...August 6, 2015 Janice Chilton Facility Planning Houston Texans new ambulatory clinic in Cleveland, Texas will be opening soon. It will feature state of the art surgical center. The Houston Texans Ambulatory Clinic will be have outpatient same day surgery center and imaging center. Our Ambulatory Clinic will have an unveiling in the summer of June 2016. This paper will focus on regulatory requirements and the effects on design and equipment, color selection implication and noise issues, electronic item needs, examination of budget planning and cost estimates, description of stakeholders and implementation plan. Health care organization know the regulatory requirement and their effect on design and equipment, especially for ambulatory clinics. Outpatient clinic have beds that are devoted to “hotel function” the typical nursing units of hospital and the extensive dietetic and housekeeping area that accompanying them (WBDG,2014). The implementation is organized in three steps which are routine, predictive maintenance and preventive. Manager for this ambulatory facility will have contractor and city of Cleveland public health to provide what compliance and regulation on material used for the facility. The color selection is very important in an outpatient ambulatory clinic due to it can create an illusion of a higher ceiling or a wider room or facilitate cueing in way finding orientation. In our health setting, there are many functional uses , for example color separation...
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...what facility I choose and what the purpose is in the health care industry. Second, I will identify the population the uses the facility I chose in my research. Next, I will identify the key characteristics of the facility. Then I will explain to why I chose the facility type and then put it all together in my conclusion. The facility I chose to research is the Ambulatory Care Clinic. An ambulatory care clinic has a broad range of medical services available for patients. Having such an advanced technology in today’s healthcare, more doctors and other healthcare providers are having ambulatory care for their patients. Some places that offer the ambulatory care are in doctor offices, hospitals, or in an ambulatory surgery center and some procedures include the following: x-rays, blood tests, minor surgeries, endoscopy, biopsies, childbirth, and many more. The purpose of the ambulatory care clinic is to provide in and out, patient procedures safely and to save time and money for patients. It also prevents from infection to spread with since the patients are not staying overnight with infection can set in. The people that use the ambulatory are patients, staff, families, and the general human population. Both men and women use these services as well and all ages and different diversities. The population in today’s healthcare wants to go to an ambulatory care clinic because of the flexibility hours. The ambulatory care clinics are open more hours to serve multiple patients’ needs...
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...The main purpose for ambulatory care is to bring cheaper and easier access to health care. Patients no longer have to stay overnight in hospitals. Ambulatory care allows every patient to be treated like an outpatient. With ambulatory care, hospitals are not overcrowded and are not the only place to receive medical attention. Ambulatory care offers all kinds of different services that do not require major medical attention. Basically ambulatory care offers medical service for those that are poor and cannot afford hospital bills. Ambulatory care has cut the cost for those involved all around. I believe that ambulatory care is changing societies view on health care for the reason that health care has come a long way from where it used to be. Health care used to be only available through hospitals. Now day’s health care is available at a lower cost then what a hospital charges. Health care is now available through offices like clinics that have easy access for people who have low income. I think that society views health care as improving in many ways. One way that health care is improving is with their technology. Health care’s technology now allows patients to have a procedure done but not be kept as an inpatient. The health care service could always improve and there is belief that it will keep improving over time with new technology. Health care could improve its services by offering more services with actual doctors. Ambulatory care services like clinics often have ANRP’s,...
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...Ob\Gyn Ambulatory Services The American Marketing Association definition of marketing is “The process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of ideas, goods and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals.” (Lamb, Hair, & McDaniel, 2011) However the definition of healthcare marketing can differ slightly, but still has the same components. "Healthcare marketing is educating ourselves as to the wants and needs of our potential customers and, based on the knowledge we gain, educating our customers and offering them valued services that fulfill their needs when and where they need those services.” (Buckley, 2009) Marketing a healthcare entity has distinctive challenges that are not found in most organizations. The product is variable, there is not a true price−value exchange and the customer is not always a willing buyer. The healthcare industry is advancing in technology and increasing in competition every day. Patients have more choices than ever before. Providers need to market themselves to stand out from the competition and notify patients how they can offer the best possible care and experience. Today’s healthcare focus is on providing the best care but also on patient experience. The “4 P’s” product, price, place, and promotion are used to develop a marketing strategy that works. The four Ps Product, price, place and promotion are considered the four controllable variables used to define...
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... Table of contents page Case Study: Peace Memorial Hospital: Downtown health Clinic …….………………. 3 Executive Summary …………………………………………………………………….. 3 Environmental Aspects …………………………………………………………….. 5 Demographics …………………………………………………………………….. 5 Politics …………………………………………………………………….. 7 Competition …………………………………………………………………….. 8 Marketing …………………………………………………………………………….. 9 Objectives …………………………………………………………………….. 9 Strategies …………………………………………………………………….. 10 Tactics …………………………………………………………………………….. 10 Four Ps …………………….…………………………………………….. 11 Product …………………………………………………………… 11 Price …………………………………………………………………… 11 Place …………………………………………………………………… 11 Promotion …………………………………………………………… 12 Marketing Information Systems ……………………………………………. 12 Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………….. 13 References …………………………………………………………………………….. 14 Marketing Audit Case Study: Peace Memorial Hospital: Downtown health Clinic Peace Memorial Hospital (PMH) is one of six independent, nonprofit, general hospitals within its city limits. The hospital...
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...University of Phoenix Material Week 1 Health Care Terms Worksheet Understanding health care terms is a prerequisite for both academic and professional success. This assignment is intended to ensure you understand some of the basic terms used in this course. Complete the worksheet according to the following guidelines: In the space provided, write each term’s definition. You must define the term in your own words. In the space provided after each term’s definition, use the term in a sentence as it applies to the health care industry. You may wish to consider the following: * How has it influenced heath care? What role has the term played as health care developed over the years? * * Save the completed worksheet as a Microsoft® Word document with your name in the file name. * Submit the file to your facilitator. Submitted by: [Megan Hageman] Term | Definition | Use the term in a sentence as it applies to the health care industry. | Example: Electronic health records | Electronic health records are digital forms of entering and storing patient information. | My doctor entered the diagnosis into his laptop and told me that the information would go into my electronic health record. | HIPAA | HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, keeps health information confidential and protected. It also enables millions of American families to have insurance coverage. It reduces health fraud with electronic billing | I was given...
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...University of Phoenix Material Week 1 Health Care Terms Worksheet Understanding health care terms is a prerequisite for both academic and professional success. This assignment is intended to ensure you understand some of the basic terms used in this course. Complete the worksheet according to the following guidelines: In the space provided, write each term’s definition. You must define the term in your own words. In the space provided after each term’s definition, use the term in a sentence as it applies to the health care industry. You may wish to consider the following: * How has it influenced heath care? What role has the term played as health care developed over the years? * * Save the completed worksheet as a Microsoft® Word document with your name in the file name. * Submit the file to your facilitator. Submitted by: [Megan Hageman] Term | Definition | Use the term in a sentence as it applies to the health care industry. | Example: Electronic health records | Electronic health records are digital forms of entering and storing patient information. | My doctor entered the diagnosis into his laptop and told me that the information would go into my electronic health record. | HIPAA | HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, keeps health information confidential and protected. It also enables millions of American families to have insurance coverage. It reduces health fraud with electronic billing | I was given...
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...Funding Health Care Services Dr. Johnican HSA 500 Health Services Organization March 3rd, 2014 Funding Health Care Services Ambulatory services are the services offered to patients if they are to be accommodated within the compounds of the healthcare institution under professional nursing care because of the severity of their health or because of the recommendations of patients’ physician or surgeon (Williams, S. & Torrens, P. 2010). The patient is only there for a day and then is discharged for the facility. There are services that be provided in a day starting from registering the patient to providing them with medication. There many different kind of services that falls under ambulatory care such as outpatient clinics, urgent care centers, emergency rooms, ambulatory or same-day surgery centers, diagnostic and imaging centers, primary care centers, community health centers, occupational health centers, mental health clinics, and group practices. There has been an increase in the ambulatory care because it is inexpensive and more appropriate health care setting. It is hard for the health care personnel and patients to adjust because of the changing technology and complex reimbursement systems. There are spending costs involved in health care like money paid to health care providers in hospitals, outpatient centers, Veterans Affairs and other clinics, doctor and dentist practices, physical therapists, nursing homes, home health services and on-site care at places...
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...illness, like the flu, asthma attacks, broken bones, cuts requiring stitches and more, providing you a one-stop option for unscheduled, time-sensitive care. Urgent care centers represent a relatively recent development in the U.S healthcare. The urgent care Association of American defines the services these facilities offer as ambulatory care outside of a hospital emergency on a walk-in basis without a schedule appointment, many problems that can be seen in primary care doctor’s office some services that usually not available, things like x-ray’s and minor trauma treatment. The number of urgent clinics in the U.S was estimated to be as high as 20,000in the early 2000’s. (Howard P Greenwald, 2010). The association of urgent care almost half were owned by private profit seeking firms, 26% by hospital and 8% by multispecialty group practices or clinics. (Howard P Greenwald, 2010). The urgent care center serves as a market niche that’s orientated around the customer. Urgent cares does this by the consumers not having to make appointment at times they stay open late in the evenings and most of them open on the weekend. A positive look on urgent care clinic is that many consumer reports that they don’t have to wait week’s even months to get an appointment just to see their primary doctor. (Howard P Greenwald, 2010) And let’s not talk about emergency room visit because they are the same thing, you will be going into an overcrowded room and consumers are required a long wait time....
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...University of Maryland Ambulatory Care Center: Highlighting Issues and Solutions DeVry University HSM 420: Managed Care and Health Insurance \ Introduction The quality of care is measured through the patient receiving the care. The patient measures quality of care through needs and preferences, care given without unnecessary delays and healthcare is not affected by gender, race, age or income. The Surgical Clinic at the University of Maryland strives to meet these goals by providing stellar care in a facility given the Leapfrog award for over a decade. Through observation there were a few areas in which could use improvement. Patients wait times affect how the patient perceives the care given. Another major issue is the need for consistency, reassurance to the patient that although the same physician may not be treating you during each visit the physicians are familiar with your individual case. Patients often find the location of the clinic difficult to find within the hospital which causes frustration upon arrival. The availability of clinics can cause an issue for patients. Description The University of Maryland Medical Center Surgical Clinic is governed by an ambulatory services team with different scopes of practice, including Doctors, Nurses, Administrators and other Clinical staff. The clinic staffs the Practice Manager, three subspecialty Nurses, a Medical Assistant, a Practice Assistant also the Scheduling Coordinator. The University of...
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...Ambulatory Care is “medical provided on an outpatient basis, including diagnosis, observation, consultation, treatment, intervention and rehabilitation”. An Ambulatory Care facility would be considered a walk in and walk out. Ambulatory care setting consists of various elements that make it what it is. If considering going to an ambulatory care facility they different places that would include dialysis clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, and offices of physicians just to name a few beyond the numerous health professions. When entering into an ambulatory care facility the nurses, will be “acting as partners and advisers, assist and support patients and families to optimally manage their health care, respecting their culture and values, individual...
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...exceeding 12 hours)” is the standard…the increase of day surgery was driven by innovations in surgical and anesthetic techniques” available for the first time because of technology.(Gilliard, Eggli & Halfon, 2006, p.2). Ambulatory care facilities or outpatient facilities where patients can receive surgical procedures and treatments with little or no recovery required allows patients to go...
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...Healthcare Terms Alicia Jones HCS/235 June 17, 2012 Barbara Williamson Healthcare Terms Medicare- Medicare is a type of insurance that is mainly set in place for the elderly, over 65 years of age. You can also qualify for Medicare if you are under the age of 65 years old but you have a certain type of disability. There are four different parts of Medicare coverage. There is Part A which covers the patient’s hospital care, nursing homes, or home health care. With Part A insurance most people do not have to pay a premium. Part B covers the medical side of everything including doctors’ visits, medical equipment, and things of that nature. However, the patient does have to pay a premium each month with this type of insurance. Part C covers both Part A and B insurance. It does come with other benefits but most of the time people have to pay extra for those services. Part D covers prescription drugs. It helps a great deal with the cost of prescription drugs because they can really be costly for people. The fund to keep Medicare going is coming out of taxpayers’ checks every time they get paid. This is called FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act). They also get funding from copays, premiums, and deductibles. Medicaid- Medicaid is a type of insurance that is set in place for children, families with low income, pregnant women and other people who qualify. It was established in 1965 by President Johnson to help those that were in need. Medicaid is joined together with both...
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...Puce Health Clinic Case Analysis Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………3 Objective of the Report ………………………………………………..3-4 4P’S and STP…………………………………………………………..4-6 Market Analysis………………………………………………………..6 Competitors Analysis ………………………………………………….7-8 SWOT Analysis………………………………………………………...9 Recommendations………………………………………………………10 Conclusion………………………………………………………………10 Appendix A……………………………………………………………...11 Income Statement………………………………………………………..11 Puce Memorial Hospital (PMH) is, an independent, not-for-profit, general hospital located on the southern periphery of a major western city. Being debt free and dependent on inner city residents, the board of trustees authorized PMH to expand operations by adding an ambulatory facility in the downtown area ten blocks north of the hospital. Being open for 11 months now, Puce Health Clinic (PHC) has seen success by becoming self sufficient, increasing cliental, reducing bad debts by 2 % and minimizing the increase in their expenses. Sherri Worth, Assistant Administrator of PMH, has recognized a potential threat that could hurt their facility. Medcenter, a possible competitor, has been proposing to develop their own facility overlapping in service areas with PHC. This threat has the potential to take a third of PHC’s northern portion of personal illness patients and also 40% of potential personal illness patients in this area will go to the new location. After speaking to her boss Roger Mahon...
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...* * Evolution of Health Care Information Systems HCS/531 Organizations are always looking to become more successful and use resources more efficiently to meet the organizational goals. Information technology has helped develop many different industries by providing them with increased and new capabilities; the health care industry is the same. Health care has made vast improvements in the use of technology in the clinics to provide better more efficient patient care. The improvements have been seen both on the clinical medical systems and the administration of health care delivery. Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center has seen many changes of the past 20 years and has integrated technology to all areas of the information technology. Two major technological events in this facility over the past 20 years that have led to advancements of the organization were the implementation of the Composite Health Care System (CHCS) and the implementation of the EHR with the evolution of AHLTA. History of Health Care Information Systems Wilford Hall in the late 1980’s and the early 1990’s was the largest hospital in the United States Air Force and the one of only two trauma centers in the San Antonio regional area. With 9 floors of clinical space and providing all medical services from family practice to specialized services along with long term care, the mission was very fast paced. At this point technology had entered the organization but was in the very early stages...
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