Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing, written by Dana Beth Weinberg, reveals the story of the merging of two hospitals in 1996, the Beth Israel and the New England Deaconess, to form a unified Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Code Green identifies many hardships present at BIDMC, such as: changes in the hospital industry, merging of two dissimilar nursing models, dismantling of nursing, power struggle, unsafe patient care, and restructuring strategies (Weinberg, 2003). As a result of rising health care costs and large financial losses for BIDMC, nursing administration created a cost saving plan consisting of cutting staff. Nurses quickly began to feel the effects as patient loads increased and care was often cut short to perform other duties (Weinberg, 2003). Shortly after the merger, nurses complained about declining patient care which hospital administration saw as resistance to change; however, nurses were concerned about lack of time to evaluate and monitor patients, understand and plan for their needs, and provide basic physical care (Weinberg, 2003). The situation I chose to focus…

As the healthcare industry has changed so has Kettering Medical Center. Once a one hospital building, now owner of 8 operating non-profit hospitals which employees over 12,000 employees, a 4 year college, a group of physician (ambulatory) practices known as Kettering Physician Network (KPN) with over 1,200 physicians and over 2,000 employees with-in the physician offices, retirement communities, nursing homes, and more than 75 outpatient facilities, along with two freestanding emergency…

I been working at Montefiore hospital for 17 years as a head cashier/office coordinator. I was hired as a cashier, but since Montefiore acquired other facilities in the past 5 years, I got promoted to the office coordinator where one of my job descriptions is to train and help out other cashiers with different issues. My daily duties include processing payments from different departments in order for the facility to check and balance. I check to make sure that each department proves out and…

La Grange Fire Departments own Firefighter/Paramedic James Baum was the keynote speaker. James Baum, is a military veteran who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom I & II (2003-2004) and in South Korea as a member of the 8th Army United Nations Command Honor Guard (2005-2006). After completing his service he then studied to become a firefighter Paramedic. James served previously with Sugar Grove and Wheaton Fire Departments before joining the La Grange Fire Department in 2010.…

HISTORY OF JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER Jacobi Medical Center, formerly known as Bronx Municipal Hospital Center was established in 1955 by the New York City department of hospitals. “The mission statement of the hospital has been to serve the Bronx community by providing high quality, cost effective healthcare, in a respectful way to all, regardless of ability to pay”. The hospital has a specialized care facilities and a teaching hospital located in the northeast part of Bronx. Jacobi Medical Center…

The final article speaks about Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and their progression from treating only 25% of eligible patients to becoming a more advanced post-cardiac arrest center and treating 98-100% of all eligible patients (51). The providers at Beth Israel restructured their polices and guidelines after careful review; once an eligible patient has come into the emergency department post-cardiac arrest the E.D physician makes the decision to initiate hypothermia treatment, this…

Atul Gawande’s Look on the Normalcy of Terrorism in The United States in His Article “Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready” Atul Gawande, a literary writer and doctor in Boston, portrays the devastation of the bombings at the Boston Marathon and the heroic acts performed by emergency medical teams, nurses, and doctors alike. However, there is one primary element that Gawande focuses on throughout the article: terrorism is becoming a normalcy in The United States. To explain further, since 9/11…

Chechyna war was a cause on their act of Islamic terrorism (Archer, 2013). The Tsaernaev brothers may have been motivated to do the bombing due to the problems happening in their homeland and felt as if they needed to do something to show their anger. Dzhokhar made a YouTube channel where he shared radical Islamic speeches. In one specific video, the sound of bombs went off as people were chanting in Arabic. This could have been used as a sign that something unusual was going on in his head,…

defined in this paper. Some believe that population health is a new term that came out in 2003, but some doctors see it as just general care back 30 years ago like Frank Belsito, D.O., chief medical officer at Metro Health, Wyoming, Mich. Population health is not Public health, which is state or local ran and population health is the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the…

I managed with my busy schedule to provide an event filled with entertainments, raffle prizes, going away gifts and abundance of delicious food which all was prepared by me as well for the menu and literary. At the time, I was working full-time at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as a Patient Information Specialist/ Unit coordinator 55 hours a week. As if that was not enough, during the same period of time one of my other accomplished leadership roles is, I currently develop and created a…