Clear Lake Hospital is a not-for-profit hospital in Iowa. It operates 230 beds and provides acute care. The area, which the hospital is located, is a summer destination with vacation homes and fishing activity. The hospital carries more than 10,000 different items of inventory. These items have different price, order lead times and stockout costs. The new hired Chief Financial Officer, Julio Ruiz, believes that the system used for maintaining the inventories results carrying excess inventories. He bases his assumption on the fact that when the hospital faced occupancy rates near to 100 percent, incidents or even possibility of stockout did not occur.
The inventory items are classified in to tree categories based on the annual usage and the cost of each unit. More specifically, the hospital gathers data of the average annual usage and unit cost of each item. The usage and the cost is called stock keeping unit (SKU). The dollar usage is calculated for every SKU by multiplying the average annual usage with the cost of each unit. The SKUs are arrayed from highest to lowest converted per...
Some people go through life thinking they are invincible or a bad until events happen in your life where you find out whether your bad or not. People go through this all the time and this is part of growing up. In "Greasy Lake:" by T.C. Boyle, the narrator of this story undergoes a "character arc;" by the end of the story he has developed more as a character (i.e undergone changes), and is noticeably different than he was at the onset of the narrative.
Kate Morrison is a well educated, independent woman with a decent job, supportive boyfriend and family. Externally, Kate has a life that some people might envy of but, internally, she isn’t as stable as she seems. Crow Lake, a novel written by Mary Lawson, leads the readers to the protagonist, Kate Morrison and the struggles in her life. Kate loses her parents in her early age and for this reason she lives with her siblings with some help from her neighbours and other family members. Despite the absence of her parents, Kate and her siblings seem to grow well. Although there is some crisis in the family, they seem to be inevitable consequences of not having an adult in the family. However, Kate spends an innumerable amount of time accepting and letting go of the past and eventually it causes another crisis in her present life. She continuously has some kind of depression, and she does not realize that her depression is coming from herself, not from anything or anybody else. Crow Lake contains a great message that shows refusing to face the past affects your future negatively. We see ...
The purpose of financial measurement in healthcare is to provide the community with the services it needs, at a clinically acceptable level of quality, at a publicly responsive level of amenity, at the least possible cost. This is done by providing healthcare finance managers with accounting and finance information to help accomplish the purpose of the organization (Nowicki, 2015). When making accounting decisions about budgeting and inventory control, an understanding of economics, statistics, and operations research is needed. Major Financial Measures
The Jump-Off Creek introduces the reader to the unforgiving Blue Mountains and the harsh pioneer lifestyle with the tale of Lydia Sanderson, a widow who moves west from Pennsylvania to take up residence in a rundown homestead. She and other characters battle nature, finances, and even each other on occasion in a fight for survival in the harsh Oregon wilderness. Although the story is vividly expressed through the use of precise detail and 1800s slang, it failed to give me a reason to care because the characters are depicted as emotionally inhibited.
The challenges that all acute care hospitals and facilities faces are the demand for highly specialized services has increased. The US population is constantly aging and the elderly tend to need more acute care services. Because many people lack health insurance, they tend to use emergency rooms in the hospitals as their source of care. The increase demand in acute care prompted hospitals to expand their facility
Greasy Lake is the story of three friends who are bad characters. Until they run into a situation where they question, just how bad they are. Just because they act badly and look bad does not mean they are. They are teenagers in a period, “when courtesy and winning ways [are] out of style when it [is] good to be bad, when they [cultivate] decadence like a taste.” (112) They look bad, wearing torn-up leather jackets, slouching around with toothpicks in their mouths and wearing their shades morning, noon and night. They have the attitude, they drive their parents cars fast, and burn rubber as the pull out of the driveway. They have the bad habits. They drink “gin and grape juice, Tango, Thunderbird, and Bali Hai, [sniff] glue, and ether and what somebody [claims] [is] cocaine.”(112) What starts out as a harmless prank on the third night of their summer vacation turns into a situation where they get into a fight, attempt to rape a girl, find a dead body and see first hand the destruction a bad character can do to an automobile.
Crater Lake is located at southwestern off Highway 62 in Oregon. It is Oregon?s only national park. It is the deepest lake in the United States and is the seventh deepest in the world. Crater Lake has an average diameter of 5.3 miles in length and is approximately 1,932 feet deep.
My favorite place to be would be the city and are of McGregor Minnesota. About eight miles north of the small town is Big Sandy Lake, which is where my cabin is located. This is truly my favorite place to be, especially during the warm summer months.
Develop tighter standards for inventory control. Work with suppliers to account for incoming inventory and compare stock levels to sales to determine losses. Identify ways implement loss control measures such as security, both physical and electronic surveillance, employee engagement with customers, and through ethics training with employees to prevent internal losses. Utilize inventory control measures further to develop a charitable donations program to allow donations of day old products to local food banks and other organizations such as schools, churches and for community fundraising events. For example, inventory day old products creating a list of items to be donated. Have inventory signed off by at least two members of staff, one of which should be a supervisor or store manager. Have a representative of the receiver of the donation review the list for accuracy and also sign off on the inventory list. Donation lists can then be used for regular inventory tracking and also as tool for proving tax deductible charitable donations for the company. This will foster higher ethical behavior for the company’s staff, lower losses due to consumer theft, and begin to create an environment of community involvement and charitable
For many, the quaint town of Point Clear, Alabama represents the Old South rooted in tradition, charm, and grace. Halfway down the bay and nearly hidden among oaks adorned with Spanish moss, Point Clear was founded in the early 1800s. Today, the city continues to honor its role in the Civil War, perpetuates the memories of its residents, and evolves as a greater and better place.
In Crow Lake, Mary Lawson portrays a family who experience a great tragedy when Mr. and Mrs. Morrison are killed in a car accident. This tragedy changes the lifestyles of the seven years old protagonist Kate Morrison and her siblings Matt, Luke and Bo. The settings are very important in this novel. Though there are limited numbers of settings, the settings used are highly effective. Without effective use of themes in this novel, the reader would not have been able to connect with the characters and be sympathetic. Lawson uses an exceptionally high degree of literary devices to develop each character in this novel.
Stanley, a 14 years old boy, lives with his mother and his father who works as an inventor. He is a kind boy, but all the people at school make fun of him because he is overweight. One day, some boys at school bullied him, and eventually he missed the bus. On his way home walking, a pair of shoes fell from the sky on Stanley’s head. He took the pair of shoes and ran to his dad because he thought that they would help him with one of his invention. Before he arrived the police caught him and he got convicted for stealing the shoes, which was owned by a great basketball player. The judge gave Stanly the choice of going to Camp Green Lake or prison, and he choose Camp Green Lake. Stanly believes that this happened to him because of his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather."
It is a small paradise. On a bright summer day, the sun reflects on the water as if there is a big ball of fire burning inside the lake. The forest surrounds the lake on all sides like a green blanket. The majestic mountains with fluffy snow catch the glimpse of the lake as blue as a sapphire. The little boy on the bank was continuously throwing pebbles into the clear water creating tiny ripples. The pair of swans was singing a lifetime melody of love and affection. The temple stood in the middle of the lake stretching its leg to hold itself against the water current. Two young people row their small blue boat occasionally dipping their legs in the cool water. The
The water beats at the bank feel gently, and resides carefully to avoid over soaking it. The air is fresh and overwhelming with cool gushes of wind blowing past, provoking the trees to yawn and some times sleep. It was a lovely Valentine day and perfect for a picnic at Lake Lavon.
Transportation Central equipment stores rather than ward based stores for commonly used items. Overprocessing: Asking patients for the same information several times. Inventory Waiting Lists -. Excess stock in stockrooms.