Home And Hospice Inc.

Caring Hospice will be made up of an inter-disciplinary team that collaborate together to provide holistic, competent, and compassionate care for terminally ill patients and their families. The team will consist of the Medical Director, Patient Care Coordinator, Registered Nurse, Bereavement Coordinator, Social Worker, Chaplain, Certified Nurse Assistant, and Office Manager. Each team member will play a vital role in creating an effective care giving system.

Documentation and communication are constant challenges that healthcare providers face when seeking continuity of care for their patients. Every time a patient moves from a hospital to a nursing home, or from a skilled nursing facility to home health or hospice, the staff that cares for the patient is at risk for a gap in patient care and communication. Home health and hospice agencies rely heavily on Medicaid and other insurance for reimbursements in order to continue to provide care for their patients and keep the doors to their agencies open. Thorough and timely documentation is the key to ensuring proper reimbursement for nursing services and other therapies provided from insurance agencies. This same

Hospice is a process to end-of-life care and a kind of support facility for terminally ill patients. It provides comforting care, patient-centered care and related services. Comforting care relieves discomfort without improving the patient’s condition or curing his illness. Hospice is extended in a healthcare facility or at home. Its objective is to provide compassionate, emotional, and spiritual care for the dying patient.

The customer required that each workstation have at least 256 GB to 500 GB of local storage. They also wanted a file server on the network to protect data in case a workstation went down. This server will be networked into allow file sharing between devices and have available 40 GB to start. These network upgrades, the greater use of applications, and file sharing will require more protection; a new firewall programmed to filter packets and analyze external requests and direct requests and traffic to the right application.

Most estimates place in-house retirement of assets at $300-$500 per computer. With 2270 computers currently in use by company employees (additional 49 in reserve), this equates to more than $900,000 to turn over all of our desktops and laptops. This does not include all of our servers and other storage units. The overall cost would be in excess of $1 million. While this amount falls well within our IT budget of $80 million, there may be another, more economical way in which to retire our outdated equipment.

The hospital’s administrative network consists of Apple iMACS and thin computers that use 1000Base T with CAT 6 cables. All work stations belonging to Executive Management has Apple iMAC computers with 24” monitors, 2.4 GHz speed, 2 GB RAM, and a 500 MB hard drive. Human Resources, OPNS, and the Finance Senior Managers have Apple iMACS with 20” monitors, 2 GHz speed, and a 350 MB hard drive. All of the systems have OS virtualization and use the MAC Operating System X, Leopard, and Windows XP. OS virtualization allows separate, isolated virtual environments to be used on a single server. The MAC Operating System X is a UNIX system that is both simple and powerful. Leopard further enhanced the system by making it faster and more reliable. Windows XP is a product of Microsoft but it is able to be installed on any MAC using a native version of Microsoft Office. This way users are able to create documents using MS Word, make presentations using PowerPoint, and

It is generally limited to a geographic area such as a writing lab, school, or building. Rarely are LAN computers more than a mile apart. In a typical LAN configuration, one computer is designated as the file server. It stores all of the software that controls the network, as well as the software that can be shared by the computers attached to the network. Computers connected to the file server are called workstations. The workstations can be less powerful than the file server, and they may have additional software on their hard drives. On many LANs, cables are used to connect the network interface cards in each computer; other LANs may be wireless.

MHS is seeking proposals for converting the existing desktop PC’s currently configured as a “thick client” into a “thin client environment”. The back end infrastructure will need to be part of this proposal and the overall configuration. a.

One of the many things that attracted me to nursing was the variety of positions a nurse can be employed in. Personally, I have a few positions that I am thinking of applying to once I finish the program and pass the NCLEX-PN. The very first place I will apply to is the facility I work in, the Life Care Center of West Bridgewater. It is a skilled nursing home and rehabilitation center that is divided into long and short term floors. There, I can grow and gain experience as an LPN, particularly on the short-term floor named Nantucket. I would continue to work there per diem on the weekends, in hopes of getting my dream job working full time at a doctor’s office in either women’s health or pediatrics. My desired shift for Life Care would be

I found Homestead Hospice mission statement which is "We will continuously raise the bar on the quality of hospice care throughout the industry." Homestead hospice also uses a butterfly as a symbol for the agency. The butterfly is a powerful symbol of transformation. It takes a tremendous amount of hard work and courage to emerge from its restraining cocoon. The life of a butterfly is as magical as the life cycle of a human being. Our senior family members spent their lives contributing to society. Now, it is our duty to ensure they live the rest of their life in comfort. I feel that the mission statement and their symbolic symbol represents them perfectly. I have actually been with a social worker once and the social worker was telling

All computers must be running Microsoft operating systems so Bill will have to purchase Microsoft operating computers for his new employees.

My experience as a social work student at Seasons Hospice has been very interesting. It started off a little bumpy but soon progressed into an everlasting life experience and opportunity. My thought process from when I entered into seasons and now exiting Seasons if tremendously different from what I was expecting.

While sadness plays a big role in hospice…it is also true that there is happiness, positive reflection as well as wisdom. This month we want to recognize our two volunteers Connie and Paul Steber who have been volunteers for Hospice since June and considered it a true blessing to share the stories and experiences of patients who are living through a very emotional and difficult time. They are honored to be making a difference and to be able to share the stories of the patients like James Ellis best known as the Coach, who enjoys their company but most of all watching a football game, especially if his favorite team is on the winning end. The Stabers enjoy conversing with James and listening to his stories. There are also times when James and

6b. Should the hardware be upgraded and which hardware, please be specific and explain why: PCs, PCs and networking, etc.?

The diagram above shows the high level LAN network design that could be implemented. Inter-office connections could be done using Sate-590553175llite Communication or using a single point ISP provider to do the networking.