...worst health indicators, with high rates of cancer, obesity and death due to heart disease and stroke. Kentucky is one of the poorest states in the nation with more than half of the state medically underserved, especially in poverty-stricken areas where there is a shortage of doctors. It is projected that in ten years, Kentucky will have a major shortage of doctors to care for and cover the area. It’s too big of an issue to go unnoticed by all healthcare affiliates in the state. Kentucky One Health, formerly Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare, Saint Joseph Health System, along with the University of Louisville Hospital and James Graham Brown Cancer Center, has made it a goal to improve the health of Kentucky. Jewish Hospital sets in downtown Louisville Kentucky and was founded in 1905. Jewish Hospital is a non-profit organization and is highly known for many firsts such as the first in hand transplants along with being one of the first in AbioCor™ Implantable Replacement Heart transplant. “Today, Jewish Hospital is a 462-bed, internationally renowned, high-tech tertiary referral center, developing leading-edge advancements in a vast number of specialties and services” (Jewish Hospital, 2015). It is believed that for the people of Kentucky to continue to receive quality care and to be the leader in healthcare services, Jewish Hospital HealthCare Services (Jewish Hospital & St Mary’s Elizabeth) needed to merge with Catholic Health Initiatives (St Joseph Health Systems)...
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...and Data Management in Hospital University of Phoenix HCS/482 Adverse Trend and Data Management in Hospital The flow chart in the appendix 1 provides a comprehensive analysis of the adverse trend and data management that could occur within my organization. In depth, the research would evaluate patients’ healthcare and whether it is provided in an accurate and professional manner. To gather facts and information about the management in hospital, this research would follow up various steps. First, the research would evaluate how healthcare providers administer medical care and whether or not patients receive adequate support that boosts their well-being. Second, the study would evaluate whether the care provided in the hospital aligns with the medical standards. Conducting this research would create a strong platform to understand the past and present management and further work hard to eliminate any activity, condition, or medical errors that would hinder quality healthcare. Research Questions It is a well-documented fact that, quality medical care is of essence in reducing high mortality rates that occur as a result of poor medication and services provided (Flores, Win & Susilo, 2010). With this in mind, this research would investigate various factors that hinder healthcare providers from administering quality healthcare. To fully gather facts and information, this research would answer the following questions; do patients receive quality care and what attributes to...
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...Health Care Museum Latesha Leftwich Health Care Delivery in the U.S. - HCS235 June 17, 2013 Elaina Mahlan, Facilitator Health Care Museum The United States health care system did not always exist and before 1920, most people did not have health care treatment. In order to understand our current healthcare system you need to know about the history of healthcare, how it started, and its evolution. In my research, you will learn about the history of and present usage of the American Medical Association, hospitals, nurses, Medicare/Medicaid, and the HMO Act of 1973. Exhibit A: The American Medical Association The American Medical Association (AMA) came about to make sure that traditional medicine and scientific concepts was used in colleges that deemed themselves as medical schools (Encyclopedia, 2001). A group of doctors who were a part of different local and state associations formed the AMA. They thought that medical education was not keeping up on a national level, that there were no consistent curriculums, and that medicine was not about healing arts associated with mystic beliefs (Encyclopedia, 2001). Since its start, the AMA has closed huge gaps in how medical students are taught and how healthcare is delivered (Lazarus, J. 2013). I believe that the AMA should be a part of my museum because without the AMA science would not have been applied to healthcare and without those sciences how would we have developed in the knowledge of healthcare today? The AMA is committed...
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...VA department works with. The CBT was originally developed to treat depression. (A. T. Beck, 1967; A. T. Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979) now it’s mostly used to treat anxiety disorders. Other things like the VERSA system were created to connect those veterans with disabilities or conditions that were service related. This system also has many different stipulations. For example resources for the coming year are allocated according to the number of the veterans seen in that region in the previous years. Under VERA, resource allocation veterans seen can be adjusted for geographic differences in labor costs and resource allocation is also based on how sick the patients are in each region. This is done because of how costly treatments are. The VERA system was developed with several goals in mind, like making sure the allocation system is simple and predictable. The VERA system as originally conceived has several characteristics worth noting. First, the VA’s annual budget is a fixed sum. In addition, the system creates incentives to minimize the costs of treating patients. Because patient classification under VERA could be influenced by patients’ use of services, the VERA can be influenced by the patients like allowing longer hospital stays. In addition, the system creates incentives to minimize the costs of treating patients. Because if the resources allocated to one region were increased at least some of the other regions would suffer a decrease in their own allotment. The mission...
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...HealthCare System in CHINA HADM 5032 Amrutha Kurakula 03/29/2015 UHCL HONESTY CODE “I will be honest in all my academic activities and will not tolerate dishonesty.” Submission of this exam/assignment certifies my compliance with the UHCL Honesty Code that I signed at the start of the semester. I pledge on my honor that I have complied with this policy, inclusive of not acquiring unauthorized information or assistance, not providing others with unauthorized information or assistance, avoiding...
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...Health Status and Health Care Services in Germany With Comparison to the United States Petra Stewart HSM 310 Tammy Cagle February 20, 2011 Health care Insurance is one of the most debated topics in the country today due to ever rising costs and the lack of coverage for the patient. The are halth plans in other countries which work for their population that the United States could take a look at to enquire if leaning towards their plans would be a step into the right direction for the United States. Germany for example has a well working social system and private insurance system that provides excellent care of their population. Germany is able to provide good health insurance to any citizen in the country from the moment they are born. The Insurance Company has a liaison in the hospital that will prepare all needed forms and paperwork to give to the mother the day after she gives birth to her child. The only thing “Mom” has to do is sign the paperwork and continue to rest. The hospital and the insurance company are taking care of the all the paperwork and fine print for the new mother. From this point forward, the newborn citizen can be treated like every other citizen in the country. Tests are being completed and immunizations are given as needed. When the new family goes home, there are no worries about outrageous hospital bills, and battles the insurance company over coverage. Health Insurance in Germany is part of the Social Security System and works closely...
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...1 Laura Driver Ascension Health Course Research Project South University Principles of Management 2 I selected “Ascension Health” as my final project. As follows are the questions to this assignment. Questions: 1. Describe the manager’s functional role in the organization. 2. Explain expectations of the role. 3. Evaluate how the manager fulfills the expectations of the role. 4. Explore the different types of planning in your assigned reading. Explain what specific planning challenges you think this manager might face on a day to day basis. 5. Provide examples. 6. Compare these planning challenges to a manager in a similar position 25 years ago (1987). Background Ascension Health is considered the largest nonprofit health care in the United States. Therefore, there is many positions from doctors to staff members throughout all the facilities in the country. Ascencion Health has two systems that help them to plan, organize and control their data from Patients that come in for treatments to billing. They have web portals, nurse navigators, and hospitals programs.” In order for me to describe the manager’s functional role of this organization website, in which remarks that technical Managers are responsible for managing all infrastructure, performance and availability of all technology devices in the organization's set-up. 3 At Ascension Health, their operating model guides them on the better way to make decisions, they work together, which...
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...Health Law and Regulations Sara Collins HCS/545 August 17, 2015 Nathanial Elam Health Law and Regulations Over the years, health care has emerged into a well-defined complex entity. It’s very unique comparable to the healthcare in other nations. As American healthcare continued to grow and expand, so did the growth of insurance, the involvement of governmental ties, dependency of advancing technology, and the expenditures of what healthcare would bring upon the American people. This brought about the greater need for accountability for services rendered at that healthcare institution (Morrison, 2011). Healthcare regulatory agencies have also had to keep up with the evolving healthcare fields. American College of Surgeons started a standardization of practices in the healthcare fields. This later developed with various other adjoining forces into what we know today as the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals. In 1987, this evolved into the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). This accrediting agency had influences among the ambulatory care, assisted living, home health, behavioral, health, laboratories, long term care, and office based surgeries (Morrison, 2011). JCAHO was developed to set a standard of care that held these services accountable for. This helped to have hospitals provide the same level of quality care to the people they served from the community. This in turn provided safe care...
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...Family Value Paper This paper will describe the importance of family in the health of our society using the hospital environment. Provide an explanation of how a family works as a system in promoting the health of its members. Identify the concept of family most often used in the hospital environment. Then determine if it is the best concept for considering family in nursing practice. Identify the nursing theory used in the hospital setting. Promoting the Health Today’s families come in many different sizes and dynamics. Family is more than individuals living under the same roof; it is a support system for all aspects of health. A healthy family strives to promote the, emotional, physical, mental, spiritual health of its members. Family is typically the client’s primary important group. Each family member’s action can directly affect another member reaction. Family works as a system in promoting health of its members by having good communication. Each member of a family plays an important role in promoting health of the family. The ability to express concerns, feelings, thoughts and experiences assistant in strengthening family. The family works as a system by showing commitment, trust and understanding to members. The family must be willing to work together and if needed make sacrifices for each other or to benefit the whole family. Concept of Family The concept of family most used in hospital setting is family as context. Family is in the background and not the primary...
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...Psychology, Christian Counseling Introduction: We live in a society where there are constant changes within our healthcare system which impacts every one of our lives. Everyone at some point in their life has been to the hospital, and the experience is often positive or negative based on your reason for going and the people you may encounter. Our healthcare while better than other countries could use some improvement. There are many underserved populations of indigent care patients who have problems with linkage to care for various reasons. Even with the introduction of Obama care unfortunately for all it’s not affordable and there is an unfair imbalance of those who receive care the best care because of lack of coverage and financial resources. I am passionate about the delivery of appropriate healthcare to all individuals. It would be my intent to impact the hospital administration field in such away we are able to ensure equality in the treatment and delivery of care for the patients regardless of socioeconomically class or status. Body: According to my strengths quest results my top five themes were positivity, developer, connectedness, achiever, and being strategic. These strengths can easily be transferred in the Hospital Administrator role. This is a senior level position which is responsible for managing both clinical and non-clinical aspects of hospital management inclusive of financial, personnel and clinical operations management. This is a great opportunity to focus...
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...analysis helps any business to predict the challenges they may face when implementing a new system to better their business. It is also a step done to help plan for the project, making the implementation phase go as smoothly as possible. A system analysis is taking a system the business is going to use to better their organization and breaking it down to see how it can better the business and what problems need to be fixed before implementing the system. It also predicts the cost of the system and the money it will save the business that is using it. The system I am going to be using is the implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) into small rural health care facilities. This particular one is for D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital. D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital is a 49 bed community hospital who are located in Brewton, Alabama. D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital decided they wanted to take a shot at implementing HER to make their organization more modern and up to date on technology that is being used nationwide. Not only will it benefit their patients, but also the workers, and the organization as a whole. D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital realized they needed and EHR system when they started using the bar code medication administration system. Up until the point they realized they need an automated system, they always used the traditional paper version of medical records. They used system analysis to take a look at their current paper medical records that were being used and...
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...Health Care Supply Chain The developments in health care encompassed vertical and horizontal integration, managed care pressures, and the rise of e-commerce. There have also been many other changes, few of them are: Hospitals and hospital systems vertically integrated into the health insurance business, such as starting up their own Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and ambulatory care practices, in the process of developing Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs). Attempts to integrate downstream towards the patients to capture a greater portion of patient flows and insurance premiums lead to the development of HMOs. Initially such attempts were futile and providers had to integrate upstream with the wholesalers and distributors to improve their financial position. Every major player along the value chain horizontally consolidated to form large organizations. Hospitals merged to form hospital systems or joined other systems. Group purchasing organizations (GPOs) started catering to different systems and distributors started building warehouses where demands from various systems are consolidated. A typical healthcare supply chain is a complex network consisting of many different parties at various stages of the value chain. The three major types of players are: Producers (product manufacturers), Purchasers (group purchasing organizations, or GPOs, and wholesalers/distributors), and health care providers (hospital systems and integrated delivery networks, or IDNs). This chain...
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...of movie, but the real story that shows the tragic medical system in America. However, it also warns the Korean government’s motion for the new medical plan. Now, the Korean government seems to destruct the non-profit medical system and proceed to health care service provided by private entities instead of the government. It seems that it doesn’t bring negative effects,...
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...Material Case Study—Memorial Health System CPOE Implementation Memorial Health System is an eight-hospital integrated health care system in the Midwestern United States. The health system has two downtown flagship tertiary care hospitals, each licensed for more than 700 beds, located in the two major metropolitan areas served by the system. The remaining six hospitals are community-based facilities, ranging in size from 200 to 400 beds. These hospitals are located in the suburban and rural areas served by Memorial Health System. Four years ago, the system’s board of directors approved a multi-million-dollar initiative to install an enterprise-wide clinician provider order entry (CPOE) system intended to dramatically reduce medical errors. Today, the system is far from fully implemented, and, in fact, has been removed from all but one of the two tertiary care facilities, where it remains in pilot adopter status. At the time, the board approved the CPOE initiative, the project was championed by Fred Dryer, the CEO, and was closely supported by Joe Roberts, the chief information officer (CIO) of the health system. Even during its proposal and evaluation by the board, the project was considered controversial by some of the health system’s stakeholders. For example, many of its physicians, who are community-based independent providers, were adamantly opposed to the CPOE system. They worried that their workload would increase because CPOE systems replace verbal orders with computer-entered...
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... 2013 Kevin Engle Organizational Design Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee opened its doors in 1979, and is regarded as one of the premier health care systems in the nation; Baptist Memorial Health Care is an award-winning network dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality care for patients. It all started with a very modest beginning in 1912 with a 150-bed hospital, and today Baptist has grown to meet the expanding needs of the communities they serve, at one point becoming the largest privately owned hospital in the nation. What has remained the same is the caring atmosphere and the values that inspired the founders. This paper will discuss Baptist Memorial Hospital’s organizational design and the internal and external factors that have defined and shaped it in terms of its size, organizational structure, and processes. Internal Factors One of the main ways that can be seen if the internal factors are effective is how employees view their work spaces and the overall feeling of the organization. In 2012, Modern Healthcare Magazine named Baptist Memorial Health Care one of the top 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. With that said Baptist Memorial Health Care internal values are: •Compassionate Care and Service •Teamwork and Trust •Innovation and Excellence •Respect for the Individual and the Value of Diversity In regard to these values that Baptist Memorial Health Care system believes in is that you shouldn’t have to leave behind family...
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