I have been employed at Edgewell Personal Care, a division of Playtex Products, Inc. for over seventeen years. Our manufacturing facility is located in Dover, Delaware. My employment here has always been working in the Quality department where I manage the Device History Records department. A department that reviews, approves and manages all documents from the manufacturing floor. The manager that has given me guidance and advice during my career is Norman Hahn.…
Wellstar Atlanta Regional Medical Center (AMC) is a level 1 trauma center located in East point, Georgia. Candice Saunders is the president and CEO of AMC, founded in 1901, this organization is committed to provide the community with excellent quality care. AMC is a teaching hospital that specializes in Trauma Care, Pulmonary Care, Respiratory Care Stroke Care, Sport Medicine, Maternity Care, and Gastroenterology Care. AMC mission is to focus on compassion, high quality care, and cost effective health services. I research and applied for a Respiratory Manager position at Wellstar Atlanta Regional Center.…
1098 claims were originally processed for Waverly Health Ctr under the wrong ID#. This caused the claims to pay $9.77 for code T1015. Those claims are currently being reprocessed for the correct payment of $ 223.97. The claims have an ETA completion date of 12/16. Furthermore, a fix is also being put in the system to ensure that future claim don’t have this issue.…
This worker called Ms KENNEALLY. She is looking for help. She said that her son Ryan is receiving DHS, SPD Home Care Services due to Muscular Distrophy and he had an assessment done back in January of this year and he got approved 198 hours of HCW. She said that his conditions has chanced three weeks ago, on 08/18/17 he had an accident.…
Unfortunately I won’t be able to process the bottom up due to patient signed a consent form no longer used by the Bronx Health Home. In addition, I have attached the new consent form provided by the Bronx Health Home and the new Care Coordination Spreadsheet (explanation of how to complete the spreadsheet was sent by Ms. Nicole Miller on 5/23/17).…
“A patient-centered medical home provides patient-centered, comprehensive, and coordinated care that supports patient self care; offers superb access to care; and employs a systems-based approach to quality and safety (Taylor, Lake, Nysenbaum, Peterson, & Meyers, 2011).” After experiencing a medical emergency, the patient was initially hospitalized. Once stabilized to the point that she no longer needed hospitalization, she was transferred to a SNF for rehabilitation. Following rehab, arrangements were made amongst family members and a case manager to transition Heidi into a nursing home to assist with ADLs and IADLs because she was too severely disabled to return home. Upon significant improvement, Heidi was transitioned back home and had continued care with a home health agency providing physical therapy and a homemaker. All of these services were very well coordinated and supported Heidi’s transition to self care.…
Anywhere Hospital’s revenue cycle starts when a patient registers for a medical service and ends once the claims and payments have been collected by the hospital. A revenue cycle encircles all administrative, clinical and financial functions that contribute to 13 different elements once a patient has registered within a healthcare system, this lead to the capture, management and collection of patient revenue. Let us look at the first step registration; this starts when a patient schedules a service with Anywhere Hospital, which includes demographic information that must be verified and validated from there we then go to eligibility and benefits. The revenue cycle will verify what the patients insurance will and will not cover and then contact the…
Tuality home health is a home health agency that sees patients in Washington county and surrounding areas. The services provided through home health are skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and social work. Home health has to be ordered by a doctor in order for patients to be admitted to service. Skilled nursing care provided to patients to patients consists of catheter care, wound care, ostomy care, diabetes management and education, congestive heart failure management and education, medication management, home safety education, and many more. Nurses are committed to provide quality, efficient care in the home setting for patients who are unable to safely transfer for care.…
Vancrest Health Care is an excellent nursing home for anyone who needs to recover from an incident or a place to get assistance at an older age. Deanna Brinkman has a bachelor’s degree in social work and furthers the education while working with her residents at this nursing home located in Van Wert, Ohio. She is one of three that works in social services and any further questions she can be reached at (419)-238-4646 Ext. 244. I sat down myself and spoke with her for an interview on Friday, October 28, 2016 and came back for several more sessions.…
Managed Care is a health care delivery system set up to manage cost, quality, and utilization. Medicaid Managed care allows for the delivery of Medicaid health benefits and additional services through contracted arrangements between Medicaid agencies and Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), that accept a set number per member per month (capitation) payment for services. By contracting with various types of MCOs to deliver Medicaid program services to beneficiaries, states can reduce Medicaid program costs and manage utilization of healthcare services. Keep in mind the goal is to improve health plan performance, quality, and outcomes.…
The medical/health home utilizes primary care providers and advanced practice nurses to coordinate and ensure comprehensive, patient-centered care. Using a team approach, providers encourage preventive care and chronic care management, while discouraging specialist and emergency room care. Pediatricians have used this model in the past for children with special needs and it has proven to be effective. Much like ACOs, medical/health homes have specific requirements to meet, and will receive financial rewards for meeting those requirements. Improved outcome is the goal of the medical/health homes by providing cost-effective, patient and family centered care, health promotion, and access to specialty…
Care conferences are held for every person receiving health care at home or in a care facility. They help the “care team” ~ everyone involved in the person’s care ~ share information and work together to meet the person’s needs (1). In this case study, I am the LPN who is responsible to organize a care conference for three of the residents in the residential home that I work with. To organize this care conference, it is imperative that I will fully know the goals for each of the resident.…
1. Develops a therapeutic relationship with clients Therapeutic relationship is the special connection between the nurse and client that is based on trust, empathy, respect, and professional intimacy. On the afternoon shift the certified nursing assistant (CNA) reported to me that a client did not have dinner.…
Grady Health System was the dream of Henry W. Grady, who was a newspaper editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Mr. Grady was concerned with the poor health care that Atlanta’s poor was receiving. Therefore, he advocated for a public city hospital. On June 1, 1882, his amazing dream became a reality, Grady Hospital opened.…
Home Health Care is form of health care administration that help people who needs day to day nurse care while at home. Some people who are on home health care are not able to do things on their own such as the following: make sure they complete their proper hygiene {bath, brush their teeth, and put their clothes on}, make sure their house is clean; make sure they take their proper medicine at the right time, and more. Home health care workers can play an important role in a person life. They are more like an adult babysitter. Home environment are supposed to be more conducive to the healing process.…