Teaching hospital

People today are taking the initiative to improve their daily lives. They are working out, eating healthy, and trying to do activities that will relieve stress and make their lives better. One of the initiative that the people take to improve their lives which is getting cosmetic surgery. “In 2013 there were more than over 15.1 million cosmetic surgery procedures, this is an 3% increase from 2012”(2013 Plastic Surgery Statistics, n.d., p. 5). The number of procedure is increasing as time passes,…

of my time. The hospital is conveniently located between several towns and cities, making it beneficial in regards to travel time. The hospital is centered between houses and apartment buildings, making it easier for patients to take public transportation or even walk to the center. An important aspect of this medical center is that it serves a large part of the Newark community. Newark is an tremendously large city and it has one of the busiest hospitals, so Clara Maass hospital is able to…

Summery of Are housestaff identifying malnourished hospitalized medicine patients? By Michael A. Mitchell, Donald R. Duerksen, and Adam Rahman Hospitals have a percentage of “40%-60%”(Mitchell, 2014, p.1192) of patients admitted with malnutrition. The “nutritional and functional status” has plummeted leaving elderly patients to increase their stay. Malnourished patients are more susceptible to infections, which lead to “impaired wound healing”(Mitchell, 2014). Regardless of its “high prevalence…

Sara Monopoli’s death was peaceful but her process of dying was a struggle. In her process of treatment, she became frail. Her treatments had made her more ill than better and her quality of life had declined. All of Sara 's physicians were working toward saving her life. However, none of them really knew when to stop treating her aggressively. Sara, her family, and her doctors, wanted to fight and do all that can be done to get her well. They were fighting so hard that they might have…

the time frame. The over arching finding of this study suggests, “frailty may be a risk factor for dehydration in these patients and highlights the impor-tance of formally assessing older patients for dehydration at admis¬sion to the hospital and throughout their hospital stay” (McCrow et al., 2016, p.…

triage process for the fast track patients that would affect the frequency and occurrence of patients who leave without being seen at Lenox Hill hospital emergency room. This is a concern for the department because the emergency department accounts for half of the admission to the hospital, and high volume of patients LWBS cause a loss of revenues for the hospital. The emergency room at Lenox Hill…

effectiveness. The healthcare industry is no different and requires both types of employees to function at a highly effective and efficient rate. When looking at different line activities and staff activities one of the most important departments in a hospitals support network is Risk Management. According to Marquette University (n.d.), risk management is defined as “the continuing process to identify, analyze, evaluate, and treat loss exposures and monitor risk control and financial…

Front Street Hospital: Uninsured Charges and Collections (pg. 237 of Cases in Healthcare Finance, 5th edition) It is quite clear from the text’s exposition on the policy, billing, and collection habits of certain not-for-profit hospitals that serious injustices were being committed against uninsured patients. These injustices were primarily financial in nature – although physical and psychological trauma almost always followed – and they reveal the systematic nature of the abuse. By setting…

termination of a physical restraint are vital in the prevention of sentinel events. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (TJC), both established a precise standard for appropriate use of restraints to “help hospitals that experience serious adverse events, improve safety… as well as evaluation of corrective actions, is essential to reduce risk and prevent patient harm” (TJC, 2016). Although it varies from state to state or facilities, improving the…

Various HMO models (Staff, Group, & Network) Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) have been around since the 20th century. They were not made to operate as they do currently in today’s world until the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 set federal rules on how the operations of HMO should be conducted. HMO’s have various models, but despite the model, in each HMO, the employer pays the monthly premium for the HMO service, which reduces the overhead for employees seeking medical help.…