Design of a Hospital Bed The topic discussed showed the application of electronic‚ mechanical and programming knowledge to improve a hospital bed that allows it to be an automated lateral turning bed. The research was done due to the lack of funds and budget of Philippine Hospitals to provide patients with a turning bed that is very expensive for them. The paper showed several functions like turning the bed into a certain angle‚ making it automatic‚ that can be controlled using the control panel
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Professor and Class‚ When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) came up with the idea that hospitals will not be reimbursed for preventable infections‚ I said to myself‚ someone is finally listening. Many hospitals have failed to adhere to their own protocols. Because of non-reimbursement issues‚ hospitals have clamped down on violators and implemented various committees to oversee those areas in question. For example‚ Foley catheters are now been removed promptly post operatively
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Arnold Palmer Hospital is one of the largest hospitals for women and children in the U.S which founded in 1989. Arnold Palmer Hospital was ranked one of the nation’s Top 30 pediatric hospitals for heart care and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report‚ in their 2008 edition of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals. Arnold Palmer Hospital is the only hospital in the central area with an emergency/trauma department dedicated to pediatric patients. The hospital’s Congenital Heart
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Contracting Specialist position is a single point of failure for Naval Hospital Bremerton and does not have a secondary backup for continuity. In order to maintain “Highly Reliable” contract business practices‚ audit readiness‚ inspection readiness and achievement of above par metrics‚ it is essential that the Contract Specialist position should be funded‚ preventing any contract lapse‚ delays or impediment involving hospital operations or patient care. - The incumbent in this position provides
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health care. Hospital administrators do face a great pressure in looking for methods to deliver healthcare services effectively and efficiently. According to Ross (1995)‚ an efficiency measure is a tool to assist in healthcare planning and development. The definitive objective of performance measurement mechanism is to support and accomplish the hospital mission‚ vision and goal. To promote and achieve the hospital’s goal‚ the evaluation processes need to be done broadly. As a hospital administrator’s
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If someone is going to work in the medical field especially in a hospital‚ then it is important to stay up to date with changes. CMS developed a challenge for all hospitals and that is hospital readmission prevention. No one is aware of the impact a readmission(s) can have on a hospital until they receive the penalty. As any future health care administrator‚ it is important to understand all aspects of changes made through the government. This topic sparked an interest due to the impact and decision
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the Albacore community and Hospital Bass. First‚ there are the patients‚ whose interests are to be treated with the best possible care by the hospital staff. Therefore‚ it is important to understand that the patients are considered to be the primary stakeholders (Community Toolbox‚ n.d.). Without patients Hospital Bass would not exist because patients create revenue‚ which allow hospitals to stay open. The interests of the patients are the number one concern for Hospital Bass. The patients’ interests
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Gulf Coast Hospital Eva Michelle Carlin HCS/533October 20‚ 2014 Dr. Kevin Lett Gulf Coast HospitalThe Gulf Coast Hospital‚ a 350-bed facility‚ is located in New Orleans‚ Louisiana along the Gulf coast. The Gulf coast has been hit with numerous hurricanes and tropical storms and in 2005 Katrina hit land. Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 season and made her way onto the shores of the Gulf coast on the morning of Monday‚ August 29
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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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Navos Psychiatric Hospital Navos Psychiatric Hospital is like a human zoo‚ unlike any other hospital in Seattle. The patients at Navos are street folks that society has locked up and caged like wild tigers running loose on the prairie. No one patient is like the next patient; they’re all different like night and day. Some patients come in slobbering like a babies‚ who are teething‚ and unable to put any words together to form complete a sentence. Some come here strapped to gurneys with their
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