Broadmoor Hospital

of my time. The hospital is conveniently located between several towns and cities, making it beneficial in regards to travel time. The hospital is centered between houses and apartment buildings, making it easier for patients to take public transportation or even walk to the center. An important aspect of this medical center is that it serves a large part of the Newark community. Newark is an tremendously large city and it has one of the busiest hospitals, so Clara Maass hospital is able to…

Summery of Are housestaff identifying malnourished hospitalized medicine patients? By Michael A. Mitchell, Donald R. Duerksen, and Adam Rahman Hospitals have a percentage of “40%-60%”(Mitchell, 2014, p.1192) of patients admitted with malnutrition. The “nutritional and functional status” has plummeted leaving elderly patients to increase their stay. Malnourished patients are more susceptible to infections, which lead to “impaired wound healing”(Mitchell, 2014). Regardless of its “high prevalence…

Sara Monopoli’s death was peaceful but her process of dying was a struggle. In her process of treatment, she became frail. Her treatments had made her more ill than better and her quality of life had declined. All of Sara 's physicians were working toward saving her life. However, none of them really knew when to stop treating her aggressively. Sara, her family, and her doctors, wanted to fight and do all that can be done to get her well. They were fighting so hard that they might have…

the time frame. The over arching finding of this study suggests, “frailty may be a risk factor for dehydration in these patients and highlights the impor-tance of formally assessing older patients for dehydration at admis¬sion to the hospital and throughout their hospital stay” (McCrow et al., 2016, p.…

triage process for the fast track patients that would affect the frequency and occurrence of patients who leave without being seen at Lenox Hill hospital emergency room. This is a concern for the department because the emergency department accounts for half of the admission to the hospital, and high volume of patients LWBS cause a loss of revenues for the hospital. The emergency room at Lenox Hill…

effectiveness. The healthcare industry is no different and requires both types of employees to function at a highly effective and efficient rate. When looking at different line activities and staff activities one of the most important departments in a hospitals support network is Risk Management. According to Marquette University (n.d.), risk management is defined as “the continuing process to identify, analyze, evaluate, and treat loss exposures and monitor risk control and financial…

range of acute and psychiatric services, inpatient, and outpatient services and is also a teaching hospital. The medical center has three off site primary care clinics, which are the extensions of the outpatient services. The hospital houses multitude of services, which consist of: acute care hospital, outpatient (ambulatory) services, behavioral health and diagnostic and treatment services. The hospital utilizes 366 inpatient beds, which are situated in private rooms. The behavioral health uses…

The Williamsport Regional Medical Center is located in the 700 block of High Street between Campbell and Walnut Street. The hospital was originally named the Williamsport Hospital and it opened in April of 1878. It was originally located on Elmira St and was initially used as a boardinghouse. Several years later a new building was built and the hospital was moved to its present location. Although it has undergone a huge transformation and a name change the original part of the Williamsport…

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…

termination of a physical restraint are vital in the prevention of sentinel events. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (TJC), both established a precise standard for appropriate use of restraints to “help hospitals that experience serious adverse events, improve safety… as well as evaluation of corrective actions, is essential to reduce risk and prevent patient harm” (TJC, 2016). Although it varies from state to state or facilities, improving the…