Dr. Elijah Heart Center Simulation Review

The open heart surgeries are profitable to hospitals, and even though the market was declining, if the hospital could capture some of the profit from these procedures, it would enable them to continue to make a profit. The hospitals in this area were all in competition for the ability to offer these services (George, 2002).

Although the Western States Affiliate's (WSA's) organizational model successfully increased fundraising revenue for the American Heart Association (AHA), the task force's initiative to adopt this structure and strategy at a national level indicates a lack of understanding of the AHA's overall vision and business strategy. If the AHA wishes to achieve even greater success while continuing to maintain its long-standing strategy of raising funds for research and community education, it should focus on developing a hybrid organizational structure, improving operational efficiency and strengthening its community participation.

Since our clinical experience was in the simulation lab, I do not have any background information about my patient. My first time having experience with a bradycardic patient was actually last week during clinicals. He had a heart rate that was consistently in the 40s and he had a pacemaker inserted that day. Risk factors of bradycardia that are modifiable lifestyle changes include smoking, using recreational drugs, alcohol use, high blood pressure and stress. A few complications of untreated bradycardia include inability to pump enough blood throughout the body, frequent fainting spells or even cardiac arrest.

As Harris Memorial Hospital and Harris Community Foundation aims to incorporate the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in the system, being the Board of Trustees it is your imperative to have complete knowledge about the justification of soft costs and the financial benefits associated with the incorporation of EHRs. Hence, there is a requirement for EHR investment, I would like to explain the steps for justification of ROI soft return with an example and the capital acquisition required to support. This will eventually help you track the appropriate methods in expanding the overall potential of implementing EHRs.

In an attempt to learn what a thriving HIM department looks like, I and three of my classmates visited the offices of Diane Premeau, who holds an MBA, PHIA, CHP, and CHC, the HIM Director for O’Connor Hospital. Diane has been with O’Connor for approximately 10 years and she was an excellent source of information, was very energetic and was generous with her time. O’Connor is a non-profit hospital that has been in operation for over a 100 years. O’Connor is part of the Daughters of Charity Health System (DCHS). Earlier this year O’Connor hospital, a part of Verity Health announced a comprehensive revenue cycle management (RCM) agreement with Conifer Health Solutions.

o many people, concept of seeing a surgical procedure upfront, may proof to be too graphic for some, however, there are still plenty of reasons as to why, people of all ages may want to see a surgical procedure in great detail. With the rise in popularity of simulation based games, it comes as no surprise that the market is filled with realistic surgery games that can give children some insight into how certain medical procedures are done. In this overview, we'll take a look at some of the most realist virtual surgery games, that can be found on the web.

The simulation states, “Many hospitals in the United States are financially vulnerable because of the reduction in Medicaid cuts, funding cuts, and cuts in Medicare payments” (University of Phoenix, 2009). This simulation paper will show what some hospitals have to do to keep costs down. In addition, it will analyze financial indicators for decision making. This simulation will also show the financial accounting from a Cardiac Care Hospital’s Perspective. It will show how to bridge a working capital shortage, evaluate funding options for acquiring medical equipment, and evaluate funding options for capital expansion.

First, the cost of healthcare was rising at an alarming rate. Second, ambulatory and primary care facilities were on the rise and since the Cleveland Clinic was more involved in hospital and specialty care, this started to negatively effect business. Third, managed care was increasing. Lastly, there was increased competition. On top of these issues, the former practices of hospital management were becoming a thing of the past. The reimbursement process was changing which affected the financial viability of the organization. The Cleveland Clinic Florida was losing over a million dollars per month, the conversion to an electronic medical record and billing system had failed costing the organization millions of dollars, and the land that the clinic in Florida was on was not appraised before construction and was actually only worth half of what the organization paid for it (Clough, 2004). It was estimated that based on this financial status, if the organization choose to do nothing, then within 18 months the Cleveland Clinic would have generated a negative cash flow of $75 million (Clough, 2004). Having this amount of negative cash flow would have made it impossible to recover. All of these changing healthcare factors, lead to some poor financial decisions and essentially led to the third project, the Economic Improvement

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in recent years. Cardiac measurements are the main factors to detect development of cardiovascular diseases and further related clinical decisions. The growing number of clinical and experimental studies has shown that optimizing the energy metabolism in the heart is an effective approach to reduce the influences associated with ischemia (blood deficiency) in myocardial. The imbalance in heart energy leads to different diseases, such as hypertrophy and heart failure. In this study, a series of valves simulations were executed through a typical geometry to evaluate the energy consumption of the heart. Fluid-Structural Interaction (FSI) simulation was employed to predict the hemodynamic

The main goal of a private healthcare practice is to generate profits from services rendered. Private health care practice’s sole purpose just like a business is to generate revenue while maintaining financial viability. Financial viability is determined after reviewing all pertinent financial documents. Financial viability and status is determined by reviewing the organization’s Balance Sheets, Statements of Operations, Statement of Changes in Net Assets, and Statements of Cash Flows. A private healthcare practice financial balance sheet records the organization’s present assets, liabilities, and net assets at the time of review. Revenue statements or statements of operations give a snapshot of the healthcare’s revenue and expenses during the reviewed financial period. Once the revenue statement documents are reviewed, changes in asset and use of equity can be determined by reviewing statements of changes in assets documents. Statements of changes in net assets, list the change in equity during a specific operational time or period of the healthcare organization (“Statements of Change in Net Assets,” cassfraser.ca, gabs.org, May 2007). Fund generation and fund use are shown in the statements of the healthcare organization’s cash flow statements. Document review of an organization’s balance sheet, statements of operations, statement of changes in net assets, and statements of cash flows, will provide a view into a health care firm’s financial standing, financial

My challenge was to decide on the best strategy to solve the cash flow problem at Elijah Heart Center (EHC). In addition, I had to implement two measures to achieve a cost saving target of $750,000 for the first quarter.

As a future business leader, emphasizing the importance of education and using the hospital resources and administration, can play a very positive impact not only on the individual but also on our society, in order to make it a better

The results are integrated into the overall performance reporting. In addition, the results are compared to national and state benchmark. As the data is received daily, SHP transforms volume of data to interpret reports. Also, the performance metrics are compared to benchmark database. Furthermore, the data are organized to see the positive and negative trends. This software also tracks the agency's financial and operational metrics. The financial Executive Advantage (EA) report displays the data on episodes in total (start of care, recertification, and discharged), by provider and payer group. The agency can able to manage case weight, revenue and patient care by reviewing therapy utilization, visit utilization, and Low-utilization Payment Adjustments (LUPA) metrics. SHP Dashboard shows benchmarking reports of Clinical Quality, Hospital Utilization: Financial/Operational; Staff Performance Scorecard; Home Health Value-Based Purchasing; and Performance scorecard by referral source, and category, and more.

Once the problem was identified, the hospital conducted a survey of their patients and the result was favorable, impressively, 95% of the customers surveyed states they would recommend the hospital to other people. This is significant, because it indicates the hospital will continue to grow. Also, the executive director enlist the help of various teams to do extensive research and evaluate issues that could arise during and after the completion of the hospital project; issues such as capital equipments or which services would transfer to the new facility.

How will they provide the highest possible quality care at the lowest cost is the question challenging them to ponder against their will unless the government has outlined incentives on return. All in all, whether there are incentives or not, the administration will be requiring to change their financial structure purposively to accommodate the changes (Kuo, 2012). This varies from the pay structure to purchasing cost as well as regarding another overhead cost to be incurred, otherwise, how would they manage, treat diseases while still maintaining low affordable rates for everyone. Also, with increased changes in technology consequently even making the process lot easier to the patients while delivering the medical care to the patients’ home will necessitate a significant shift in the administration. Meanwhile, the pay model will change for the physicians who will earn the high salary as compared to the previous fee- for procedure model of payment.