Austell, Georgia 30122 770-942-3199 weecare.com Monifa Mwangi January 4, 2011 Executive Summary One of the top complaints of individuals seeking non-critical emergency services is wait time. For emergency room visits, a patient may spend 2-3 hours in an emergency waiting room for non-critical treatment such as fever, cough, sprains, etc. Quick2treat is an online concept developed to allow consumers access to WeeCare’s current office wait times and allows the patient to schedule an appointment
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ran through our tiring routine and practiced our individual stunts as much as we needed to in order to feel prepared to compete. After what felt like a successful warm-up, my teammates and I put the mats away and sat around in the gym, anxiously waiting to leave. After what felt like several hours, our charter bus arrived to take us to our competition. We all boarded the bus and got out our uniforms while the team captains checked to ensure we had them with us. We tried to get comfortable for
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Overcrowding in the Emergency Department Abstract In this paper I discuss how holding patients in the Emergency Department (ED) has a negative effect on patients. To many patients in the ED , medication errors and patients lingering in the ED instead of being in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are the main cause of mortality and morbidity. For this assignment, I gathered information to figure out if the increased number of patients in the ED, medication errors, and the
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Caroline Merrick Instructor Mason ENG 231-352 9 October 2014 The Many Sides of Death The world has forever struggled to understand the complex and thoughtful mind of the poet Emily Dickinson. For most of her life she remained a recluse, isolated from society, and left to do what she loved to do, which was write. Dickinson witnessed a lot of hardships in her later years, including the deaths of many family members and friends. Witnessing so much death in her lifetime sparked her interest in
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Visit to Laurel Regional Hospital and Human Service Visiting the Ellicott human service agency was absolutely new experience for me, because I have never visited an actual Human service agency before. In fact, my expectations were mixed and controversial before visiting the agency. At first, I did not know what to expect from the visit because I perceived the human service agency as the place, where people attempt to find some counseling services and get assistance from the part of the agency’s
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Some families are made to choose shelter over health care and government assistance is not an option (Swayne & Ginter, 2009) When a family member becomes sick, the hospital emergency room becomes a walk-in clinic to treat minor illnesses, the waiting room is usually overcrowded and this results in extensive waiting times to be seen by a health care provider. The changes in the United States heath care system was occurring dramatically and pervasively managed care was altering how providers interacted
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the lower part of my stomach. A couple seconds later another sharp pain hit me and it was even stronger. I knew it was that time. I didn’t want to believe it but I had no choice too. I paced to my mom’s room to let her know that I was ready. She couldn’t believe it either. My mom rushed into my room and told me to pack my things and to be prepared for when my dad arrived. I was really nervous and even though I practiced over and over again I swore I forgot to grab what I needed mainly. My dad arrived
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100 people on the top floor, starting from the time the store opens. Exercise 4-3 People arrive at an exhibition at the rate of one every 3 ( 2 minutes. The exhibition is arranged in three rooms. Everybody goes to rooms A and C but 20% of them miss room B. Simulate the system, assuming that each room takes 40 ( 5 minutes. Arrange for 500 people to pass through the exhibition. Exercise 4-4 Twenty people simultaneously take a test that requires 5 ( 2 minutes. Their chance of success is
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In mid October, leafs would cover the ground forming what looked to be an orange ocean stretching for miles. Walking down the long, gravel road home after school grew on me nostalgically as I had did it so many times before. The sight of leafs and semi cold weather was a perfect sign that Halloween was right around the corner. As any other kid I was piqued with excitement and wonder to what costume I would wear that Halloween. Less than a week away to Halloween I had gotten severely sick. “But mom
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give birth. He was the only man waiting. Not many people were born a day any more. Wehling was fifty-six, a mere stripling in a population whose average age was one hundred and twenty-nine. X-rays had revealed that his wife was going to have triplets. The children would be his first. Young Wehling was hunched in his chair, his head in his hand. He was so rumpled, so still and colorless as to be virtually invisible. His camouflage was perfect, since the waiting room had a disorderly and demoralized
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