The Sky Lakes Medical Center chart note from February 2, 2014 (an ER note). It states that Ms. Harris was restrained front seat passenger in a vehicle traveling at an estimated 25 mph when it was struck on the front driver’s side by a vehicle traveling at an estimated 40 mpg. It was described as a somewhat glancing blow, not a head on collision. Ms. Harris was restrained with lap and shoulder belts, no airbags deployed and she was not thrown from the vehicle. She did extract herself from the vehicle and she was not knocked unconscious. She remembers pushing the door open with her feet and she remembers getting out of the car. When she got out she was in some bushes and she was helped out of that. At that point she noticed she was having severe
The objective of this project is to improve the Springfield region’s financial performance for the Saints Health. The Saints Health Region (SHR) is accountable for health care services for the 28-county Springfield Arizona Service Area. SHR Health Plan provides operating funds for SHR, and the services are provided through SHR Medical group, local physicians, and other providers. Currently, the operating margin is negative with an operating loss of $110.31 M although the membership growth is positive. As consultants, our team strives to develop strategies to improve the financial performance of SHR by focusing on short-term and long-term viability.
Case study: St. Rita 's Healthcare System Enterprise Instance Messaging (EIM) is a factor of Real-Time Communications that augments business competence by getting rid of delays in communications. These delays are more witnessed in the healthcare environment. Recently many healthcare organizations have realized that EIM can be of great benefit in the rate at which they grow and in that case increase the quality of patient care. In the case study, St. Rita’s Medical Center team made a recommendation to move to a secure instant messaging that will be used in the IT department. The move proved to be a success and in my opinion, the move was worth the risk.
In Higgins-Williams v. Sutter Med. Found. the question of whether or not an employee’s inability to work with a specific supervisor qualified as a “disability” was put to the test in court. Michaelin Higgins-Wiggins was a clinical assistant in Sutter’s Shared Services Department. She reported to her physician that she was experiencing stress as a result of her involvement with both her direct supervisor and the human resources department on the job.
Horizon NJ Health 210 Silvia St Ewing Township, NJ 08628 October 17, 2017 T’Azjsha Hart 432 Manheim Avenue Bridgeton, New Jersey 08302 Re: Kevin Hall OMNIA: Plan A 00-9550 Dear Horizon NJ Health, I am writing on behalf of my patient, Kevin Hall to document the medical necessity of a well-trained Service Dog for the needed support of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This letter provides information of patient’s diagnoses and enforces why a service dog would provide Kevin Hall with efficient support.
Education, information and resource referral was provided to address the following: 1. Veteran had concerns about, how to file a service connected claim. (Veteran was educated on how to process a service connected disability claim). 2. Veteran was not aware of all the services provided at the local VA Medical Center. (Veteran was provided with information about the services, clinics, and groups, i.e. Women’s Clinic, MVPC program, suicide).
She eventually just tried to close up her wound by duct-taping gauze to the back of her head. Keeping her kids calm she goes on to tell a story about a girl who fell down a well and had to wait a week to get help, relating the story to herself. The boys went to sleep, while the woman tried to keep herself awake by reading ‘Alice in Wonderland’ but she ended up falling asleep herself. The next day came and it had felt like forever since her husband had been back. The boys continued to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches while playing the game uno all afternoon.
Shoreview VA Hospital is one of the VA facilities that solely serves the Miami-Dade County. This county is found in the lower eastern part of Florida, but the facility is found in Homestead, Florida. Nearby, is the Homestead Air Force Base, one of 21 Military bases in Florida (See Appendix A for a map). Demographics. Miami-Dade County, has an estimated population of 2.66 million people according to the U.S Census which makes it the most populous county in Florida.
Congress has approved funding for the $1,600,000,000 VA hospital in Denver, Colorado. The hospital has such a high price tag because of inefficient management on the part of the people in charge of monitoring the construction of the building. Doors meant to cost around $100 ballooned to $1400, and some entire rooms had to be remade due to changes in medical equipment. The original cost for the hospital was $604,000,000, and the project is now hailed as “ The biggest construction failure in VA history.” In addition to agreeing to fund the extra $625,000,000, Congress had agreed to put the Army Corps of engineers in charge of any VA construction projection forecasted to cost $100,000,000 or more.
While she was being raped she decided to study his face. She escaped her house by telling him that he is she wanted to go get a glass of water. She fled out the back door and was able to get a neighbor to help her. When she went to the police station, they took her to the local hospital to get the evidence from her,; for
Paradise Hill Medical Center – Case analysis 1. Recognize the background: the key of this step is to understand the medical issues involved. The medical issue in the Paradise Hill Medical Center (PHMC) was that 22 oncology patients received excessive doses of radiation therapy. The patients have not been informed yet that they received and overdose of radiation. The CEO alleged that it was the responsibility of the medical staff to inform the affected patients, and the medical team decided not to inform them about the error.
This report addresses the issues arising from the case study report of Guelph General Hospital. Over the years, the hospital has experienced challenges in the delivery of services to consumers. This is especially due to the expanding numbers of patients that have affected the normal functioning of the hospital system. Starting with the improvement of the emergency department, GGH has focused on the practices that would accommodate the increasing demands for medical services. The lean methodology is one of the implementations that aimed at reducing wastage within the system, in order to create value for the services offered.
In 2005, a family friend by the name of Randy Birdsong was a patient at Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital located in San Antonio, Texas. The Veteran Affairs (VA) medical staff was performing surgery on his abdomen. After the surgery, he was notified that there was insufficient space to accommodate his continued care. The V.A. advised him to keep his wound clean with a fresh roll of gauze, and sent him on his merry way. A few days later, Randy was back at the V.A. hospital with a noticeable infection taken place in his abdominal region.
Organization Eight: Shriners Hospitals for Children Shriners Hospital for Children (Shriners) is an international nonprofit hospital that provides healthcare services and rehabilitation to children with health issues in the areas of orthopedics, cleft lip and palate deformity, spinal cord injury, and burn recovery (Shriners Hospitals for Children, 2016). Beyond providing excellent healthcare for children, Shriners Hospital for Children also emphasizes the importance of physician education and research - for the improvement of children and families’ lives (Shriners Hospitals for Children, 2016). Shriners has 22 hospitals across the United States - from Portland, Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts - and an orthopedics hospital in Montreal, Canada
Mapleton Family Medicine can be closely compared to countless other family medicine facilities throughout the US, a small family practice establishment struggling to keep up with providing fast but efficient care within a small city. With wanting to raise productivity without hindering patient care, the owners have hypothesized an incentive system plan to move the establishment in the right direction. However, will the plan actually be effective in accomplishing these goals? Based upon the case questions within the experiential exercise, I will work to answer any problems addressed, giving away to a better understanding of the possible obstacles within the development of their incentive system plan.
Based on this case the cost driver is to properly distribute the direct cost among the different divisions. Dr. Julian would like to control her departments costs by having them distributed fairly among the divisions without affecting the hospital’s reimbursement/revenue. Carroll University Hospital is currently using the standard costing unit, which is based on the cost of bed/day for inpatients. Currently the present cost accounting system that is being used at CUH takes the total direct cost of the departments, then allocates the indirect costs and distributes it among the departments evenly regardless of the actual resources being used in those departments, and without considering that there may be some patients in these divisions that may require more resources than others, this method does not seem to recognize the different activities,