Specialty Hospitals: A Problem or a Symptom? Specialty hospitals are not a new thing. However‚ as the number of specialty hospitals increases there is a question about their financial influence on the community hospitals. This paper discusses the results of two congressionally mandated reports on specialty hospitals. Main Concerns about Specialty Hospitals: 1. Clinical decisions made by physician-owners might be distorted by financial incentives 2. Specialty hospitals treat less
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The Healing Hospital – A Daring Paradigm Katherine Perona 02 June 2013 310HL-V – Spritiuality in Health Care Prof. Verree Laughlin The Healing Hospital – A Daring Paradigm 2 The medical community has reached a very important nexus in terms of providing care to the injured and infirm that find themselves in a hospital environment. The so-called Healing Hospital represents a radical shift
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction At a conference in 2012‚ Health Affairs Editor-in Chief Susan Dentzer affirmed‚ “It is well established now that one can in fact improve the quality of health care and reduce the costs at the same time” (Rickert‚ 2012). This is the principal concept of “patient centered care”. Health-care providers practicing patient centered care enhance not only patients’ medical outcomes‚ but increase patient satisfaction rates and improve the quality of the
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Hospitals are places of illness‚ suffering‚ and disease. They can also be places of compassion‚ loving‚ caring‚ and healing. A patient can go to different hospitals and they will receive the same treatment‚ but at some hospitals‚ patients feel better emotionally and physically after a stay‚ while some they feel worse emotionally and physically. This also holds true for different units at the same hospital. This is due to several factors‚ the main one being that some hospitals focus on mainly treating
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The crazy house‚ asylum‚ and jail‚ are all common names for the psychiatric hospital. Dating back to the medieval era‚ mental institutions have been around and they have each served their purpose; both good and bad. In Europe‚ London and England housed one hundred inmates in public asylums. Nowadays‚ these hospitals are given discreet names or are no longer in existence. Back then they had very harsh names such as Hospital for the Lunatics‚ and the Liverpool Lunatic Asylum. In the United States‚ Virginia
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VISIT TO A HOSPITAL INTRODUCTION: A visit to a hospital in a whole lot of experience in itself. During this summer‚ one of my Grandfathers was admitted to a hospital due to his illness. When I went to see him‚ I went to the hospital for the very first time in my life. My Grandfather was admitted in Billroth hospital. ENQUIRY: As I entered the hospital‚ I saw people going here and there. First I saw a temple on the right side of the entrance‚ on the left side a outpatient pharmacy.
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Betty Cronier Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V Debbie Whitler‚ BS‚ MA May 15‚ 2011 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm As stated by Erie Chapman “healing hospitals” are centers of love characterized by a myriad of wonderful encounters‚ many small and a few large (2011). This paradigm of such a caring concept focuses on removing stressors for patients‚ families and caregivers from the clinical environment. These stressors inhibit
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on The Scene at a Hospital by Anjana Mazumdar My friend has been lying ill in the Civil Hospital for some time past. I learnt about his illness only a few days back and‚ therefore‚ I decided to go and look him up. When I reached the hospital I found it a huge building consisting of several wings with a clock in the middle. The whole approach to the hospital was full of people waiting to be examined or waiting to see their relatives. When I entered the hospital through a big hall
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A healing hospital is built on the ancient tradition that love is at the center of healing. Within that framework‚ the Golden Thread – a symbol of our faith in God – requires that we strike a balance between the latest scientific advancements and the demands of the human spirit. As healthcare providers‚ we are called upon to tend to our patient’s heart and head. For a hospital to truly be healing‚ the Golden Thread must be continuous. As both healers and patients‚ it is the Golden Thread that connects
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Razak 56000 Cheras‚ Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. 19 January 2013 Request for a 3-day Hospital Attachment Regarding the matter above‚ I‚ Muhammad syafik B Badrul Hisham‚ a pre-medical student from Kolej Mara Banting would like to request for a hospital attachment at Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. 2. As I am going to pursuit my study in medicine in one year time‚ by doing this Hospital Attachment‚ I hope that I would be able to achieve the following objective: * It will
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