Hospital

health problem. Despite advances in the care of patients with heart failure, many patients are readmitted to the hospital due to frequent exacerbation from poor compliance with treatments. Many home care agencies have implemented tele-monitoring systems for heart failure patients. Home-based tele-monitoring is a therapeutic tool used to aid in the reduction of readmissions to hospitals as well as help reduce medical costs overall. Thus improving the tele-monitoring healthcare system and…

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…

Brief Intermountain Healthcare and Our Hospital Intermountain Healthcare (IH) has a strong and well developed commitment to quality improvement. Adoption of some of the components of this pursuit may benefit our system. These components must be considered in the context of our system differences and similarities. IH has: 130 outpatient facilities 24 hospitals 30,000 employees 750 employed physicians facilities in several insurance markets a large mix of payers a primary care to tertiary…

industry was very limited. However after having the privilege working in the ICU setting, I have found a new found passion. In general, most individuals are not raised in the hospital setting. We find passion in activities that we are exposed to in our youth. Up until a few years ago, I had very limited exposure to the hospital environment. During my clinical rotation…

In 2012, a new reality show was broadcast on ABC called “NY MED.” It was a popular series set in NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital that depicted real life medical situations in an emergency setting. Terence Wrong the executive producer of “NY MED” said, “We have heard many stories of people who are inspired to go to medical school, to become nurses or paramedics, or to head into particular specialties like trauma or transplant surgery after watching our show.” The hospital’s vice president of…

when it comes to the Aboriginal people. One specific example would be the implementation and operation of Indian Hospitals, a part of Canadian Health Care history some would rather forget and one that many still feel the pain of. Multiple experiences from within these hospitals were collected and documented by Laurie Meijer Drees in Healing Histories: Stories from Canada 's Indian Hospitals. By studying and comparing Marjorie Warke’s story to Marie Dick’s, I will evaluate the similarities and…

bacteria into these central lines. “In the United States, from 250,000 to 500,000 CLABSIs are estimated to occur every year, which result in a rate from 10% to 30% of mortality” (Perin, Erdmann, Higashi, & Sasso, 2016). Currently, one third of all hospital acquired…

Case Analysis Introduction to the evaluation My experience in the sick room at my boarding school where I got saline infusion, the hospital near my boarding school where my condition was misdiagnosed as malaria, the tuberculosis department at the government hospital where the test results were negative, and finally the private hospital which cured my disease, made me observe and focus on many issues. I noticed many positive and negative issues which I would like to explain relating them to gap…

working at Queensland Health since 2013 and during this time particularly while studying I tried to gain as much exposure and knowledge across multiple areas to assist me in decision making later in my careers. I began working at Paediatric Tertiary Hospital working in Emergency and Intensive Care departments as an Administration officer which gave me the essentials for understanding the importance of patient flow, impacts on patient care, fundamentals of empathy when dealing with difficult…

Ralph, a CEO at Community Memorial Hospital (CMH), and his financial officer, Bill. Here are the key findings from the information we were provided: • CMH is a private not-for-profit hospital • City Hospital is responsible for providing care to indigent people and receives money from the government to do so • Patient traffic has dramatically increased in the last 2.5 months for CMH • Most new patients are indigent people who have been diverted from City Hospital • CMH will lose anywhere…