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Please help with this discussion assignment:

Paradise Hospital, Inc. is a for-profit hospital. As the facility's new hospital administrator, you have been tasked with improving the service value of the hospital. The administration has not done this process since the hospital began operating in the year 1995. The investors are not familiar with the value proposition strategies of hospitals in the current-day America. 

Note: You may make up or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Instructions:

1. Articulate the meaning of value-added service as it pertains to patient care services, and argue the major reasons why it matters to add value to patient services. Justify your response.

2. Outline a system for identifying the functional areas in which changes might be necessary in order to improve the hospital's service value. Recommend the key methods that you would use to acquire the information necessary to identify the specified functional areas.

3. Specify four (4) specific areas where you believe the administration can add value in Paradise Hospital, and argue the most significant reasons why such value proposition would improve the value of services to the patients.

4. Use four (4) recent (within the last five [5] years) quality academic resources in this assignment.