The City Main Hospital Cochin‚ was incurring losses inspite of its rising popularity and increasing number of outdoor patients. The management had been thinking of doing something to solve the problem. As the major burden of the heavy cost was due to the surplus manpower‚ the simplest solution‚ according to the Hospital’s Executive Director‚ was to reduce staff‚ especially‚ from the nursing department. The hospital had five floors. The fifth floor was meant for keeping chronic and old age patients
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tell her parents of the bad new they are devastated and imminently rush to the hospital to be by there only child side as she is being rolled out of the surgery room she is laced into the intensive care unit her parents get a good gimps of there child before the doctor pulls them aside to tell them the she is in a grave conditional and might not make it out of the hospital alive. Although her body is lifeless on the hospital bed her spirit is wondering freely and confused among her parents she is lost
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TUI UNIVERSITY John A. Voorhees Module 2 Case OPM 300: Introduction to Operations Management Dr. Joseph Michael Thomas 21 December 2011 Arnold Palmer Hospital The flowchart that Diane designed is perfect. Diane’s flowchart explains the process in detail of how Arnold Palmer Hospital began the procedure. Being Diane’s new assistant‚ we can improve the flowchart by being more precise. The flowchart can be presented in small point and explain the process and flow of maternity patients.
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Ever since I was a kid‚ I’ve always saw hospitals as a scary‚ evil place that takes away a person’s life. To me‚ once you entered‚ you’d never come back out. I thought of it as the grim reaper in the form of a building. The reason I believed this was because I would ask about one of my mom’s adult friends and she’d tell me that they went to the hospital but they won’t be coming back. Unexpectedly‚ my view on the hospital has since changed at the age of ten. It was a night that I heard a high pitched
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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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Objectives: To determine the prevalence of malnutrition and whether the malnourished participants were being identified and documented as malnourished. To evaluate the impact of poor documentation on financial reimbursement to the hospital. Subjects: Three hundred and twenty-four inpatients from a total of 690 randomly selected patients consented to participate in the study. Design and setting: Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) was used to assess the nutritional status of inpatients. There were
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health care process itself. Also‚ the use of reusable equipment/supplies‚ invasive devices or techniques (catheters‚ valves‚ etc.). Patients in a hospital setting are also exposed to more drug resistant strains of microbes; as in this setting the microbes are selected at a higher rate than outside the hospital due to antibiotic usage in the hospital. NI usually involve the urinary tract‚ respiratory tract‚ surgical incision sites‚ and blood; again usually points of entry/exit from the human body
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Saying psychiatric hospital facility policies need to improve significantly is an understatement. During my eight-day stay at Clarion Psychiatric Center‚ located in western Pennsylvania‚ was one of the worst experiences in my life. I know staying in a psychiatric center wasn’t a life or death situation but‚ the horrid experience was certainly a catalyst to my reoccurring nightmares. Hitherto‚ I still have nightmares of being sent back to the psychiatric center. While I was there‚ I could have almost
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Hospital Emergency Room Overload As the name implies‚ the purpose of hospital emergency rooms is to provide quick and expert medical treatment for urgent and life threatening medical problems. The truth of the matter is that patients seek the ER for a variety of illnesses and injuries. They can range from catastrophic to as minor as a young child running his/her first fever. The downfall to this is that those patients who are truly not suffering from life threatening situations are taking
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Dr. James is a consultant and specialist in Surgery at Mercy Hospital. The interview took place at his office in Mercy Hospital. The interview focused on his career‚ why he chose the field of medicine‚ various challenges experienced in his career‚ his day to day activities and how he dealt with emergencies and stress due to the workload. Why did you choose to be a doctor? Dr. James chose a career in medicine because he wanted to help ailing people. He grew up in a village where access to medical
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