...Costs Of Healthcare Christine Amargo HCA305 The U.S. Health Care System Sherry Grover June 9, 2014 Everyone wants to have access to health care and in order to access it they need insurance, but unfortunately not everyone can afford health insurance. The United States spends more money on health care than any other country, but raise the cost of health insurance to the citizens. Health care should be affordable if the government is willing to spend as much money as they are on it. Health insurance should be able to affordable to all classes lower, middle, and higher. The citizens of the United States has the right to know why their insurances cost are going up and if they are going to get more bang for their buck. The reason why healthcare cost is rising each year is because no one is managing the spending. Money is being spent between all accounts of healthcare and shared amongst each other. There needs to be a line where companies stop spending and try to manage the money they have if they don’t the cost of healthcare will just keep rising. The primary issues of healthcare cost are access to healthcare, and affordability of healthcare. The United States health care spending has been growing rapidly for many years, but many citizens are without appropriate health care. This is affecting the two governments major health insurance Medicaid and Medicare and the private insurance companies. As the health care spending rises, the citizens will be faced with difficult choices...
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...Week 10: Final Case Study Final Case Study: Consulting for the Caring Angel Hospital March 13, 2016 HSA 501: Management in Health Care Strayer University Abstract Management in Health Care has provided me with invaluable information and concepts, as it relates to providing quality service to patients. Health care facilities must find ways to retain patients, add value, gain the comparative advantage, create a positive work environment, as well as maintain employee morale. In most cases the success of a health care facility begins with its staff and upper level management. The doctors, nurses, and staff are the face of the facility and if patients are not instantly happy they will instantly migrate to other facilities/organizations. Therefore, Caring Angel Hospital will need to implement major changes in order to perform well financially, and ensure employees are satisfied and constantly engaging with patients. It is imperative for staff to leave their problems at the door when they arrive to work, as patients often need someone to express their concerns with. Some diagnosis require a stronger support system than others, and typically it begins with the delivery (physicians, nurses, etc.). Question #1 When one thinks of quality, added value should also come to mind. Quality in health care is an extremely broad term, and has various definitions depending on whom you speak with. Therefore appropriate quality measurements must be in place, in order to effectively...
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...Social prescribing in general practice: adding meaning to medicine ‘There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.’ Francois de la Rochefoucauld (French writer 1613–1680) Social prescribing is about expanding the range of options available to GP and patient as they grapple with a problem. Where that problem has its origins in socioeconomic deprivation or long-term psychosocial issues, it is easy for both patient and GP to feel overwhelmed and reluctant to open what could turn out to be a can of worms. Settling for a short-term medical fix may be pragmatic but can easily become a conspiracy of silence which confirms the underlying sense of defeat. Can or should we try to do more during the precious minutes of a GP consultation? Where there are psychosocial issues GPs do suggest social avenues, such as visiting a Citizens Advice Bureau for financial problems, or a dance class for exercise and loneliness, but without a supportive framework this tends to be a token action. The big picture difficulty with leaving underlying psychosocial problems largely hidden in the consulting room is the medicalisation of society’s ills. This ranges from using antidepressants for the misery of a difficult life, to the complex pharmaceutical regimes prescribed to patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes. This sort of medicalisation may help immediate problems (including driving the economy through jobs in the healthcare industries) but it is not enough if our society...
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... which was longer than any other automaker. Today, Richard Wagoner, Jr., GM Chairman and CEO currently runs GM, which was founded in 1908. GM today employs approximately 324,000 people around the world, with their global headquarters in Detroit Michigan. Their European headquarters is based in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2006, 9.1 million GM cars and trucks were sold globally under the following brands: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, GM, Daewoo, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saab, Saturn, and Vauxhall. General Motors has a superb relationship with international connection. GM takes pride in fostering global partnerships and consumer relationships. GM is majority shareholder in GM Daewoo auto & Technology Co. of South Korea and has had collaborative ventures in technology and manufacturing with several other automakers. It also has ventures with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation of China. GM’s largest national market is the United States, followed by china, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany. By many standards, General Motors is an extremely successful company, though an analysis of the corporation today uncovers many troubling issues. GM is and has been the world's leader in automotive sales since 1931. (GM Website, 2004) By any corporate measurements, the company is a behemoth, operating across the globe with...
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...Creativity and Discipline Robert J. Herbold A New Game Plan for C Players Beth Axelrod, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Ed Michaels Best Practice Turn Customer Input into Innovation Anthony W. Ulwick Tool Kit Selling the Brand Inside Colin Mitchell r0201j To o l K i t Selling the Brand Inside You tell customers what makes you great. Do your employees know? by Colin Mitchell W hen you think of marketing, you more than likely think of marketing to your customers: How can you persuade more people to buy what you sell? But another “market” is just as important: your employees, the very people who can make the brand come alive for your customers. Yet in our work helping executives develop and carry out branding campaigns, my colleagues and I have found that companies very often ignore this critical constituency. Why is internal marketing so important? First, because it’s the best way to help employees make a powerful emotional connection to the products and services you sell. Without that connection, employees are likely to undermine the expectations set by your advertising. In some cases, this is because they simply don’t understand what you have promised the public, so they end up working at cross-purposes. In other cases, it may be they don’t actually believe in the brand and feel...
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...9-913-501 JULY 12, 2012 JOHN BINGHAM MICHAEL BEER Performance Management at Vitality Health Enterprises, Inc. The Health and Vitality of Vitality Health Enterprises James Hoffman, the newly appointed vice president of Human Resources of Vitality Health Enterprises, was pleased when he saw an early preview of the earnings figures for the fourth quarter of 2011. But he knew better than to relax. Competition in the personal care products sector was cutthroat, and complacency was a recipe for obsolescence and loss of market share, particularly in cosmetics and nutraceuticals. Vitality was riding high on a six-quarter string of strong revenue growth that had surpassed analyst expectations. However, as emerging markets represented a growing portion of business revenues, the company was becoming increasingly exposed to volatility and uncertainty and, without prompt corrective action, would soon be poised to trip over its own feet. The cost of research and development continued to climb, and Hoffman feared that the chain of success was allowing employees to relax, leading to a culture of ineffective performance management. There were even whispers of discontent from the marketing team about a growing number of missed product launches. Hoffman knew that Vitality had recently struggled to maintain its position as an industry leader in innovation and he worried about the slow but notable increases in employee turnover, especially among the highly talented research...
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...INNOVATION, CHANGE AND ENTREPRENEURS "Is going international something that only large and established firms should pursue after they have achieved success in its domestic market or should entrepreneurs think about international markets 'right of the bat?' which sorts of products are more amenable to going international by small and new firms?" Entrepreneurs should think about the international market as “right of the bat”. We are planning to expand our business in Dubai as real estate market is growing there presently. Entrepreneurs should think about the international market as “right of the bat”. But before going internationally one should consider these following factors: Factor 1: Get company-wide commitment. Every employee should be a vital member of your international team, from the executive suite to customer service through engineering, purchasing, production and shipping. You're all in it for the long haul. Factor 2: Define your business plan for accessing global markets. An international business plan is important in order to define your company's present status and internal goals and commitment, but it's also necessary if you plan to measure your results. Factor 3: Determine how much you can afford to invest in your international expansion efforts. Will it be based on ten percent of your domestic business profits or on a pay-as-you-can-afford process? Factor 4: Plan at least a two-year lead-time for world market penetration...
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...Introduction The theme of this course paper is “Ways of improving efficiency of enterprise”. It is considered to be topical nowadays because of some reasons. Firstly, today’s period of economic development is characterized by high competition in the market which makes all businesses seek foe different ways of increasing their efficiency. Enterprises are forced to look for the steps which help them work effectively without wasting time, money or energy. The pace of business activity is getting faster and faster. Employees often have to work under pressure dealing with performing lots of task at the same time and under different circumstances. It result in the fact that employers have to provide their employees with the possibility to work in the hotel rooms, airport, lounges, remote branches etc. Secondly, at the present moment mankind is facing with the problem of exhaustion of mineral and natural resources which makes numerous plants, factories and enterprises be more economical in the use of the resources. They need to organize their production in the way which lets them produce a specific outcome effectively produce a specific outcome effectively with a minimum amount of waste, expense and unnecessary effort. A lot of scientists and businessman have raised the problem of efficiency in their articles and books. In particular, outstanding Italian sociologist, economist and philosopher F. Parreto made a great contribution into the study of the problem of efficiency. According...
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...LG ELECTRONICS South Korean multinational corporation South Korea's second largest electronics maker and the world's third largest appliance maker Company has 75 subsidiaries worldwide Design a d manufacture te ev s o s, home appliances, and es g and a u actu e televisions, o e app a ces, a d telecommunications devices. LG Electronics owns Zenith Electronics and controls LG Displays, a joint venture with Philips Electronics By 2005, LG was a Top 100 global brand. In 2006, LG recorded a brand growth of 14% World s World’s largest plasma panel manufacturer In 2006, its net income was $226 million, on total revenues of $24.7 billion COMPANY – ITS SUBSIDIARIES • LG Display, is one of the largest manufacturer of liquid crystal displays p y • In 2006, the company's mobile phone division, LG Mobile, marketed the LG Chocolate TM phone, changing the company's i ' image of th maker of thi k 3G phones. f the k f thick h • Focuses on the design and marketing of phones such as the LG Shine and LG Prada (KE850 ( • The company was picked as 'The Design Team of the Year' by the Red Dot Design Award in 2006~2007 • Called the 'New Apple' or 'New Sony' in the industry and online communities • S Sponsor E li h Premier League club -Fulham FC. English P i L l b F lh LG ELECTRONICS - ORIGIN Established in 1958 as GoldStar, producing radios, TVs, g , g , refrigerators, washing machines, and air conditioners. Merger of two Korean companies, Lucky and GoldStar, from which the abbreviation of...
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...A Study on Work Life balance in 24/7 Environment in SERCO Dissertation Submitted to the D.Y. Patil University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Degree of MASTERS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Submitted by: Nazneen Sheikh (Roll No. MBAHR 014137) Research Guide: Ms. Vidhya Kshirsagar Assistant Professor School of Management D.Y. Patil University CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai. December 2015 1 DECLARATION I hereby declare that the dissertation “A Study on Work Life balance in 24/7 Environment in SERCO" submitted for the MBA Degree at D.Y. Patil University’s School of Management is my original work and the dissertation has not formed the basis for the award of any degree, associate ship, fellowship or any other similar titles. Place: Mumbai Date: (Nazneen Sheikh) Signature of the Student 2 Certificate This is to certify that the dissertation entitled “A Study on Work Life balance in 24/7 Environment in SERCO” is the bona fide research work carried out by Ms. Nazneen Sheikh student of MBA, at D.Y. Patil University’s School of Management during the year 2015-2016 , in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Degree of Master in Business Management and that the dissertation has not formed the basis for the award previously of any degree, diploma, associateship, fellowship or any other similar title. Asst. Prof. Vidhya Kshirsagar (Guide Name) (Dr. R. Gopal, Director, School of Management, D.Y. Patil University) Place: Mumbai Date: ...
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...No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working. That doesn’t mean we have to stop doing things. It does mean creating a new way of life based on play; in other words, a ludic conviviality, commensality, and maybe even art. There is more to play than child’s play, as worthy as that is. I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. Play isn’t passive. Doubtless we all need a lot more time for sheer sloth and slack than we ever enjoy now, regardless of income or occupation, but once recovered from employment-induced exhaustion nearly all of us want to act. Oblomovism and Stakhanovism are two sides of the same debased coin. The ludic life is totally incompatible with existing reality. So much the worse for “reality,” the gravity hole that sucks the vitality from the little in life that still distinguishes it from mere survival. Curiously—or maybe not—all the old ideologies are conservative because they believe in work. Some of them, like Marxism and most brands of anarchism, believe in work all the more fiercely because they believe in so little else. Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. Conservatives support right-towork laws. Following Karl Marx’s wayward son-in-law Paul Lafargue I support the right to...
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...series of studies designed to pinpoint the most critical risk issues, analyze the sector’s evolving responses and highlight elements of emerging best practice. As in previous reports, we do not claim that the list of risks we present here is comprehensive. Also, by its nature, it can only provide a generalized snapshot of the risks that we — and the sector as a whole — see at this time. Given this, we would encourage you to read this report with an open mind and inquisitive attitude. Are these really the risks you face in your own business? If not, how and why are your organization’s risks different? And how do those particular risks impact you? The answers inevitably vary from company to company. But in every case, we believe that leaders should take the following steps: • Undertake a thorough risk assessment at least annually, to define your key risks and weigh their impact on business drivers. The risks in this report can provide a useful starting point. • Extend this risk assessment beyond the usual financial and regulatory risks to consider the wider environment in which the organization operates and the full extent of its operations, now and into the future. • Conduct scenario planning for the major risks that you identify, and...
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...that have given executives greater control over their own pay. Executive pay is an important part of corporate governance, and is often determined by a company's board of directors. Types of compensation There are six basic tools of compensation or remuneration. * salary * short term incentives (STIs), sometimes known as bonuses * long-term incentive plans (LTIP) * employee benefits * paid expenses (perquisites) * insurance In a modern corporation, the CEO and other top executives are often paid salary plus short-term incentives or bonuses. This combination is referred to as Total Cash Compensation (TCC). Short-term incentives usually are formula-driven and have some performance criteria attached depending on the role of the executive. For example, the Sales Director's...
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...Medical Tourism Medical Tourism Introduction Medical tourism is the act of traveling to other countries to obtain medical, dental or cosmetic care. Medical tourism is a new term but thousands of years old act. People have been traveling across the continents in search of cures for any imaginable illnesses and making therapeutic trips for health wellness. In ancient Greece, pilgrims and patients came from all over the Mediterranean to the sanctuary of the healing god, Asklepios at Epidaurus, and from the 18th century wealthy Europeans have been traveling to spas from Germany to the Nile. In recent years, medical tourism is becoming more popular with patients seeking treatment for health and well-being purposes abroad. Medical Tourism is also known as Medical Travel, Health Tourism, Surgical Tourism, Health Travel, Treatment Abroad, Surgeries Abroad, and Medical Outsourcing. Medical Tourism Concerns Though many are eager to be the right pieces in the puzzle, many are still struggling to get the right fit. There are a number of concerns and risk factors for patients getting treatment much less seeking them abroad. Some concerns for patients include a consistent quality of care, lack of extensive dialog between the patient and the doctor, lack of post-op follow up, cultural differences and difficulty in obtaining sufficient insurance coverage. In order to mitigate the risk, it’s essential that the patient works with well reputed facilitators. Medical Tourism Accreditation ...
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...in Queens, New York where I hustled on the daily; interacted with people of all kinds and developed a New Yorker mentality of “time is money” and acquired a taste for Italian, Korean, and Indian food. Then, I moved to the Great Neck bubble where I felt as if my development was being stagnated because of the lack of diversity and opportunities. But that didn’t stop me—I traveled to new locations such as California, West Virginia, and Guatemala to free my soul. These trips inspired me to take more risks not only elsewhere but at home such as shadowing physical therapy offices and ultimately volunteering as an EMT for my local fire department. By volunteering to help others in need of an emergency, I developed not only a passion in emergency care, but a specific love for...
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