Hospital-acquired pneumonia

A+E, she was diagnosed with left lower lobe bacterial pneumonia and transferred to a medical ward for further investigation and treatment (Appendix-1). This essay includes three…

of asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis, or hemoptysis (more than bloody sputum), or respiratory failure are considered episodic if it lasts one or more days and requires intensive treatment like antibiotic administration, intravenous bronchodilator, or prolonged inhalational bronchodilator therapy in an emergency room, hospital, or equivalent setting. What are the Requirements Needed to Receive Benefits? First and foremost, one will require documentation that includes records stating hospital,…

Strategy The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief explanation of the components of the retrospective payment bundling consistent with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Model 2 for a 90 day period post-discharge for community acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients. Additional focuses will be placed on health care services needed across the continuum for the bundle payment to be successful. Further emphases will be positioned on the eligible awardees and how the executive team…

On October 1, 2008, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a new regulation, which deny payment for selected 10 conditions occurring during the hospital stay and are not present on admission. Out of these 10 hospital-acquired conditions, three of them were healthcare-associated infections, which are a common, expensive, and often preventable. According to an article published in Med Care on 2010, this policy was the first significant step to move output-based inpatient…

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…

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE. Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia as PJP first came into attention Central and Eastern Europe during WWII as malnourished and premature infants began to suffer from a case of interstitial pneumonia (Bennett and Gilroy, 2016). The disease then came into the forefront in the medical world with the outbreak of malnourishment of Iranian children in the 1950s (Stringer et al, 2002). In 1981, there were 5 reported cases of homosexual men suffering with PJP as well (Bennett and…

some issues as presented in the case study. The main issue, which also faces the majority of US hospitals is the prospect that shortage of beds is expected to increase as the population in the home ages. The issue is to look for creative ways to take care of the patients. The key issue is therefore improving quality of care and patient satisfaction while reducing costs. The challenge is facing the “hospital at home” strategy of the New Mexico home with its prospect to provide acute care services…

go to the hospital. Within the borders of the farmland, deep in the heart of Lancaster City, sits Lancaster General Hospital, the hospital of choice for many Lancaster County citizens. It is centrally located in the county making it easily accessible. Whether a buggy and car meet unexpectedly or someone is not feeling well and needs emergency treatment, Lancaster…

Mandatory vaccination is effective in increasing the overall participation of medical workers in receiving vaccines compared to systems without mandated vaccinations. Non-mandatory health care services in Australia during 2013, had only 56% of their health care workers vaccinated against influenza. (Heinrich-Morrison, McLellan, McGinnes, Carroll, Watson, Bass, Cheng, 2015). However, the healthcare worker influenza vaccination program located in the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center…

After vaping for about three months, a woman had to be admitted to the hospital because of a chronic cough. The 31-year-old did not have prior history with long disease, and the doctors say that she contracted a rare form of pneumonia from using the electronic cigarettes. After being admitted to the hospital, she soon had respiratory failure, and doctors had to place her on a ventilator. In Vermont, there was a report of a 60-year-old male who experienced acute lung injury. According to the…