COO Chief Operating Officer Responsibilities (mostly does internal and execution) - delivers short-term expectations for cost, demand, quality, patient satisfaction, employee satisfaction -link between STRATEGY & PERFORMANCE -can be chief medical officers or chief nursing officers
(Science: pathology) Capable of causing disease. Origin: Gr. Gennan = to produce Able to cause disease; infective agents; pathogenic bacteria.Pertaining to properties similar to a [[pathogen.
Definition. noun, singular: bacterium (Science: Microbiology) Microscopic, single-celled organisms belonging to Kingdom Monera that possess a prokaryotic type of cell structure, which means their cells are noncompartmentalized, and their DNA (usually circular) can be found throughout the cytoplasm rather than within a membrane-bound nucleus.