As the new CEO of Middlefield a quality 450 tertiary bed hospital integrated healthcare system in a major urban area in the Northeast with employee turnover rate issues, nursing vacancies, a new hospital in the area recently opening, and employee morale deteriorating I need to come in strong making serious changes. The first thing that I will do is Anne and I will go over to Essex University and have a meeting with their president and the dean of the nursing department and suggest a partnership between the hospital and the university to help keep their nursing department open because we need it since we currently have a high employee turnover rate and a huge vacancy in our nursing department. So the idea that I will bring to Essex is that we have some of our nursing administrators and possible older veteran nurses maybe nearing retirement who could be a great asset to the university. And propose a nursing recruitment partnership with the hospital and the university to help fill our vacancies while still helping the university. So the new nurses will already be familiar with Middlefield’s way of doing things because they will be being taught by some of our long time staff. Next to work on the high employee turnover rate and morale issues I will sit down and talk with Eileen and Anne to see what can be done to change the current work environment to help re motivate the employees. I need to know what is important to the employees and what they feel like they are currently missing here at Middlefield. So by talking with employees to see what it is that they want and need the information gathered would be directly from the employees so I would also be able to gage where the morale deteriorated is starting at and see how to address it with the employee’s thoughts and ideas. And lastly I would start an employee’s incentive/ reward program because tangible things always