...to Public Health’s core functions which are Policy Development, Assessment and Assurance. One of those many organizations is the National Association of Local Boards of Health. The idea to create a non-profit organization to serve the interest of local boards of health was thought of during a meeting held by the American Public Health Association, in 1991 in Atlanta, GA (2002). This non-profit organization was specifically created to provide a national voice for the concerns of local boards of health and to assist local boards in obtaining the knowledge, skills, and abilities that are necessary to protect and promote public health in the communities they serve (2002). Local boards essentially play a integral role in our public health system. They provide oversight and guidance for local health departments and they help set public priorities for our communities (2002). The leadership roles that boards of health play, make them the liaison between public health services and a health community. They are uniquely positioned to deliver and provide technical expertise in governance, board development, health priorities, and public health policy at the local level (2002). The mission of the National Association of Local Boards of Health is to strengthen and improve public health governance (NALBOH.org). Their vision is to cultivate boards of heath that are: well connected to other stakeholders in public health and government, compromised of individuals with knowledge, skills and abilities...
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...(Hubbell, 2006). “The federal government concentrates on detecting and prosecuting health care fraud in its health care insurance programs, Medicare and Medicaid” (Hubbell, 2006). Health care organizations that receive payment from the Social Security Act are more likely to become targets of health care fraud with Medicare and Medicaid. There are many organizations that have been accused of health care fraud with Medicare and/or Medicaid. Maxim Healthcare Services is one of the health care organizations that have been accused of health care fraud. The organizational structure and governance, culture and focus on social responsibility had an affect or influenced the situation of health care fraud and abuse. There are resources that can be allocated to prevent the situation in the future. Ethical issues were considered and tied into the prevention decision. Changes in structure, governance, culture, or focus on social responsibility could prevent this situation from happening in the future. Health Care News Situation Maxim Healthcare Services is a private company that has over 360 offices nationwide that offer home health care services. “From 2003 to 2009, fraudulent billings and false...
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...The joint commission was formed in 1951, and its goal is to improve healthcare for the public. The Joint Commission accredits and certifies more than 22,000 healthcare organizations and programs in the United States. An independent, nonprofit organization, The Joint Commission is the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in healthcare. Additionally, National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) is also a service trying to improve the quality of services to all individuals. CLAS is about respect and responsiveness: Respect the whole individual and respond to the individual’s health needs and preferences (The Joint Commission). One of CLAS’s strategies is to help eliminate health...
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...Shriners Hospital Healthcare Delivery System Imagine a child experiences a traumatic event such as a house fire sustaining life-threatening injuries or develops a musculoskeletal disorder and may not walk again. Where would one go with a child such as this? A child that would need an individualized care plan catered to meet his or her needs without financially crippling their family and incorporating them in the healing process. A place of such magnitude and offers multidisciplinary services does exist and that place is Shriners Hospital for Children. Shriners Hospital, founded in 1922, aims to achieve optimum health for its patients by helping each child become healthy and independent. Through its broad range of medical and rehabilitative services, it accomplishes this goal through treatments, surgeries, and therapies in orthotics, prosthetics, occupational, and recreational. To deliver exceptional care, its healthcare delivery structure and the many factors that affect it contributes to its weaknesses and strengths as a non-profit healthcare provider. The following addresses Shriners Hospital healthcare delivery system, the economic, licensing, and regulating factors, trends affecting the industry, and pricing dynamics it encounters. Health Care Delivery Structure Health care delivery structure is the system through which a healthcare organization provides health care services that met the heath needs of the targeted population. The healthcare delivery structure...
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...MANAGING COMMITMENT-BASED ORGANIZATIONS IN COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENTS V. Aruldas, P. Zachariah, S. Awale Commitment-based organizations (organizations with a strong commitment to help individuals, groups or communities as a labour of love) are typically found in areas of need – working with street children, the homeless, healthcare for the poor, battered women, etc. Some of these areas of need have, over time, attracted other providers who see a business opportunity, resulting in a competitive setting. In India, the church-owned hospitals are an example of commitment–based organizations facing a competitive situation. Most church-owned hospitals in the country when there was little private or government healthcare, with a strong commitment to provide health care to the poor. Over the years, the number of healthcare providers has increased, the technology of healthcare provision has changed, funding for care of the poor is no longer easily available, and the founders of the hospitals have handed over leadership to the next generation. Managing such commitment-based organizations in this changed environment is a challenging task. A case-based study of 6 Indian church-owned hospitals was undertaken to understand how this challenge can be addressed. The findings suggest that such organizations need to have three primary areas of management focus: a) managing the operations b) managing the environment, and c) managing the ideology. Managing the operations...
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...Delivery of High- Quality, Prevention-Oriented Primary Care Healthcare is the professional medical care provided to the community by the health practitioners such as nurses, pharmacists, and doctors (Shi & Singh, 2012). Diagnosis, treatment, and care for the sick, provision of health education, counseling to the patients, and disease prevention, are some of the performed services by healthcare professionals. System wide incentives are the measures that the government uses to improve and encourage quality provision of primary healthcare among the citizens. Such incentives may include both the financial and the non-financial incentives (Shi & Singh, 2012). Atlas (2011) points out that the financial incentives are the monetary assistance provided towards healthcare to the citizens while the non-financial incentives may include extensive training plans and the reduction of the amount of work each practitioner is able to perform. In order to encourage the delivery of high quality healthcare, both the citizens and the healthcare providers will need to be knowledgeable of the incentive systems. Such efforts will ensure that each healthcare stakeholder utilizes the available incentive for their benefit (Shi & Singh, 2012). Additionally, healthcare providers will be accountable on how they use the incentives such as financial incentives provided by the government. Moreover, the usage of subsidies should be mandatory for every healthcare stakeholder (Atlas, 2011). For example, the training subsidy...
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...Health Care Management Most early leaders in healthcare management had a vision that stressed the primacy of patient care. The aim of management is to put the interest of the patient first, regardless of race, creed, or ability to pay, and to seek complete health rather than just to cure the ailment at hand. This is a critical moral commitment to the same core value as the caring professions. Any philosophy that puts management values contrary to the caring professions will be corrosively destructive. A number of external (political, legal, environmental, etc.) and internal forces cause health care systems to consider the need for change. The process in changing governance and management had three critical elements: establishment of a vision and guiding principles for the change, development of support, and implementation of change in governance and management. For the initial step in the change process, a clear and simple vision to focus the change was determined to be most important. Management is necessary to make labor and capital productive and requires converting economic principles into rules of behavior that can be clearly communicated to employees, bosses, clients, and other partners. Management is not simple. In management it is people, not things, that have to be managed, and because decisions must be made under uncertainty, based on expectations, without ever really knowing the entire facts one would like to have, it makes it all the more...
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...contains annual reports from previous years (back to 1999) as well as investor presentations, publications and other material on Rexam, its markets and business. 1 4 6 7 8 9 chairman’s statement who we are what we make where we operate how we performed in 2011 business review 16 market review 20 operating review 26 financial review 34 key risks sustainability This section provides a review of our sustainability performance in 2011. It explains our approach to and progress in this area, and details our commitments, measures and targets going forward. 44 products 47 operations 49 people governance 54 directors and officers 56 corporate governance 69 remuneration report 81 other disclosures governance We introduce our board and explain why a strong sense of governance and compliance is imperative in every area of our operations. We give details of the Company’s remuneration principles and policy which complement the Group’s strategic vision. business review 12 chief executive’s review (including KPIs) 86 Rexam PLC consolidated financial statements 2011 financial statements directors’ report Our chief executive outlines how we performed against our strategy to deliver value. The operating and financial reviews outline our performance in 2011. We also give an overview of the markets in which we operate and of the risks facing the business and what we are doing to mitigate...
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...The Education and Research Department (E&R) at Infosys works with employee volunteers on community development projects. Infosys employees actively participate in the welfare of the local community. Their Development Centers (DCs) in India make a difference through several Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. They organize and contribute to welfare programs, especially for underprivileged children. They support the activities of institutes and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) dedicated to healthcare and education, and campaigns for skills development and community welfare. They have won 'Computer World Award - 2001'- International Level 'The Economic Times Corporate Citizenship Award,' on behalf of the Infosys Foundation, for outstanding philanthropic work- National Level Dabur India Ltd Dabur India Ltd is one of India’s leading FMCG Companies. Dabur is today India’s most trusted name and the world’s largest Ayurvedic and Natural Health Care Company. At Dabur, commitment to good governance, ethical conduct and social responsibility is core to their way of doing business, and is strongly aligned with their drive to create and increase value for all stakeholders. They define CSR as conducting business in ways that provide social, environmental and economic benefits for the communities and geographies where they operate. Dabur’s CSR initiatives are driven through...
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...ASSIGNMENT: 3 ORGANIZATION OF A HEALTH CARE FACILITY HEALTH CARE POLICY LAW AND ETHICS AUGUST 10TH. 2013 Your reputation as a renowned administrator to successfully lead mergers and acquisitions of hospitals precedes you, and you have been hired to create and open a new specialty health care business. This is a clinic with physicians who specialize in the following areas: dermatology, gynecology, heart disease, respiratory disease, surgery, and gastroenterology. It is located in an exclusive neighborhood. 1. Determine whether you would incorporate and state the advantages and disadvantages of doing so. The first order of business is to analyze the demographics of the neighborhood and its residents. Incorporating so many specialties in an exclusive neighborhood can bring about several challenges such as an influx of a variety of individuals from all walks of life. In addition, there could be a traffic nightmare with having so many specialties in a neighborhood such as women with children, old and young adults. The advantages of incorporating multiple specialties in a new clinic would be financially rewarding for the owners. The reason for the financial rewards would be that if one specialty does not do well, then the other would offset any deficits incurred. Another advantage of group practice from the perspective of the provider include shared operation of the practice, joint ownership of facilities and equipment, centralized administrative...
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...MGX 9660 - International Business Theory and Practice Case n°10: The Collapse of General Motors PHAM Trang (23283300) REBOURG Malcolm (23625678) YAO Aileen (20460996) 1 Table of Contents I - Introduction………..………...………………………………………….….….p 3 II - What are the internal and external factors that contributed to GM’s decline and eventual bankruptcy protection application?……………….....….p 4 Internal Factors...………….……..…………………………...……….……….…p 4 Extenal Factors……….…..…………………………..……….………………….p 5 III - Discuss the latest stage of the new (smaller) GM……………….………...p 6 What are the characterisics of the new GM?..………………………………...…p 6 Some encouraging signs of recovery………………………………………....….p 9 Threats regarding GM’s trials to regain its golden past………………………….p 11 Summary and Observations……………………………………………………...p 13 IV - With a majority government ownership, what operational and management challenges might GM’s management confront when trying to regain its golden past?…….………………………………….………..p 14 Operational Challenges..………………………………………………………….p 14 Management Challenges………………………………………………………….p 15 Summary and Observations………………………………………………………p 16 V - Critically Analyse Whether it was GM’s Failure or its Competitors’ enormous success in cost savings and innovation that brought about GM’s demise…………………………..…...….……………………..…….….….p 17 Cost Savings - a poorly designed cost structure……...………………………….p 17 Innovation Processes…………….…………..…………………………………..p 18...
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...means business giving back to the society. Corporate social responsibility is the commitment of business to contribute to sustainable economic growth, working with employees, their families, the local community and society at large to improve their quality of life. It is comparatively and speedily developing trend. But the CSR is not only simply a communality activity, although this the most visible part of ethics of an organization and has a core values. The field of responsible business practice is one of the most speedily budding corporate today. Now companies have to build shareholder value while harmonizing the increasing, ethical, social and environmental expectation of the society. In a nutshell, today companies have to make profits with principle, which will ultimately need companies to be more transparent. There is a consciousness that being responsible can actually be good for a company’s reputation and for a business. CSR particles in Bangladesh A socially responsible business environment is as much needed in Bangladesh as anywhere else. It’s really needed in a developing country like Bangladesh. In developing country, where social institution are still surfacing the corporate entities have to show more commitment. There are a lot of reason shows that CSR practices in Bangladesh must need to growing awareness and should emphasis. There, of course, was all old concept of CSR. But in Bangladesh this is changing, but not as fast as it is changing in other...
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...Comparative Summary HCS/577 July 28, 2014 Comparative Summary Introduction The financial environment of the different types of health care entities is defined by the classification of ownership. The three categories of ownership are for-profit, not-for-profit, and government owned. In the following paragraphs, I will identify one entity from each of the three categories of ownership and describe the financial structure in their financial environment. I will identify the policies unique to each financial environment as well as financial management practices prevalent in the financial environment. I will also explain why effective financial management is more difficult in health care than in other industries. Entities Piedmont Medical Center is a for-profit acute care hospital located in Rock Hill, South Carolina. It is an entity with the Tenet Healthcare Corporation that offers a broad range of surgical and diagnostic services that include advanced heart and stroke care, women and children services, and a 24-hour emergency room. It has received recognition for its cardiac care, cancer care, diabetes management, orthopedic care, stroke care, and surgical care. (Piedmont Medical Center, 2014). Greenville Memorial Hospital is a not-for-profit acute care hospital also located in Greenville, South Carolina. It is an academic teaching hospital with a 24-hour emergency room that provides inpatient and outpatient services for the immediate community as well as a referral center for...
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...of Continuous Caring The butterfly on the front cover symbolises the transformation that KPJ has undergone in its colourful and exciting corporate journey. A butterfly does not begin as such, but must evolve and transform in order to reach its true potential. Like the butterfly, KPJ has gone through various phases on its transformational journey. From the formative stage, strengthening stage to consolidation phase and now the transformation stage, KPJ is transforming into a regional leader in healthcare management and services. A butterfly continuously journeys from flower to flower, and KPJ journeys from location to location, and strength to strength. Along the journey, it creates a legacy of warmth and caring, wellness and healing. KPJ has taken the journey from Johor to Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh, on to other states of Malaysia and further and beyond, to the other parts of the world. Along the way, KPJ has established its hospitals with similar commitment, providing the best of healthcare services. All these are the result of the Journey of Continuous Caring taken by its committed team made up of professional managers, doctors, nurses, support staff and stakeholders in line with its Vision and Mission. KPJ CARES For the last 27 years, KPJ has remained as an organisation with a heart touching the lives of many people. Embracing Corporate Responsibility (CR) throughout KPJ’s business has been the hallmark of its services. Professional managers, doctors, nurses, support staff...
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