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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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Healing hospitals are being built with the intention of providing patients with a calm‚ quiet‚ visually pleasing‚ and stress-free therapeutic environment‚ while providing advanced technologies and excellent care. The healing hospital paradigm focuses on providing holistic care by improving the patient’s physical‚ mental‚ and spiritual well-being (Eberst‚ 2008). When new hospitals are being built‚ the focus is on how many beds it will hold‚ where they will be located
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thematerials managed in a hospital‚ and the ones in an engineering manufacturingorganisation. Once the classificatory system is in operation‚ and the policies arestated‚ a computer programme will help automation by working out the inventory levels‚ order quantity and order date. This is followed by two chapters which are case studies related to the samesubject by Dr A.V. Srinivasan‚ ‘Hospital Stores Organisation and Pharmacy’ and‘Selective Systems of Materials Management in a Hospital—Case Illustration’
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as compared to that of a typical hospital? A. The hospital focused on this new procedure for treatment of external types of abdominal hernias. Some differentiating features of the Shouldice process were the arranging of abdominal muscles into three distinct layers‚ reinforcing the abdominal wall with six rows of sutures and did not involve any insertion of screen and mesh under the skin. Beyond the surgical procedure‚ it was the service process of the hospital that differentiated it from others
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Huntsville Hospital (HH)‚ located in Northeast Alabama‚ is part of the Huntsville Hospital Health System‚ originating in downtown Huntsville‚ Alabama in the late 1800’s. As the not-for-profit‚ public hospital system developed‚ HH became the second largest employer in Madison County‚ Alabama with an estimated 7000 employees‚ 2000 nurses and 1000 physicians. Nine separate campuses constitute the Huntsville Hospital Health System representing more than 1500 hospital beds‚ a level 1 trauma center
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Hospital Orientation: An Evaluation of the Process Lee Anne Squires‚ RN‚ BSN Abstract New graduates will most assuredly go through a great deal of stress as they transition from student to professional nurse. Because of these stressors‚ there is a large turnover in newly hired nurses. Using a convenience sample of registered nurses who had graduated in the past six months‚ this descriptive study asked nurses to evaluate the effectiveness of their hospital orientation training. Because nurse
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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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Advantages of Wireless Networks in a Hospital Jeffrey Rader When healthcare adapted to wireless networks‚ it provided so many efficient ways of promoting a greater care for the patient. Although having some drawbacks with the technology‚ which will be discussed later in this writing. The combination of wireless and healthcare can provide many advances and solve many issues that have plagued the field in the past. Effectiveness of wireless networks allows the nurse and doctor to send a prescription
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Analysis of Apollo Hospitals in India Hospital at Hyderabad Vs Chennai After the success of the hospital at Chennai‚ Dr. Reddy expanded to Hyderabad. After a slow pickup which included losses for the first four years‚ the hospital finally seemed to have picked up by making a profit of Rs. 100‚478‚000 in the year 1994. But on closer examination of the financial statements‚ we can see that the apparent profit is actually due to interest waiver given by the financial institutions‚ as well as a result
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A1 The Organization Hospital X was founded in 1921 by four doctors who realized that medical advances were making it impossible for physicians to work alone. The doctors felt that gathering physicians and laboratories into one facility would lower overhead costs allowing patients from any walk of life the care they could afford. As Hospital X has grown‚ it now includes over 100 facilities and 51‚000 employees in 3 countries. As Hospital X has expanded‚ it is still guided by the same principles
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