...lost to him forever. Until, his favorite quarterback gives back to this big time Baylor fan the joy of playing football. A few years ago, Paul Mielke was the fastest player and the star quarterback of the Katy, Texas Youth Football League. “I knew I wanted to play professional football from a young age,” Paul said. Growing up in a family full of Baylor University alumni, Paul dreamed to one day become a Baylor Bear and play quarterback for the well-known football team just like his hero, Robert Griffin III. However, life for the 13-year-old aspiring athlete wasn’t going as planned. Paul’s decreasing health was relevant when the once active teenager became weak and exhausted. In July 2011, Paul was hospitalized and diagnosed with a life threatening heart condition known as Coronary Artery Disease. “It was really hard accepting that I will never be just an average kid again like my friends and because of this disease I’m always going to be different,” Paul said. For the talented athlete, the news that he wouldn’t be able to play football this coming season was the hardest part. This was just the start of Paul’s long battle. In October 2011, doctors informed Paul that the only way of surviving his stage of heart failure was to receive a heart transplant. Around the same time, a dual-threat quarterback named Robert Griffin III was rewriting the record books and leading the Baylor Bears to record-setting wins. He was also developing a devoted fan in Houston, Texas...
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...As the owner of of Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling has had allegations of racism from the past and at this percent time. Recently, the media had audio of Sterling expressing terrible things about black people. However, at this point it was brought to the media attention that Donald Sterling has a history of being disrespectful to African Americans. “A top team executive accused Sterling of running the Clippers the Clippers with a “plantation” mentality.” (Shoichet) In 2009, Sterling was accused of wrongful termination by Elgin Baylor. The lawsuit also accused Sterling of “ageism in which he harassed him by making demeaning comments about his age.” (Shoichet) Eventually, in 2011 the racial discrimination claim was dropped and as far as the ageism claim the jury sided with Sterling. In 2006, the Department of Justice brought housing discrimination charges against Sterling’s rental company in Los Angeles alleging that refused to lease to African Americans, Latinos, non-koreans in the Koreatown section in Los Angeles, and families with children. The case was eventually settled in 2009 for $2.725 million because the cost of litigation started exceeding the cost of the settlement. I believe the worst claim of them all was in 2004, when he denied surgery for the assistant coach Kim Hughes. Hughes had found out he was diagnosed with “prostate cancer on the eve of training camp”(Witz) and the surgery wasn’t covered under his health insurance and would cost $70,000. Fortunately...
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...Standing on my own Success is characterized by anything that yields a sensation of satisfaction, after accomplishing a goal, in any aspect. People are always trying to succeed. Success is an enticing challenge for anyone to prove their capability of getting what they want and also to be acknowledged. People want success to look for an improvement in their quality of life. If this is not the reason, then why else does the compelling need for feat exist? Just like everyone else, I have a dream for success. For my future I want to see myself fruitful in pursuing what I desire to do – dermatology. However, being successful to me isn’t about fulfilling selfish desires, it also entails helping others. As a future doctor, I yearn to be adept of sharing my knowledge with people that need it. In order for me to get to that level, I must endure strong adversity from a superior educational environment and achieve outstanding grades. I must also be able to stand up on my own feet and be independent, which has been a struggle for me ever since I was young. Growing up, I always had to fight for everything I wanted or believed in. I felt in any situation that I was the odd one out. I felt different, and that everyone else was a team that was out to get me. Since I was young I have always been a very timid, quiet child. However, I was very compassionate towards others and was that one friend who was always there to help. My parents and friends would often tell me to “have a spine” and to stand...
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...inherited a production facility in San Antonio. And also had international facility in three countries: Mexico, Scotland and India. Then moved product development, sales and distribution to other countries. Such as Australia, Brazil France, India Israel and Hong Kong. The company takes employees: expatriates, and places them within those countries to run their engineering operations abroad. Tex Mark also has developed a training program for these expatriate, like pre-departure activities, in-country training and development and repatriation. However, this program has not give the Tex-Mark the value of expectation Eric Christopher, Associate Director for Globe HR development at Tex-Mark. He had graduated from Churchill high school and Baylor University in Waco, Texas with a major in History and Spanish. He had spent his time to backpack around Europe and South America then had four years experiences worked in Southwest Airlines. Eric has much experience with languages, as he is proficient in Spanish, French, Italian, German and a little bit of Cantonese as well. Fred Bank, a Dell engineer that had stayed on with Tex-Mark after the spin-off in 1978. He had three assignments: the first one is in Scotland in 1983, the second is in Mexico in 1989 then the third one is in 1999 in India. However, he only made the first assignment to be successful. In the period in Mexico there were many unavoidable economic uncertainties made the assignment did not go very smoothly. The last one...
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...Baylor University not only provides an incredible education, but it also provides many opportunities to harbor my creativity, develop leadership skills, and fully achieve my academic potential. I think that Baylor is my ideal place to achieve my academic and personal goals. Baylor has an incredible business and international studies programs, which are two fields that I am incredibly interested in. Due to DECA, I have truly found a passion for the business side of the world. I love the constant critical and abstract thinking that are necessary in the world of business. Additionally, I think that my bilinguality will truly help me to strive in my pursuit of business and international dealings. I am extremely interested in pursuing a career that is internationally based and that calls for entrepreneurship....
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...sports fields and courts, and in life. Baylor University was rocked with the largest sexual assault scandal in division one sports. This incident began to take shape, after several football players, took part in violent acts against several women. The public started to pay attention to Baylor University once two former football players had received convictions for sexual assault (Mervosh, 2017). These two convictions fueled the public into researching the university and football program as a whole (Mervosh, 2017). This case began in 2015 after Baylor launched an internal investigation (Mervosh, 2017). The main reason an investigation was funded was to see how university’s policies attacked sexual assault incidents (Mervosh, 2017). During this...
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...Baylor HealthCare System: Efforts in Reducing Turnover Rate Background Baylor Health Care System is one of the premier health care systems in the United States. Located in north Texas, U.S., Baylor employs approximately 16,000 people who serve more than 110,000 patients annually in 12 hospitals and 85 clinics. For 103 years Baylor has not only provided quality healthcare, but has been a major contributor to the community by supporting programs through the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, The United Way, The American Heart Association, and Habitat for Humanity. In 2003, the company launched a new human resources initiative. Their goal was to improve relationships between employees and managers in an effort to reduce employee turnover and make Baylor Health Care System a workplace of choice. In order to do this, the human resource team knew they needed to revamp their leadership training curriculum. They conducted a needs assessment with the key leaders and contributors within the organization to determine the skills and behaviors which had to be changed in order to achieve their goal. Intervention “We didn’t want a canned training program. We wanted one that was customized to Baylor’s needs that integrated with other training and HR systems in our organization,” said Phyllis Wright, Director of Training and Organizational Development for Baylor Health Care System. “Our goal is to have all of our HR systems integrated so we hire and train leaders based on the behaviors and...
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...I have always been interested in the brain ever since I stumbled upon the book Gifted Hands by Ben Carson in 8th grade. In the book, Carson described how he removed half the brain in order to resolve seizures in a five year old girl! How could someone live with only half their brain? I was also intrigued by the ambiguity of right and wrong which led me to an interest in medical humanities. Baylor offers me this opportunity to study medical humanities, continue my interest in sports, grow my faith, pursue undergrad research, and to contribute to the community. I love that Baylor has so many options for students like me interested in pre-med. From the Alpha Elipson Delta honor society to specialized dorms just for students interested in...
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...Your Provider is a HealthTexas Physician HealthTexas Provider Network is the 2nd largest subsidiary of Baylor Health Care System. We are a large network of close to 800 providers serving patients in almost 200 care sites throughout North Texas and Fort Worth who are dedicated to providing you with outstanding quality and service when it comes to caring for your medical needs. Having your healthcare needs overseen by a HealthTexas physician means that your care is coordinated across our network and the Baylor Health Care System. As long as you are seeing a HealthTexas primary or specialty care physician, we will have your completed registration packet and medical record securely stored in our Electronic Health Record system giving any HealthTexas physician access to the information they need to provide you and your family with the best care possible. Benefits of Belonging to HealthTexas Provider Network: • One Time Form Completion The registration forms you are filling out today will only have to be filled out once. (Some additional patient information may need to be updated annually) • Electronic Health Record (EHR) system The EHR stores your medical records (including any medications, allergies or health issues you may have) and allows physicians easy access to referrals, consultations, and patient education materials. • Improved Coordinated Care Our primary care sites are recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as Physician Connections-Patient-Centered...
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...Through the process in college searching, three things are certain: every person has an idea of what they want to study, where they want to attend, and what their college experience is going to be like. Well taught professors, comfortable dorms, and good food are all on the checklist. However what I’m looking for in a University is a spirited, outgoing student body, and professors that are down to earth and genuinely care about their students. The quality of the teaching is something I truly care about. I look for professors that will be available throughout the day for extra help and actually teach instead of just lecture. I’ve learned in high school that everyone processes and learns new information in three main cognitive learning styles....
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...Health Care Marketing Analysis: Baylor’s The Heart Hospital HCS/539 Marketing for Health Health Care Marketing Analysis: Baylor’s The Heart Hospital In the United States, 14 million people are affected by heart disease and it is the leading cause of death in America. Baylor’s Heart Hospital is designed with the needs of those heart patients in mind. In providing service to those patients, the hospital is there to anyone experiencing problems with his or her heart and vascular condition. Baylor Heart Hospital is the first hospital dedicated exclusively to heart and vascular health care. This paper will present the background of the organization, describe the four p’s and how they are important to success, examine the marketing relationships with the partnerships, and determine the target market, including demographics and psychographics, and data from the general area in which the organization is located, with an explanation of why understanding the target market is vital to a successful marketing plan. Baylor’s Heart Hospital Background Baylor’s Heart Hospital offers all types of patients five star service with a medical quality. The hospital, within itself, contains an equipped and advance imaging department with a 64-slice CT scanner, a cardiac emergency department, an onsite cardiac rehabilitation center, an endovascular suite, an eight-bed-post-anesthesia recover unit with three electrophysiology labs, three operating suites, and three cardiac catheterization labs...
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...Zero-Tolerance Team Feasibility Study: Lowering Drug Violations On Campus Kelsey L. Jones Feasibility Study: Lowering Drug Violations on Campus Technical Communications Joyce Gorgan March 26, 2012 Table of Contents Executive Summary....................................................................................................................4 Introduction.................................................................................................................................5 Research Methods.......................................................................................................................6 Results.........................................................................................................................................8 Criminal Background Check Process..........................................................................................8 Cost.................................................................................................................8 Effectiveness...................................................................................................9 Legality...........................................................................................................9 Undercover Police Officers.........................................................................................................9 Cost...................................................................................................
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...Johnnese M. Jones Local Hospital Reviews MHA 5026 (u02a1) Dr. Beauvais October 20, 2013 Baylor Scott & White Health (Dallas, TX and Temple, TX) Scott and White Hospital was founded in 1904 by Dr. Scott and Dr. White and was named Temple Sanitarium. By 1922, Dr. White had passed away and the conversion of the hospital was changed to Scott & White Memorial Hospital. It has been comprised of the mission towards delivering an affordable, high quality of healthcare services to all the patients that walk through the doors of Scott and White. Recently, on September 30, 2013, the hospital merged with Baylor Health Care System in Dallas, TX to increase the spectrum of Healthcare in North and Central Texas. It consists of 43 hospitals and more than 500 patient care sites (Baylor Scott and White, 2013). Type of organization. General Hospital, Level 1 Trauma Center Tax Deductible, for example For Profit (FP) or Not for profit (NFP). Not for Profit (NFP) Key executive leaders. Drayton McLane, Jr. Chair Scott & White Jim Turner, Chairman Baylor Health Care System Joel Allison, CEO Baylor Scott White Health Dr. Robert Pryor, President & CFO Key Web sites www.sw.org, http://baylorscottandwhite.com/, http://www.baylorhealth.com/Pages/Default.aspx Basic market demographics, for example, target populations served. Target populations consist of the low income populations with Medicare and Medicaid of...
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...stuff if it is to glorify God and to have a relationship with Him. On Friday November 1st, 2013, my cousin Charlie and I were on Interstate 30 on the way to Waco, TX. As an alum of Baylor University, Charlie knew the amazing power of Baylor and all the things God does here. However, this was my first time coming to Baylor. I had only known of Baylor for about 3 months. On our way down we prayed. We prayed for clarity, we prayed for wisdom, we prayed for answers and ultimately we prayed for peace. We arrived to the visitors’ center at about 1:00 pm. We had only stopped once to get gas and food. When Charlie parked the car we had one more prayer. I then stepped out of the car and was overwhelmed by the beauty and magnificence of Baylor. I had an overwhelming sense of peace, and right then I knew I was going to attend Baylor University. I had no idea how I was going to pay for Baylor or any other logistics. My dad said no when he saw how much it cost, but I am here now. Like Friesen’s fourth principle says, “when we have chosen what is moral and wise, we must trust the sovereignty of God to work all the details together for good.” I chose to attend Baylor because I felt called to be a Baylor Bear. I believe this decision was my choice and that God worked out all the details for me to be here at Baylor. I had to think long and hard about a personal experience that relates most to the relationship view. Then I realized that my journey this semester is directly related to Smith’s...
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...By Reid Koch Job performance is defined as the value of the set of employee behaviors that contribute, either positively or negatively, to organizational goal accomplishment. In a recent article published by e! Science News, a study at the Baylor University shows that job performance can be linked to people who are more honest and humble. Job performance is made up of many factors; two of the most important are citizenship behavior and counterproductive behaviors. Of these two factors an individual that displays above average job performance would be rich in citizenship behaviors and lacking in counterproductive behaviors. The study was performed by Baylor researchers along with some business consultants. Over two hundred and fifty employees in twenty five different companies across twenty different states who work in the health care field were involved in the study. Supervisors of the employees in the study were asked to rate the job performance of each employee on thirty five different job skills and describe the kind of customer with whom the employee worked. The Baylor researchers found that the employees who self-reported more honesty and humility scored significantly higher by their supervisor. The researchers at Baylor defined honesty and humility as those who exhibit high levels of fairness, greed-avoidance, sincerity, and modesty. Dr. Wade Rowatt states "This study shows that those who possess the combination of honesty and humility have better job performance...
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