North Florida has several community organizations that provides a health promoting community service. The community organization I have chosen to discuss is Wolfson Children’s Hospital. I will be discussing the following four topics concerning Wolfson Children’s Hospital; what type of services are offered, what is the cost to the client or family (if any), how is the agency funded and why is the organization important to the community? The number of programs and services available within community organizations in which provides a health promoting service is immense. As adults, all we want our children to be is happy and healthy. Therefore, leading us to believe and wish that such programs and services (for children) should not be necessary. …show more content…
Wolfson Children’s Hospital relies on charitable donations with the first being made by the Wolfson Family Foundation in 1955 in the amount of $500,000. The hospital was opened and operates as a non-profit organization to ensure medical treatment is provided for all children “without regard to creed, religion, race or financial …show more content…
Wolfson’s also established THE PLAYERS Center for Child Health which “focuses on health and wellness, childhood injury prevention, healthcare access and community education.” Wolfson Children’s Hospital and Nemours Children Specialty Care established Jacksonville’s Bright Start Program in 2014 and incorporated early childhood literacy into the program. This program provides computer links and information for parents for reading success for our children. One of the greatest ways and organization can give back to the community is through education, support and medical care, especially to the youth. Wolfson’s participates in community health needs by assessing areas of “childhood obesity, access to health foods, access to vision care and youth head injuries and concussions” and in addition works with many organizations to educate and bring awareness to the community and region concerning different medical conditions. Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club- as a means to provide some comfort and relieve stress and/or anxiety, built a media center inside Wolfson Children’s Hospital as a gift to the families that are admitted there. Features of this
In this case, the reader learns that liquidity is a better than average. The ratio and cash on hand have been better than 2013 from the past years. Moreover, it shows that the hospital has a higher ability to meet its cash obligation because it has more security compared to other hospitals. Funding allows hospitals to control funds and limit investments. Not-for-profit organizations help provide more services and margin of safety. Therefore, creditors look for a margin of safety so that the community that financed a small portion of total financing can be returned to the owners by leveraging. Capitalization ratio measures the funds that were borrowed and the assets that have been used. The coverage ratio measures the number that time they fixed financial charges. The time's interest earned ratio shows the ability of the hospital to meet
General Practices Affiliates is considering an offer from Titus Lake Hospital to join under a provider leasing model. Under a provider leasing model, Titus Lake Hospital is purchasing General Practices Affiliates’ services. The practice will retain control of personnel, management, and practice policies. Titus Lake Hospital submitted financial reports to assure transparency during the lease agreement process. The following analysis will discuss whether Titus Lake hospital is a viable financial partner for General Practice Affiliates, possible implications of the lease, and recommendations.
Galileo’s contributions to the science of Physics and Astronomy were many. His conviction was legendary. His willingness to suffer for his beliefs exemplify true courage in the name of truth, and has inspired others to venture intellectual independence from the Church‘s creeds, edicts, and proclamations. Perhaps these contributions led to the call for an investigation into Galileo's conviction, eventually calling for its reversal, in 1979 by Pope John Paul II. But regardless of his standing in the annals of the Catholic church he will always be the man who began the separation of science and religion.
In the play Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, the main character Galileo Galilei, is forced to recant and turn on his ideals for the sake of his life. The little monk warned Galileo before he divulged his findings, that they could be disastrous to the metaphysical order of society. Peasants, working classes, the religious right, all of humanities concept of the world would be shattered.
After reading this letter I feel that Galileo had a very opinionated outlook on life and was heavily involved in a struggle for freedom of inquiry. Galileo was a person who had many strong beliefs and would not let people or a document have a say in what he believes.
In his Letter to The Grand Duchess Christina, Galileo challenged the widely accepted religious beliefs of the time, claiming that the conflict lies in their interpretation, not the context. In Galileo’s eyes science was an extremely useful tool that could and should have been used in interpreting the Scriptures. He argued that “the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven not how heaven goes” (Grand Duchess). The purpose of science was not to counter what the bible teaches; rather its purpose was to help explain the teachings of the scriptures. Furthermore, it was “prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth-whenever its true meaning is understood” (Grand Duchess). However, because of the terminology in which the bible was presented the perception of what the Scripture defined as truth was skewed. The Bible was written so that the common man could understand it and follow its commandments. The people also showed a greater inte...
...cided to condemn Galileo’s work. While it does not discredit God’s power or the Bible, the overall tone of the scientist’s letter is quite sarcastic towards the clergy. While defending his first argument, Galileo appears to undermine the intellectual capabilities of his opponents. He implies that those who interpret the Holy Writ word for word belong to the “common people” whom he describes as “rude and unlearned”, and that other “wise expositors” should be the ones who search for the true meaning of the Bible. Galileo makes a similar implication while presenting his second argument, when he writes that the purpose of the Holy Scriptures is “infinitely beyond the comprehension of the common people”. The Catholic Church likely viewed these claims as an attempt to weaken its authority, which would explain why Galileo’s discoveries were condemned for nearly 300 years.
In order to distinguish between religion and natural philosophy, Galileo appealed to the centuries old sentiment of observation. If people were able to reproduce or procure their own instrument such as the telescope, they could simply observe the craters and shadows of the moon themselves. People would be able to observe the change in the appearance of the lunar surface in connection to how it was struck by the suns rays (Biagoli 2006, 106). In a broad sense, Galileo was able to build what we would call the basic elements of science today, validity and replicability, which allowed him to divide religion and
Moreover, Pope Urban had affirmed that God had limited man’s understanding of the universe but Galileo had different thoughts. According to him, God gave man the explicit mandate to reason and discover the world. This statement was contrary to the belief that the Pope was not supposed to be disputed but Galileo had just done that. He was thus arrested and after trial, he was fo...
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...gave him or her. For Galileo, it is good for an individual to have faith, but it is more important for an individual to separate his or her faith from logic, and understand all viewpoints before making any hypothesis to avoid being foolish. Although these three viewpoints are vastly different, they all seem to arrive at the same conclusion. The conclusion is that the importance of an individual is his or her development as a human being. The most important things the individual does is strive to become the best person they can be, and use the time they are given for the right reasons. The changing may be the individual’s own change of heart, God’s change of heart for them, or by their logic and reasoning. Each of these three men had different opinions, but they all knew that an individual’s relationship with God is the most important relationship he or she can have.
Galileo’s struggle, and the struggle of his period in history, is with the challenge of truth. Rather, it is the challenfe of whether to accept the world as it has been portrayed for him or to attempt to understand the world around him in order to determine his own truth. How does Brect portray this challenge? The answer is quite emphatically one-sided. As galieo states, “The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom,but to set a limit to infinite error.”¹ Within this simple statement Brecht highlights the very nature of both sides of the struggle. Here Brecht recognizes two absolutely imperative themes. First science, and free thought by extension, cannot and will not immediately grant a total understanding of the world. Furthermore, the scientific process is a process ...
The Galileo Affair began in 1610 when Galileo’s Starry Messenger was published. The book mainly described his observations of the phases of Venus and the satellites he viewed orbiting Jupiter. These discoveries would prove to be essential in this affair. He would later use these observations to defend and promote Nicholas Copernicus’ heliocentric theory. His initial discoveries, which were published in the Starry Messenger, were opposed within the Catholic Church. As a response to his book The Inquisition decla...
The purpose of this community profile is to discuss a particular health improvement issue within a chosen community. A community can be defined using many different terms. You can belong to a community through religious beliefs. Through shared experiences or interests. You can belong to a political community where all involved share the same political interests. A community can also be defined as ‘a family’ a small village where many have lived most of their lives who share the same desire to belong to that community.
Throughout the course of history, from era to era, mankind has been on a continuous attempt to perpetuate what they perceive as the truth; and in doing so, embark on a quest to find their true identity and place in life. One must realize that the common theme in all literature is the search for identity and belonging. Bertolt Brecht, author of "The Life of Galileo," effectively uses the developing character Galileo Galilei to portray a strong message; a message which five hundred years after the fact has still not been completely comprehended. Through Galileo's continuous battle with the Church in prevailing his work, Brecht is telling the readers that in any one man's attempt to propagate the truth, whether it be in terms of literature, discoveries or new technologies, there is always an opposing power to suppress this new found truth. In doing so, it is through such opposing power against the search for truth which suppress our ability to think. In a sincere attempt to eliminate the common generalization that "Science is the devil", Brecht uses Galileo's external struggles such as those with the church. The writer also uses his personal internal struggles as a basis for developing Galileo's character to inform readers of the common yet false misconception of Science and the truth.