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An essential reference book every health care provider organization or accounting consultancy must have!

Designed to meet the specific needs of financial professionals responsible for ensuring the administration and documentation of their health care organization's capital investments. Estimated Useful Lives provides clear and concise estimates of the useful life span of hundreds of capital items commonly acquired for the delivery of health care services. It offers reference tables with data for nine primary categories of capital investments: buildings, building components, fixed equipment, building services equipment, administrative departments, nursing departments, diagnostic equipment, treatment equipment, and support departments. The Medicare program recognizes the estimated useful lives as assigned in this book.

This book is a 2004 revision and expansion of the 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, and 1998 editions. The estimates developed over the course of these seven editions have been based primarily on the recommendations of the following appraisal firms: American Appraisal Associates, Inc., Milwaukee; Marshall & Stevens Incorporated, St. Louis; Valuation Counselors Group, Inc., Chicago; and Wellspring Valuation, Ltd., Chicago.

The publisher is grateful to the following individuals for assisting with the development of the 2004 edition: George S. Arges, Health Data Management Group, American Hospital Association; David S. Felsenthal, Wellspring Valuation, Ltd.; Martha Garner and Todd Hall, PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Sally Mason Boemer, Partners Healthcare System; Michael Miller, Healthcare Valuation Services; John S. Oliva, American Appraisal Associates; Ed Pruchunas, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; and Doug Young and Carl Turano, Northwestern Memorial Hospital..
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In this paper we derive a general equilibrium model based on optimising behaviour, which also implies a data consistent framework for monetary policy analysis. Specifically, our model accounts for nominal inertia in both price and wage setting as well for habits in consumption. Using US and European data from 1970 to 1998 our parameter estimates reveal that (i) price contracts last for 8 months and 13 months in the US and Euro-area, respectively; (ii) wage contracts have a length of 7 months and 1.75 years in the US and Europe, respectively; (iii) the extent of backward-looking behaviour in price setting is statistically significant in both economies with 41% of price contracts in the US and 28% in the Euro-area set according to a simple rule-of-thumb; (iv) backward-looking wage setting is only present in Europe with 17% of contracts set in a backward-looking manner; and (v) similar habits effects are present in both European and US consumption. Finally, we simulate the effects of monetary policy by considering the impact of a 1 point increase in nominal interest rates for one quarter. Our parameter estimates imply that there is a relatively muted inflationary response to interest rate increases in Europe (price inflation falls by -0.08% in Europe and 0.11% in the US) and there is a correspondingly large output response (-0.2% in the US and -0.6% in Europe). .
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This digital document is an article from The Journal of Employee Assistance, published by Employee Assistance Professionals on December 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2881 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Preventing workplace violence: every year, an estimated 1.7 million American workers become victims of workplace violence. More than 600 are murdered while on duty. EAPs can be crucial components of efforts aimed at reducing the impact of violence in the workplace.
Author: Kristi R. Anderson
Publication:The Journal of Employee Assistance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2004
Publisher: Employee Assistance Professionals
Volume: 34 Issue: 4 Page: 8(4)

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