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Surgical procedures are carried out every day across the world. Among hospitals and doctors, there are many different types of surgeries that can be performed, but one important aspect of a procedure is how it accomplished. Before the 1990s, most surgical procedures were open, meaning they required a particularly large incision for the surgeon to operate. Then, laparoscopic surgery, also known as minimally-invasive surgery began to take off and offered many new benefits that open surgery did not…

recession, governments implemented austerity measures to reduce budget deficits. In Canada, the impact of these measures are particularly evident at the hospital level. Hospitals have seen their operating budgets reduced from previous years. The most common public funding method used in Canada is the “global budget” method. Under this model, hospitals are provided a fixed budget to cover operating costs during a fixed period. The budgets are based on historical figures, impact of inflation and…

steadily evolving to try to meet the variety of services that the health care patient is requiring. For instance, a hospital can offer a patient an outpatient status on variety of health services instead of having to be hospitalized. They offer such services, so the patient can save time and money on their insurances costs, but at the same time, it increases the profit for the hospital, thus making it a mutually beneficial benefit. These services can be grouped into the following: clinics,…

outpatient basis is terms ambulatory care service. Compared to hospitals, these clinics are usually much more convenient to use and less expensive than an inpatient hospitalization. The main feature of ambulatory services is that, patients do not stay overnight in these facilities. Ambulatory care is emerging to be the fastest growing segment of the health care market. There are many types and these included; Physician services, hospital outpatient, emergency outpatient, community health…

1. a) Nursing informatics is used to inform about what nurses do and how nurses use information to make decisions for patients. Nurses use EHRs to manage patient information (Pritchard, 2015). Nursing informatics allows nurses to remain interconnected with health care professionals from other disciplines, so that information is seamlessly exchanged between nurses and the rest of the health care team (Pritchard, 2015). Nursing informatics is also used to personalize patient care and to inform…

I would love to have an opportunity to work for the Florida hospital. Contrary to many in my business class I am a health major minoring in business. I want to work for a hospital, and the Florida hospital is my main interest in The Central Florida area. The Florida hospital is a non- profit organization. It is well known hospital. It stared in the early 1900’s by a group of missionaries. As years went by the hospital which back then was a farmhouse turn out to be this successful company in…

Providing Hospital Performance Improvement Grants. Public Awareness: It is amazing to recognize that the third leading cause of death in the US, sepsis, is not known by 50% of the US population. However, 80%+ of sepsis patients present to hospital ERs, often at the end stage of their medical condition, where mortality increases at 8% per hour. In August 2016 C4SS initiated a twelve-month Public Service Announcement program that is airing on over 230…

Human Resources Benefits can be defined as an indirect financial payment given to employees that may include health and life insurance, vacation, pension, educational plans, 401K etc. (Dessler, 2012). As an affiliate of HCA Holdings Inc., Palms West Hospital follows a basic template that is provided throughout the organization. Although minor details may be changed, the majority of the ways Palms West operate is through the guidelines that HCA Holdings Inc. provides. Employees who meet the…

reimbursement by the payors. For non-profit hospitals, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a grading system for patient satisfaction tied to subsequent reimbursement. CMC has developed a survey to send to patients after treatment, as well as a website to submit the experience into the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, or HCAHPS. The HCAHPS determines the patient’s perspective on their health provider care and hospital stay.…

When it comes to health care facilities, what I'd like to look at is the ethical behavior a non-profit hospitals or profit facilities that take care of the underserved. & I like to look at the ethical behavior of profiting off of the poor one investor own hospital chain is called community health services. The hospital system has been in trouble with the government for several years now in the investigation to false claim has been ongoing since 2009 originally a whistleblower named Robert Blake…