Psychiatric hospital

Hospitals are constantly facing challenges due to patients being frequently readmitted that is driven mostly by poor discharge planning, and inadequate follow-up care. The increase numbers of readmission put a higher demand on the hospitals, administration, and staff to find ways to reduce readmission by identifying patients’ barriers on admission. The program that I am presenting is Care Coordination. In an effort to decrease readmission rates, this role was created to combat the challenges…

outcomes of patient care while decreasing the length of stay and finally lowering costs to both the hospital and patients. Dashboards in Healthcare The Issue In the case study Executing Strategic Intent in the Era of Value-Based Care, Doctor Rich Boehler the president and chief executive officer of St. Joseph Healthcare from Nashua New Hampshire presented a webinar titled…

TRIPLE AIM AND A RURAL ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC: IT MATTERS Introduction Currently I am in a group practice situation alongside four other orthopedic surgeons in our practice. I am a nonsurgical sports medicine physician by profession and trained in evaluation and management of musculoskeletal conditions using non-surgical modalities like exercise, physical therapy, using braces/splints, and injections. This model of sports medicine physician and orthopedics surgeon has mutual complementary benefit…

INTRODUCTION: Comprehensive Primary Care plus is a five-year model that will begin in January 2017. CPC+ is an advanced primary care medical home model that aims to ensure care delivery design through a regionally based multi-payer payment reform. CPC+ includes two primary care practice tracks to deliver better care and improve health outcome. In the first track, the CMS would pay a risk adjusted monthly payment for each Medicare beneficiary’s care management services, in addition to fee for…

Having a HR audit working in a hospital has their good and bad sides. The good side about this is position is that they can choose applicants that are suitable for the job. On the other hand, there is negative side and it’s that doctors may see you as the worker that has the easy end of…

Amendment 106 Right to Die, passed in the state of Colorado in November 2016, and will go into effect early in 2017. This amendment was passed that allow patients that have a terminal disease, with less than six months to live, and still mentally competent to make medical decisions, to end their lives. The patients would be prescribed a large amount of a sleeping pill, that would allow for the patient to choose when they would like to die Ballot Pedia (2016). This amendment was originally…

During an era where mental health treatments were still rather primitive, Freud flourished as he developed a treatment style that was ahead of its time. In his article, “Recommendations to Physicians Practicing Psychoanalysis”, Freud discussed many necessities and ideas that therapists practicing within this framework should adhere to. Therefore, a comprehensive summary and interpretation will be conducted… Freud began the article with a disclaimer that essentially warned other physicians…

There is a gorgeous 4 bedroom two-story home located at 8500 S. Claiborne Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana. Every inch of this 1,919 squared foot home is outfitted with an impressive blend of styles, comfort, and quality. As you enter you will be greeted by a nicely remodeled interior with an open floor plan and stairs leading upstairs to 4 inviting spacious bedrooms. Some features of this home includes: ceramic tile, hardwood floors that are in the bedrooms, vaulted ceilings on the lower level of…

1.Discuss at least three components of hospice care. Then, compare these elements to other forms of life options. What form of end-of-life care would you want for yourself? Why? (SLO 4c: Chapter 6) Three different components of hospice care are the interdisciplinary hospice team, patient centered care, and pain control (Leming and Dickenson, 2016). The hospice team includes several levels of care centered on the patient and their family. Hospice emphasizes the patient making their own decisions…

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…