The Mt. Pleasant State Hospital, located in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. The hospital was opened on February 26, 1861 under its original name of Iowa Lunatic Asylum. It was constructed between the years of 1855 and 1865. The asylum when it opened, became the first asylum that was public in Iowa. Mt. Pleasant also housed alcoholics and drug addicts.
This project is about the history of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a non-profit organization that helps battle pediatric cancers. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is not your typical children's hospital. The service and support they provide to their patients is unique as their founder Danny Thomas. I will explore their founders history, mission, and how they are able to continue the work today.
Background statement: Heritage Valley Medical Center has had a wonderful reputation for providing excellent health care services to their community. Initially, their community was 80% Caucasian, 40% African American, and 5% Hispanic. However, in the last 5 years, the population has changed to more minorities and the whites have moved out to the suburbs. This caused the Center’s occupancy rate to go down 40% because many of their traditional, more affluent, private-pay patients had left the neighborhood. To bring in revenue, they campaigned to bring in more Medicaid patients.
The Joint Commission was founded in 1951 was also went through a name change and became the Joint Commission on Accreditation. Hospital facilities are under Joint Commission of Hospitals across the US. In 1953, JCAH began accrediting hospitals. The Social Security Amendments of 1965 passed by Congress announced that hospitals accredited by JCAH were allowed to participate in the Medicaid and Medicare programs. In 1987, the name was shortened and it became the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
Bellevue Hospital was founded in 1736 and is the oldest public hospital in the United States. The hospital had a lot of first in history since they’ve been founded. Bellevue has had the first morgue center in the city, psychiatric center for children, the nation’s first nursing school and first in the world development of New York City 's sanitary code. Bellevue Hospital Centers offers inpatient and outpatient services. To name a few emergency services, psychiatric, medical and surgical.
Within the early 19th century, the practice of medicine was disorganized and contained poor quality care. There were several organizations and individuals that joined together in an effort to correct this underlying problem. Founded in 1847, the American Medical Association encouraged Abraham Flexner to further research into this problem which later led to his final report in 1910 called the Report to the Carnegie Foundation. The report documented the state of the nation’s medical schools and major hospitals which proved to be in an unacceptable state. Another pioneer named Ernest Codman of Boston Massachusetts General Hospital advised the need to improve hospital conditions and track patients to ensure the care provided was effective and valuable.
History: The Health Resources and Services Administration was officially created in 1982. It was created with the purpose of improving access to health care for those in need by “improving health care access and quality, promoting best practices, and eliminating health disparities”. The agency’s foundation in history was in 1935, when the Social Security Act Title V authorized maternal and child health
Every state in the US has an affiliated chapter branching from the national organization that advocates for all Physician Assistants, known as the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA). The American Academy of Physician Assistants handles licensing requirements, networking opportunities, job resources, and provides tools to improve PA practice and patient care for each state and federal service chapter. These individual state affiliations branching from the AAPA are pertinent to the Physician Assistant profession because they allow for more direct and local resources for Physician Assistants. Having an individual state chapter makes it easier to find local jobs in the area and get answers to questions about each state law requirement.
March 9, 2017 Aspen Wayment History of Physician Assistants There were many events leading up to the origination of the physician assistant. The military necessity in times of war was one of these events that induced the use of “non-physicians” and helped pave a pathway for physician assistants. In 1940 a highly respected physician trained his own “doctor’s assistant” to tend his patients while he was away receiving further medical education. This event was a major success and a brief example of what was to come a mere fifteen years later.
Environmental External Factors It is imperative to keep a watchful gaze on the outside environment of health associations. The external environment is embodied with elements that happen outside of a health care association that have a prominent impact on the development of the association. The vision of Scripps Mercy Emergency Department is to create a safe and trusting place where health needs are met promptly and diligently with the best quality delivered. The Scripps Mercy Emergency Department 's natural elements include innovation, demographics, training and education, examination, and monetary improvement, rivalry, and the legislative issues.
Professional organizations uphold its members and try to improve nursing practice. Professional organizations can serve as a voice in government. There is power in numbers. A community is a group of people who either share a common interest such as church, school, or a geographic location such as a neighborhood, town or city (Mason, Gardner, & O'Grady, 2016). By participating in community outreach programs, nurses use their knowledge, skills, and experience to improve the community's health.
There are many stakeholders involved with health care administrations. Those stakeholders can be patients, health care physician, insurance providers, pharmaceutical manufactures, hospital organizations, community clinics and government. Each different stakeholder has their own individual vision of health care administration. This causes conflict due to the nature and differences in vision. which then can cause conflicts among each stakeholder involved.
The Organizational Review The organization Memorial Hermann Health System is a provider that strives for excellence. The Memorial Hermann mission is “To lead healthcare to superior patient outcomes through the creation of a high-reliability culture with evidence-based quality and patient safety as our core value. " Having a strategic plan with specific measures of Clinical Excellence, Do No Harm, Saving Lives” (Memorial Hermann Health System, 2013).
Being a Health Administrator over a facility means being in charge of so many people including workers and patients. We are to protect our workers and patients when it comes to patient rights and confidently. For an entry-level position in healthcare administration a bachelor’s degree needs to be obtained; most high-level positions require a master’s degree when working in
This is a critical analysis of the painting Henry Ford Hospital by Frida Kahlo. This artwork consists of oil paint on a tin canvas. It was painted in Detroit, Michigan after she had one of her many miscarriages. Today it can be found in the Collection of Museo Dolores Olmedo in Xochimilco, Mexico (Esaak). This analysis will describe the elements of design, principles of design, and the reason Kahlo created this artwork.
