor Theodosis I’s daughter‚ Galla Placidia around 425 CE. Today‚ The Gero Crucifix remains in its original home from the Ottonian Empire in the Cologne Cathedral in Germany‚ while The Good Shepard
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1.1 INTRODUCTION Saving behaviour is an interesting topic to be study on. In his research Kotlikoff (1989) described the question of what determines saving as a good jigsaw puzzle. It has a number of pieces. Some of the pieces have been found. Those that are available do not immediately fit together‚ but not all the combinations have yet been tried. The pieces that are missing are not necessarily in the bottom of the box and indeed miry be mixed up with identical-looking pieces in some other
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A quality decision should be realistic‚ feasible‚ made with good data‚ timely‚ defensible‚ acceptable and have a good outcome( Janice Lewis Duncan Boldy) For a healthcare set up it is very much important to maintain the financial system in balance so that the customers and the stakeholder’s interests are well attended. In a customers point of view one looks for the best service and the results possible from a hospital and on the other hand the stakeholders look for the best possible
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Hospital J Case Study and Recommendations for Improvement The purpose of this case study is to examine‚ analyze‚ and interpret a given set of data for Hospital J in order to recommend changes to maximize efficiency of operations. The data provided was recorded over the course of a year in Hospital J’s emergency room. Data is attached in Appendix A. Various methods were used to determine the best course of action for the hospital in terms of staffing‚ supplies‚ and income allotment. The nominal
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The Day After Case Names and Roles Case Name: The Day After Charlie Jones-Chief Executive Terminated after 23 years Russell Adams- Board Chairman Bill Handy- Chief Operating Officer Appointed by Charlie Jones liked by the board but not physicians/medical staff. Dr. Ralph Kemper- Chief Radiologist In cohorts with the additional radiologists Potential owner of Imaging Center Inc Russ Adams-bearer of bad news‚ personal friend. Background and Facts The cost per patient day was next
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1. What kinds of applications are described here? What business functions do they support? How do they improve operational efficiency and decision making? The applications defined in this case are e-mail‚ calendar and contacts from Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. In addition‚ there are some new software applications: hospital’s MEDITECH electronic medical records system‚ Epocrates Essentials and ChainLinq Mobile. The businesses functions of these applications are assisting employees accomplish their
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assist the company to understand the manner in which they want to operate to ensure they provide a valuable service that will be shown through their actions to align with both of these statements. Mission and Value Statement Although the Campbell Hospital is the only facility within miles‚ they still have to continue to offer excellent service to the individuals of the community and creating a strategic
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A 17- STORY hospital tower with a helipad‚ 1000 doctors trained in multi-disciplinary healthcare and four new health institutes‚ the UST Hospital (USTH) seems not only to have recovered financially‚ but is eager to reach for the stars. But is its P3 billion expansion plan simply too starry-eyed for comfort? Is it too ambitious? Yes‚ according to Dr. Cenon Alfonso‚ president and chief executive officer of USTH. He said that the P3 billion financing for the expansion came from a fixed-term‚ syndicated
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This case study examines the findings for a patient admitted to Littleton Hospital in February 2016. This patient was initially radiographed on February 8th and again on February10th‚ 2016‚ when the radiology department received orders for a portable chest x-ray for an 82-year-old patient in the ICU. Two days prior‚ she had received a chest x-ray‚ post-thoracentesis. At that time‚ the radiologist‚ Dr. Orlin Hopper noted “a moderate right-sided pneumothorax” (2016). Upon review of the second set of
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