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{"title":"Sustainable Practices in International Chain Hotels in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman","authors":"Abdulmajeed Al Ghazali, Bianca Zaloumis, Firdouse R Khan","doi":"10.47259/IJREBS.223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47259/IJREBS.223","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The aims of the study were to analyze the sustainable practices adopted by international chain hotel brands in Muscat; to analyze and find out the extent of the sustainable practices affecting guest satisfaction in international chain hotels in Muscat and to determine the barriers and challenges faced by international hotel chain brands in Muscat. <br><br>Design/methodology/approach: Forty questionnaires were distributed to two chain hotels’ employees in different job positions. In-depth interviews were also used to gather qualitative information from human resources departments and corporate social responsibility specialists to discuss the current trends in sustainable practices in international chain hotel brands in Muscat. The collected data was then analyzed using SPSS and Qualitative tools.<br><br>Findings: The study reveals that the hotels’ sustainability initiatives had an effective impact on cost savings and helps to reduce waste, and resource wastage. It was also found that guests are willing to pay more at the hotel to support their green initiatives and the guests were satisfied with the innovation towards the sustainability initiatives undertaken and felt their stay a memorable one. <br>Research implications: It was observed that there is a strong relationship between sustainable green practices and guest satisfaction and so maintain the sustainable practices to raise the guest expectations. Some of the guests were not aware of the sustainable practices and the employees and the creation of awareness is a must. <br><br>Social implications: Awareness within the staff and the community can be raised only through proper education and training.<br><br>Originality/Value: The study confines to international chain hotels located in Muscat, the capital of Sultanate of Oman. The study excludes the economic and social aspects of sustainability as the entire focus was on the environmental aspects of sustainable practices only.<br>","PeriodicalId":423555,"journal":{"name":"NursingRN: Non-Hospital Settings (Topic)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125550806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Blooming Risks: At Whose Cost?","authors":"Olusola Temi Adekore","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3715685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3715685","url":null,"abstract":"The trajectories of Obesity across the U.S. today and around the world could be much faster than earlier projected. Current data in the U.S., confirms the rates of Obesity prevalence are heightened. Without further strategic interventions, it is expected that a vast majority of U.S. population could be at higher risk of being overweight or obese by 2030. Yet after decades of surveillance and interventions, the rates of Obesity prevalence continue to rise with no end in sight. Is this a case of risk mismatch? Can society continue to ignore the trends of dismissal results in Obesity prevention whilst the epidemic continues to rip across communities? Obesity continues to rise across America today, and around the world leading to series of needless deaths, especially among at-risk population groups. These risks are too high to be ignored. Given the opportunity, the author seeks to be a contributing partner to assist in mitigating these impending risks. This paper by literature reviews, seeks to add to current understanding plausible strategic insights for the prevalence of Obesity in the U.S., and reasons why they cannot continue to be ignored.<br><br>*The Blooming Risks: At Whose Cost? (2018) was recently updated in 2020, with new data in light of the current COVID-19 Pandemic.","PeriodicalId":423555,"journal":{"name":"NursingRN: Non-Hospital Settings (Topic)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134550202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does Nonprofit Ownership Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Ownership Conversions of Nursing Homes","authors":"Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu, S. F. Lu","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3343558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3343558","url":null,"abstract":"In the past two decades, many healthcare organizations converted their ownership status from nonprofit to for-profit (NP-to-FP) or from for-profit to nonprofit (FP-to-NP). These conversions have drawn public scrutiny and triggered a debate about the implications of ownership conversions on the performance of healthcare organizations. There is no clear answer to this debate as the existing empirical evidence on nonprofit behavior and performance has been inconclusive. Employing a nationwide panel dataset of U.S. nursing homes from 2006 to 2017, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis on converted nursing homes’ performance in three dimensions: financial performance, quality of care, and access of care. We find that after NP-to-FP conversions, nursing homes’ operating margins and admissions of Medicaid residents increased significantly. The post-conversion quality of care decreased on average, and the decline was mostly concentrated in those nursing homes with high pre-conversion occupancy rates. By contrast, after FP-to-NP conversions, nursing homes’ operating margins and admissions of Medicaid residents decreased, while their quality of care remained unchanged. Validating the empirical implications of existing nonprofit theories, we find evidence supporting the theory of “nonprofit entrepreneurs” distributing profits through perquisites. Although we do not find evidence supporting the theory of nonprofits being “for-profits in disguise”, we do not find nonprofits to be altruistic in serving economically disadvantaged populations. We also do not find evidence supporting the theory that nonprofit status can be used as a quality signal to consumers. Based on these findings, we make two policy recommendations to nursing home regulators: (1) When evaluating NP-to-FP conversions, more scrutiny is needed for those with high pre-conversion occupancy rates, which would likely lead to a decline in quality of care; (2) FP-to-NP conversions need more scrutiny as they are likely to be used as vehicles to obtain undue government subsidies.","PeriodicalId":423555,"journal":{"name":"NursingRN: Non-Hospital Settings (Topic)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123319793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Critical Review of COVID-2019 in the World","authors":"N. Khan, S. Fahad, M. Naushad, S. Faisal","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3583925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3583925","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-2019 is the virus, which have killed so many people in the world. It was first appeared in China and then spread to the whole world and majority countries were affected by this virus. All world countries economies were damaged and oil prices were decreased and make the world unfavorable. Absolutely four months have been passed but still the attack of the virus is continued and all government of the world have imposed the locked down policy in their countries and all economic sectors have banned for work. Seeing to its importance the present study was arranged and its major objective was that to critically review the corona virus in the world.Total 15 articles were downloaded from the net and read 10 time and analyzed the situation of corona control in the world. The result indicates that China has announced the emergency in the world very lately because it was appeared in December and DR.Li has also delivered the message through Wechat while on the direction of China WHO announced the emergency on 20, Jan, 2020. Due to late announcement majority people from Wuhan were traveled to other countries of the world by air. So the other countries of the world have no knowledge about the situation while China has started fighting against corona virus and China has also the past experience of the SARS, so China has controlled the situation within two month and the trend reached to 46 on 16 April the new cases while the world others countries were in ABC situation. The people who came from Wuhan during emergency were checked and found negative and they were allowed to their countries but latter on emergency were also raised in other countries of the world while death number were over surpassed from China. The first country in number of cases was America which was followed by Spain, France, Germany, UK and Iran. In these countries the number of death was huge. The America total confirmed cases number was 674829 and the death number was 34475 while the new cases number was 26826. Similarly the Spain confirmed cases number was 182816 and death number was 19130 and the new cases number was 2157. The confirmed cases in Italy was 168941 and the death number was 22170 while the new cases number was 3786, in France the total confirmed cases number was 165027 and the death number was 17920 and the number of new cases was 17164. Germany total confirmed cases number was 136569 but the death number by corona was 3943 and the new cases number was 1816 while UK total confirmed cases number was 103093 and the death number was 13729 and the new cases number was 4617. Similarly the total confirmed cases in Iran were 77995 and the death number was 4869 and the new cases number was 1606. The main reasons were that they all lately imposed the lockdown in their countries and the quarantine situation was not properly implemented by government. The number of cases there was more while the facilities were less than the requirement. Trump has claimed to WHO and also gave thre","PeriodicalId":423555,"journal":{"name":"NursingRN: Non-Hospital Settings (Topic)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125529319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tipología y régimen jurídico de los sujetos gestores de residencias de mayores (Typology and Legal Provisions Applicable to Nursing Homes)","authors":"Jorge Castillo Abella","doi":"10.31009/INDRET.2020.I2.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/INDRET.2020.I2.15","url":null,"abstract":"Este trabajo parte de una tipologia de los sujetos gestores de residencias de mayores atendiendo a su posicion en el sistema residencial de responsabilidad publica. Posteriormente, analiza de forma comparada su regimen juridico mediante el estudio de varios aspectos que se consideran basicos, como la actividad que conforma la prestacion residencial, relacion entre el gestor y el residente, los controles a los que se someten los centros, el regimen economico y de responsabilidad aplicable a cada uno de ellos o los requisitos de personal y organizativos que se les exigen. Ello permite, desde un punto de vista analitico, establecer similitudes y diferencias entre los distintos regimenes juridicos y generar criterios para comparar las ventajas y desventajas de cada uno.","PeriodicalId":423555,"journal":{"name":"NursingRN: Non-Hospital Settings (Topic)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128495538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pay-for-Performance and Selective Referral in Long-Term Care","authors":"Toshiaki Iizuka, H. Noguchi, S. Sugawara","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2971560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2971560","url":null,"abstract":"We examine how pay-for-performance (P4P) affects long-term care (LTC), exploiting a natural experiment in Japan. Matched user/care manager/provider data are used to observe care managers’ referral decisions. Care managers/providers can vertically integrate, and P4P creates new incentives for selective referrals. Overall, we found no robust evidence that P4P improves LTC outcomes. However, after P4P, LTC outcomes improved more when care managers referred users to affiliated providers than to non-affiliated providers. Moreover, care managers referred users whose care levels were more likely to improve to affiliated providers. Selective referrals are apparently explained by vertical integration and a lack of risk adjustment.","PeriodicalId":423555,"journal":{"name":"NursingRN: Non-Hospital Settings (Topic)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114637293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Demography of Global Aging","authors":"D. Bloom, Elizabeth A. Mitgang, B. Osher","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2834214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2834214","url":null,"abstract":"Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts surrounding the aging of populations across different countries at varying levels of development. In light of these trends, we examine challenges facing graying societies through the lenses of health, economics, and policy development. The chapter concludes with a selection of adaptable strategies that countries might consider to mitigate the strain – and to harness the full potential – of aging populations worldwide.","PeriodicalId":423555,"journal":{"name":"NursingRN: Non-Hospital Settings (Topic)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130022553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"To Comfort Always: The Prospects of Expanded Social Responsibility for Long-Term Care","authors":"A. Garber","doi":"10.7208/9780226267951-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226267951-007","url":null,"abstract":"Long-term care is an important means of providing basic and humanitarian care for elderly Americans who are severely disabled. The demand for long-term care is likely to increase dramatically as baby-boomers begin to reach advanced ages. Long-term care has been a focus of health care reform because its current financing--largely a combination of out-of-pocket payments and Medicaid--is viewed as inadequate. Only a small fraction of long-term care is financed by private insurance, which is expensive in part because moral hazard and adverse selection may create greater distortion in the utilization of long-term care than in use of hospital and physician services. Increased government financing does not appear to be a feasible option for the coming decades, since the ratio of retirees to working age adults will decline at the time that the demand for long-term care rises. Furthermore, there is little prospect that the costs of existing Federal entitlement programs can be reduced enough to finance a greatly expanded government role in long-term care. Although there are likely to be roles for private insurance, especially if it can be made more efficient, and publicly funded catastrophic coverage, Federal efforts to improve financing of long-term care are most likely to be successful if they promote private savings.","PeriodicalId":423555,"journal":{"name":"NursingRN: Non-Hospital Settings (Topic)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132196767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}