...My first exposure to the dental field was when a neighbor developed oral cancer and subsequently died. The cancer had progressed from a small treatable lesion to a metastasized nightmare, the result of not appreciating the seriousness of his condition and his poor access to care. Witnessing this neighbor suffering needlessly motivated me to seek out a career in dentistry: it made me realize the connection between oral health and general health. In addition to this experience, I was fortunate to have parents that routinely brought me to the dentist. My dentist was a charismatic doctor that indulged my burgeoning interest in this field. Through his compassionate care for his patients and the professionalism he portrayed, I was motivated to pursue this fascinating and challenging profession. Knowing that this was what I wanted to do, I enrolled in dental school in India. The program was focused on treating patients from underprivileged areas, where care was otherwise impossible to obtain. My first exposure to treating these populations was during dental school. With their needs being so great, it allowed me to expose myself to a variety of dental procedures I would not have otherwise experienced. I performed single visit root canal treatment with both hand files and rotary, direct and indirect veneering techniques, as well as...
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...Introduction – Rushell Baderman Island Resort ensures all guests enjoy a relaxed and care free stay. In doing so the interior of company must be structured to function at its highest level of performance. This essay will outline the general functions of the Food and Bar Management and Front Office Supervisor. It will focus on the performance management systems, discuss the advantage and disadvantage of two different job evaluations, compare and contrast compensation plans, and explain the importance of providing employee benefits plans. Each area is unique to this company and its success. Describe the general function of performance management systems. If your assigned company does not use a performance management system, would you recommend it use one? LISA Overall the success of our company in general is due to our commitment and dedication given to our employees. The company strives to ensure that every employee is given an equal opportunity, and it is our duty to embrace each employee to the fullness of their potential. The company accomplishes this task by the use of performance management systems. Performance management systems are used to sustaining and measuring an employee’s performance. These methods are the key to an organization success because an organization can assess individuals' performance and reward them appropriately. To do this successfully an organization needs to have a system that manages performance: not just for reward purposes but also to help...
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...demand for carrier services between factories in the midwest to ports on the East Coast during World War II. Today Huffman Trucking is growing from internal sales and the acquisition of five Eastern regional carriers, which has enabled Huffman Trucking to continue to be privately held. Huffman trucking employees 1,400 workers in its logistical hubs located in Los Angeles, California, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri, Bayonne and New Jersey. Kenneth Colbert the Director Human Resources has contacted the Vice President of Industrial Relations, Graham Grove concerning recent decisions regarding an alternate health care benefit program. According to the memo the plan will be a flex plan for union and nonunion employees with health and dental insurance options. Mr. Colbert and Mr. Graham have hired S. Caldwell IT Consulting Firm to develop and install a benefit election system to support the tracking and reporting of Huffman Trucking employees. The consultant team will describe the consideration needed to address possible security requirements and describe possible risks associated with the requested benefits election system. The Consulting Team S Caldwell IT Consultants believe their role is to act as an adjunct for Huffman Trucking Human resource department, bringing benefits, knowledge, experience and skills. The team will Perform all of plan management functions needed to ensure an effective and efficient delivery of health and dental benefits election...
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...non-profit health care organization in the nation. With its mission of improving the health of its members, patients and the community it offers a full range of services. As a health plan it serves more than 1.4 million medical and dental members nationwide and is the top-ranked commercial plan in Minnesota. The care system as of 2013 includes five hospitals, 51 primary care clinics, 22 urgent care locations, and numerous specialty practices spanning Minnesota and western Wisconsin. HealthPartners family of care includes more than 1700 physicians and 60 dentists with 21 dental clinics. Their values of passion, teamwork, integrity, and respect can been seen demonstrated with every interaction and decision the organization makes. (About Us) Providing both insurance and healthcare has helped the organization achieve such phenomenal success. HealthPartners has lost millions of dollars a year in funding from state and county, as well as a significant reduction in Medicare and Disproportionate Share Hospital payments. HealthPartners has been proactive in adjusting due to the changes. They were one of the first organizations to adopt a new payment model to make providers more accountable for costs and use of clinical resources. Payment is now tied to performance measured by clinical outcomes. They are also moving away from fee-for-service care, towards a bundled payment for care that rewards efficient use of resources. HealthPartners has been very strategic of how and where to invest to continue...
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...members in its affiliated health plans. As an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, WellPoint serves members as the Blue Cross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (as the Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 10 New York City metropolitan and surrounding counties and as the Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in selected upstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), and Wisconsin. In a majority of these service areas, WellPoint does business as Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield or Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield (in the New York service areas). WellPoint also serves customers throughout the country as UniCare. www.wellpoint.com Mission, Vision & Values What Makes Us WellPoint With an unyielding commitment to meeting the needs of our diverse customers, we are guided by the following principles: Our Mission WellPoint's mission is to improve the lives of the people we serve and the health of our communities. Our Core Values Customer First Integrity Personal Accountability for Excellence One Company, One Team Continuous Improvement Our Business Strategy Our strategy is driven by our focus on achieving the following objectives: ...
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...IMPACT OF INCLUDING CHILDCARE IN A PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT Prepared for Business Communications Prepared by December 5, 2013 SMART POINT FINANCIAL CONSULTANTS 1215 Dublin Rd. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 74525 December 5, 2013 Unik Health Commissioners City of Oklahoma City 412 East 24th St. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 75202 Dear Commissioners: The attached report requested by the Unik Health Commissioners in a letter to Smart Point Financial Consultants dated November 20, comprehensively illustrates the economic effects of providing child care benefits to your employees and to your company. The aim of this study is to enlighten you about issues associated with providing health care to your employees’ children so that you make advised decisions on the same. This study was done to assess the effect of three main areas as illustrated below. • The cost benefit analysis of adding employees childcare to Fake Name’s benefit program • The initial cost of initiating this program • The types of coverage alternatives that is available in the market and those that are most attractive to employees. For the purpose of this study, we performed both primary and secondary research. Our research involved conducting a thorough analysis of Smart Point’s financial statements to determine the affordability of this program. Besides verifying financial statements, interviews were carried out to assess the working conditions of...
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...MDM Solution Leads and Architects Collaborative Consulting,Bridgewater, NJ Job Description We are expanding our Data Architecture services to meet client demands and are looking for professionals with experience designing and building master data management (MDM) solutions. These individuals will participate in defining master data management strategies for our clients and designing and developing enterprise MDM solutions. Requirements: * Strong verbal and written communication skills * Strong client-facing and relationship-building capabilities * Experience with data quality technologies (e.g. Trillium, Informatica Data Quality) * Experience with MDM technologies (e.g. Siperian, GXS, Oracle Hubs etc) * Experience with either Customer or Product MDM solutions * Expertise with at least one ETL tool, preferably Informatica or SSIS * Experience evaluating and selecting new tools * Data Architecture, design and development * Expertise in data modeling * Expertise with Oracle, SQL Server and/or DB2 UDB. If you meet these criteria and are interested in challenging opportunities and a chance to help Collaborative expand in New Jersey, please send your resume to recruiting. Why should you consider a career as a Police Officer? Aside from the benefits and stability that surpass what many industries are providing today, the police profession offers a variety of work assignments, and unlimited growth opportunities. This is a career that doesn't...
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...Biomedical scientist: Job description More in this section Job description Salary and conditions Entry requirements Training Career development Employers and vacancy … Related jobs Print all pages in this section Case studies Biomedical scientist: Ann Thomas Biomedical scientist: Kathryn Owen Biomedical scientist: Roslyn Cooke Biomedical scientists work in healthcare and carry out a range of laboratory tests and techniques on tissue samples and fluids to help clinicians diagnose diseases. They also evaluate the effectiveness of treatments. Their work is extremely important for many hospital departments and the functions they carry out are wide ranging. For example, they may work on medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, AIDS, malaria, food poisoning or anaemia, or carry out tests for emergency blood transfusions or to see if someone has had a heart attack. Biomedical scientists can work in three areas: infection sciences; blood sciences; and cellular sciences. Infection sciences include: •medical microbiology - identification of micro-organisms causing disease and their antibiotic treatment; •virology - identification of viruses, associated diseases and monitoring the effectiveness of vaccines. Blood sciences include: •clinical chemistry - analysis of body fluids and toxicology studies; •transfusion science - determination of donor/recipient blood compatibility, ensuring blood banks are sufficient; •haematology - form...
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...member to increase his or her skills and qualifications to appropriately fit within the school requirements. The methods of evaluating the future faculty member and performance will also be included, along with a progressive discipline process. Challenges for prospects performance evaluation, total rewards packages, compensation plan, and strategies for managing faculty’s career development will also be discussed. Job descriptions and qualifications: The prospect will teach primarily in the area of Business Ethics. Candidate may also teach a combination of required and elective courses such as perspectives of Business Society. The perfect candidate for the job will be someone that has earned a doctorate in a business discipline or closely related area. For this to be accomplished besides of spending some money in external recruiting I will recommend for the school to use some of the current staff as an employee referral source, some members of the staff can be offered a referral bonus of $3000 if the referral leads to an immediate hire and the applicant signs up to teach at the school for at least 3 years from the hiring date. Another resource for attracting prospects will be to advertise with an external company that will be able to attract the quality of applicants that the school’s needs, such as krgstaffing.com “Strategic and Tactical Services, every business today needs solutions to staffing challenges. At Key Resource Group our professional staffing...
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...has been known to protect minors in regards to educational purposes, important files, documents, photography and etc. After the minor reaches the age of 18 their rights are then transferred to them from their parent. Confidentiality is very risky and complicated when dealing with a minor, social workers and other persons involved are very cautious when giving out information about minors. Reasons being is because children as minors go through so much in regards to mental abuse, sexual abuse and physical abuse so keeping important documents and files confidential is mandatory. The arguments used in this particular article was the use of plenty surveys and mental health professionals providing detailed information resulting from on hands experience themselves and research. Mental health counselors see minor clients most often at the request or interest of someone else (Slovenko, 1998.) Research has suggested that minor clients are sometimes reluctant to enter counseling and that confidentiality is...
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...job descriptions for these five positions, discuss a comprehensive training program to enhance the skills and qualifications of new and current employees, and discuss methods for evaluating employee and team performance, including a progressive discipline process. This proposal will address the challenges of team performance evaluation, particularly the differences in the two appraisal systems and strategies for evaluating team performance. Unique needs, motivations, expectations, individual equity and over all team performance, social loafing, and individual responsibility to the team. The KFF compensation and benefits package will be overhauled to include incentives and a plan for managing employees’ career development. Job Descriptions and Qualifications A new mid-level management position has been filled by Doug Sailer. Doug now serves as Business Development Manager supporting the sales and marketing team. This mid-level position will coordinate business development activities for KFF, including the development of associates to effectively sell, counsel and advise on specialty grocery products and service offerings. Essential duties include: Coaches sales and operations associates to achieve sales volumes and margin growth, commitment to company philosophy, and outstanding customer service. Doug will now represent KFF in industry associations, professional organizations and affiliations. This...
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...Remember, salary is the amount the market will support for your services. Most organizations, both large and small, establish salary ranges for every position based on standards and general practices for the field. Organizations determine where an employee falls in the salary range based on experience and special expertise or knowledge. It is in the organization’s best interest to hire you for fair market value for several reasons. First, the hiring process can be long and expensive. It would be inefficient for an organization to make low offers only to be rejected and have to begin the recruiting process all over again. Second, organizations want to hire and retain good employees. It is unproductive to pay you less than other employees. The What, Why, and When of Salary Negotiation What is it? Salary negotiation is the process of reaching an agreement on what an organization will pay for your skills, knowledge, and experience. Contrary to popular belief, this is not an adversarial process. It is both the organization’s and your best interest to come to a mutually beneficial agreement. Why or Why Not Negotiate? The only reason is to get fair market value for your skills, experience, and knowledge. The process is important for future earning because most raises will be based on your starting salary. However, it is unwise to negotiate for negotiation’s sake. For example, sometimes job seekers think a hiring manager expects...
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...store with locations in La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas, California. The stores are stocked with the very best domestic and imported foods and the stores are divided into five different departments, Bakery, Meats and Seafood, Produce, Cheese and Dairy, and Wine. Kathy Kudler, owner and operator of Kudler, is in the process of expanding into other parts of Southern California and is considering a new store in Carlsbad, California and looking forward the company needs to evaluate their employee policies. I am writing this proposal to propose to upper management the recommendations and justifications for the following company policies, job descriptions for the modified positions, the implementation of a training program, the methods for evaluating employee performance, the disciplinary action program here at the company, explain the incentive and benefits program and the strategies for managing employee’s careers, and explain a fair and appropriate compensation program. Job Descriptions and Qualifications: Store Manager: The Manager will focus on the overall operation of the store and all the staff at their store locations and also focus on store inventory and will implement a just in time inventory system for stock to optimize cash flow and to minimize the wastage of products. The manager will develop a list of current sales projections, of products that are selling during the particular time of the year and will be responsible for ordering all products. The store...
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...Unit 3 Project Scenario Elizabeth Cervantes Kaplan University-Online HN 299 Professor Spruill October 7, 2014 Coordinated Service Plan 1. Overview A Coordinated Services Plan is a written addendum to each service plan developed by Workforce One in order to meet the needs of a client who require services from more than one agency. Workforce One offers assistance in the following listed below (VDE 2007). Health Care Services: Provide referrals for other health care services—medical, dental, eye glasses, hearing aids, mental health, substance abuse, home care, pregnancy, and family planning. Employment and education: Includes referrals for job training, job search, English for speakers of other languages, legal assistance, and...
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...resulting in lower Plaque and Bleeding Index scores between dental visits. I believe that if patients can see the areas where biofilm is located, it would be easier for them to use the toothbrush and floss more effectively. Keeping Plaque Index scores low will help prevent dental decay, gum disease and maintain the integrity of any existing restorations. In addition, increased patient compliance will result in overall better home care to encourage less inflammation and bleeding to minimize future problems. Patients will be able to recognize the biofilm and...
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