Room 337, an 85- year old widowed white female, presented six days ago to Lynchburg General Hospital with complaints of dizziness and falling. She has a past medical history of hypertension, chronic CHF, asthma and hypothyroidism. After the conduction of lab testing, Room 337 was diagnosed with syncope. Her syncope was most likely a result of insufficient O2 delivery to the brain caused by a decreased CO produced by the weakening of her heart muscle. Despite hypertension medications, Room N337’s dizziness and muscle fatigue persists demonstrated by fluctuations in her orthostatic BP readings reflecting the inability to get out of bed and move freely.…
Front Street Hospital: Uninsured Charges and Collections (pg. 237 of Cases in Healthcare Finance, 5th edition) It is quite clear from the text’s exposition on the policy, billing, and collection habits of certain not-for-profit hospitals that serious injustices were being committed against uninsured patients. These injustices were primarily financial in nature – although physical and psychological trauma almost always followed – and they reveal the systematic nature of the abuse. By setting “rack rates” – an extremely expensive set rate for medical procedures – as the ‘standard fare’ for all patients, while simultaneously granting clear and enormous discounts for those insured through third-party entities, the not-for-profit hospitals unconscionably…
Section 165(a) states that there shall be allowed as a deduction any loss sustained during the taxable year and not compensated for by insurance or otherwise. Reg. § 1.165-1(b) states the in order to be allowable as a deduction under section 165(a), a loss must be evidenced by closed and completed transactions, fixed by identifiable events. Since Mr. Waters have not sold the house, and has no intention to sell it in the immediate future, there is no complete transaction in this case.…
The founders of PassageWays, grounded in recovery and mindful of the principles of 12 step programs, are determined to offer medically assisted treatment to those individuals suffering from substance addictions. Through the efforts of physicians practicing in the field of addiction medicine reviewing statistical information and research, it was apparent that treatment for addiction would be benefitted by the additional component of medical intervention during the withdrawal cycle. In this period of time the client would have the opportunity to recognize the benefit of thinking differently as their physical craving subsides. PassageWays has developed a format for treatment of those who are addicted to various prescription and non-prescription drugs. This treatment program begins with an analysis of each client’s history of use, educational background, age, and other pertinent factors.…
An Ames room is a distorted room that gives an optical illusion. The room was first constructed in 1946 by an American ophthalmologist named Adelbert Ames Jr. and it was invented in 1934. The room is based on a concept invented by Hermann Helmholtz in the late 19th century according to my research. The room has two illusions, one is that the room appears to look squared when you look at it through a small hole in the front of the room but it is not it is actually like a trapezoid. The second illusion is that things appear to change in size when they move from one corner of the room to the other.…
Case Q: Whose Hospital? Background of the situation: In June of 1979, the medical staff at Brendan Hospital held a mass meeting at the hospital to discuss various allegations against CEO, Don Wherry. A petition was signed by half the medical staff and by half the employees of the hospital at the mass meeting.…
In his interview, participant 001, an art major male Latino student described how he had to learn to navigate higher education as a student who was lacked academic preparation. Commuting to school everyday with the help of public transportation for a total of 6 hours per day, the student developed particular skills that help in the context of gaining the academic preparation he sought after. Despite the potential risks in revealing their status, students were able to skillfully develop an intuition about to whom, when, and where it would be appropriate to share this information. As participant 001 explained, “Problems with scheduling, not having my own computer. Having to use a computer at my department.…
8:49/8:59 (Wednesday) - exit door #2, bus duty for Makenzie Smith (KHG) and Randy Anderson (KW). Get students off of the bus 1S. Jayden leaves his wheelchair in the lobby and walks in the walker. Help Jayden sit on his chair and then walk Makenzie and Randy to their kindergarten classrooms. 9:05-9:10 - Room 211 - Go to Krishnansh and help fill out his chart. If he has two “smiles”, he gets a reward.…
To fully understand a situation, it is important to understand the context in which it is occurring (Matei & Antonie, 2015). In the psychiatric emergency room where I work, there has been a high degree of staff turnover and change. We have a new nurse manager. Ten nurses simultaneously left full-time positions because they received a grant to attend SUNY Upstate full-time, and become psychiatric nurse practitioners, resulting in many nurses and psychiatric techs quitting, and many starting; thus the staff is mostly new. Relatively new employees (4-6 months) is now orienting newer staff.…
Fink’s Five Nights at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital is a piece of realistic fiction that depicts both the events that took place in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Hospital, formerly known as Baptist Hospital. In the hospital and its disastrous conditions, staff face difficulty in evacuating patients because of the lack of preparation and infrastructure for such a disaster. Ultimately, the doctors deem some patients unlikely to survive evacuation, particularly those with a Do Not Resuscitate order, who are injected with morphine and midazolam until they die. Fink presents the events through the perspectives of multiple witness as well as experts in the field of medicine, law and ethics. She develops the…
The Newsela article, "Parents Angry over Schools Use of Isolation Room to Calm Down Students," explains why many people are outraged by the idea of schools using isolation rooms as a punishment for misbehaving students. Isolation rooms are where some schools send students who are out of control or a threat to others. A trained staff member would bring the student to the room and be next to them at all times, unless they are a physically dangerous, then the staff member has the ability to monitor them through a window in the door. Parents were unfamiliar with this idea, but after learning about it, many of them are furious that schools use "a small empty room... that has previously had many miscellaneous uses" as a punishment room. "We want…
My driver picked up PO 29564 for 556 cases yesterday and the product was loaded on the floor which caused issues with our receiving; 3 were on pallets and 6 were on the floor. JFH warehouse always ensures that all products are on pallets when shipping to the distributor to prevent the pallets from moving in the trailer and also preventing any damages. Please advise if Wine Group was made aware of palletizing their product.…
Location Within the walls of a prestigous institute resides Sylver, allong with her room mates. Having been given one of the larger dorms, she and seven other people call it home. Around 900 square feet, the dorm is cut in half vertically, and then the left portion cut in half once again horizontally. The two rooms against the inital seperating wall are seperated into a hallway, wih the doors to the two rooms parallel to each other. A table sits at the end of the corridor underneath a bullitin board, posted with daily reminders, and a flowerpot upon the table's surface.…
PSY 370 Spring 2016, Homework Assignment #1 Jazmine Romero ID# 008107786 March 7, 2015 Case study: Jennifer Jennifer is a young woman who seems to be dealing with a severe case of depression and anxiety. Jennifer’s background hasn't always been a stable foundation, family, and relationship wise, it has affected her well into her adulthood. She tends to overgeneralize about specific events in her life, which have led her to self-defeating conclusions. When overviewing the four specific models against Jennifer’s depression, Biological, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sociocultural models, you notice a pattern of inheritance between Jennifer and her mother as well as a correlation with her family dynamic.…
Doctor’s Hospital is an acute care facility in a small town. Due to a major financial disruption they had to transform their organization’s governing structure. As a result, they did not consider the impact of CIO in IT and they turn CIO’s full-time job into a part-time job. Therefore, Doctor’s Hospital faces many information system challenges. Along with that hospital is undergoing 3 phase construction.…