Quality and Operations of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

St. Jude Children’s hospital was established in February of 1962 with the “sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research and treatment into catastrophic childhood diseases” (StJude.org). They have raised survival of childhood cancer from 20% to 80% since their opening through their research (Cancer.org). Even with an average of 7,800 patients a year and a 1.8 million daily operating cost, parents never pay anything for their child’s stay (StJude.org). The survival rate has raised and children are able to stay at no cost due to donations. Most of these donations come from people around the world that see St. Jude’s effective and strong advertisements. I will be analyzing three rhetoric’s ethos, logos, and pathos the hospital used to raise funds and make it effective.

West Florida Regional Medical center (WFRMC) is located on the north side of Pensacola, Florida. It is associated with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), and “the West Florida Healthcare campus includes the all private room acute care hospital, the area’s only comprehensive physical rehabilitation hospital, and a mental health facility” (West Florida Hospital, 2010). When looking at the decision to invest heavily into total quality management (TQM), you must look at its history and hospital statistics of the Pensacola area. In 1992, there was intense competition between WFRMC and the other two hospitals within the area, Sacred Heart and Baptist Hospitals (McLaughlin & Kaluzny, 2006). “The 130 doctors practicing

To persuade the members of my audience in becoming a Partner in Hope by donating/volunteering to St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

When most people think of Christmas, they think of family, presents, and happiness. Christmas day in 2012 was very different for Phoenix and his family. At just seventeen months old, Phoenix became a patient at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis Tennessee. He was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma, a cancerous tumor that affects the eyes. Five year old Phoenix had no control over his eyes, and the average child should have full control by age one. After months of undergoing chemotherapy, Phoenix’s cancer was in remission. “Physically he’s doing good, emotionally he’s doing good”, said Pamela. “I know St. Jude is the reason he has both his eyes. I tell everyone everywhere I go, St. Jude is amazing. I know God has to be in the midst of it. I don’t think I would have my grandson if we had not gotten to St. Jude” (Qtd. in St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital).

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the number one worldwide organization for children's cancer and other serious childhood diseases. “St. Jude has helped improve the survival rate of childhood cancer from 20 to 80 percent”(Young). With your help the families of the children with illnesses pay absolutely nothing throughout their time and stay at St. Jude, making their child's condition and health their only and number one priority (About St. Jude’s Research Hospital). The amount of money that is donated to this hospital benefits not only the patients there, but convalescent’s all around the globe. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is an organization in which you should donate your money because all of the money goes into paying for the patients’ care and stay, the breakthroughs that they make are shared so doctors everywhere can help more children, and they have improved the survival rate of children’s cancer.

Assume that you are a quality officer who is responsible for one (1) of the state’s largest healthcare organizations. You have been told that the quality of patient care has decreased, and you have been assigned a project that is geared toward increasing quality of care for the patients. Your Chief Executive Officer has requested a six to eight page (6-8) summary of your recommended initiatives.

Setting up the ‘Heal the World’ Foundation which aims at providing medicine for children and fighting world hunger, drug and alcohol abuse, and child abuse

St Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a nonprofit hospital that is located in the center of Memphis, Tennessee. It is known worldwide as a hospital that pioneers research saving lives and finding cures to devastating diseases like cancer and leukemia. It helps and takes in young patients from the United States of America (USA) to all over the world. “patients at the hospital range from For most diseases and treatments, St. Jude accepts children, adolescents and young adults who are 21 years old or younger at the time of acceptance. Patients are free of charge at the hospital, there for saying that they do not have to pay for what their insurance cannot cover.”( St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 2010). “St Jude still holds the

Putting 7.5 billion dollars into something that’s not backed up with facts and full of stipulations is an unfortunate circumstance. I would prefer to have the money put into the hands of St Jude’s Children Hospital than to a false claim. That being said, not only does the co-founder of the weather channel believes the world is cooling down, but also believe that the link between greenhouse gases and climate change is no longer credible (Taylor, 2015). Children who are in desperate need because they have cancer, on the other hand, is a situation that should be taken seriously at all times. As of today, there are approximately 175,000 children who are currently fighting for their lives, but don’t have the mental and physical support needed for recovery (“St Baldrick's Kids,”

As was previously stated, I am highly interested to work for this company as a physician assistant or researcher; however, after performing this analysis, I got a bit skeptical because I believe about the saying, “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” However, am also aware that this saying is not always correct, so I did not let my cynicism and suspicion to keep me away from excellence and opportunity. Therefore, I concentrated on finding answers from outside sources; in this case, I found the Glassdoor webpage. As a consequence, I find out that The St. Jude Research Children’s Hospital has 323 reviews from current and previous full-time and part-time employees. The overall rate is currently at 4.6 out of 5.0, 94% of the people

Conjoined twins from Uganda were successfully separated after a 16-hour surgery last week in Columbus, Ohio, the hospital said in a statement on Tuesday.

Nearly a year after being separated, formerly-conjoined twin sisters got a special send-off at the hospital where they had the life-changing surgery.

This is a 3-years-old African American male, who presented to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital Hematology/Oncology unit today from the hematology clinic to continue Interim Maintenance #1 today for day 15 to receive Vincristine and high dose of methotrexate. He was accompanied by both parents. We obtained the history from M.C., his parents and previous hospital reports. His primary is Pre-B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in 5/25/2016 on AALL1131 high risk protocol. He generally has been doing well except that he developed lower lip sores after last discharge as indicated by his mother. Parents applied Aquaphor and Vaseline which helps to reduce the sores. Lip sores did bleed occasionally, but only bother him when his mother was trying to apply

Pamela, I see how performance indicators can be a powerful tool for a hospital like Children’s. Of all the performance indicators that the book covered, I think the patient flow indicators we covered can be the most useful tool for a hospital like Children’s Hospital should there be a disease outbreak such as the norovirus. Penner 2017, stated “Patient flow is the efficient and timely transfer of patients to the appropriate level of care”. This statement indicates the course of the patient stay can be tracked, from when they were admitted to when they transfer or discharged from a facility. Being able to track the course of the patient stay can help in tracking and controlling the source of a disease outbreak.

Central Idea: Many charities are deserving of support, but St Jude is truly special. Everything they do for these children makes their lives and their family’s lives just a little bit easier.