Effects Of The Hospital On Patients Missing Belongings

The documentary The Waiting Room presents a safety-net hospital located in Oakland, California. In the film, director Peter Nix follows patients, doctors, and staff throughout a typical day. Furthermore, the film displays how the staff is overworked, causing an impact regarding how the American health care system is affecting millions of uninsured patients who try to cope with injury and disease. The film utilizes techniques from the observational mode such as long takes, crisis structure, and documenting unplanned everyday experiences to convey the cruel realities of Americans seeking hope and treatment.

The cost of Medical equipment plays a significant role in the delivery of health care. The clinical engineering at Victoria Hospital is an important branch of the hospital team management that are working to strategies ways to improve quality of service and lower cost repairs of equipments. The team members from Biomedical and maintenance engineering’s roles are to ensure utilization of quality equipments such as endoscope and minimize length of repair time. All these issues are a major influence in the hospital’s project cost. For example, Victory hospital, which is located in Canada, is in the process of evaluating different options to decrease cost of its endoscope repair. This equipment is use in the endoscopy department for

Satisfaction scores are based on the percentage of participants scoring a question given with the highest possible response such as “definitely yes or always”. These scores are then used to make improvements to the services that the hospital provides. The marks are compared to other hospitals in the area with the same specialty service during the period of July 2016 until December of 2015. The Sterling Heights Medical Center location scored above average in the following areas: Overall satisfaction with the physician 88.2 % with the other Michigan hospitals scoring 87.0%. How well the patient’s pain was controlled was 84.7% with other local hospitals scoring 80.9%, and the nursing care satisfaction was 89.5% with other local hospitals scoring 88.2%. Henry Ford Hospital is located on W. Grand Blvd in downtown Detroit was one of the HFHS locations that scored below average as compared to other Southeast Michigan Hospitals. The results are as follows: Overall satisfaction with physician was 84.9% with local hospitals scoring 87.0%. How well the patient’s pain was controlled scored 75.5% as compared to 80.9%, and nursing care came in at 83.3% with the local average being 88.2% (Patient Satisfaction Survey,

CMS will be rewarding the top performing hospitals by increasing to their payment for Medicaid patients. HCAHPS survey is sent out within six weeks of the patients discharged, there is 27 questions relating to communication with the staff, cleanliness, pain management, communication about medicines, discharge information and if they would recommend the hospital. The data is to Premier Incorporated to categorize the date, and then place this information on the website http://.wwwhospitalcompar.hhs.gov and available to the public. Health Quality Alliance and Center of Medicare and Medicaid Systems have awarded over eight million to hospitals who have shown improvements in the care of their patients.

Mountain States Healthcare (MSH) is a regional system of hospitals located in several large metropolitan areas of Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. MHS started as a single hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, and, due to the business acumen and experience of its officers and Board of Directors, was quite successful and profitable ( MG371, Article). During the years MHS started to collect different hospitals and clinics that were not profiting and turning them around by treating them as their own entities but applying their successful management strategies. As the MHS grew they created the Utah Health Group and then the MSH.

Mountain States Healthcare (MSH) is a regional systems of healthcare located in several large metropolitan areas of Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. They were a single hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah who was quite successful and profitable due to the business expertise and experience of its officers. They began purchasing other hospitals that were not as profitable and eventually changed their name to Utah Health Group (UHG). The facilities that they purchased were still allowed to operate as independent entities except that there name was to include United Health Group. UHG just instilled its own successful management style in the newly purchased facilities.

Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) is a world-renowned 1000-bed academic non-profit medical center located in Durham, North Carolina. Each year, DUMC handles 38,000 admissions, performed 17,000 inpatient and 21,000 outpatient surgeries, and had 70,000 emergency room visits (link). DUMC was established 85 years ago and serves as one of three Level I referral centers for the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area. DUMC is widely considered a world-class health care system by its participation in cutting-edge research, education of future medical leaders, and practice of evidence-based medicine. DUMC was recently ranked the 14th best hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report (link). DUMC operates one of the country's

Memorial Healthcare System is a public hospital system that was established in 1953. This system, also commonly referred to as the South Broward Hospital District, seeks to provide exceptional medical care to the South Florida community. There are a total of six hospitals in the network, including Memorial Regional Hospital, Memorial Regional Hospital South, Memorial Hospital Pembroke, Memorial Hospital West, Memorial Hospital Miramar, and Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital.

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital is a 287 bed, short-term acute care hospital located in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1968 via a donation from a philanthropist, it has approximately 2,000 employees. Good Samaritan has no accreditations but is designated to be a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission ("Healthgrades," 2015). At first glance, it is somewhat surprising that they would have a higher than average readmission rate for stroke patients, however, considering the Stroke Center designation, one must take into consideration that they are seeing a higher than average number of stroke patients. While the national goal for stroke related deaths is 34.8 out of 100,000 admissions, MedStar currently has 48.1 deaths associated with stroke related admissions. This less than desirable performance creates both financial and clinical implications.

West Florida Regional Medical Center (WFRMC) located on the north side of Pensacola, Florida competed strongly with sacred heart and Baptist hospitals for patients. WFRMC’s CEO John Kausch was an active member of the Total Quality Council of the Pensacola Area Chamber of Commerce (PATQC) (McLaughlin, C.P., Johnson, J.K., & Sollecito, 2012).. PATQC’s vision was to develop the Pensacola, Florida area into a total quality community by promoting productivity, quality and economic developments in all area organizations both public and private (McLaughlin, et, al., 2012). John

In Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Act had a considerable impact on hospitals and the health care system. Most community health centers were benefiting from coverage expansions and safety net hospitals were struggling financially due to the fact that the state put more funding towards insurance subsidies to expand coverage. Academic medical centers (AMC) were able to

Shouldice Hospital had an excellent well-developed, focused service delivery system. The business strategy was to not only provide its patients with a quick, quality and low cost surgery but also providing an unforgettable experience and comfortable environment in the facility.

MedStar Health is a vertically integrated not-for-profit organization that provides the best features of academic medicine and is recognized for their regionally and nationally for excellence in medical care across Maryland and Washington, D.C region. MedStar Health is one of “the largest healthcare providers consisting of 10 hospitals, MedStar Health Research Institute, MedStar medical group, with many other programs and services” (MedStar, 2015). In addition, to providing the largest health care service with over 77,000 associates and affiliated physicians, as well as providing the best

The cost of the health care industry has always been rising since the early 1980s. It has been a growing concern in both the industry and society. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is no exception. Even though the average length of stay (LOS) for the patients in MGH has been declining (Exhibit 10), it is still the highest compared to their competitors (Exhibit 6). Besides the cost, there is no uniformity of process and standardization across different facilities and departments of the hospital. MGH lacks communication and coordination between the facilities.

The Massachusetts General Hospital is a healthcare hospital located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts and is proclaimed to be one of the leading healthcare providers in the nation, with it having the prestige of being the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and a biomedical research facility and the largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts. When first observing the website, one of the main things that is stated on the first page and is clearly stated in big bold letters is the proclamation of the achievement that the hospital holds. It is stated that the Massachusetts General Hospital has been named among the top hospitals in America and it has been ranked among the top three of hospitals