Hospital departments

Advocate Illinois Masonic has a rich history in how it became the hospital it is today. Before it was called Illinois Masonic, it was Chicago Union Hospital. The Union Hospital was organized during the time of rebuilding post the great Chicago fire in 1901. Belden Avenue Baptist Church Steadfast Sunday School organized the union hospital. Amongst the board members of the hospital were some Masons who formed an association for the purpose of providing free medical and surgical treatment for…

of improvement involves more than one department. The team should be made up of individuals from the catheter lab to specifically include a scribe and a lab manager or supervisor; the Emergency Department including an admitting clerk and their supervisor; Administration to include someone from operations like the Medical Director (Chief Clinical Officer); and someone from Human Resources, specifically a manager in the employee and labor relations department. Based on research, it would also be…

Objectives I examined the over utilization of the emergency department and the financial, psycho-social, and medical reasons of the high utilization. Methods I reviewed 11 articles and literatures relating to high health care expenditures and the utilization of emergency departments among homeless individuals. This review included the characteristics, limitations, trends, strengths, agreements and disagreements of the literature review. Results There were different causes of high health care…

emergency departments Introduction: One of the targets set by the Ministry of Health (MOH) is to have a shorter stay of patients in the Emergency Department (ED). It states that 95% of patients will be admitted, discharged or transferred within six hours from an Emergency Department (Ministry of Health [MOH], 2011). Every District Health Board (DHB) reports quarterly to the MOH regarding their progress in meeting the target (MOH, 2015a). This paper will show how the North Shore Hospital, part…

it is the same thing. Hospital management discuss budgets for each of their department and try to find ways to cut back; each year it becomes a “do more with less” environment. Like any company or corporation, hospital management is charged with finding ways to labor costs and operating. Department heads meet to offer suggestions on how they believe costs can be cut back to meet the budget given to their department for the next fiscal year. One department in a hospital that struggles to stay…

for informal applications within hospitals (Laureate Education, 2010). For example; hospital pharmacies, medical billing and clinical staff required an application to accomplish patient care in an ever growing field of information technology. Standards in healthcare were created to make processes work more efficiently (Hammond, Cimino, 2006) and comprise a set of rules and definitions that specify exactly what something is. In healthcare, specifically a hospital environment, a formal standard…

the United States. EMTALA was establish to prevent hospitals from “patient dumping”. Patient dumping occurs when hospitals deny treatment and transfer patients that cannot pay to public hospitals for emergency care services. The law was developed to rid communities of the unethical practices of private hospitals as they were turning patients away that could not pay to prevent themselves from providing uncompensated care to the poor. Private hospitals would in turn, defend themselves by following…

its many hospitals, so well-known that when I was younger there was talk of changing Augusta’s nickname from the garden city of the south to the hospital city of the south. This did not happen, however the area does have four major hospitals, and two major military facilities. The large number of medical facilities with varying means of funding allows people to receive care to find quality care regardless of their insurance and finical status. Of the many hospitals the top rated hospital for…

- Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio (HCNO) is a non-profit hospital association which is located in Toledo, Ohio. The organization provides a variety of services such as community health assessment (CHA) which, shared services for hospitals with discounted rates, disaster preparedness, evaluation of grant programs, and health programs. The organization has been doing health assessment since 1999. In order for the HCNO to provide health assessments in an efficient and timely manner it requires…

I was unaware that hospitals performed a “reengineering,” that eliminated the Respiratory Therapy management team. I can see why this approach did not work, I think this devalued respiratory therapist. When it comes to scheduling hours a nurse that never did work in the field of respiratory may schedule too many employees or not enough. They would be unaware of the time it takes to deliver a treatment, ventilator checks, equipment, 02 checks, ABG’s, sputum inductions, ect. Especially when it…