Lights, sirens, and a horn are all a man on the ground can hear and see. When the ambulance arrives he is asked, “Which hospital would you prefer to be taken to?” The man is just four blocks away from Caldwell Memorial Hospital, but he says, “I want to live so take me to Frye”. Why would a man so close to a hospital want to go to one 18 miles away? Caldwell Memorial Hospital, the only hospital in Caldwell County, does not provide adequate health care for the county.…
costs of such action so incurred, including, without limitation, reasonable attorney’s fees and applicable court costs. Ex. A at § F.3. Additionally, Hospital is entitled to recover its reasonable and necessary attorney’s fees under Chapter 38 of the TEXAS CIVIL DEFENDANTS & REMEDIES CODE.…
Upon receipt of this referral, I research and contacted Beaumont Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn, MI to discuss the case with the assigned case manager. I spoke with the operator who replied, Mr. Heinz was on 3 north room 380-2. I asked for the floor nurse’s station number and I was informed they couldn’t give the number out, but she would transfer me. I was transferred and spoke with the nurse Karen who informed me that they won’t be able to provide me with any information.…
County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital by a Chicago based physician and health activist David A. Ansell is a very inspirational book because it covers 30 years of Cook County Hospital’s history, beginning in the late 1970s till 2002. Cook County Hospital is an urban public hospital in Chicago that admits patients who are uninsured. Time, space, communication, and identity are portrayed throughout the book. These four factors are important in inter-ethnic relationships between patients and health care providers. Being able to identify these factors in a clinical setting, health care providers can provide more efficient care for all patients.…
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.…
History Magnolia City Hospital serves the purpose of providing and improving health care services for the citizens of Columbia County and citizens of Lafayette, Union, Nevada, Ouachita, and Hempstead Counties. It is located in a rural setting, medically underserved, underinsured, with below average socioeconomic and educational level, and in need of superior health care. In Arkansas State, Magnolia City Hospital is the second oldest hospital. Established in 1939, it is an acute care, community based, non-profit hospital that is licensed by the State Arkansas for 70 beds. The hospital provides services in general medicine, emergency department, ICU/CCU, women’s services (obstetrics and gynecology), outpatient rehabilitation, a rural clinic,…
A chargemaster, also known as a charge description master (CDM), is a hospital’s collection of all items that the hospital can bill to any payers, patients, or facilities, such as insurance companies. The chargemaster is usually organized by departments, and each department is given a numeric code. According to Iris Stone’s article “The Chargemaster: What’s Really Behind Those Hospital Bills,” hospitals do not have uniform guidelines for setting and changing prices on the items on the chargemaster, so each hospital’s administration makes any decisions regarding the chargemaster. The prices on a hospital’s chargemaster may be varied due to several different details, such as costs of new technologies and other hospital-specific operational costs. Chargemasters should be updated at least on a quarterly basis, but may be updated more periodically in accordance with CMS guideline or other events.…
In heart saver profit organization, the payroll is depends on the profit of the selling the products. Because heart saver is the private limited organization so their employees are focus on the sale then only the employees get the pay’s. The comparison is the heart foundation is the corporate organization so they provide the salaries but the heart saver is the private limited they also gave the salaries but it is depends on the sales. KIWISAVER: in kiwi saver, all the kiwi people send the savings money to charities by voluntarily. Kiwi people working in one organization.…
Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital and the community needs of the Downriver Area. Henry Ford Hospital serves the needs of the Downriver Area, located in the Southeast part of Wayne County. The Downriver community was impacted in a negative way by the economy and has shown a loss in population for seven years in a row. “Wayne County is still large and the last Census shows the population at 1.76 million residents (Kasuba, 2015).” “The U.S. Census Bureau shows the median household income to be $41,184, and the people below poverty level are 24.5% (Wayne County, 2015).”…
Last year, the NCAA generated revenue was over $900 million dollars. A large part of this sum comes from media rights, sponsorships, merchandise sales, and ticket sales. As a result, the NCAA, ironically categorized as “non-profit”, possess a large value of leftover cash. Approximately 96% of the profit is returned directly to both the school and its respected conferences. Therefore, schools can generate a gigantic amount of revenue from its sports departments.…
Yale New Haven Hospital System comprised of Bridgeport Hospital, Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Yale Medical Group, the Northeast Medical Group and group doctors all through the state. EPIC contract was signed on July 14 ,2010. Lisa stump is the one who is responsible for implementing Epic and she is the vice president, Project manager for Epic implementation and associate chief information officer for YNHHS. She was looking for a better option to establish technology infrastructure to support patient care and Epic offered them the chance. Epic now holds 275 clients around the world and 49 percent of U.S. population’s and 2 percent of the world medical records are covered by EPIC.…
The identification of nonprofit and for profits can be identified by different classifications. The organizations operate by the same rules and regulations, but differentiate by tax exemptions and the utilization of profit margins. In conducting an analysis on one provider from both for profit and nonprofit, I chose the Community Health Systems and Kaiser Permanente. Both organizations are at the larger end of the spectrum in their respective business classification. Each organizational foundation presents strengths and weaknesses from a patient, provider, administrator and third party payer’s perspective.…
The American Red Cross is a non-profit organization that exists to provide compassionate care to those in need. Our network of generous donors, volunteers and employees share a mission of preventing and relieving suffering, here at home and around the world, through five key service areas: disaster relief, supporting America’s military families, health and safety training & educations, lifesaving blood, and international services. The American Red Cross was created so that there is a program out there so everyone has help when needed, can donate themselves to help others and so that the people world-wide are able to help each other. With how far technology has come today the American Red Cross public relations is able to use social media of…
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.…
They can focus more on patients and give them personalized assistance. Public hospitals are still a good choice to have if the patient does not have top notch insurance or want to save money. According to Pros and Cons of Private Hospitals (2018), “Because they are publicly funded and not for profit, they are usually a lot more affordable than private hospitals.” Since public hospitals cannot refuse service to anyone, they can always take you into their care. Public hospitals are more affordable and public hospitals are a good choice if you have…