...“California Sutter Health” Sutter Health is a not-for-profit health agency in Sacramento, California. This health system includes doctors, hospitals, and other health care agencies in more than100 cities in Northern California. Sutter Medical include many of California top-performing, highest-quality physician organizations as annually by the Integrated Healthcare Association. (PR, N. (2016, August 2) Sutter Health has over 48,000 physicians, employees and volunteers that care for the patients. Sutter Hospital became, the line life in 1918 when they respond to the influenza epidemic. The community leaders were the first in Sutter Hospital to work in the hospital. Sutter Medical was known for the mantra “no margin, no mission.” The hospital...
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...FACILITY PLANNING: SUTTER EXPRESS CARE Evelia Anaya-Fernandez HCS 446 July 29, 2014 Jacqueline Tobar FACILITY PLANNING: SUTTER EXPRESS CARE In reference to choosing a facility close to my living area, surprisingly I found Sutter Express Care located in an actual Rite Aid on Del Paso Road. Sutter Express Care is basically a walk-in medical clinic, which is located inside of the local Rite Aid store(s) right next to their pharmacy. The facility appears to be small, provides quick, efficient, convenient health care for common health care conditions, and is available to treat individuals who are not able to see their doctor. Patients will be able to see a nurse practitioner/physician assistant, get prescriptions, and get back on the road in no time. Going to a Sutter Express Care would be efficient enough for visits to take 20-30 minutes, no appointments necessary, no insurance necessary (whereas most health plans are accepted), is affordable for a flat rate of $75, and is open 7 days a week. It is open for practically anyone who is 18 months of age or older, you do not have to see a Sutter doctor, and at the end of a patients visit they provide directions for follow-up care and report to the patients doctor. Each clinic is staffed by an actual nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant who has advanced training and will be able to diagnose and be able to properly prescribe medication for common conditions. Sutter Express Care clinics provide additional medical services...
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...author will compare and contrast 2 health care organization’s; Sutter Health Care, a non-profit organization whose mission statement is; “We enhance the well-being of people in the communities we serve through a not-for-profit commitment to compassion and excellence in health care services.” Then there is St. Joseph’s Health Care, a for profit organization whose mission statement is; “To extend the healing ministry of Jesus in the tradition of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange by continually improving the health and quality of life of people in the communities we serve.” Both mission statements, although worded differently, hold the same meaning in regards to community health care, however one basing it’s care on religious overtures. Sutter Health Organization’s website claim they are the largest and most popular health organization in Northern California. Sutter health as it is known today was created in 1996 through the merger of its Sacramento based organization and the Bay Area based Health care System. In part it was created due to many physicians and small clinics and hospitals needing to close their doors due to rising costs and the difficulty of health payments. Sutter Health’s organization is a vast network of health care providers ranging from family health to even transplants. As a not for profit, the monies coming in from health payments and charitable donations are in turn used back into the community. Although Sutter Health organization has many hospitals...
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...Introduction Sutter Health is non-profit network that is made up by community-based health care providers based in Northern California. This network introduced an interface that was aimed at enhancing revenue collection of the facilities from the self pay patient. The System provides a broad range of health care services, including acute, sub¬-acute, long-term, home health and outpatient care, as well as physician delivery systems. These services are provided through an integrated health care delivery approach which gives the System the ability to deliver a full range of health care products and services to the communities it serves. This network identified that traditional payment processing system had limitations that hindered the effective collecting of revenue. These limitations were associated with limited access to accurate information by the account representatives, ineffective performance measures and fragmented centers of service provision. The Sutter health program developed a system that comprised of solutions geared towards overcoming these limitations. This paper will discuss Sutter Health key problems and issues, solutions, results, accounting practices, alternative approach, informed opinion, and the conclusion. The California Sutter Health Approach Sutter Health is a non- for-profit community based healthcare and hospital system based in Sacramento, CA. Sutter Health faced several problems, but the key problem was, Souza and McCarty wrote an article...
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...Information Governance Chanda Joyner Strayer University HSA 520- Health Information Systems March 15, 2015 Abstract Information technology failure is a hard thing for a business to deal with in the world of business. When IT failure occurs, the business has to worry about the faith that is lost from customers, vendors, banks, and whomever else having a small share in the business. Depending on the type of business, it could take months, even years for a business to recover from IT failure. However, in order for the business to bring themselves out of the IT failure, they must find the key factors that contributed to the failure, analyze the leadership team’s reaction to the failure, develop a custom application or select a proprietary system, adopt practices to avoid future IT failures, project metrics and portfolio management, and government intervention. Information Governance In December 2013, Sutter Health System in Northern California went through an IT software glitch that left them off network for nearly two days. “On August 26, at approximately 8am, the Epic EHR system failed, at which time nurses, physicians and hospital staff had no access to a patient information, including which medications were taking or required to take and all vital patient history data, according to reports from the California Nurses Association, part of National Nurses United, the largest nurses union in the U.S.”(Iijima 2012). As a result of EHR failure, the quality of patient...
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...best to take care of their patients with the most updated technology possible. Many hospitals around the world are implementing all kinds of new e-business technology. Some hospitals use e-business tool to automatically place orders with all vendors, eliminating the need for staff members to phone in or input daily orders and create paper based purchase orders and invoices. Here is an example in which more than one hospital can use e-business to save a life. In an article written February 9, 2010 Tina Palomino woke up at 1 o’clock am in a pool of blood. She went straight to UC Davis Medical Center located in Sacramento, California. There, the physicians were able to obtain blood test and a ultrasound to treat her condition caused by uterine fibroids. The physicians were able to obtain these records by using a secure internet connection with Sutter Heath...
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...13 CASE Emanuel Medical Center: Crisis in the Health Care Industry The Haley Eckman Story On Friday, four-year-old Haley Eckman stayed home from school because of a slight fever. She complained that she was feeling very tired. That night, Haley’s temperature increased to 104°F. At 3:15 A.M., Mr. and Mrs. Eckman took Haley to the emergency department (ED) of Emanuel Medical Center (EMC) in Turlock, California. They registered at the admissions desk and waited for someone to see them. After what seemed like forever to the Eckmans, a triage nurse came out to evaluate Haley. He asked several questions, but failed to take her temperature – a routine procedure in that situation. He then disappeared, leaving the Eckmans to wait yet again. While they waited, Haley vomited. She said she felt very weak. The family asked if Haley could lie down in a bed while they waited to see a doctor. A staff member told them that there were no available This case study was prepared by Randall Harris, Kevin Vogt, and Armand Gilinsky as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. © 2004 by Randall Harris, Kevin Vogt, and Armand Gilinsky. Used with permission from Randy Harris. both13.indd 670 11/11/08 12:04:27 PM MORE PROBLEMS THAN THE ED 671 beds, and that they would have to wait. The Eckmans saw several empty beds across the hall from where they sat as the staff member said...
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...The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Lake County, California, Arrest Policies Project: A Process Evaluation Author(s): Brenda K. Uekert Ph.D. Document No.: 201874 Date Received: September 2003 Award Number: 98-WE-VX-0012 This report has not been published by the U.S. Department of Justice. To provide better customer service, NCJRS has made this Federallyfunded grant final report available electronically in addition to traditional paper copies. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Institute for Law and Justice 1018 Duke Street Alexandria, Virginia Phone: 703-684-5300 Fax: 703-739-5533 E-Mail: ilj@ilj.org Lake County, California, Arrest Policies Project A Process Evaluation April 5, 2000 Prepared by Brenda K. Uekert, Ph.D. Prepared for Lake County, California National Institute of Justice Violence Against Women Office Introduction The Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies Program encourages jurisdictions to implement mandatory or pro-arrest policies as an effective domestic violence intervention that is part of a coordinated community response. Congress appropriated funds for the Arrest Program under the Violence Against Women Act (1994). The Program assumes that the arrest of a...
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...Psychology and health issues with Substance Abuse Sherry Ramos Resurreccion HCA/250 03/02/2014 Tiffany Hanshaw Psychology and health issues with Substance Abuse A psychological education program that we have here in our community is a program at our local Hospital. Our local hospital Sutter Delta Hospital has a Substance Abuse program. They provide information about substance abuse and they work with the largest treatment center in Northern California called the Impulse Treatment Center. The Impulse Treatment Center provides resources such as where they can go for group therapy, extended care, long treatment care, and intensive out patient care. This program is not a free program however your insurance company may cover it. When deciding to use this program we should learn more about being a healthy and learning the signs of someone who is unhealthy and need treatment. When you are healthy, you are free from any sickness/illness, you feel good about yourself, and your body is physically fit. When you are healthy it also means that you feel positive mentally and physically. The relationship between health and Psychology go hand in hand because in order to have a healthy life you should be physically healthy but you should also feel mentally stable. If you are not mentally stable it will make an impact on your over all health. Some people who are psychologically not stable will become ill because they may decide that they do not want to eat, they seclude themselves from...
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...law. These are Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). It is compound of marijuana that increases desire for food and reduces nausea .It also act as an analgesic and an anti-inflammatory drug. The other one is Cannabichromene (CBC) which has the same function in addition of being an antiepileptic drug(Owen, Sutter, and Albertson, 4 ). Marijuana plant has been used for many years as a herbal medicine .In the ancient world marijuana plant was used to treat different ailment .In china it was used to treat menstrual disorder. In Egypt it was used as an antihelmithic drug .There is clear documentation of its use as a herb drug. The argument in the modern medicine is the balance between the benefits of marijuana and the health risk it has to the user(Owen, Sutter, and Albertson). In America, 23 states and Washington Dc has legalized the usage of smoked marijuana in variety of medical conditions. The federal is still clear, that the use of marijuana is illegal. According to the Director National Institute of Drug Abuse, the call for the legalization and the acceptance of usage of marijuana as a recreational drug is evident and there need for people to have enough information on both its adverse health effect and possible medicinal benefits .I feel that, marijuana medicine should not be legalized until is proven to be safe and reliable(Lynne-Landsman, Livingston, and Wagenaar ,16). In this essay explain the adverse effect of marijuana to support my position. Then I will discuss...
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...Health Care Access Options HSC/490 Health Care Access Options There are many ways that health care is provided from walk-in clinics, urgent care, clinic in your local grocery store or drug store, and a no appointment physician's office. A walk-in clinic is a medical facility that provides medical treatment to the public that are common and non-life threatening without an appointment. These can include free clinics and urgent care centers. Sutter Express Care in Rite Aid pharmacy is a walk-in clinic that is in Northern California. SutterExpressCare uses Rite Aid for their marketing source. Target Audience The ExpressCare targets a large audience that consists of the Topeka and surrounding counties. This includes all ages from new born to seniors of all backgrounds and medical conditions. ExpressCare targets those that have a minor illness or injury that’s not severe enough to go to the emergency department. This provides an alternative option for those that have their own physician at a lower cost. Marketing to Target Audience With all the different and unique way of marketing ExpressCare uses several techniques to market on their website page. First they focus on possible issues or causes of why an individual would need their services by providing several lists that are located at the top of their webpage. The first list consist of common illnesses or injuries that are treated there. The second provides a list of common diagnostics that are used at the facility...
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...Task 1-A One significant environmental factor that contributed to the development of human society was the availability of an abundant supply of water, as provided by the rivers that helped contribute to the ancient civilization in Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia, the area presently know as Iraq, is referred to as the “land between the rivers” (Hollar, 2011). In approximately 3300 BC, the people known as the Sumerians settled into an area known as the Plain of Shintar. In this area where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers converged, there was an amazing and consistent supply of water, which helped these people develop their way of life (Hollar, 2011). The largely watered area gave way to an abundant amount of rich soil. This soil provided the ability to build houses and create irrigation systems. These tasks required cooperation among the settlers, leading to the growth of their newly established government. The soil also allowed the Sumerians to benefit from the their agriculture. The first grown items were barley, emmer, olives, grapes and flax (Hollar, 2011). Task 1-B The process of the diffusion of tea between early human societies began as early as the first century AD. The origin of tea is not historically clear, although it is said to have originated in China (Saberi, 2010). Initially, tea was used for the treatment of various ailments, such as stomach problems and other illnesses (Saberi, 2010). During the Tang dynasty from 618-907 AD, tea earned the reputation of being refreshing...
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...STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY Emanuel Medical Center Situational & Decision Analysis James T. Onisk 4/29/2012 Table of Contents Situational Analysis Appendices External Analysis Appendix A: S.W.O.T. Analysis Appendix B: External Trend/Issue Analysis Appendix C: Environmental Trends/Issues Plot Appendix D: Stakeholder Map Appendix E: Service Area Profile Appendix F: Service Area Structural Analysis Appendix G: Service Area Competitor Analysis Appendix H: Critical Success Factor Analysis Appendix I: Mapping Competitors Appendix J: Synthesizing the Analysis Internal Analysis Appendix K: Financial Analysis Appendix L: Value Chain Strengths and Weaknesses Appendix M: Value Chain Competitive Advantages Relative to Strengths Appendix N: Value Chain Competitive Disadvantages Relative to Weaknesses Appendix O: Strategic Implications of Strengths and Weaknesses References Decision Analysis Decision Analysis Appendices Appendix P: Directional Strategies Appendix Q: Adaptive Strategies Appendix R: Market Entry Strategies Appendix S: Strategic Positioning Appendix T: Value-Chain Funcations References 1 2-11 12-13 14-17 18-29 30-36 37-50 51-60 61-66 67 I-VII 68-74 75-81 82-86 87-91 92-95 96-105 VIII-XV 106-109 110-122 123-125 126-128 129-135 136 Issue Statement Emanuel Medical Center (EMC) is encountering tremendous financial troubles as it struggles to remain open as an independent general acute care hospital. Changes in federal regulations such as the implementation...
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... Consolidated Community Benefit Plan 2012 Kaiser Foundation Hospital – Oakland Northern California Region KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL (KFH)-OAKLAND 280 West MacArthur Boulevard Oakland, CA 94611 (510) 752-1105 The KFH-Oakland service area includes Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, and Piedmont. COMMUNITY SNAPSHOT (*county-level data) Total population: Median age:* Average household income:* Percentage living in poverty: Percentage unemployed: Percentage uninsured: 633,114 36.1 $70,217 16.92% 8.92% 14.67% White: Latino: African American: Asian and Pacific Islander: Native American: Other: 32.41% 21.76% 21.12% 19.84% 0.33% 4.55% KEY STATISTICS Year opened: KFH full-time equivalent personnel: KFHP members in KFH service area: 1942 1,884.0 188,929 Total licensed beds: Inpatient days: Emergency room visits: 341 74,218 50,725 KEY LEADERSHIP AT KFH-OAKLAND Nathaniel L. Oubré, Jr. Belia Marshall, RN, MPA Dennis Morris John Loftus, MD Shirley Steinback Julie Hadnot Glenda Monterroza Senior Vice President and Area Manager Chief Operating Officer Area Finance Director Physician in Chief Medical Group Administrator Public Affairs Director Interim Community Benefit/Community Health Manager 227 Consolidated Community Benefit Plan 2012 Kaiser Foundation Hospital – Oakland Northern California Region THE 2010 COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT SUMMARY AND FINDINGS 2010 COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT (CHNA) SUMMARY The 2010 CHNA for KFH-Oakland is based on secondary...
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...History of Health Care Reform Transcribed from a talk given by Karen S. Palmer MPH, MS in San Francisco at the spring, 1999 PNHP meeting) Late 1800’s to Medicare The campaign for some form of universal government-funded health care has stretched for nearly a century in the US On several occasions, advocates believed they were on the verge of success; yet each time they faced defeat. The evolution of these efforts and the reasons for their failure make for an intriguing lesson in American history, ideology, and character. Other developed countries have had some form of social insurance (that later evolved into national insurance) for nearly as long as the US has been trying to get it. Some European countries started with compulsory sickness insurance, one of the first systems, for workers beginning in Germany in 1883; other countries including Austria, Hungary, Norway, Britain, Russia, and the Netherlands followed all the way through 1912. Other European countries, including Sweden in 1891, Denmark in 1892, France in 1910, and Switzerland in 1912, subsidized the mutual benefit societies that workers formed among themselves. So for a very long time, other countries have had some form of universal health care or at least the beginnings of it. The primary reason for the emergence of these programs in Europe was income stabilization and protection against the wage loss of sickness rather than payment for medical expenses, which came later. Programs were not universal to start...
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