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Avoidable readmissions come at a great cost to patients/residents, healthcare providers, and taxpayers, a $25 billion cost to be exact. This is the estimated amount that avoidable readmissions cost the nation on a yearly basis and is one of the largest contributors to the enormous growth in national health care costs. Readmissions are the result of several difference aspects from incomplete treatment, poor post-acute care, lack of coordination in discharge planning, or even the unavailability of…

speed with which decisions can be made and the quality of those decisions which made with input from all of the key employees. The same is also true for the results from dispersed teams. Virtual meetings have a much higher energy level than teleconferences or web conferences. The face to face element means understanding is better and participants pay much more attention to what is being discussed. It has also been noted that meetings reach a conclusion much faster. All of these factors really…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…