Results Demographic characteristics A total of 5‚617 patients were seen at Limbe Regional Hospital ED over the study period with 88.2% of these patients residing in the Limbe municipality (Table 1). The average age of patients was 26.8 years [CI: 26.4‚ 27.2] with a median age of 26 years [IQR: 19‚ 34]. The peak age incidence of injury was 20 to 29 years (36.5%) followed by patients aged 30-39 years (22.4%) and 10-19 years (15.3%) (Figure 1). About two-thirds of patients were male (67.6%) (Table
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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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story‚ I had gotten injured and still am dealing with it today and was not at all prepared to be hurt at all. No injury is good but good things have come from being injured. When the injury happened first I had received the injury‚ then taken to the hospital and finally I am still dealing with the injury. It was back in 2014 when I was injured by falling off a ledge while I was in the Army during a training event in Hawaii. I do not remember much of what happened when I fell because I blacked out
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as important as the arrival.” My journey began during my visit to the hospital at the age of eleven. I recall my visit was due my involvement in a car accident and was rushed to the hospital for care. I recall during my first couple of hours‚ I felt anxious and scared‚ but I left the hospital feeling happy and complete. I felt complete because it was through this visit that I knew what profession I wanted and that was to work in a hospital. At that time‚ I was not sure of what type of doctors there
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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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Virtual Physician Visits HCS 531 April 6‚ 2013 Dr. David Harrell Virtual Physician Visits Walmart is a store that offers a variety of products and services to its customers. Walmart has a pharmacy that offers many services such as a walk in clinic‚ Flu shots‚ a prescription program that can lower the cost of medications purchased at their pharmacy‚ generic medication‚ and a website full of important information concerning prescriptions and hazards (Walmart Inc.‚ 2013). In addition to these
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The Expansion of a Residency Program in the Waco VA Hospital By expanding the residency program already in place‚ the amount of patients seen could well cover the amount of people needing care. Cost The addition of 5 faculty would incur an additional $900‚000 for salary. However‚ residents are only paid around $65‚000 and work upwards of 80 hours a week. So the total cost for the addition of 50 residents would be around $3.25 million‚ however Medicare appropriates funds to help educate residents
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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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Faith Community Hospital Case Study Executive Summary The mission statement of Faith Community Hospital Mission states‚ With the foundation and commitment to our spiritual heritage and values‚ our mission is to promote the health and well being of the people in the communities we serve through a comprehensive continuum of services provided in collaboration with the partners who share the same values. However‚ Faith Community Hospital is not living up to its mission statement. To the contrary
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In Carol Taylor’s 1970 book In Horizontal Orbit: Hospitals and the Cult of Efficiency‚ it is argued that the built environment of a hospital has the ability to define a hospital inhabitant’s personhood. "The hospital takes custody of the patient’s person‚ arranges to charge the patient for services rendered . . .sees to it that the patient is cared for and fed . . . and schedules the patient’s journeys to and from machines that will be used to diagnose and treat him." Reference - double click to
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