Corporate Governance Strayer University Washington DC August 2012 Corporate Governance and Ethical Responsibility Research Paper This analysis paper will explain if Dr. DoRight of Universal Human Care Hospital can manage when he discovers that patients inside the hospital are dying as a results of a extent of illegal practices by doctors, nurses and careless supervision of oversight on their be half. Also question the rights of staff to health and safety within the work place and address
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Founded in 1989, Arnold Palmer Hospital is one of the largest hospitals for women and children in the U.S., with 431 beds in two facilities totaling 676,000 square feet. Located in downtown Orlando, Florida, and named after its famed golf benefactor, the hospital, with more than 2,000 employees serves an 18- county area in central Florida and is the only Level 1 trauma center for children in that region. Arnold Palmer Hospital provides a broad range of medical services including neonatal and pediatric
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CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES ★ ★ ★ What are Long-Term Care Hospitals? Most people who need inpatient hospital services are admitted to an “acute care” hospital for a relatively short stay. But some people may need a longer hospital stay. Long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) are certified as acute care hospitals, but LTCHs focus on patients who, on average, stay more than 25 days. Many of the patients in LTCHs are transfered there from an intensive or critical care unit. LTCHs specialize
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Executive Summary Hospital compliance status for Nightingale Community Hospital Nightingale Community Hospital (N.C.H) has, for a number of years, been the hospital of choice for patients and family who seek superior and excellent and professional care for themselves and their loved ones. As a premier hospital in the region, it has a reputation of having an unwavering commitment to constantly improve its standards of operation so that its patients can always be assured of having unsurpassed healing
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critical issue that can be found that will impact both the “profit and not for profit” organizations will be the “Hospital Anti-Trust Law”. (content.healthaffairs.org/content/22/6/88.ful,Peter J.Hammer and William M. Sage) When it comes to a hospital, doctors, and hospital payers, this seems to be a “common” thing and a critical one. This is an issue with the relationships between the hospitals and the doctors. There are too many questions as to how “government regulation and public purchasing” is making
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Community Hospitals they believe the hospital will put there care first and provide quality medicine. Looking at the recent compliance reports there are areas of patient care this hospital needs to improve in. Reporting critical results within 60 minutes, labeling medication containers and reactions with anticoagulation therap.0y are areas that this hospital needs to improve upon. Improving these areas would be just one step toward increasing patient care and satisfaction at this hospital. There are
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Introduction: Delta Hospital Limited (DHL) is the pioneer organization for cancer diagnosis, treatment and management in the private sector in Bangladesh. It's provides the full range of radiation therapy and has a close working relationship with consultants, surgeon, Medical Oncologist & other physicians. Using state- of- the- art equipment their specialists are able to provide the best possible radiation therapy at their centers. Their Radiation Oncologists participate actively in international
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Introduction “Hospitals in Early America were founded to shelter older adults, the dying, orphans, and vagrants and to protect the inhabitants of a community from the contagiously sick and the dangerously mental ill.” Hospitals were not utilized by the general public and were thereby, poorly staffed, dirty and contaminated. (Sultz). Hospital Care is the most efficient way to detect chronical illness. They have all the machine and technology to be able to identify and find a disease. They can
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Terms in Chapter 7: Outpatient Services and Primary Care Ambulatory care Outpatient services, including (1) care rendered to patients who come to physicians’ offices, outpatient departments of hospitals, and health centers to receive care; (2) outpatient services intended to serve the surrounding community (community medicine); and (3) certain services that are transported to the patient. Community-oriented primary care Health care that incorporates the elements of good primary care delivery
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Affordable Care Act to assist Hospitals with relatively high readmission rates to reduce the number. Readmission is defined as an admission of a patient to the hospital within 30 days of the date of discharge. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), University Hospitals was on the list of high readmission rates, with an AMI of 21.8, HF of 26.6, and a total of 1328 of discharges. There are many resources available on reducing unnecessary hospital readmissions, for example
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