Hospitals

increases, the VA Hospitals will begin to get extremely backed up. 6 month waiting times will turn to to 7 months, then 8, and so on. Around the nation, there is a total of 152 VA Hospitals, which help care for roughly 8.3 million veterans a year (“Veterans Health”). That is roughly 54.6 thousand people per hospital just being treated per year. That means that more than 1,000 veterans have to be treated every week in any given hospital. No matter how advanced the hospital is, no hospital…

Introduction Bronson Hospital is a general medical, surgical and teaching hospital in southwest, Michigan, with more than 7,800 employees. As of 2015, it was ranked #9 in hospitals in the state of Michigan and #1 in southwest Michigan. Bronson provides 415, single rooms, beds and offer multiple specialties, which are: heart and vascular, sports medicine and rehabilitation, children 's and women 's health, and having a level trauma center. The hospital had 21,519 admissions in the year of 2015…

Technology and Hospitals When the topic of hospitals and the care given there comes to mind we usually think of the nurses, doctors, and assistants that come to our aide. One big factor that does not receive enough credit for its role is the technology that has been used to help save those lives as well. The development of the equipment for healthcare and hospitals has evolved understandably with the advancement of the new machinery created which has allowed great breakthroughs in intensive…

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…

The issue I have chosen for this change project is improving blood culture contamination rates within the emergency department (ED) at Erlanger Hospital. This issue is one suggested by the Erlanger ED manager, as it is a persistent issue for this department, and is consequently in need of new evidence-based initiatives and education for healthcare personnel. Blood culture testing is a routinely utilized intervention used to diagnose infections in symptomatic patients who arrive at the ED (Denno…

of the most important and essential features, which is also often used to create frustration to the hospital staff (health leaders, 2007). Therefore, it is important for the hospital to conduct a research study to determine if hourly rounding benefits patients’ fall. Call light usage and patient satisfaction and addressing the goals set forth by the Joint Commission to reduce the falls in the hospital where I work. This paper will formulate the research question and identify…

Accreditation affords many benefits for hospitals (Accreditation Guide, 2013). One of the most important accreditations comes from the Joint Commission. Joint Commission accreditation leads to national recognition of a hospital’s standards for excellence in healthcare, fulfills state licensing requirements, and can help the facility to positively influence its managed care contracts. Obtaining accreditation is not an easy task; the HIM department alone must submit a lengthy list of documents for…

Focus on “out-of-hospital” services in people’s homes and/or special care facilities Since the task of empowering patients is not easily achieved, we focused on a group of patients: patients who require care out of the hospital; for our purpose we focused on patients with chronic heart failure in particular on 2 groups, Post-Acute and patients affected by CHF under therapy at home not previously hospitalized. These patients require support from a group of people, medical and non-medical…

University Hospital Going by the acronym IUH, the Indiana University Hospital has its headquarters in the United State of Indiana. It easily emerges as one of the largest and most comprehensive healthcare system in Indiana. Its IU Health brand has 15 hospitals under its wings and employs about 30,000 employees. The IU Health is also famous due to its three Indianapolis hospitals deeply rooted in Indiana. These are Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health – the first state pediatric hospital, IU…

MRC is Mississippi’s only comprehensive rehabilitation hospital, featuring programs specifically designed to treat people who have has a stroke, brain injury, or spinal cord injury. They also provide services for people with neurological and orthopedic illnesses and injuries. MRC has, twice, been the only hospital in MS to be names one of America’s Best by U.S. New & World Report as well as, twice, named one of only 16 Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems in the nation. They have gained…