Act enacted a requirement that all Health and Human Service agencies develop quality standards. CMS further developed quality initiatives such as Value Based Purchasing and Physician Quality Reporting System to obtain data that could measure the quality of healthcare being given to Medicare beneficiaries. Physician Quality Reporting System or PQRS is a system through which healthcare professionals submit reports on quality measures. This gives patients and caregivers information on healthcare providers
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consideration in managing a firm’s overall success. Management can set goals and objectives, assign responsibilities and accountabilities, and monitor business outcomes and processes, but it must also consider the context in which all of these initiatives occur. Organizational culture is difficult to define and cannot be measured in a direct manner as it is a soft social science issue rather than a standardized quantitative measure. To confound matters, subcultures often exist within organizations
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Journal of Management and Marketing Research Hospital management reform: a step to healthcare reform R. Peter Heine Stetson University E. Nick Maddox Stetson University Abstract Recent intensive dialogue and debate regarding healthcare reform has led provider administrators to renew their search for “best practices” around the country. Many organizations, particularly hospitals, because of their complexity, are seeking new paradigms that will improve their efficiency and effectiveness regardless
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of the total quality management at the hospital where process of continuous improvement, there is always room for improvement and perfection. If patient(s) is or are disgruntled by any service(s), the hospital should be thinking about ways to improve their process. Further, a patient's assessment enables the hospital to know whether their services would be recommended to others as word of mouth is the best advertising. Also, patients will not have the expertise to judge the quality of health care
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People Strategy The GROCERY MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION (GMA) represents the world’s leading branded food, beverage and consumer products companies. Since 1908, GMA has been an advocate for its members on public policy issues and has championed initiatives to increase industrywide productivity and growth. GMA member companies employ more than 2.5 million workers in all 50 states and account for more than $680 billion in sales. The association is led by a board of member company chief executives. For
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Quality Frameworks Quality assurance, or QA for short, refers to a program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met. It is important to realize also that quality is determined by the program sponsor. QA cannot absolutely guarantee the production of quality products, unfortunately, but makes this more likely. Two key principles characterize QA: "fit for purpose" (the product should be
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Summary Banglalink is new brand name of Shebaworld (019), which has been providing Global Service of Mobile (GSM) in the country since 1998. Orascom Telecom bought 100% share of Sheba Telecom and gave its new name as Banglalink aiming to provide quality service in Bangladesh. When Banglalink entered the Bangladesh telecom industry in February 2005, the scenario changed overnight with mobile telephone becoming an extremely useful and affordable communication tool for people across all segments. Within
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“Quality is a personal thing. In other words in some organizations quality is deemed to be in the eye of the beholder.” How can service and/or a retail organization reconcile this with the type of service that they attempt to provide to the end user? Supplement your answer with an example from your own real-life personal experience. Quality is a term used widely in business to simply determine whether a product/service is fit for purpose or to satisfy a given need. Quality management systems
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Fuel-and-energy Complex Ecologization Actions Among the FEC ecologization tasks, top priority is given to the following: • improvement of the quality of coal fired by TPP, gradual implementation of modern heat-and-power generation technologies, including the cogeneration ones, equipment of the FEC companies with efficient emission/ discharge control systems to trap (reduce) the contaminating agents released to atmosphere, etc.; • increase in efficiency in degassing of coal mines to minimize
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Company: Toll Holding Limited is a major Australian transportation and logistics company with operations in road, rail, sea, air and warehousing. With an Asia Pacific focus, Toll operates a network of 1,200 sites across 50 countries, providing customers with global reach. After its listing on the ASX in 1993, Toll responded to increasing customer demand for complete end-to-end logistics solutions by progressively building its reach and service capabilities via a program of expansion and strategic
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