For some of the most common conditions treated in hospitals‚ as many as one in five patients is readmitted within 30 days of his/her discharge‚ reports the Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Being readmitted has consequences. For one‚ readmissions cost Medicare an estimated 17.5 billion a year‚ as hospitals bill the government for the care. But the toll readmission takes on patients and their families is incalculable. “The most important problem of readmission is not the cost‚ but
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Scorecard Solution at Peel Memorial Hospital | Case Analysis | | Thomas N. Bailey | 2/15/2011 | Kaplan University GB520 Term 1101D Unit 4 Introduction Prior to the 1990s‚ generous government funding allowed Canadian health care facilities to provide excellent service and quality. In the early 1990s‚ increasing health care costs have changed government funding‚ requiring providers to be more financially accountable. In the mid-1990s‚ hospitals and regional health authorities across
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NIGHTINGALE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL. RCA (ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS) FOR THE SENTINEL EVENT REPORT HAPPENED ON MAY 14‚ THURSDAY AT 9:00 AM. 1. SENTINEL EVENT DESCRIPTION. The pre-op nurse told the mother that once Tina (The patient)‚ a 3 years old child‚ went to the OR‚ her surgery would take about 45 minutes and then she would go to recovery and she would be there at least one hour
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Winterbourne View Hospital Winterbourne View Hospital was a 24-bed hospital that was registered to provide assessment‚ treatment and rehabilitation for people with learning disabilities and autism. Unfortunately‚ instead of protecting patients form any abuse‚ staff was proven to mistreat and abuse the service users. These events first came to light in May 2011. Prompted by concerns raised by a former staff member‚ a journalist working for the BBC managed to get a job in that hospital. Using a hidden
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SOUTHSIDE TEAM CASE STUDY South Street hospital is one of the most popular and patient centric hospitals in the area‚ but they are having issues with customer service due to their call center. A patient was harassed and made to feel as if he wouldn’t be treated unless he brought his payment in full‚ and a doctor in the hospital has also experienced this issue. That experience turned the patient off from coming in for a needed procedure. From what I gather there are three main areas that have broken
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particular topic cannot be over emphasized. This is more so as the visits patients take to the hospitals require the need to keep records of their health statistics‚ in such a manner that they can be easily retrieved and updated in a concurrent and simultaneous manner‚ while health personnel who need to update these statistics could also do so easily via any workstation in the hospital. In developed societies‚ hospitals especially laboratories are equipped with computers to process patients samples and return
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Hospitals have always existed with the purpose of facilitating health care. However‚ our methods to amend suffering of the ill and wounded have improved dramatically in the last century. Unlike modern hospitals‚ alleviated by the help of revolutionary medicines such as penicillin and anesthesia‚ hospitals one hundred years ago were forced to proceed with unconventional methods of practice. The changes that have been implemented have served to produce more reputable results. Some of the very first
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welfare of their society. However‚ they did not treat sufferers of mental illnesses tenderly. They housed patients in the basement of the Pennsylvania Hospital which had a meager patient capacity. The few patients that were treated there were often shackled to walls. Pennsylvania Hospital eventually expanded to become its own facility‚ the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Although the Quakers administered cruel treatment‚ their work was a crucial step in the founding of more mental health facilities
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BAD Starkist Tuna is now owned by Korea ‚ and is in big conflict with the U.S. Concerning quality‚ safety‚and records‚ which Korea refuses to provide. There have been several articles on Google about this‚ and even one that was defending the eating of tilapia said to avoid the fish that came from China . Also‚ I had just returned home from buying Albertson’s 4-day special of 4 bags of frozen tilapia for the price of one. Sure enough‚ on the top of the bags‚ it read "farm raised"‚ and
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upsetting anybody else. Bear in mind that your car is not a public place. If you decide to pick your nose on the commute to work‚ people in other vehicles on the freeway will see you digging for gold. 2. Gross Eating A lot of people cannot abide bad table manners. They get offended if someone chews with their mouth open‚ talks while eating‚ clangs the cutlery against their teeth‚ or makes vile noises when masticating. Nobody wants to hear the noise of food slopping around inside your mouth‚ or
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