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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Scorecard Solution at Peel Memorial Hospital | Case Analysis | | Thomas N. Bailey | 2/15/2011 | Kaplan University GB520 Term 1101D Unit 4 Introduction Prior to the 1990s‚ generous government funding allowed Canadian health care facilities to provide excellent service and quality. In the early 1990s‚ increasing health care costs have changed government funding‚ requiring providers to be more financially accountable. In the mid-1990s‚ hospitals and regional health authorities across
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NIGHTINGALE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL. RCA (ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS) FOR THE SENTINEL EVENT REPORT HAPPENED ON MAY 14‚ THURSDAY AT 9:00 AM. 1. SENTINEL EVENT DESCRIPTION. The pre-op nurse told the mother that once Tina (The patient)‚ a 3 years old child‚ went to the OR‚ her surgery would take about 45 minutes and then she would go to recovery and she would be there at least one hour
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QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM (QAP) MABINI GENERAL HOSPITAL JIGGER D.R. GILERA‚ M.D. QUALITY ASSURANCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN 2011 MISSION The Mabini General Hospital organization and healthcare professional desire is to provide the highest quality of care with minimal risk to client. VISION The Mabini General Hospital aspires to become the nations most comprehensive Quality Assurance Service Provider. INTRODUCTION Mabini General Hospital is committed to providing consistent‚ exceptional
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particular topic cannot be over emphasized. This is more so as the visits patients take to the hospitals require the need to keep records of their health statistics‚ in such a manner that they can be easily retrieved and updated in a concurrent and simultaneous manner‚ while health personnel who need to update these statistics could also do so easily via any workstation in the hospital. In developed societies‚ hospitals especially laboratories are equipped with computers to process patients samples and return
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Hospitals have always existed with the purpose of facilitating health care. However‚ our methods to amend suffering of the ill and wounded have improved dramatically in the last century. Unlike modern hospitals‚ alleviated by the help of revolutionary medicines such as penicillin and anesthesia‚ hospitals one hundred years ago were forced to proceed with unconventional methods of practice. The changes that have been implemented have served to produce more reputable results. Some of the very first
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welfare of their society. However‚ they did not treat sufferers of mental illnesses tenderly. They housed patients in the basement of the Pennsylvania Hospital which had a meager patient capacity. The few patients that were treated there were often shackled to walls. Pennsylvania Hospital eventually expanded to become its own facility‚ the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Although the Quakers administered cruel treatment‚ their work was a crucial step in the founding of more mental health facilities
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Hospital Supply Inc.: A quantitative analysis I. Introduction: Hospital Supply‚Inc.‚produced hydraulic hoists that were used by hospitals to move bedridden patients. The costs of manufacturing and marketing hydraulic hoists at the company’s normal volume of 3‚000 units per month are shown in Exhibit 1. EXHIBIT 1: Cost per unit for hydraulic hoists Unit manufacturing costs: Variable materials $550 Variable labor 825 Variable overhead 420
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Due to a patient near fatal accident‚ the children’s hospital and clinics were looking for any effort to provide a safety patient culture. Julie Morath was hired in 1999 to improve hospital operations; she wanted to make Safety the top priority of the hospital. Julie Morath directed and begun setting up the Patient Safety Initiative at Children’s Hospital and Clinics by making employees obtain the mindset of safety and building a culture. The key steps to her patient safety initiative were the
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Introduction Since its inception in 1975‚ Patton – Fuller Community Hospital has been dedicated to providing cutting-edge medical care to the people of Kelsey and the surrounding communities. PFCH is a for-profit hospital and is owned by physicians active at the facility. Quality patient care is the key to a hospital’s success and as shareholders in PFCH. The hospital has seven network diagrams divided into two areas; the first one is clinical areas‚ which include ERs and ORs‚ Pharmacy‚ Labs‚
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