multi-criteria assessment of available treatment technologies for infectious hospital waste: A case study for Southeast Asia Abstract Over the course of time various treatment technologies have evolved and are used to treat infectious hospital waste all over the world. The implemented and future treatment practices for infectious hospital wastes are discussed in current paper. It presents a review of the total hospital waste generated‚ and the percentage of infectious waste to be disinfected on a
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Western Governors University Joint Commission Compliance Audit Task 2 AFT2 Accreditation Audit By Cricket Besse 055895 Nightingale Community Hospital Sentinel Event Registrar‚ registered child (3 year old patient)‚ obtained insurance card and entered demographics. She was then taken to pre-op where the nurse told mother that once in the OR the surgery would take about 45 minutes and then she would go to recovery. The mother informed the pre-op nurse that once her daughter went
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Header: “What Makes a Top 100 Hospital” “What Makes a Top 100 Hospital?” Devry University Health Services Management 310 Introduction The Washington Hospital in Washington‚ Pennsylvania was one of the hospitals to make the top 100 list. The Washington Hospital is very successful not- for- profit community hospital because it helps out its community and provides a wide variety of jobs to the surrounding cities. The hospitals mission statement is “To provide
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HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTIONS - R. Howard‚ R. Lata‚ T. Tennekoon‚ R. Mirza & K.Yang Figure 1: Selected hospital acquired infections in Queensland‚ July-December 200814 • Introduction Hospital acquired infections‚ (HAI) also known as nosocomial infections refer to those infections that occur within 48 hours of hospital admission‚ 30 days of an operation‚ or 3 days of discharge10. Nosocomial infections can be quite traumatic and can have significant consequences to the patients16
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DRAFT Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS) For 51 to 100 Bedded Sub-District/Sub-Divisional Hospitals GUIDELINES (January 2007) Directorate General of Health Services Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Government of India 1 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Objectives of IPHS for Sub-District Hospitals 3. Definition of Sub-District Hospital 4. Grading of Sub-District Hospital 5. Functions 6. Essential Services 7. Physical Infrastructure 8. Manpower 9. Equipment 10. Laboratory Services 11. Recommended
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Introduction Princess Marina hospital (PMH) is a referral healthcare facility with 600 bed capacity‚ and it operates three theatres with seven operating theatres. From the theatre records it shows that it treats around 6‚000 patients per year. This only represents 65 percent of all scheduled elective surgeries compared to the 95 percent target set by the hospital. In order to improve this‚ management‚ decided to look at the efficiency and effectiveness of the system that affects patient care. A
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83 WHITTAKER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Edwin L. Makamson‚ Hampton University CASE DESCRIPTION The primary subject matter is strategy under adverse conditions for a small community hospital. The case examines operational‚ financial and market factors for strategy development. Issues of governance and stakeholder claims for a non-profit‚ community organization are also examined. As a student case analysis assignment the case is appropriate for an undergraduate capstone course in business policy presented
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9 Functions of the Hospital: 1. To provide care for the sick and injured: This can be done by accommodating them according to their physical condition and financial status. When we talk of physical condition‚ we mean that some patients are seriously ill and require admission in Intensive Care Unit while others are not so seriously ill and can be’ accommodated elsewhere (e.g. in deluxe room‚ single room with AC and without AC‚ semi-private room and general ward) according to their financial status
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1. What are the physicians trying to accomplish through buying the same EHR product at their hospital? What are the pros and cons? The Physicians are trying to accomplish a way to make it easier to get all of the patient’s records when they are needed. The benefits of buying the same EHR product are that they can write orders from their practices for patients who are in the hospital. The other benefit is that if there is an emergency or the physician is covering the emergency room they will be
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2007‚ page 95-115 DETERMINANTS OF COST EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HOSPITALS OF KARNATAKA STATE IN INDIA MAATHAI K. MATHIYAZHAGAN1 Abstract The main objective of this paper is to analyze the determinants of cost efficiency of public and private hospitals of Karnataka State in India. This is estimated through the parametric (stochastic frontier) and nonparametric (data envelopment) methods by using the Hospitals Facility Survey (2004) in Karnataka. The findings indicate that the choice of
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