Business Plan for a Healthcare Organization Two main tasks: The first task is: Source of Revenue: An Increase in the Medicare Patient Population The president of Gentiva Health Services is considering increasing her number of Medicare patients served next year. However, to do so she must begin to use RNs for client visits, which Medicare reimburses at $45 per visit. An RN costs $35 per hour versus the current cost of $15 for an LPN or nurse’s aide. The president believes she can increase her patient visits by 15% by accepting Medicare patients. She is also aware that if she increases her Medicare patients, the company’s administrative costs will increase by approximately $10,000 per year because of the claims file complexity. Using the Gentiva Health Services Statement of Income http://investors.gentiva.com/financials.cfm, use the following volumes for your calculations: Volume for the year:   · Flexible budget: 6,000 visits · Static budget: 5,945 visits · Actual budget: 5,889 visits Prepare a two-page report that addresses the following: 1 How many more visits will the company generate if it accepts Medicare patients? 2 What would be the estimated profit or loss associated with the Medicare service line? 3 Would you recommend that Gentiva Health Services increase its number of Medicare patients served? Why or why not? The second task is: Business Plan Review the quarterly report and develop a business plan for the organization for its upcoming financial year. Be sure to include the following in your organized business plan: · Organization segment · Marketing segment · Financial segment · Projected cash flow statement · Projected income statement · Projected balance sheet Feel free to take liberties with information needed that is not available in the report.  You may find the quarterly report at http://investors.gentiva.com/financials.cfm Include all required tasks for this assignment in a Word document. Surname 7 How technology affects children Student Name: Professor’s name: Course: Date: Introduction Technology has been so close to the children in this century than any other time in the past. Thus, it is influencing them negatively and positively. The world is moving in a technology path and it is the responsibility the parent to ensure that children too are not in behind by ensuring that they have the right environment that will help them grow technological . However, the information the children learn can be good or bad to them and it depends on the internet and the sources they get the information. Therefore, it is upto the responsibility of the parent to determine the kind of information that their children get. Too much exposure to internet will allow them get the kind of information that can harm their psychology. In addition, when they remain and take much time watching television ...

1. Business Plan for a Healthcare Organization
Two main tasks:
The first task is: Source of Revenue: An Increase in the
Medicare Patient Population
The president of Gentiva Health Services is considering
increasing her number of Medicare patients served next year.
However, to do so she must begin to use RNs for client visits,
which Medicare reimburses at $45 per visit. An RN costs $35
per hour versus the current cost of $15 for an LPN or nurse’s
aide. The president believes she can increase her patient visits
by 15% by accepting Medicare patients. She is also aware that
if she increases her Medicare patients, the company’s
administrative costs will increase by approximately $10,000 per
year because of the claims file complexity.
Using the Gentiva Health Services Statement of
Income http://investors.gentiva.com/financials.cfm, use the
following volumes for your calculations:
Volume for the year:
· Flexible budget: 6,000 visits
· Static budget: 5,945 visits
· Actual budget: 5,889 visits
Prepare a two-page report that addresses the following:
1 How many more visits will the company generate if it accepts
Medicare patients?
2 What would be the estimated profit or loss associated with the
Medicare service line?
3 Would you recommend that Gentiva Health Services increase

2. its number of Medicare patients served? Why or why not?
The second task is: Business Plan
Review the quarterly report and develop a business plan for the
organization for its upcoming financial year. Be sure to include
the following in your organized business plan:
· Organization segment
· Marketing segment
· Financial segment
· Projected cash flow statement
· Projected income statement
· Projected balance sheet
Feel free to take liberties with information needed that is not
available in the report.
You may find the quarterly report at
http://investors.gentiva.com/financials.cfm Include all required
tasks for this assignment in a Word document.
Surname
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How technology affects children
Student Name:
Professor’s name:
Course:
Date:
Introduction

3. Technology has been so close to the children in this century
than any other time in the past. Thus, it is influencing them
negatively and positively. The world is moving in a technology
path and it is the responsibility the parent to ensure that
children too are not in behind by ensuring that they have the
right environment that will help them grow technological .
However, the information the children learn can be good or bad
to them and it depends on the internet and the sources they get
the information. Therefore, it is upto the responsibility of the
parent to determine the kind of information that their children
get. Too much exposure to internet will allow them get the kind
of information that can harm their psychology. In addition,
when they remain and take much time watching television, they
will also get materials from telivion programs that can be good
or bad to them
Development of skills
In the recent past, researchers have shown how technology can
be used developing some skills that children have but they are
hidden. These skills can help them grow and become good
people of technology in the society. The child brain
development depend on the amount material that they are
exposed t potential of a child’s brain is very much dependant on
how much was done to trigger attention and other cognitive
attributes that a child needs. The fact that technology as a
means of learning is subject to distractions will enable the child
to learn to pay attention as young as they are in order to learn
and that will be replicated even in a class environment. The
analogy that will try to explain this is compares the internet
with ordinary book reading. Book reading is usually happens in
a restricted environment that is slow paced and with few
distractions and as a result, the child will focus narrowly and
think deeply on the limited information that is available to them
(Knops, Bühler, &AAATE (Conference), 1999).
On the contrary, using technology is synonymous with jet skiing
where distractions are unlimited and only able to focus

4. fleetingly on any one thing.
Visual learning abilities that cannot be earned by book reading
like decoding information concealed in images and visuals are
very necessary in improving visual-spatial capabilities,
increasing attentional ability, reaction times, and the capacity to
identify details among clutter. The ability to remember things
which is very crucial in any learning system is also enhanced.
Some of the best careers talks documented can be found in the
internet and a child who would love to grow their careers will
find personalities to emulate over the internet. Perhaps by
reading their journeys to where they are, the child will
definitely get the right motivation to realize their dreams.
Physical growth:
the kind of environment today’s child is exposed to have limited
a child’s physical growth. A child at a tender age is still
growing and for that reason, they need to be exposed to physical
activities that enable them to grow mature tissues and remain
health. Most of the kids instead, are subject to modern day
eating habits and lack of exercise owing to the fact that
technology is literally taking their time. The aforementioned set
up of kids watching TV from their bedrooms are the same kids
who will be diagnosed with habitual diseases at their early
stages of life. The same physical exercise is crucial for brain
development and cannot be substituted for the same results. The
challenge here is that a child who is not physically health will
not be better placed to adapt to a rigorous environment that is
too demanding of physical pressure however much technology
they may know (Hourcade, 2008).
Threat to family:
Whereas it may come as a good thing that children are able to
learn using the latest technology and become a part of world
dominated by technology, it is apparent that children social
skills are slowly fading away.
Children who grew interacting with animals and other children
became better friends and adults later in their lives. Today,

5. technology has limited family reunion, and instead of one on
one interaction between parents and children, video
conferencing has been used to make up for geographical
differences. Much as that is considered a substitute for physical
presence of a parent figure in the family, it still does not satisfy
the children’s need to be with the parent and express them on a
one on one interaction. One most critical issue that has been a
concern of every parent and child psychologists is the fact that
child play divided with technology. The setbacks of this is that
it thwarts a child’s creativity and imaginations to the effect that
a child cannot think or imagine and actualize a play amongst
other kids without resorting to technology. Apart from the
cognitive aspect of the challenge, there is also the development
of active sensory and motor development. There has not been
able to develop to a point of accommodating the sedentary
nature of technology driven environment.
Slow cognitive and creativity skills:
Some game that children have at their disposal have left
children in a position of that does not enable them to be alert by
making the sensory development dormant. Academically,
children literacy skills are in danger owing to the fact that
technology is not giving children a chance to input their skills.
The four crucial factors that a child must have to develop are
movement, touch, human connection, and exposure to nature.
These types of sensory inputs ensure normal development of
posture, bilateral coordination, optimal arousal states, and self-
regulation necessary for achieving foundation skills for eventual
school entry. Bringing technology will intercept the access of
one or even all of these factors and that will affect the
development of crucial features in a child (Robertson,1996).
For example, tactile stimulation received through touching,
hugging and play is critical for the development of praxis, or
planned movement patterns. Nature is very important for a child
to restore attention and state of mind and also to promote

6. learning in a pictorial sense. A child is able to learn certain
skills when they are faced with a challenge that they have to
respond with the right decision for example, creating a simple
solution for a simple problem will build a child’s critical
thinking skills (Mayesky, 2012).
Compromised moral system:
Today, the threat of seeing a child grow without the right family
value system is very real more than any other time since the
child learn little in terms of right attitude and thoughts from
parents. When a child does not hear from the parents what is
good for them perhaps since they have something to keep them
away from interfering with the parents, then they are left to the
world to learn. The fact that children are in control of which
channel they want to tune in to, means the danger of children
consuming content that is not meant for them is very likely.
From the basic content like songs and the language used to
broadcast the content ion these channels; no one would stand to
listen to the same in the presence of a child yet the same
children are left to control the channels and programs they want
to listen. Much as it is thought that the media will influence the
child’s future, there is also the uncertainty that it can ruin it as
well (Allen, & Gordon, 2011).
Untamed behaviors:
Self regulation and behavior management have become a
challenge among the children and that has been reported from
many quotas. Some of the uncensored language and content end
up being replicated by the children at the school and
unfortunately they use it to make fun of their colleagues.
This behavior makes other children to feel inferior when in fact
they are not. Such disorders can be classified as delayed child
development milestones so that at a certain age, a child should
more sociable with friends and not irritant to others. Violent
behaviors for instance have been largely attributed to children
exposure to violent media and that has been proven to

7. contribute directly to how one child will relate to others. A
child who is affected by such media will in most cases behave
violently to other children in the event that they are not able to
get together. The other impact of technology is that the children
will be accessing sites that will ruin their morals as young as
they maybe (Deiner, & Deiner, 2010).
Conclusion:
In conclusion, it is apparent that technology can do more good
just as it can do more bad to a child’s health and mental
wellbeing. However, the hinge in bringing the best out of
technology lies in the extent to which a parent is willing to go
in ensuring that the child is getting the right content out of the
technology exposed to. There are a lot of good things that can
come out of managing this facility for the good growth of a
child but that is reinforced by how close a family is to make
sure that a child is free to inquire about anything from the
parents.
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