During the past several months officials and staff at a Michigan hospital have found themselves at the epicenter of spiraling fungal meningitis outbreak that has turned the facility into a learning laboratory and tested it emergency preparedness. They scramble to manage a virulent infection that has not been seen in humans. In a recent article “Anatomy of an outbreak” written in Modern Healthcare, St Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor hospital has found itself at the center of a national outbreak of fungal
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Other hospitals only cost $15,000 per surgery 2. OHIP tries to pay less – rebursement/payment 3. UIHC is the only hospital which can do transplants and valve replacements 4. UIHC has the monopoly position in transplant and valve replacements but not in bypass 5. “Privatizing” hospital services Problems/Issues 1. Needs to know the actual cost for each procedure 2. The choice of cost driver (many alternatives provided) 3. Privatization (it means the hospitals can decide
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GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS Uncompensated Care and Other Community Benefits Statement of David M. Walker Comptroller General of the United States GAO-05-743T May 26, 2005 Highlights Highlights of GAO-05-743T, a testimony before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives Accountability Integrity Reliability NONPROFIT, FOR-PROFIT, AND GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS Uncompensated Care and Other Community Benefits Why GAO Did This Study Before 1969, IRS required hospitals to provide
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of program usually pays a bonus if the providers or hospital meet on an agreed upon performance measure, for example, reducing the hemoglobin A1c in diabetic patients. Hemoglobin A1c is a test that shows the average level of blood sugar in a patient within the past 2-3 months. This is important for diabetic patients to see whether their blood sugar levels have been on target or not. These incentives can be paid directly to physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers to ensure that their
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Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, Nebraska during the time of this case study had 116 beds, offered a full service health system; provided care services for over 25 specialties, a referral center for eight critical care hospitals. Great Plains Regional Medical Center’s emergency department medical records was a paper system. They invested in an emergency department (ED) specific technology. This technology was needed to improve care management and continuity, clinician
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Considerations: Support for Hospital Patients & Supported Factors Patient Support is a significant phase in delivering the care. This support should be tailored to each patients in their life situations and individual needs to bring out better outcomes. The article by E. Mattila et al in 2010, is a study of patient support especially emotional and informational support given by the nurses to their patients (Mattila, 2010). The patients need support in the hospital environment to reduce stress
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Twenty years many changes has occurred in technology at Methodist Hospital. Each nurse’s station has computers that are never idle. Technology has improved patient care by leaps and bounds. Patient information is readily available to caregivers with a click of a little button and the help of information technology (IT) and the electronic medical record (EMR). Changes seen from charting to receiving information about a patient . Computers has changed from using a large central computer with
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Question Privacy laws and regulations require medical facilities to take measurable steps to ensure the confidentiality of patient information. From this case study, can you tell what Denver Health has done to ensure the confidentiality of its patient information? Your answer Denver Health did create security measures to ensure that only the proper people can access the information. Doctor’s and nurses when they first arrive to work they sign on by inserting a smart card which contains that doctors
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astonishing results, but there is a lack of research regarding student nurses specifically. With the prevalence of potentially violent patients in emergency rooms from drug abuse, alcohol intoxication, mental illness, and law enforcement using the hospital setting as somewhat of a holding area in certain situations, it is to be expected that there would be some patient on nurse violence. Nursing educators do their best to train students how to avoid and neutralize a potentially violent incident with
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Because organizational theories describe how organizations function, which of the theories you studied this week best describes your current work place? From the choices present, I would classify my hospital operating under the systems theory. The systems theory is viewing productivity as a function of the whole, each person or division having to do with the success or failure with the system (Sullivan & Decker, 2009). The systems theory essentially is like rebuilding a car. It breaks things
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