MEMO To: President Wall and Team Members of Cabarrus Memorial Hospital From: Mr. Batte, Chairman of the Board Re: The Case for Open Surgery at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital Date: Friday, October 9, 2015 The purpose of this memo is to discuss and analyze the opportunity for Cabarrus Memorial Hospital (CMH) to apply for a certificate of need (CON) for an open-heart surgery program. CMH is an established public hospital, located in Cabarrus County North Carolina, which have been caregivers to the community since 1937. Current Status Currently, CMH possesses a cardiac program and has been steadily increasing its diagnostic and therapeutic cardiovascular services for the benefit of the community.…
Case Study: Houston Dialysis Centre Question 1 Houston Dialysis Center is among the several departments of Houston General Hospital; which is a full service and nonprofit-making institution. This factor indicates that as much as some profits are realized from operations in other departments of the hospital, the hospital’s focus remains as a center for providing care to the patients. Since this is the facility’s focus, it was justifiable for the hospital’s chief finance officer to prioritize the plight of outpatients who needed more space at the hospital. Furthermore, dialysis patient’s plight was also taken care of through the plan to construct a dialysis center away from the outpatient’s premises. It was therefore unjustifiable for Linda to quit the hospital just because she was prone to lose her bonus by the end of the year.…
Specialty Menu for Chinese Patient With Renal Failure Diagnosis: Renal failure is the slow digression of the kidneys in the body system. The disease can either be acute, or become chronic, which is more common among the elderly. Judith Hopfer, April Hazard Vallerand, and Cynthia A. Sanoski describe in Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses how this occurs. This can result from injury or by the aging process where the kidneys begin to shut down. (Hopfer, Vallerand, Sanoski, 496).…
Name of the case- Thirty years in jail for a single hair: the FBI’s ‘ mass disaster’ of false conviction. Victim- George Perrot Suspects- George Perrot How the hair/ fiber made a connection for the case- In springfield massachusetts in 1985, a 78-year-old woman was murdered in her house.…
Initial Diagnostic Case – For Practice Edgar is a 25-year-old married man who is being hospitalized after a suicide attempt that resulted in a car crash into a lake. He has been having a depressive episode for the past six months. This is the first episode he has experienced and it has several characteristics including feelings of depression, loss of interest, weight loss, hypersomnia, poor concentration and thoughts of suicide. His casual daily drinking of 1 or 2 beers per day has increased to five to eight per day in the last two months, which is aggravating his problems. He has no evidence of psychosis but his mood is severe.…
Dialysis Tubing Nicholas MacLean and Erin Girhiny Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 Mrs. Booth SBI 4U Purpose The movement of different molecules through dialysis tubing was observed.…
“Every 14 minutes someone is added to the kidney transplant list”, the National Kidney Foundation is not playing around. Statistically speaking that is a lot of people in need of a vital organ. The author Joanna Macay talks about the need for organ donations in her Article “Organ Sales will Save Lives”. Macay disputes her case briefly when stating her thesis in the first paragraph. She goes on to give her opinion that the selling of organs should be built to become legal.…
The Ethical Dilemma of Treating Undocumented Patients “Approximately 11.2 million undocumented immigrants have settled in the United States… The Affordable Care Act of 2010 excludes undocumented immigrants (and legal immigrants here for fewer than five years) from its benefits” (Berlinger & Raghavan, 2013, p. 14). It is complex to treat and evaluate patients when financial and social constraints exist. How can resources be properly allocated among undocumented immigrants in the midst of multiple barriers to health care access?…
It’s important to stay up to date on coding changes. To be a truly viable coder it’s absolutely necessary to stay informed about what’s taking place in the industry. Having a membership with AAPC and AHIMA has shown me the importance of staying current and these memberships are a great way to do it. Continuing education is necessary to keep your certification credential current, but the classes, webinars, and seminars will also help you stay informed of new developments that will affect you on the job. By keeping current you can be an asset to your organization and that can be good for you when it comes time for promotions and raises.…
The holiday months are a time of joyous celebration, visits with family and friends, and, of course, seemingly endless meals overloaded with food and drink. It's a wonder any of us make it through winter without permanent damage to our health or the need for urgent medical care, but thankfully there are a few ways you can counter the traditional holiday excess. Statcare Urgent & Walk-In Medical Care is an urgent care center with locations in Long Island and Queens, and they want to help everyone stay as healthy as possible throughout the remainder of the year and beyond. Unfortunately, that means it's time to stop thinking about all the holiday treats that are coming your way and start taking action to keep your body in shape.…
Today I have the pleasure of working with a client named Mrs. Reyes, a 75-year-old female of Hispanic descent. She is a non-insulin diabetic, who lives alone, but has regular visits from her children and grandchildren. Mrs. Reyes has been admitted as a result of an acute change in mental status, and secondary with a diagnoses of a urinary tract infection and dehydration. Mrs. Reyes has a history of many falls at home previous to being admitted therefore she is a fall risk. I am nervous about how the day will go as this is the first time I will be working with Mrs. Reyes, and from report it appears that she did not have the most pleasant night.…
I had the opportunity to interview an intensive care unit nurse who works in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Nancy stated her experience and how she got to be a Neonatal Intensive Care Unite nurse. She talked about the different procedures done in the hospital and how to maintain patient safety. Also, Nancy added how the hospital maintains a patient and family center care environment to help families to cope better with the difficult situation they are going through.…
Homecare: Alzheimer's Care and Dementia Care Dementia is a progressive cognitive impairment. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia in seniors (75 percent of cases), but it is not the only kind. Other forms of dementia include vascular dementia, which often follows a stroke; frontotemporal lobar degeneration and corticobasal degeneration, in which areas of the brain start to shrink; and Parkinson's disease dementia. While the causation and prognosis of each dementia type vary, one thing is certain: if your senior loved one has any form of dementia, they are going to require care and support. While caring for a person with dementia is often a true labor of love for family and friends, it also quickly becomes overwhelming.…
On further review of John’s blood results and presenting symptoms the doctor decided to insert a temporary line to administer haemodialysis (HDx). The doctor discussed the treatment option with John enabling informed consent (Department of Health 2009). John was feeling apprehensive about the need for dialysis as he perceived it as set back as John was managing conservatively until now so the doctor discussed with John if he would like to be referred to a…
c. Anemia /blood loss during the procedure: Anemia is compounded by blood lost during hemodialysis (Smeltzer et. al., 2010, p. 1335). d. Gastric ulcers: May result from physiologic stress of chronic illness, medication and preexisting medical condition (Smeltzer et. al., 2010,…