safety-net hospitals are facing one of the largest curveballs, as nearly 30 million Americans stand to gain coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act beginning in 2014. Nationwide, only 2 percent of acute-care hospitals are safety-net facilities, but they currently provide about 20 percent of all uncompensated care to provided to the uninsured. Despite this statistic, a decline in America's uninsured is unlikely to relinquish the need for safety-net hospitals, according to
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Week 10: Final Case Study Final Case Study: Consulting for the Caring Angel Hospital March 13, 2016 HSA 501: Management in Health Care Strayer University Abstract Management in Health Care has provided me with invaluable information and concepts, as it relates to providing quality service to patients. Health care facilities must find ways to retain patients, add value, gain the comparative advantage, create a positive work environment, as well as maintain employee morale. In most cases the
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Solution name: DOCS Scheduler Company: ACME Express Website: www.docsscheduler.net Country or region: United States Company profile ACME Express is a software development company that focuses on scheduling management for hospitals. Supporting Microsoft software and services Microsoft Azure SQL Database Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines * * “Essentially no IT resources are required to implement DOCS Scheduler, except for due diligence. But with Azure, it’s a no-brainer: Azure
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Vulnerable Population in the Workplace Noy-Starra Edge Nur/440 May 7, 2012 Mrs. Mendez Vulnerable Population in the Workplace Long term acute care hospitals (LTACHs), give extended medical, rehabilitative, and intensive care to individuals with clinically complex problems that need hospital level care for greater than 25 days (American Hospital Association, 2012). Many LTACH admissions are elderly patients, which is a vulnerable population. “Elderly and aged patients are considered to be capable
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Shortages The access to quality healthcare is at risk due to the healthcare workforce shortages. The shortages include all members of the hospital work staff from nurses to primary care physicians to highly trained surgeons. Many hospitals do not have enough nurses to tend to the patients. The United States is projected to have a nursing shortage that is expected to intensify as baby boomers age and the need for health care grows. Compounding
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details about the background of current systems of medication implemented in Saudi Arabia and the problems rising due to implementation of this system and the solution proposed to solve these problems. The communication gap among the patients, hospitals, doctors and pharmacies have raised a lot of problems and stills citizens of Saudi Arabia are facing this problem. Treatment security is usually a worldwide problem between healthcare services. Even so, the particular problems plus the future regarding
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There are several apparent conflicting cultures at Hillwood. One obvious competing culture at Hillwood is that the administrators and staff do not have mutual values. For one, the chief medical officer main concern is saving lives. On the other hand, the medical board is more concerned with the cost associated with running the medical center. The staff is concerned with other issues such as their working conditions. These conditions include supervisors, having the latest technology, and supplies
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According the CBS News article titled Hospital medication error kills patient in Oregon (2014) a patient died as the result of the wrong medication been given at the St. Charles Health System Hospital in Bend, Oregon. The patient was 65-year-old Loretta Macpherson, who was supposed to receive an anti-seizure medication fosphenytoin. Though she received instead a paralyzing agent, rocuronium, used routinely in surgery that caused her to go into cardiac arrest and suffer brain damage. She was put on
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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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A Healing Hospital™ (a designation awarded by the Baptist Healing Trust, Nashville, Tenn.) goes beyond the glass, bricks and mortar. The Mercy Gilbert Medical Center Healing Hospital™ culture is what sets it apart. The Healing Hospital™ concept includes three key components: 1. A healing physical environment 2. The integration of work design and technology 3. A culture of Radical Loving Care 2. I wanted Mercy Gilbert to be free from overhead paging, in-room intercoms, loud machines
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