Service Line Development Task 2 A. Analyze the community health needs assessment in the case study by doing the following: Trinity Community Hospital conducted an assessment of three of their services including cardiovascular, cancer, and orthopedics. The gathered information was received from numerous avenues including the healthcare’s guidelines, interviews of healthcare employees, focused groups, and surveys. A.1. Discuss major risk factors identified in the assessment. 1. Cardiovascular
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VI. Issues and Concerns After evaluating, the PCA Health Care Hospitals has discovered that they were suffering from loss. The management has to make an action in making a move to maintain their quality services and still manage to minimize their possible expenses. They have suggested to their vice president to cut the drug benefits, minimize the extra test to the terminal patients, and to bill the patients with a physician’s rate while the actual service/s was done by an assistant physician
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Cardiovascular Services. These targeted demands are mainly in part due to an aging community population (15% of the population will be over 65 within the next five years), and with that these particular services are in great demand and currently Trinity Hospital offers no formal services of this kind. A Strategic plan is in place to target these services and a recommendation to implement will be provided and we will first identify the risk factors for each of these services in the community and how the
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included the fact that the landscape within which hospitals were operating changed due to mergers within the industry which was thought to give the merged firms greater advantage in terms of bargaining power etc. Due to these industry mergers, BI felt that they should also merge and the fact that they did so quickly with a hospital with a widely varying culture played a significant part in the issues at hand. It was not only the fact that these hospitals merged that caused a problem but the fact that
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This passage vividly describes what hospital smells like. The Chief begins to notice that things in the hospital are running differently now that McMurphy is around. In fact, he begins to notice all these smells after McMurphy confronts Nurse Ratched without his uniform on. McMurphy has made a bet with the other patients that he could make her go crazy by rebelling. All of the other patients think that is impossible because they have never rebelled before. The Chief begins to notice all of the smells:
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Cultura Organizacional del Hospital de Veteranos Yamaris Villanueva-Morales, Graciela Deyá-Martel, Yolanda Segarra-Alvarado y Emanuel Rodríguez-Rodríguez University of Phoenix Relaciones Humanas y Comportamiento Organizacional – ORG/502 Dra. Zulma Medina-Rivera 4 de junio de 2007 Cultura Organizacional del Hospital de Veteranos La Oficina Regional para los veteranos esta ubicada en Hato Rey y comenzó en el 1926 durante el día de las Agencias de Veteranos. La misma opera con muchas localidades
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accident, and Brandon was okay, but Kara was being taken to McDonough District Hospital in Macomb by ambulance. “No, not my best-friend, or my big sister!” This news struck me with emptiness. I couldn't bare the thought of my sister being hurt, or not there at all anymore. Jack tried to keep me calm, and told me to not drive, and to stay put unless I found somebody to take me to her. I knew I had to get to that hospital , so I had my friends drive me. I tried getting hold of my parents, but I failed
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Patient Education for Post-Hospitalization Home Care Changes in health care delivery brought on by financial constraints have affected the length of stay for certain patient procedures, resulting in an early discharge. Patients discharged from hospitals sooner than anticipated are finding themselves ill prepared, regarding insufficient education and instructions on self-management for home care, post-hospitalization. Patient education in nursing should be a focal priority, yet is often slighted
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QI Plan – Part I Kittitas Valley Community Hospital (KVCH) is a progressive, critical access hospital that provides exceptional health care to Kittitas County and surrounding areas. KVCH provides 24-hour emergency care and offers inpatient and outpatient hospital services. KVCH's emergency department is designated as a Level IV trauma service by the State of Washington Department of Health and is staffed 24-hours-a-day by an emergency physician (About KVCH, 2012). Over the course of this paper
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Approximately 2 million nosocomial infections occur annually in the United States. At least 90,000 deaths per year are a result, making nosocomial infections the fifth leading cause of death in acute-care hospitals. HAIs infections result in increasing morbidity, mortality, and cost as a result of increasing duration of stay , is estimated as estimated as 1 to 4 days for urinary tract infections, 7 to 8.2 days for surgical site infections, 7 to 21 days for bloodstream infections, and 6.8 to 30
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