...The Influence of Health Informatics on Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital Memorial Hermann system is the biggest nonprofit organization in Texas. Altogether, it serves the greater Houston area with 12 hospitals and has a large network of affiliated doctors. Located in the heart of southwest Houston, Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital has been caring for families since 1977. A 568-bed facility, Memorial Hermann Southwest employs a team of highly well trained affiliated physicians and uses advanced technology to offer superlative care close to home. At the HVI, (Heart and Vascular Institute), physicians and patients benefit from technology at the primary edge and original cardiovascular programs. (Memorial Hermann Southwest, 2013). What impact did the rapid evolution of Asian immigration in Southwest Houston had on Memorial Hermann Southwest growth? Does Memorial Hermann mission statement value the community? How does Memorial Hermann health informatics technologies to impact its healthcare delivery and how does it use emerging trends in technology to support its initiatives? In August 2009 the Memorial Hermann Hospital System announced its plan to sell its Southwest Hospital to the Harris County Hospital District, which wanted to make the hospital its third general hospital (O'Hare, 2009). The majority of the medical staff and employees expressed strong dissatisfaction with the plan and manifested intents to resign if the sale took effect. On...
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...Preoperative Skin Preparation Practices Michael V. Smith Western Governors University Perioperative Skin Preparation Practices A. Select a perioperative procedure (e.g., routine shaving of the surgical site) that you would commonly find on a surgical floor. 1. Describe the process or procedure you have chosen and why you think it needs change. Surgical site infection accounts for forty percent of all hospital-acquired infection (Griffin, 2005). The Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN) recommendations provide guidelines for achieving skin preparation of the surgical site. These are practices are achievable and represent what is believed to be an optimal level of practice (Association of Operating Room Nurses, 2002). Variation of the area where the surgical procedure is to be performed may occur, but the recommended procedures for this preoperative skin preparation remains the same. The AORN has recommended seven practices that should be followed for skin preparation prior to surgery. Recommended Practices for Skin Preparation of Patients (Association of Operating Room Nurses, 2002). I. The surgical site should be assessed before skin preparation. II. Whenever possible, hair should be left at the surgical site. I it is determined that hair should be removed; removal should be performed according to policies and procedures in the practice setting. III. The surgical site and surrounding areas should be clean. IV. When indicated, the surgical...
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...Parkland hospital was first built as a charity hospital in 1894 in Dallas Texas. It is also historically known as the hospital where President John F. Kennedy was rushed to after he was fatally wounded in 1963 by an assassin. Since then Parkland Hospital has morphed into a billion dollar organization where patients from all different backgrounds come seeking medical attention on a daily basis. How has it come to be this way? There could be many reasons. One could argue that the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid contributed tremendously to Parkland's growth. Before 1965 Parkland Hospital has always seen a steady growth, but shortly after the signing of Medicare and Medicaid into law in 1965, there was a sudden spike in growth activity within Parkland's organization. This growth could have been contributed to the influx of money coming in from medicare payments going to the hospital. Three years after the Medicare and Medicaid was signed into law beginning from 1968 through 1973, Parkland opened 9 new specialty care units. In 1978 Parkland had to form a patient care committee to review Medicare and patient services studies and to look at ways to ensure Parkland's long-term viability (Parkland, 2014). At this present time Parkland hospital has 861 adult beds, 107 neonatal beds and a number of clinics in the surrounding neighborhoods . They see a combination of indigent, elderly, psychiatric and inmate patients everyday. According to Parkland's 2013 financial summary...
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...Whenever I glance down and find the surgical scars on my abdomen, my mind floods with memories of a hospital visit that almost ended my life in the 6th grade. My first year in middle school had just begun and resembled an incredible beginning. I was the only student in my class to be invited to play with the Varsity soccer team, while still being able to participate in the Science Club and the Mars Rover team. As soon as we finished our experiment in the Science Club, I ran over just in time to join my soccer team for our routine stretches. A sharp pain started to attack my lower abdomen, which I immediately presumed were pre-game butterflies. As our first game commenced, I remember having to walk off the field due to the growing pain in my stomach. Since my...
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...career plan it gives he or she a visual of the work culture they may desire, by developing the strategic and operational plan it will help leaders reach the goal of the company. My current employer is Memorial Hermann Hospital and my goal is to become a material management director of the operating room. In completing the career plan it identifies me exactly. The current job title that I hold is administrative assistant to the director of the operating room; this title carries high power in the department. As a high powered individual at Memorial Hermann Hospital the job is very demanding which is a good thing because it allows giving 101% of yourself. The hospital is a teaching organization and this atmosphere is adapted by employees. Each day staff learns new skills; this career demonstrates your skills. The salary is competitive with the rest of the hospitals in the medical center. In the operating room there is always room for advancement. Every competency is essential in becoming a director because of the support to employees, surgeons, and patients. The ethical aspect is strength because as a leader you set the stage of doing what is right. When a problem occurs leadership has to follow up with the individual is having the problem (closing the loop). Memorial Hermann Hospital is known nationwide by having breakthroughs every day, and customer values. A weakness would be the supportive competency in this category the overwhelming feeling of putting on many hats. The operating...
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...Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Bloom's Classic Critical Views alfred, lord Tennyson Benjamin Franklin The Brontës Charles Dickens edgar allan poe Geoffrey Chaucer George eliot George Gordon, lord Byron henry David Thoreau herman melville Jane austen John Donne and the metaphysical poets John milton Jonathan Swift mark Twain mary Shelley Nathaniel hawthorne Oscar Wilde percy Shelley ralph Waldo emerson robert Browning Samuel Taylor Coleridge Stephen Crane Walt Whitman William Blake William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Edited and with an Introduction by Sterling professor of the humanities Yale University harold Bloom Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: William Shakespeare Copyright © 2010 Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2010 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data William Shakespeare / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom : Neil Heims, volume editor. p. cm. — (Bloom’s classic critical views) Includes bibliographical references...
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