St. Andrews Case Summary

St. Anthony’s is an established non-profit, providing over 64 years of critical care. Located in the Tenderloin District, it provides essential services such as food, clothing, health care, technology, and social services, to all San Franciscans in need. St. Anthony’s employs 150 employees and manages over 11,000 volunteers annually. Employees at the organization vary in their professional levels. Staff ranges from clients re-entering the workforce to highly skilled medical professionals.

Today, the people of CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health Care reach out to the people of San Antonio with new medical technology and high standards of excellence, a mission of caring is planted firmly in the efforts of the founding Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. They remain the only Catholic faith-based, non-profit health care system in San Antonio and New Braunfels ("About Us", 2015).

In Summary: On 08/25/2016 at 2000 hours, R/o's were dispatched to St. Anthony Hospital (2875 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60623) in regards to a battery victim with a broken jaw that was in room number 387. Upon arrival, R/o's spoke with the victim Veraza, Rafael (M/W DOB 04/16/2000), along with his mother and father on scene.

In today’s legal environment, individual civil rights have been affected considerably by recent Supreme Court activity. In most cases when trying to prove employer discrimination, there are two main theories “pretext” and “pretext-plus” (Bickham & Clark, 2005) that are used when impending burdens where employers are alleged of discrimination. These two discretions assist in the legal process to help determine ‘proof’ of Title VII violations.

As a catholic health care provider, we believe that human life is the most valuable thing. St. Mary Medical Center was established as a place, where people who have no medical insurance or substantial financial resources can receive quality care. Thus, our mission is to serve the community by providing high medical and spiritual care for those in need.

In the Johnson case, Mr. Johnson and his son, Sam went shopping and were falsely accused of stealing. They went to the mall and then directly to Target after the mall. After adding multiple items to the shopping cart, the previous items bought got mixed in with the items to be purchased. Upon leaving Target, Mr. Johnson was approached by a security guard who loudly accused Mr. Johnson of stealing. The security guard was loud enough for others to hear him. He also roughly pulled on Mr. Johnson’s arm telling him to go with the store manager or he would call the police. It took two hours for the store manager to prove Mr. Johnson did not steal the video game and the figurine.

According to St. Jude’s code of conduct, they follow all applicable laws, rules, regulations, professional standards and their policies and procedures when conducting business and operations (St. Jude.org, 2014). They observe all antitrust laws when entering into agreements with competitors. They screen recipients of our exports and obtain export licenses when required. They have a notice of privacy practices (HIPAA) that explains how the hospital, the staff members, employees, volunteers, and clinics will use and provide the patient’s Protected Health Information (called PHI) to others for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations and for other purposes allowed or required by law (St. Jude.org, 2014). St. Jude takes the privacy of their patient’s health

This worker recommends that Vickie and Richard Brown adopt Antonio James in order to provide him with permanency. The emotional bond between Richard, Vickie, and Antonio is evident. Antonio considers the home his and views it as a source of comfort and safety. Vickie and Richard demonstrate a solid understanding of Antonio's history, possible needs, and have no hesitation in providing for those needs. They have a current foster care license with our agency. Vickie and Richards's licensing worker, Leslie Boyd, was contacted on 5/19/2016, in regards to the prospective adoption of Antonio. Leslie stated that she has no concerns about Vickie and Richard Brown adopting Antonio and does not foresee any problems with the foster care license. The

St. Jude Medical's mission has always been to produce superior products that facilitate the healing of the many common illnesses that can affect the general population. The company collaborates with various health care providers and the public to offer these products while also sticking to their goal of decreasing the cost of medical expenses. St. Jude Medical's corporate strategy consists of a strong leadership that includes various board of directors as well as acquiring many companies and products such as Daig Corporation, Ventritex and Angio-Seal to increase their its productivity. If the company wants to succeed financially, the corporate strategy needs to have continuous updating. Health care is consistently revolutionizing which is why by St. Jude Medical acquiring other companies they are able to introduced the latest devices and brand to the public such as the CardoMEMS HF.

The principal organizations must endorse the idea of planning for the fewer managers, employees, shared decision making, greater decentralization, expanded practice, diminished support resources, and the brand delivery models. The respective hospital administrators should also consider endorsing the placement of monetary value to patient satisfaction. The nursing leaders in every level, in the respective organization, must consider managing basing on the evidence-based principles of management. The aspect of meeting the challenge involves the succession planning that

(1) I have no knowledge where the plaintiff’s principal place of business is located and I see no information on the company’s website linking it to Draper, Utah.

After reviewing the facts and circumstances of the case pertaining to Dr. Shipman’s murders, I believe there were multiple factors that motived him to murder beginning with his mother’s death. During his adolescence, Dr. Shipman observed his mother suffer through a terminal illness, which I feel predisposed him to the control associated with life and death (Jenkins, 2006). Furthermore, I believe his early interest in the medicinal potency of morphine led Dr. Shipman to become fascinated with the power of a medical doctor (Jenkins, 2006). Additionally, I believe the reason why Dr. Shipman was selective in victims was because he was attempting to recreate the relationship between his mother and he during her battle with lung cancer. When

Forest Hills Hospital, a member of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health system is a small community hospital located in Queens, NY. This acute facility promotes a flat nursing organizational structure approach. The nurse organizational structure and the organizational processes highly affect the nurses’ working conditions and the provided quality of care (Maenhout, & Vanhoucke, 2013). This discussion will focus on how Forest Hills Hospital’s flat organizational structure positively impact nurse’s ability to lead, change practice, and improve the quality of patient care. Forest Hills hospital’s leadership is comprised of an Executive Director and an Assistant Executive Director who are both registered nurses (RN).

The CNO oversees the entire nursing department and the daily operations of the hospital which also includes risk management depart-ment and the education department. The CNO position is an executive position in this organization, it is the highest nursing management position. One of the leadership practices that are observed is weekly nursing leadership meetings. This meeting con-sist of managers and directors from all medical department, along with educators of medical units. These meetings are kept in effort to maintain communication among units and managers and directors. These meetings are imperative because this is where new ideas are introduce and shared. These meetings allow for corrections in plans and assist with feedback from implementations of new policies and procedures. Additional to monitoring progress with each unit, it also monitors the productivity of each unit by examining their budgets and expenditures and use of staff. The second leadership practice are daily huddles with the executive teams and directors. These morning huddles allow each department to report off to each other by highlighting goals for the day, amount of patients on each unit or any immediate concerns that needs to be address. These huddles are extremely helpful to the entire organization so management is not blind sided by issues from staff or customers such as the patients. Huddles are helpful because it allows upper management to address urgent situations

Memorial Hospital Case Study uses a series of communication between different level and functional hospital employees to paint a picture of how this hospital operates. This paper will analyze and summarize key characteristics underlining the organization structure, management style and leadership, identify major challenges and recommend workable solutions.