Sickkids Hospital Case Study

Before 2012 El Paso, TX never had a children’s hospital. In fact it was the largest metropolis city that did have a pediatric hospital according to (El Paso Childrens Hospital, 2016). El Paso Children’s Hospital serves a dramatically underserved pediatric region where there are approximately 222,000 children that are enrolled with Medicaid in 2011. This statistic demonstrates the magnitude of having a skilled specialty of pediatric services.

St. Jude Children 's Research Hospital is asking for help from parents to support the hospital’s funding. This hospital was established in February 4, 1962 and their purpose “is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment” (StJude.org). The survival rate has arised and children are able to stay at no cost due to donation. They have raised survival of childhood of cancer from 20% to 80%. The St. Jude Children’s Research hospital advertisement is highly effective because it uses three different rhetorics. Firstly, it uses ethos to appeal to the credibility of the hospital by

If I were to give each of you $100 right now, wouldn’t you be happy? (Attention) Well I can’t do that. This is because even when something seems free, there is always a net financial investment. This is clearly seen through the volunteers of the hospital. Today I will show you the financial impact that a volunteer has on the hospital and patient experience. (General Purpose) We will look at the costs of running a volunteer program, the financial return volunteers provide, and the invaluable impact on the patient experience in a hospital. (Preview)

Nonprofit hospitals have become a common characteristic of the hospital sector because they can be found across the country because of their presence in almost every corner, they never decline to provide treatment, and offer several community-based health programs. On the contrary, the for-profit health facilities are regarded as the corporate model of health care services as they seek to make profit first. They enjoy huge capital that enables them to develop state-of-the-art facilities and purchase the latest clinical technologies.

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a comparative analysis between for-profit hospitals and not-for-profit hospital. It will discuss the characteristics of each as well as factors affecting the operations of both systems. Additionally, it discusses potential areas of improvement and some of the challenges associated with each relative to finance and operations.

The case focuses on the charity program of Sunrise Hospital. The hospital recognizes charity healthcare in the form of bad debts and other services that are offered for free. The process has been faced with some issues, and these issues have halted the organization role of delivering charitable care to low-income people. However, this paper is going to analyze the case.

Established in 1998, Health Bridge Hospital is an acute specialized institution and is licensed to provide sub-acute and acute special pediatric care. Health bridge hospital is a child based hospital that aids in providing pediatric special acute care for children. The hospital also serves as a higher bridge between homes for families and the hospital because of the serious complex issues that arise medically. Premature birth, chronic disease, serious injuries, major surgeries and life threatening events are part of complex issues the hospital strives to address.

This analysis shows the aggregated number of patients by age groups that were transferred to acute care inpatient institution in the fiscal year 2002-2003. This discharge category includes transfer to another acute, subacute, acute psychiatric, acute rehabilitation, acute cancer centre and acute paediatric centre.

Levine Children’s Hospital, founded in October 2007, located and named after Leon and Sandra Levine. Leon Levine, is not only the founder of Levine Children’s Hospital, he is the founder of “Family Dollar which was founded here in Charlotte, NC.” (Bootcheck, N.D) Sandra Levine was on the Board of Commissioners of Carolina Health Care System. They both contributed in many organizations of charity and allowing them to contribute in building a facility to help children. The facility is also supported by the football team Charlotte Panthers as well as the baseball team Charlotte Knights, where the players come and interact with the children whom are temporarily residing there.

The Secret Place Book Club's Women's Conference [Volunteer] = 5 hours total (1 day event)

During my college career, I had exposure to medicine in a variety of settings, including hospitals, clinical research labs, and community outreach programs. I was a volunteer for two semesters at the UF Health Shands Hospital in the Surgical Oncology Unit and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. In October 2012, I had the opportunity to shadow Dr. Donald Knickerbocker, M.D. at UF Health Pediatrics Department in the Mother-Baby Unit. I observed Dr. Knickerbocker as he made rounds in the unit, performed newborn screening tests, and attended seminars. My most unique experience was witnessing a circumcision. I was in the operating area with the other physicians and assisted in the administration of the sucrose solution. I worked 20 hours per week from January 2013 till May 2014 as a Research Assistant for the InvestiGators Research Honors Society.

Several organizations have been subject to the crisis that befalls organizations be it on human resource, financial, public relations or even on policy issues. The Duke Children's Home was one of these organizations that faced a massive crisis in the mid 1990s with the expenses rising at unimaginable rates, as the net margins went down quite fast sending returns to tentative in millions of dollars. This crisis also affected the staffs that were at the hospital at that time since their rates of satisfaction greatly dropped followed by their productivity and the employee turnover became so great. Generally all the stakeholders to the hospital were affected negatively and in a manner that was open and noticeable.

Parents with critically ill children legal responsibility is to make sure children get the best care. In most cases, a child's parents are the persons who care the most about their child and know the most about him or her. As a result, parents are better situated than most others to understand the unique needs of their child and to make decisions that are in the child’s interests. Furthermore, since many medical decisions will also affect the child's family, parents can factor family issues and values into medical decisions about their children.

Medicine is a very important part of any functioning society. A person uses medicine on a daily basis. Whether it is to treat a mild cold or to tame a chronic sickness, we can not live without medicine. Advancements in medicine have helped people live better lives and also dramatically increase life expectancy. During the late 1800 and early 1900s medicine was obviously at a very primitive state. Because of this, it was easier for a sick person to suffer fatal consequences. With how intense the environment was, it was even more difficult for young children to stay healthy. This is the sole purpose of establishing the Children’s Hospital. This hospital was meant to help and treat sick children. This is something of impact because the hospital is dedicated to treating kids and younger individuals. These kids are the ones who will one day continue to develop the towns and cities of this country.

The value of an organization is what the organization is worth. It’s value today is available cash, expected future cash flows which would accrue to the owners of the firm. In the case of an organization which has ownership divided into shares, the value of the organization is the total value of the shares. This research is being performed for the Honorable Mayor, the City Council, and the Board of Directors, to address a host of issues to solve the health needs of an African Country. One of the research objectives is to put forth a “proposal, an expenditure plan, and assessing key objectives like fund accounting, and financial controls. This includes control and management of public expenditures, government financial reporting requirements”, and budgets to make good administrative decisions for a large Not-for-Profit Health Relief Organization. For the purpose of this writing, the organization of discussion is the (HRO), The Health Relief Organization. One of the main research “objectives is to propose an expenditure plan assessing the key objectives along with fund accounting, financial controls, analyzing financial statements, and budgets for making appropriate