Medical Center Quality Management 3. Internship Position: Brief and concise description of the internship and the student’s role as an intern. The Atlanta Quality Management Office supports the mission of the medical center by monitoring processes, identifying the deficiencies, educating staff, analyzing data and facilitating improvements so that can assist the medical center staff in providing a high quality of health and wellness service to veterans. (Office of Quality Management, Atlanta
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Ethics: HIV/AIDS Name Institutional Affiliation Date HIV/AIDS for over three decades has been a global epidemic affecting all races, genders and ages. The prevalence of the calamity has not been limited by any borders as it has traversed the entire world to emerge as a global threat. Despite the emergence of other health epidemics such as Ebola and lately the Zika virus, HIV has remained not only as a giant slayer but also as a multitude slayer killing millions of victims since its inception
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constant pursuit of healthcare quality, and patient safety, Memorial Hermann Health System has been recognized as a national and regional leader in quality healthcare. As an integrated healthcare system, Memorial Hermann has surrounded the city of Houston with 12 acute care hospitals, three heart and vascular hospitals, a neuroscience institute, two sports medicine institute locations, a chemical dependency treatment center, a home health agency, a retirement community, a nursing home, several surgical,
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strategy and change. This is critical as attention to clinical quality is top priority to the hospital, and as such is a priority (Burton et al., 2004; Glickman et al., 2007). This is essential for health-care institutions such as Elmhurst to evolve its organizational and management structures that support the design and implementation of quality-improvement initiatives and at the same time, create mechanisms for accountability for quality of care and patient outcomes (Davis & Schoenbaum, 2010)
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sick or injured, further increasing the cost of coverage for everyone else with insurance. The ACA also takes a number of preliminary, but promising, steps toward reforming the delivery system to improve patient safety and quality in Medicare and Medicaid. Many of these initiatives build on successful private-sector programs that health plans have pioneered and implemented.Nearly one-quarter of all seniors rely on Medicare Advantage, the private health care
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be reimbursed for the procedure or acute treatment with a minimal stay. Patients who require rehab or treatment post-procedure should be transferred to an outpatient facility specializing in post-acute care. Post-acute care settings like skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies can help patients with chronic conditions by reducing re-admissions and decreasing acute care length of stay. Acquiring these patients earlier will be greatly beneficial in reducing costs. Additionally, patient
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philosophies, attitudes, actions, experiences, interests, and more importantly my professional role in nursing and in society. As a new graduate with my Associate Degree in Nursing, the first feeling I experienced was fear and uncertainty about my future as a nurse. This feeling was due to my observing of how demanding this profession was during my clinical rotations. I had this strong sensation that nursing was my niche but I was afraid of failure. My perception was limited with what was expected in
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The Liverpool Care Pathway: Does it improve the quality of dying? The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is an integrated care pathway developed in the late 1990’s (Ellershaw et al, 1997) as a means of transferring best practice in care of the dying, from the hospice environment to other sectors starting in the acute setting. Currently the LCP is a recognised tool used by clinicians in the United Kingdom as well as over twenty countries, to give appropriate care to patients who have reached the last hours
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In today’s society heath care will forever and always be a necessity and priority. In the United States alone there are several healthcare facilities nationwide that exemplify exceptional healthcare providers. One facility that I ran across doing research is Johns Hopkins Hospital. It is one of the most prestigious and prominent hospitals in America. Johns Hopkins is ranked in the top 10 hospitals for over twenty years and doesn’t show any signs of plummeting lower. Since the hospital was opened
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satisfaction for the universal worker position? Implementation of Job Redesign The RCHS senior management team decided to redesign the job of nurses and implement a universal worker to assist in support services needed for patient care delivery. Nursing positions were redesigned to “that of a care manager who directs the processes of care for the patient during the acute care episode and beyond” (Coulter, 1997, para. 11). According to Sharon Coulter’s article “Redesign Not Downsize,” moving nurses
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