Memorial Hospital Case Study

Say you’re a rural Midwestern farmer in bed recovering from a major illness at your local hospital. It’s time for nurse’s check in, but there’s no knock on the door.

When I truly stop to ponder about it, I cannot fully articulate the meaning of community. From other people’s definitions, the general meaning appears to be a group of people living in the same place who share common goals, interests, and characteristics. As for my own definition of community, I first thought of my family, friends, and neighbors. Yet, these are not part of the definition, but simply the evidence of a community. After more contemplating, certain values and qualities start to emerge, such as understanding, support, and acceptance. These words illustrate the relationship and interaction between members in a community. The meaning of community for me is a place where I can attain respect, familiarity, and trust from other people.

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,

Memorial Hermann Healthcare System issues a reasonable compensation and benefits program which incorporates a pension plan, life insurance, medical, dental and disability insurance plans as well as paid vacation, holiday and sick leave programs. MHHS is not resistant to staff insufficiency and has taken steps that have mitigated potential staffing shortfalls, including creating an internal staffing agency, several full-time nurse recruiters and a resilient employee retention program.

Provide claims adjudication support to the Pharmacy Service Center including but not limited to problem anticipation and solving and entering approval and denial information into the MetroHealth Pharmacy system and into other outside Pharmacy Benefit Manager systems as required.

\Many area hospitals use advertising campaigns, slogans , billboard and television advertising to increase the community’s awareness of their new programs and services in the hope of attracting new patients. Memorial hospital introduced the “wait at home ER” which puts emphasis on convenience and to bring the patient to the center of the care process. The University of Florida addresses the issue of “what do patients need?” by meeting the needs of the Medicare and Medicaid population group. I believe that the enticements are helping these area hospitals gain market shares as evidenced by their ranking as the most popular hospitals in the community today. These hospitals build an effective market share strategy and are successful in expanding

Community is often defined as “a group of people who live in the same area” (Webster, n.d., p. 1), however deepening the definition one may describe a community as a feeling which “happens when people come together for the good of the whole” (Farmer, 2010, p. 1). A collective sense of belonging within a community is essential to planning and building healthy communities for the future.

I am using Howard University Hospital as the template. The big ticket items for surgery are cardiac services and surgery. Vascular surgery is another big ticket item. Howard University will have a very high CMI based on the surgeries offered.

Northwestern Memorial hospital used related and unrelated diversification by building a world class one million square foot outpatient pavilion. This state of art building includes 25 floors. The outpatient center was designed to offer patients and physicians an extraordinary experience. The outpatient center consist of retails stores, lobbies, outpatient surgery center, latest technology, clinical areas, physicians offices, digital imaging, medical imaging, diagnostics, vision care, and seven floors of parking garage. Northwestern Memorial hospital is using vertical integration by collaborating with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Come back 219 middle. All organizational strategies at Northwestern Memorial

For example, Lawrence Memorial Hospital is doing all they can to foster a healthy cultural environment within the HCO. Presently, the New CEO has changed the social model within the HCO. The new cultural model is cohesive with the new title Destination Health Systems replacing the previous mission and vision. The new cultural model encourages teamwork and accountability for their actions. The new mantra is that employees should first and foremost serve the patients. Secondly, act as a team with above the belt behavior avoiding below the belt actions. The new model welcomes an objective approach to problem solving and resolution.

The admitting diagnoses of those individuals who died in MH hospitals during the study period is shown in figure 6 and discharge diagnoses are found in figure 7. These are the psychiatric diagnoses that led to the person’s admission and were present at the time of death. Neither the admitting nor the discharge diagnosis is a diagnosis of a physical condition. These data suggest that individuals who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, dementia and schizoaffective disorders are at a greater risk of mortality than the overall population in MH hospitals.

Blake Memorial Hospital is a non-profit health system located in the low-income neighborhood of Marksville, Louisiana. It currently operates six off site clinics and four in-house clinics, all of which are losing money. The organization operates 350 beds with 1,400 full-time equivalent employees. Due to Blake Memorial’s location, most of the patients are enrolled in Medicaid meaning payments rarely covered the costs of treating these individuals. The board has recently appointed a new CEO, Bruce Reid, who has been left to decide the future of the hospital and its clinics.

The Northwestern Memorial Hospital is a distinguished and successful hospital with 875 staffed beds, 51,000 admissions this year, and nationally ranked in 13 different specialties. With over 1900 specialized physicians and more than 7000 total employees, Northwestern Memorial Hospital is a prominent figure in the medical community. Not only is it ranked 8th in the nation by Newsweek, it is also a very successful hospital as it garners over 4 million dollars in patient revenue. It is mainly an academic oriented hospital, focused on providing a substantial education for members of Northwestern School of Feinberg Medicine, and general medical and surgical care for patients worldwide. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is a complicated business that

Blake Memorial Hospital has to make some significant modifications in order for the business (hospital) to continue functioning. Being that it is a Health Care Organization, there are many expenses to be met, if the hospital is incapable of paying for the services provided to the patients and for the physicians and nurses who are providing those services, it will be extremely difficult for the organize to survive. Therefore, Bruce Reid the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Blake Memorial has to transform Blake Memorial Hospital into a facility for Cancer treatment, in order to server patients with cancer and generate more revenue.

It is interesting the idea of a community, what is it stand for in the general perspective? Does it mean a nation state, a specific group, or just a neighborhood for that instance? There are many metrics make up a perfect community, from a utilitarian perspective to a unique personality one community has to offer. Above it all, in my opinion, the metric that has an outsized impact would have to be the priority of its people's welfare.