North Carolina Children 's Hospital

Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) is a leader in community healthcare that serves patients as an 838 bed non-for-profit tertiary medical Center (CAMC, 2015). CAMC is a nationally renowned teaching facility that provides a wide array of both in and out-patient specialty services. This organization also provides the local city, county and tri state area with Level I trauma services, state of the art women’s and children’s specialty care, along with a nationally recognized stroke and vascular services (CAMC, 2015). A current component of the CAMC teaching structure includes heavy involvement in both medical and nursing education to improve the overall quality of care provided while encouraging continuous recruitment and workforce development. As home to over 9000 employees CAMC has also boasts a robust professional nursing and human resources program that work to support both the retention and recruitment of all types of health care professionals.

PFCC provides a theoretical viewpoint that can be useful, especially in the case of pediatric patients. “PFCC seeks to improve the health and well-being of pediatric patients and their families through a respectful patient/family-professional partnership. It honors the strengths, cultures, traditions, and expertise that all members of this partnership bring to the relationship” (Dudley, Ackerman, Brown, and Snow, 2015, p. e256).

The University of North Carolina (UNC) School Of Medicine was established in 1879, and is located at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Its mission is to improve the health of the people it serves, by achieving excellence and providing leadership in patient care, education and research. The faculty-student ratio at UNC Medical School is 1.8:1, where it has a total enrolment of 813 medical students, 52% male. In 2014, 180 students were matriculated (152 North Carolina residents), which was 3.17% of the number of applicants. The students had a mean MCAT score of 31.94, mean GPA of 3.78 and mean science GPA of 3.56.

Children’s Health System of Texas (CHST) with a very modest beginning in 1913, launched its big vision to serve the pediatric population in Dallas, Texas and a secondary facility opened in 2008, attends to the north Dallas pediatric clients in Plano, Texas. The organization is recognized as the eighth largest facility in the country with 483 beds and 50 specialty and subspecialty programs (Children’s Health, 2017). Once again in August of 2017, CHST received the Joint Commission accreditation and is recognized for having magnet status as well (Joint Commission, 2017). CHST employs approximately 5,400 employees that provide quality care in specialties such as heart disease, hematology-oncology, and

The Kidz Club is a Medicaid Licenses Prescribed Pediatric Care (PPEC) center that delivers child care to children, with medical needs, to stay in a place that parents can be confident that they are receiving the medical care they need. According to Distelberg, et al. (2014), the number of children with a chronic illness in the United States has increased 1.8% since 1960 to a total of 13-27% of children affected. This program provides kids with chronic illnesses such as Asthma, Epilepsy, Spinal Bifida, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and many other medical diagnoses with a place that caters to their medical needs. Furthermore, this permits parents to return to work and provide for their families,

The nursing role in this setting was screening of preschools and early head start children for developmental delays and abnormities. The different here is everything is brought to the children. The children/patients are pulled in groups of three, and some of them were pulled out one at time. The nursing students and Dr. Lee looked for signs like how do the children walk up steps compared to their age group. How do they hold a crayon? Can they throw a ball? Are they overweight for their age group? Do they have any signs of ear infection? We also assessed for lead toxicity in the blood. Many of these children did not like this. We found that distraction at this time results in the child not crying. The only requirements here was consent of the parent/ guardian and bring their child to daycare/school.

Overall, my experience at Shriner’s Hospital for Children was a great opportunity and it has helped me understand other aspects of nursing care. This experience has given me the opportunity to see the individualized and customized care provided for each patient that could change a child’s life for the

I’m highly interested in the RN opening in your office now available at Capital Area Pediatrics. I am a recent nursing graduate from Northern Virginia Community College. Throughout my education and clinical experiences on different units, I have obtained the knowledge on tasks such as doing physical examinations, administering medication, giving injections, and much more both for adult and pediatric care. The target on family-centered care in your mission statement is exactly the environment I am looking to work in.

The community that St. Jude serves is defined by understanding of the patient population and the clinical needs of that community. St Jude serves as a national referral center for children with catastrophic diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, and blood disorders (Umbach, 2013). Unfortunately, St. Jude does not admit children for any diagnostic groups outside of these services. They do not offer medical services beyond those are needed to care for children with these diseases (Umbach, 2013). St. Jude does have a network of eight affiliated pediatric hematology/oncology clinics in the U.S. This allows them to extend their care and benefits to more children. It also allows them to increase the number of children that are being treated on their

The mission statement for Arkansas Children’s Hospital is one that I have always loved. “We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.” If that doesn’t make your heart happy, I don’t know what will. Their goal is to uphold the highest standards of medical care professionalism. In other words, they strive to be the best they can be and hire that best physicians possible.

Nowadays, community health centers have expanded and there are over 1,200 centers with 9,000 sites nationwide. In order for these health centers to compete with large privet health systems, they

For the past 16 weeks, I was Norton Healthcare’s Child Life Intern in Louisville, Kentucky. I received a thorough and comprehensive clinical education through my internship experience. I completed three rotations at two separate hospitals. At Norton Children’s Hospital, I completed a 6-week rotation on the medical-surgical unit and a 4-week rotation in the pediatric emergency department. At Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital, I completed a 6-week rotation covering all units, even the adult units. I had one manager, two coordinators, and three preceptors, one of whom was one of my coordinators. In fact, I was Norton Healthcare’s first Association of Child Life Professional’s (ACLP) accredited intern. As an ACLP accredited internship site,

This report discusses ways the open heart surgery program complies with the hospital’s mission. It will also analyze whether or not CMH, now known as Carolinas Medical Center Northeast (CMC), has sufficient infrastructure and financial resources / leverage necessary to add the program. The competitive situation among other area hospitals that could impact the decision will be described. The change in the service area required for the cardiovascular surgery service will also be explained. Alternative strategies the Board should consider before making a final decision on the possible addition of the open heart program will be examined.

The original mission of CMH was to provide care for a specific area in North Carolina that was defined by their original charter and what changes have been made to their original certificate of need since then. As of right now, the hospital is able to send the cases that would be taken care of with the increased capacity to Duke University Medical Center. Apparently this arrangement has worked in the past and patients have not suffered because of it. However, there is a stated need which could be fulfilled by the hospital and free some beds for Duke. Although this is not in compliance with the original mission of the hospital, that could also be altered to include the new facility.

Background - The Arnold Palmer Hospital is 1 158-bed paediatric hospital located in Orlando, Florida; part of the Arnold Palmer Medical Foundation and rated as one of the nation's Top paediatric hospitals by U.S. News and World Report. It is the only hospital in all of central Florida with an emergency/trauma center dedicated specifically to pediatric patients. It opened in 1989, and in 2006 became a children's hospital focused solely on