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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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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FUNCTIONS OF THE HOSPITAL Hospital administration functions can be classified into three broad categories: 1. Medical - which involves the treatment and management of patients through the staff of physicians. 2. Patient Support - which relates directly to patient care and includes nursing‚ dietary diagnostic‚ therapy‚ pharmacy and laboratory services. 3. Administrative - which concerns the execution of policies and directions of the hospital governing discharge of support services in the area
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February 27‚ 2013 Infected Hospitals If someone were very sick or injured in some way‚ a good place to take him or her would be the hospital. Hospitals help people and save lives. Everyone knows that hospitals save lives and want to help people. They’ve been around forever. Some of the earliest documented institutions that were aiming to provide cures and help date back to the Egyptian temples. Hospitals are supposed to be clean and safe‚ but inspections of hospitals don’t even measure cleanliness
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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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Federal and Specialty Hospitals. 2-A: Inpatient Hospital Unit Data - General Acute Care Only. Beds Set Up & Staffed‚ Admissions‚ Days of Care‚ and Occupancy Rates for each of 18 inpatient units. 2-B: Inpatient Hospital Unit Data - Same as 2-A for Federal and Specialty Hospitals. 3-A: Discharges and Discharge Days by Age Group - General Acute Care Only. 3-B: Discharges and Discharge Days by Age Group - Same as 3-A for Federal and Specialty Hospitals. 4: Emergency services capability and utilization
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examines the patient and in some cases the GP will refer the patient to the hospital. In the hospital the person will be examined by a doctor and maybe there’s a surgery. After the surgery he needs to go to the local pharmacist for his medicines. The pharmacist sends him a bill. The payment of this bill will be arranged between the patient and the health insurer. 5. Four external factors that influence the costs of the hospital are: If the government doesn’t invest in the healthcare‚ If the prices
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Hospital Hygiene As Hospital Director‚ many actions need to be taken when it comes to keeping this hospital safe and free from bacteria as possible. Many infection control measure should be taken‚ and it is not an issue that should be taken take lightly. Many things will be implemented into the building of this hospital to prevent and reduce the risk of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs). One measure that will be taken to prevent HAIs is installing copper‚ bronze‚ and brass fixtures throughout
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Yesterday‚ I followed my father to visit my uncle who was hospitalised at a private hospital. We left home at about 5.00 p.m. and reached the hospital at 6.15 p.m. The private hospital was a new hospital. It was opened two months ago. My uncle suffered from chronic diabetes. Two days ago he came to the hospital for his regular check-up but the doctor had to admit him because his sugar level was very high. The doctor had to monitor him all the time. He would be allowed to go home once his sugar level
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Hospital is a place where we find only the sick and the disabled. The smells of medicines‚ the sight of the doctors and nurses running here and there‚ and wheelchairs rolling from one end of the hospital to another is all that we see in a hospital. The aura is ever so depressing and disheartening. Some people even get nausea or faint with the effect of the pungent smells hanging in the very air of the hospital premises. Once when my grandfather was very seriously ill‚ and was hospitalised I
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