Custer Hospital Case Study

I live in a small northern Alabama town named Athens, Alabama. It is a community of Huntsville, Alabama. After some investigating, I found out that the Athens-Limestone hospital is affiliated with Huntsville Hospital. Huntsville Hospital, “the nations fifth largest publicly owned healthcare organization has selected Caradigm Health Information Exchange” to connect care across northern Alabama (“PRNewswire”, 2016). Huntsville Hospital will use Caradigm to create a streamline care between affiliated providers, care coordination, improve care quality and increase patient satisfaction (“PRNewswire”, 2016).

Background Tulsa Memorial Hospital (TMH) is one of the nine acute care hospitals that serves in the general population area. Historically, it has been highly profitable due to its well-appointed facilities, excellent medical staff, good-standing reputation for quality care and its ability to give individual attention for each of its patients. The hospital, in addition to its inpatient services, operates an emergency department and an urgent care center located two miles from the hospital across the street from a major shopping mall.

The North Texas State Hospital (NTSH) is part of the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) administration. NTSH is a mental healthcare facility that has two campuses: one department is located in Wichita Falls, TX and the other in Vernon, TX. Including both campuses DSHS is the largest mental hospital in the state of Texas, which provides psychiatric services for the mentally ill. NTSH is the only facility in the entire state of Texas that provides forensic psychiatric care. Forensic psychiatric care is a specialized service for prisoners who have mental disorders. NTSH offers a 284-bed maximum security program for adults and a 78-bed adolescent Forensic Program (DSHS Center, 2017). NTSH aims to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of individuals by providing the right stewardship, reducing health care problems, improving public health awareness, and preventing diseases. In order to improve health and safety, NTSH is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The Joint Commission is an independent, not for profit association that set standards to evaluate

CASE SYNOPSIS In mid-April 2000, Sherri Worth was faced with some very unsettling news about Pate Memorial Clinic’s future with a competitor potentially moving into the area. Worth was the assistant administrator at Pate Memorial Hospital (PMH) and was also responsible for the Pate Health Clinic (PHC). A study by the competitor was being done to see whether sufficient demand existed to establish a clinic 5 blocks north of PHC. The two biggest concerns in regards to the new competition were:

I am assuming that the hospital you are talking about is Uintah Basin Medical Center located at Roosevelt.I just wanted to let you know that I just started few weeks ago.So I am still in a learning phase.I would love to work with you to get the UBMC certified.I

• Organized and reviewed technical/administrative denials for all payer’s and targeted problem areas which affected claims payments. • Performed research regarding health insurance denials, such as referrals and authorizations. • Communicated information to managers and associates concerning claims and payment issues. • Researched and reviewed claims information, analyzed and interpreted managed care contracts. • Follow-up with health insurance

AVH Foundation marks 40 years with $1 million donation Recently the Antelope Valley Hospital Foundation (AVHF) marked its 40-year anniversary of supporting the Antelope Valley’s only hospital offering full-service acute care by presenting a donation of almost $1 million.

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Physician leadership technique is one of the quality management employed in the Baylor medical. For quality control to be attained, there is a need to have a participative leadership and teamwork among the diverse healthcare professionals to bring innovation in the healthcare system as well as agree on the shared

A Response Team’s process for Griffen Hospital. Preparing for the incident: Would have been implemented before my IR (Incident Response) Team arrived on scene.

Loyola Hospital believes in excellent patient care. EBP will improve patient outcome and will lead to higher quality of care. The development and use of EBP mentors and champions will be helpful in increasing evidence based practice use in our department or hospital. According to Wallen et al. (2010), organization with evidence based practice who has a mentorship program have a higher rate of EBP implementation readiness than those who did not have EBP mentor and champions. Likewise, having a EBP mentor will result to stronger beliefs and greater EBP implementation by nurses which will result to greater group cohesion (Wallen et al., 2010).

Help has finally arrived for Greenville County residents. The Greenville County Hospital system will be opening a new free clinic in a neighborhood near you. The clinic will specialize in working with those who don’t have health insurance and Medicaid eligible patients. The Greenville County Free Clinic will offer a variety of health care services, including medical, dental, vision, mental health, and pharmacy services. The clinic does not receive money from the federal government therefor, it is funded through community donations, grants, and special events. The clinic will be opened 5 days a weeks for 6 hours a day. So make your appointment as soon as possible.

The hospital that I chose when I compared my local hospitals was Bellin Memorial Hospital in Green Bay. I chose this hospital because this hospital consistently scored higher than the other hospitals I compared it to in the survey of patients’ experiences. It is very important to me that when I go to a hospital that I feel like I am important and that health care providers are not rushing me, so consistently good scores on the patients’ experiences survey is very important to me. Another important factor I looked at was the payment section. Bellin Memorial Hospitals’ payments for all the medical conditions that the comparison site listed are no different than the national average payments. One huge factor that made me choose this hospital was

Abbott Northwestern Hospital located in Minneapolis, MN is one of the Twin Cities premier and largest private operating facility, whose mission is to provide outstanding care while preventing illness, restoring ones’ health, and providing comfort to all in their care ("Hospital Overview," n.d.). Abbott’s promise through its vision is to