place sooner rather than later. Since this is second shift, most executives have gone home. The hospital has an Emergency Operation Plan (EOP) in place that Gillian reviews, paying special attention to the weather emergency section. Gillian knows that if the weather predictions are correct, they will have to keep the staff that is currently working until other workers can arrive at the hospital safely. With this in mind, the challenges she will be facing are tired co-workers as well as a floor
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SATISFACTION IN HOSPITALS (A Study on Three Urban Hospitals in Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh) T Sreenivas1 and Nethi Suresh Babu2* *Corresponding Author: Nethi Suresh Babu, sureshbabu.nethi@yahoo.co.in Objectives: 1. To study the satisfaction levels of the patient in sample hospitals. 2. To suggest measures to strengthen the administrative practices that improves patient satisfaction in hospitals in India. Settings: Government General Hospital (GGH), St. Joseph General Hospital (SJGH) and NRI
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Sentinel Event: Child Abduction Description of Event A three-year-old patient presented to the hospital for outpatient surgery of bilateral myringotomies with mother. After the patient was registered, consent for surgery signed by mother, and prepped for surgery, the mother gave the pre-op nurse her phone number and left to run an errand with instructions to be called if her daughter was finished with surgery sooner than expected. The mother was expecting the patient would be ready to go home
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Hospital Corporation of America vs. Tenet Healthcare Heather Darling 22-BA-5080-002 Summer Semester, 2014 SUMMARY Hospital Corporation of America as of now is the biggest player in the hospital care sector. Headquarter in Nashville, TN HCA has been very aggressive in acquisitions and developing all around the United States and in England. They are very quick to turn down a deal with another hospital if they believe that it will not be a profitable deal. One of the things that HCA has done
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Introduction During the time of a severe snow storm the Chief Officer of a non-profit community hospital was out of the country on vacation. A majority of the staff could not make it in for their shifts. Patient units were understaffed and the day shift personnel were forced to work overtime. The nurse on duty left to get dinner. As a result, several injuries from falls out of beds and a death from wrongful medication occurred. There are multiple issues in question in this scenario. The objective
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a lot of cases of drugs stolen from public hospitals in Malawi and other neighboring countries which are either sold in Malawi or outside the country. Some of the drugs are being sold in Tanzania, Mozambique or even overseas. Of late, it has been noted that the county referral hospitals, health centers and dispensaries are the worst hit. Additionally, there are some unscrupulous medical workers in our country who are smuggling drugs from public hospitals to Tanzania through the boarders. In Summary
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are two hospitals in St. Charles County, one existed for twenty years and the other is a brand new facility. The corporate strategic plan is to merge the hospitals to allow St. Charles County residents options for great medical care and ultimately gain market share away from the competition. Although the plan has merit, the blending of cultures of the hospitals are reliant on the strategic implementation of the plan lacked the proper operational planning. The SWOT of the two hospitals does not
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medical field is very important to us all, and when you become the patient in a hospital your mindset changes all together. This paper will be about patient satisfaction while in the hospital. There are major concerns when patients or their family are admitted into the hospital. Hospitals are very concerned with patient satisfaction and the scores that come with it. Patient satisfaction is very important in hospital settings. The patients are the heartbeat to the large body of doctors, nurses
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functionality and implement polices and protocols to limit risk while keep patients and staff safe. Health care news situation that affects hospitals In February 2015, ten California hospitals were penalized a total of $700,000 after a state health inspector found deficiencies in care that resulted from Medical errors. In one case, a Kaiser Permanente Hospital was fined $50,000 due to a patient receiving 19 doses of three types of narcotic medications within a few hours, then died nine days later
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Article Review: Excellence in Patient Satisfaction within a Patient-Centered Culture Executive Summary Hospitals should be preparing now for a decade of reduction in Medicare payments that will result from the Affordable Care Act and Budget Control Act of 2011. Many healthcare leaders are anticipating the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) value based purchasing program (VBP), a strategy used by employers, and increasingly the Federal government, to use their market power as a force
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