Evaluation Of A Hospital Facility

Health care is something that everyone requires in order to lead a healthy life. After a visit to a hospital there are instances when certain individuals require further care due to their circumstances. Although hospitals may provide long-term care, it is not usually ideal. Hospitals are in place to handle emergency situations and aid in stabilizing the patients. Once the patients are stable, they must be transitioned to another facility if they require further assistance. This will avoid maximum occupancy for the hospital and allow it to remain available to other patients that may need their services. Patients who require long-term care or around the clock care and are in good medical condition should seek a long-term care facility, such as a skilled nursing facility or nursing home. For some individuals, facilities such as skilled nursing facilities or nursing homes are a blessing. These types of facilities are in existence to aid in the recovery of certain injuries and or to provide living arrangements for those who lack someone to care for them or assist with meeting their health care needs.

Skilled Nursing facility(SNFs) serve patients requiring preventive, therapeutic, and rehabilitative nursing care services for non-acute, long-term conditions. Specialized clinical and diagnostic services are obtained outside the nursing home. Most residents are frail and aged and often use canes, walkers, or wheelchairs. Nursing homes also care for a smaller percentage of restorative patients of all ages like a rehabilitation and other residents are in long-term recovery from acute illnesses, but no longer require hospitalization.

This hospital is a 65-bed rural hospital but it is the job of every hospital to give the best patient care possible. With a

Outpatient services are medical procedures that do not requires an overnight stay. Outpatient usually cost less because many procedures and tests are done in few hours. The following are the outpatient facilities that I would considered for employment; urgent care clinic, rehabilitation center, and doctor’s office.

The organization provides the usual array of inpatient services expected in a moderate-sized community hospital. A local nursing home

There are various settings where patients can be treated. Inpatients or individuals who have been formally admitted to a healthcare facility are given treatment in either acute care or long term facilities. There are various types of acute care facilities which offer services ranging from medical, ancillary to nursing.

Hospital is an institution providing medical care and other services for sick and injured persons. The modern hospital has three major functions: patient care, education and medical research. The total number of hospitals around the world is estimated to be about 1,25,000. In the United States there are about 10,000 hospitals providing services and facilities for the humanity. There are also more than 10,000 nursing homes providing care to the chronically ill and the aged. Thus hospital provide a great service to the society.

Nursing home facility is for patients who need extended care because they are very sick or unable to function without continued nursing and supportive services in a formal health care facility. These patients are sick and/or are in need of assistance but they are not ill enough that they require the intense treatment and care offered at a hospital. About forty-seven percent of all nursing home facility care is paid for by Medicaid and residents and their families pay approximately one-third of the cost for the facility services. In recent years the length of time one stays at a nursing home has greatly decreased. Even with the decrease in stay there is still a fifty percent chance of an individual in his/her lifetime having to spend some time in a nursing facility. Both of these previous mentioned trends is reflective of the nursing facilities moving toward becoming more technologically sophisticated as well as being able to function as more of a

The purpose of this paper is to identify the type of facility and the resident being served. In addition, this paper will identify the role of the Nurse Practitioner (NP), and the regulatory issues as it supports this role.

Hospitals are one of the many organizations that must comply with regulations to keep patients and staff safe and as well as maintain the quality of care. Ideally, a good care system for patients includes medical professionals as well as friends and family to compliment each other in providing for patient needs. Because patients require care from medical professions in hospitals, there are provisions that the hospital must follow.

The acute care facility in my area has an operating room, emergency room, blood bank, radiology department, pathology department, pharmacy and clinical laboratory. Acute care facility is usually meant for older people or any person in emergency situation who require acute services, or serious life threatening medical conditions .The facility is managed by medical and nursing personnel’s to helps administer the critical care necessary to assist a patient to gain back his/her health.

Discharge planning, education, and follow-up are areas healthcare facilities fail patients significantly. Often times, the bedside nurse has little time to actually sit down to provide the patient with detailed discharge instructions. My vision for a new and improved healthcare environment is to have discharge teams to assist patients with needs outside the healthcare facility, educate patients and families about disease process, and provide follow-up appointments and calls to promote compliance of treatment.

Formidable health care organizations, healthcare outreach facilities, healthcare partners, and dedicated health care leaders are nothing new to the Central Florida region. Central Florida has given birth to some of the best and well-known health care systems in the nation. “The region is home to several respected hospitals that are ranked in the nation’s top 100, a Level One Trauma Center, nine designated teaching hospitals and the University of Central Florida, College of Medicine” (Winter Park Memorial Hospital, 2013). Although there are several economic hardships taken place within the nation’s health care industry, Central Florida’s healthcare organizations are amid in serving the community.

When it comes to the length of stay for a hospital admission it pertains to a variety of diverse patients and the hospital unpredictable labors. The LOS is used as a guide of performance and is an element of costs as well as resource allocations. The hospital closest to receiving the lowest length of stay (LOS) for a fiscal year is hospital C, Hospital D comes in second place following hospital B and lastly Hospital A. The percentages shown below are the percentages from the hospital that had the lowest LOS which is hospital C to each hospital showing the percent difference of each hospital for that specific fiscal year. In this case other data elements such as what percentage with the majority LOS was male of female as well as the different

An hospital is an institution for health care and patient treatment provided by specialized and experienced staff and equipment and often but it is not always providing for longer-term patient stays.