Memorial Hermann Healthcare System Case Study

Sinclair memorial hospital has the following background information: 305 bed acute care facility, 6,300 in patient visits, 17,000 emergency patients yearly, 13,600 clinic visits and 8,500 outpatient visits. Services offered by the facility include: community health care, primary care, home health care, and cancer care. Before entering the HIM department there is a code of dressing that is expected. For the IT department, a casual wear is recommended but the most important part is the identification badge which has to visible all the time. The identification badge shows one is an employee in a particular department and also allows the accessibility of restricted areas within the organization. The facility has to be accessible to the public but The HIM department is expected to be secure in order to keep other employees and unauthorized persons from accessing and accessibility can achieved through authorization and permission are coded in the badge Recording is procedural, for example when a patient is brought by an ambulance, the nurse starts electronic recording through documentation and the health care information is kept throughout the period the patient is being taken care of by other health providers

Texas Health has shown why they are the top performers in the country. Texas Health has received honors and awards for clinical quality, including the 2007 Quality Award from Premier and the 2007 Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award. There are numerous lessons from Texas Health experiences that other hospitals should look at to achieve high performance. According to the text, for an organization to reach the ideal state of continuous adaptation and improvement, the organization must be designed to achieve their goals and able to change direction when things don’t work out (Frates, J. 2009). Being in a health system gives you the opportunity to turn to each other as partners in quality improvement efforts and resources to help solve problems.

Five questions were presented to Jamie Roney, Regional Sepsis Coordinator located within Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas and Robert White, Director of Regional Newborn Program located within Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana. Each question explored the concept of evidence based practice within the respective Facilities. This paper will attempt to summarize and differentiate the question and answer session of both institutions.

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

There are various considerations that may affect hospital scores, it involves satisfaction and eduction in which are a very important aspect of nursing care. As a nurse, it is important to have positive outcomes. There is currently one hospital within a 5-mile radius of my current facility. The two hospitals that are in this comparison are Kingwood Medical Center and Memorial Hermann NE. My place of employment is MHNE. So, when compared to Kingwood Medical Center, Memorial Hermann NE scores slightly better in both categories. Kingwood Medical Center patient satisfaction was 70%, while Memorial Hermann was at 73% with state and the national average of 76% and 73%. Even though my facility MHNE is at the national average, it is still lower than

The Midhudson Regional Hospital has  diversed employees. They are made up of individuals with different culture, gender, socio-economic and race. During the infection control awareness week,I was very  conscious of the diversity. Everyone was welcomed. Some of the participants received very easy question to avoid embarrasment . I was able to met and interact with many employees, patients and visitors with different cultures, genders, race and socioeconomic backgrounds. Cultural competency was applied..

Your benefit package offers medical, dental, vision, life and accidental injury insurance. Stronger Memorial Hospital also provides sick, vacation and personal leave. We have a generous 401K plan, gym on premise, personal trainer, and free medical services for you and discounted services for family members. Your Human Resources department is responsible for administering and servicing these benefits as well as manage your pay. We are responsible for employee’s guides or handbooks. A handbook is a guide to our policies and should be your first resource for your questions. Stronger Memorial Hospital is dedicated to meeting and exceeding the customers' needs by consistently being the highest paying employer in the metro area. The Human Resources

Maggie Gill started her career with Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) in 2004 as the VP of managed care and finance. In 2005, she became MUMC's COO, and then in 2011, she was named CEO and president by the board of directors, once they realized that the ideal candidate for the position, one who had experience in both finance and operations, was already employed by the health care facility.

CM spoke to Kiara Gelin (youth) regarding a follow-up on services. Youth reported she continues to attend the Partial Hospitalization program at the Jersey City Medical Center. CM was informed that youth stopped attending the TASC program due to time conflict and youth will resume the program in September. CM and youth disused employment; youth had a job interview at Wendy’s, Fast food restaurant. CM encouraged youth to apply at local jobs in the mall, CM verbally provided youth with a list of jobs that are hiring in the community. CM inquired about the Cook, Eat and Talk program. Youth reported the family will follow-up with the program once the family phone is working. CM agreed. CM and youth discussed mentor

VCU Health System is a comprehensive system of care providing services in Cancer, Oncology and Palliative Care, Emergency/Trauma Care, Neurology, Rehabilitation, Surgical, Pathology, Psychiatric, Children’s Health, Women’s Health, and various Medical Services. VCU Health System offers a multidisciplinary practice to care and other specialties supporting advances in health care through research and education while ensuring that each patient receives the most comprehensive care available. VCU Health System also provides patients and their families’ access to expertise care at their care centers: Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, the VCU Massey Cancer Center, the VCU Pauley Heart Center, the VCU Harold F. Young Neurosurgical Center, the

I believe one the major strengths of Memorial Hermann Northeast is to be part of a big system and when my facility is unable to provide the care need it we can transfer our patients to specialist using life flight emergency services, for example, I recall one patient came from the airport because she felt and hit her head, in less than twenty minutes of her arrival she was transferred to our trauma center by life flight. Months later she came back to thank us for saving her life and now she recommends our hospital to everyone she knows. Another strength is the excellent care we offer in the thirty years the facility has on the community, the majority of our patients are residents in our area, and they know our names. For example, one patient

Trinity Community is challenged with two current healthcare trends. The first trend is related to Medicare and how doctors are paid on Medicare claims. Medicare’s primary coverage group is for people older than 65 years of age. Medicare also covers some people under 65 that have certain disabilities as well as people of any age that have End-Stage Renal Disease. Year after year, lawmakers have been trying to fix a part of the Medicare law that would cut payments to doctors. Since the late 1980’s, the cuts would continue to grow annually and eventually exceed a 20% pay cut.

Columbus, Ohio Memorial Hospital (COMH) has implemented an electronic medical record (EMR) since 2010, which has clearly demonstrated great improvement in patient care. During my work experiences, one of the concerns the physicians voiced were they were unable to communicate patient information to other providers or staff without having access to electronic medical records (EMR) in front of them, at that given time. The concerns expressed were that there was countless times that a physician had to wait on lab results to base their decision on patient care, while located at another facility. Physicians have experienced the frustration of inconvenient, slow or missing communication in their facilities when caring for their patients. In addition,

It was in 1977 that the United Healthcare United Health group was founded by Richard Burke. The headquarters of the company are in Minnetonka, Minnesota. This organization works towards the betterment of people's health, it help them in living a healthy life by providing them with the kind of health care that would be best for them. The main focus of United Healthcare which is a major division of the United Health group is to provide the people with better health benefits and coverage.