For-profit hospital

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…

Anderson Cancer Center of Houston should consider creating a non-profit program that would provide burial assistance to the family members of the patient that died while in palliative care. As of 2016, MD Anderson is ranked as the number one center for cancer care by the U.S. News and World Reports annual “Best Hospitals” rankings. With the extraordinary care that the hospital provides, offering this form of service would keep them at the top in ranking by staying true…

Summerlin Hospital Medical Center, a for-profit hospital founded in 1997, is owned and operated by a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, and was developed by the Howard Hughes Corporation. It is located at 657 Town Center Drive, in Las Vegas, Nevada, is one of America’s fastest growing healthcare communities, providing a comprehensive range of specialties to Las Vegas and its surrounding communities (About The Hospital, 2016). Summerlin Hospital Medical Center is accredited by The Joint…

With an increasing average age of Americans (i.e. the Baby Boomer Generation), hospital management has shifted from acute care management to chronic care management. There are two types of treatment procedures: One is In-patient (those patients who need to be hospitalized) and the other is out-patient (those who do not require to stay overnight in the hospital). Acute care diseases such as pneumonia, upper respiratory tract infection, abscess, fracture and several others can be managed as…

length of stay in the hospital but with an improved state of health of patients. A decision on whether to implement the treatment method in the hospital depends on the management board of the hospital. If the hospital is interested in the state of health of patients, a clinical pathway should be implemented. The longer length of stay due to this treatment method can be reduced by increasing the number of doctors in the hospital to ensure that the target length of stay in the hospital for a…

Kane-Knight 1 English 101 Professor Karen Palmer November 24th, 2014 Phoenix Children’s Hospital Thousands of children get sick in one month alone. The true fact is that unfortunately some of them are turned away or denied treatment due to finances. Many of the families that are in real financial difficulties are ones seeking long-term treatment for their children. Phoenix Children’s Hospital is a fantastic non-profit organization. They deserves your support because it is an organization that…

this at a Congressional hearing. He told the story of how a pregnant woman was refused help in a private Californian hospital. She waited at the hospital in labour for an extended period of time, before she was transferred to a public hospital. By this time, it was too late and her baby was born dead. This is a common occurrence within a private health care system. Private hospitals do not want to provide care for which they will not be reimbursed. Often, this leads to people being left stranded…

not-for-profit, private nongovernmental organization by the American College of physicians, American College of Surgeons, American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, and later, the American Dental Association, for the purpose of improving the quality of health care provided to the public. The Joint Commission has changed its mission to not only address the quality of patient care, but also patient safety. Many states have established a patient’s bill of rights for hospital and…

Hospitals were initially for the poor, however they have evolved as the center of the system with primary technology and have became a highly specialized hub for an assortment of health care activities that reach outside of its brick and mortar to encompass the community, affiliating with other institutions/providers thus providing complex care to critically ill along with an array of outpatient services (Williams & Torrens, 2008). The heart of the hospital services is to provide acute care…

“Reducing Hospital Readmissions: A closer look at the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program” published in the Quality Counts journal, hospital demographics are being looked at for evidence supporting fluctuation with readmission rates. Studies have been performed, and it has been determined through evidence-based practice and conducted research that hospital demographics do indeed play pivotal roles in patient care and the likelihood of readmissions (2015). These hospital…