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Evaluating The Hospitals General Service Readiness Index In Guinea For Enhancing Their Performances, Mohamed Elmahady Camara Jan 2020

Evaluating The Hospitals General Service Readiness Index In Guinea For Enhancing Their Performances, Mohamed Elmahady Camara

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The healthcare system of Guinea has reported low scores on service availability and readiness assessment (SARA); the scores indicated the low availability of quality drugs, vaccines, medical equipment, and other technologies and involves a continuous history of poor quality-performance metrics. Thus the operational health problems in Guinea could be summarized as health problems (high rate of maternal, neonatal, and infant mortality, high prevalence of communicable and non-communicable diseases) and health system problems (lack of appropriate governance). Therefore, amelioration of the quality of health care and patient safety is needed. The objective of this study was to consider Guinea hospital performance …


Changes In Operating Performance In Rural Hospitals From 2012 To 2019, Oluwaseyi Tami Young-Harry Jan 2020

Changes In Operating Performance In Rural Hospitals From 2012 To 2019, Oluwaseyi Tami Young-Harry

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Rural hospitals treat patients while dealing with the challenges of an inadequate workforce, limited financial resources, and an isolated geographic location, leading to difficulties in achieving financial viability. The purpose of this quantitative study was to analyze the operating performance of rural, general, medical and surgical hospitals in the United States and to determine if performance had changed from 2012 to 2019. Guided by x-efficiency theory, this study addressed whether hospital ownership explained variation in performance and if performance had changed from 2012 to 2019. A random sample of 394 rural hospitals was used, with data drawn from the American …