Case Study Hospital Supplies

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In mid-April 2000, Sherri Worth was faced with some very unsettling news about Pate Memorial Clinic’s future with a competitor potentially moving into the area. Worth was the assistant administrator at Pate Memorial Hospital (PMH) and was also responsible for the Pate Health Clinic (PHC). A study by the competitor was being done to see whether sufficient demand existed to establish a clinic 5 blocks north of PHC. The two biggest concerns in regards to the new competition were:

* Limited Liability - Unlike partnerships and sole proprietorships, corporate shareholders are not liable for any of the corporation's debts.

Shouldice Hospital is one where only external abdominal hernias are operated. The hospital has a unique “technique” for this which was developed by Dr.Earle Shouldice, the founder of the hospital. The hospital with its low cost solution, properly routine tasks, facilities for the patients and their visitors, high quality service, and best in industry doctors and staff had a competitive edge. The Shouldice Hospital in itself is not just a curing centre but a holistic experience for its patients, doctors, nurses and supporting staff alike.

16. Landed cost is the total cost of a product once it has arrived to the buyer. All businesses that import or export need to understand what the total cost of goods is for what they are buying or selling. It would be beneficial to reduce the cost of each or any component of landed cost. Each one will allow the seller to lower the final selling price or increase the margin associated with that sale.

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A shareholder in a limited company is not personally responsible for any of the debts of Tesco, other than for the value of his investment in Tesco. Although a shareholder's liability for Tesco's actions is limited, the shareholder may still be liable for its own acts. For example, the directors of small companies, who are frequently also shareholders, are often required to give personal guarantees of the company's debts to those lending to the company. They will then be liable for those debts in the event that the company cannot pay, although the other shareholders will not be so liable.

I believe that the Hospitalist Project or the Comprehensive Care Program is the ideal program for me. It will be an opportunity for me to involve myself in clinical research as well as obtaining valuable experience that will aid me down my life path.

Owners are not personally responsible for debts the business may accumulate. The ownership of a limited company is divided up into equal parts called shares (Bbc.co.uk, 2014).

1) The traditional management style of hospitals have been hierarchical and internally focused. What are the three important challenges that hospitals face to accommodate new payers and consumer expectations?

I live in a small northern Alabama town named Athens, Alabama. It is a community of Huntsville, Alabama. After some investigating, I found out that the Athens-Limestone hospital is affiliated with Huntsville Hospital. Huntsville Hospital, “the nations fifth largest publicly owned healthcare organization has selected Caradigm Health Information Exchange” to connect care across northern Alabama (“PRNewswire”, 2016). Huntsville Hospital will use Caradigm to create a streamline care between affiliated providers, care coordination, improve care quality and increase patient satisfaction (“PRNewswire”, 2016).

Columbus Regional Health (n.d.) serves 10 counties in Southeast Indiana. The demographics include a predominantly Caucasian population of approximately 300,000 people (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.). In southeastern Indiana, about 140,000 individuals have employment, and 15% of them, who are over the age of 24, have a bachelor’s degree (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.). Approximately 30% of the high-school students drop out in this mainly rural area with a flat population growth (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.).

The purpose of this assignment is to read and review the case study. Then discuss your assessment of Shouldice Hospital 's marketing challenges, as well as presenting your ideas for how the hospital can best manage those challenges. The assignment will contain the answer of the following questions:

1.Identify the sources of internal and external data for all three (3) types of customers.

Corporation origin from the Latin word Corpus which means body. It is formed by a group of people and has separate rights and liability from those individual. In any means, corporation exists independently from its owner and this principle is called the doctrine of separate personality. Doctrine of separate personality is the basic and fundamental principle in a Company Law. This principle outline the legal relationship between company and its members. Company’s assets belong to the company not the shareholders as assets are the equity for creditors. Company must use up all its assets to pay off the creditors if it became insolvent. The same applies to the corporation’s debts. For limited liabilities company, the shareholder liability is limited which means that the shareholder is restricted to the number of shares they paid and not personally liable for the corporation’s debts. If the company does not have enough equity to pay off debts, the creditors cannot come after the shareholders. However, limited liability company can be very powerful when in hands who do fraud and on defeating creditors’ claims. Courts then can ignore the doctrine for exception cases and lifting the corporate veil. Lifting the corporate veil is a situation where courts put aside limited liability and hold a corporation’s shareholders or directors personally liable for the corporation’s debts.