Hospitals

is having an impact on my practice is the Value-Based Purchasing (VBP). In the VBP, hospitals contribute a certain percentage to a to a payment pool. This VBP payment pool is used to provide a bonus to hospitals for how well they perform. Criteria for which hospitals get reimbursed is process for care, outcomes, patient experience, and efficiency (Bosko, 2016). Today’s health insurance system rewards hospitals for volume; the VBP is intending a shift to reward for quality, reduced care costs,…

treating patients. There are several important aspects that revolve around the importance of physician quality review and those include Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE), Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) processes and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS). All three of these systems work together to provide patients as well as the medical staff with valuable information when it comes to choosing a physician for their quality of…

After contacting the Nicklaus Children's Hospital for several weeks with the interview questions, the information gathered was not enough to conduct the audit. As a result, this audit is based on published reports, surveys, articles, and training materials available online. The hospital’s website content was the primary source of information. The Miami Children’s Health System is proven to be a diverse organization. However, some areas still need improvement. Finding 1 – Visible Workforce…

The fact of the matter is that it takes money to build hospitals, but there is a need to build the hospitals in communities that need access to a medical facility. One such area is in the rural farming community. There have been concerted efforts to improve access to health care by holding fairs within the community, but no commitments to build smaller hospitals in the area. Often times the rural population do not seek immediate treatment for their health ailment…

uniform hospital discharge data set that condition established after study to be chiefly responsible for occasioning the admission of the patient to the hospice for care and also the definition of principal diagnosis applies only to impatient in acute short term long term care and psychiatric hospitals. Codes for symptoms signs and ill defined conditions the circumstances of impatient admissions always govern the selection of principal diagnosis. When a patient receives surgery in the…

(EMRAM) also has access to LGH’s health system. It is needed to track all electronic medical record (EMR) progress used at this hospital. With the advancing technology, LGH has completely transitioned from the use of paper records to Electronic Records. They were awarded by HIMSS Analytics in the acute care stage 7 for electronic medical records use. “Stage 7 hospitals operate in a paperless environment and represent…

restraints and had to use the bathroom. The NSI would have laid out a path to follow to care for this patient. The patient could have been placed closer to the nurses station. Elderly patients have more problems with confusion when admitted to the hospital (Mauk, 2009). Frequent reorientation of the patient to his surroundings and the addition of a sitter were possibilities (Mauk, 2009). Use of best practices that are shared by NSI would lead to decreased use of restraints. Restraint use can…

The purpose of this paper is to distinguish why catheter-associated urinary tract infections increase medical costs for hospital organizations, how they are acquired and their symptoms, and how it is a preventable infection when the proper procedures…

The sheer eeriness of an empty hospital room haunts me. It creates a vivid picture of sadness, fear, but most of all: Love. Room 206 was a room held close to my heart, it was my home for a month, it was also a grave for a loved one. This grave however would be the birthplace of a faith based on love, a love so strong it would never fail me. We all have loved ones, people in our lives who we see as invincible. My invincible person was my uncle Efrain. This was a man who always welcomed me with…

A1: Sentinel Event This is a case involving pediatric patient by the name Tina, whom they thought she was abducted from the hospital. Tina and her mum arrived that morning of September 14 at the hospital and they were checked in with the registrar. The admission registrar collected Tina’s demographic information and insurance card as required by the hospital policy and entered it into the medical records. Tina’s mother signed the consent paper work for Tina’s surgery at the admission. No…