Case of Perpetual Mercy Hospital Problem The broad focus of this case is one of strategy planning. Perpetual Mercy Hospital has to determine the best course of action to help the Downtown Health Clinic achieve its stated objectives of expanding the hospital’s referral base‚ increasing referrals of privately insured patients‚ establishing a liaison with the business community‚ and becoming self-supporting within three years of its opening. This last objective is jeopardized by the possibility
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Medication discrepancies at the point of hospital discharge are a common occurrence [1-3]. A recent study reported that 41.3 % of patients had at least one unintentional medication discrepancy at hospital discharge‚ and 55.3 % were at risk for potential unintentional discrepancies involving incomplete or omitted prescription drug records [3]. In addition‚ a randomized controlled trial among 851 discharged cardiac patients concluded that about half of the patients (50.8 %) experienced clinically important
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management purposes‚ an emergency is entered in the appointment book as “unscheduled.” c. If kept‚ an appointment yields a visit with the doctor specified in the appointment. The visit yields a diagnosis and‚ when appropriate‚ treatment. d. With each visit‚ the patient’s records are updated to provide a medical history e. Each patient visit creates a bill. Each patient visit is billed by one doctor‚ and each doctor can bill many patients. f. Each bill must be paid. However‚ a bill may be
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GROUP MEMBERS | | | | | | 24x7 WE CARE FOR YOU ABSTRACT This project is aimed at developing a platform where all the hospitals‚ doctors and the ambulance services within a fixed area are brought under a single online application. Here anyone can access the application from anywhere at any time. The database stores the details of all the hospitals and doctors along with their specializations and consulting time slots. At once a person get access to this application all his previous
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Patrick Fitzgibbons MBA 528 Case #2 11/17/2014 Mt. Sinai hospital is a Non-Profit hospital located on the West Side of Chicago that has in recent years faced increasing volumes of patients‚ demographic changes in their client’s‚ and increasing economic pressure. As a non-profit Mt. Sinai has a responsibility to provide affordable and quality care to individuals in the community despite their economic situation. This means relying increasingly on Medicaid as well as providing care to individuals
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(Observations) Banner Good Samaritan Hospital: The halls reeked with fear; there was an ominous feeling in the air. The rooms were constantly being occupied‚ up and down‚ up and down; people‚ doctors‚ and patients strolled around. The looks on their faces displayed various emotions that cannot simply be explained with words. Today had not been my greatest day‚ and clearly I wasn’t the only going through a tough time. I couldn’t help but notice‚ how shady the hospital actually felt and looked. I simply
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HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CASE STUDY The Aravind Eye Hospital‚ Madurai‚ India In Service for Sight Professor V. Kasturi Rangan Rev: June 7‚ 1993 Harvard Business School N9- 593- 098 Rev June 7‚ 1993 The Aravind Eye Hospital‚ Madurai‚ India: In Service for Sight I (the casewriter) arrived early at 7.00 a.m. at the outpatient department of the Aravind Eye Hospital at Madurai‚ India. My sponsor‚ Thulasi (R.D. Thulasiraj‚ hospital administrator) was expecting me at 8.00 o’clock‚ but I came
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The Aga Khan University Hospital‚ Karachi Organization Accredited by Joint Commission International Fact Sheet Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) is the principal teaching site of Aga Khan University (AKU) in Karachi‚ the first private international university in Pakistan. The University is an academic centre of Aga Khan Development Network‚ a group of development agencies‚ institutions and programmes that work primarily in developing countries of Asia and Africa. AKUH started operations in
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Starting as a small hospital‚ the Shouldice Hospital has had a rather long history since the end of the Second World War. And At the time of his death in 1965‚ the founder Dr. Shouldice’s longtime associate‚ Dr. Nicholas Obney was named surgeon-in-chief and chairman of the board of Shouldice Hospital Limited and under his leadership‚ the volume of activity continued to increase‚ reaching a total of 6‚850 operations in the 1982 calendar year. And primaries represented approximately 82% of all hernias
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This case study examines the findings for a patient admitted to Littleton Hospital in February 2016. This patient was initially radiographed on February 8th and again on February10th‚ 2016‚ when the radiology department received orders for a portable chest x-ray for an 82-year-old patient in the ICU. Two days prior‚ she had received a chest x-ray‚ post-thoracentesis. At that time‚ the radiologist‚ Dr. Orlin Hopper noted “a moderate right-sided pneumothorax” (2016). Upon review of the second set of
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