Specialty Hospital Case Study

FACTS: Orleans Regional Hospital is a Medicaid funded psychiatric hospital that mainly provides service for adolescents and children. The hospital was a limited liability company that established itself with three members; NORS LLC which had two corporations including North Louisiana Regional Hospital and Precision, Inc. The defendants John C. Turner and William C. Windham held a 50 percent share in North Louisiana Regional Hospital. Richard W. Williams was the only shareholder of Precision Inc and together they both owned North Louisiana Regional Hospital Partnership and they treated

Jones Regional Medical Center is a huge academic health center with 900 beds and are known for its research and teaching hospitals. Additionally, the IT staff at Jones supports 300 applications and 12,000 workstations. The center uses Technology Med (TechMed) for their admitting system. The system includes registration, inpatient charge, payment entry, master patient index, admission, hospital billing, and more. The TechMed system has been accessible since 1998; Jones is beginning to plan a replacement of this systems because of the fragility of the software (Wager, 2013).

In mid-April 2000, Sherri Worth was faced with some very unsettling news about Pate Memorial Clinic’s future with a competitor potentially moving into the area. Worth was the assistant administrator at Pate Memorial Hospital (PMH) and was also responsible for the Pate Health Clinic (PHC). A study by the competitor was being done to see whether sufficient demand existed to establish a clinic 5 blocks north of PHC. The two biggest concerns in regards to the new competition were:

On 4/14/2016 SC completed monitoring phone call with Pa's dtr and primary informal Lynda. The Pa was hospitalized at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital on 02/23/2016 reason unknown. The Pa was discharged to Manor care Health Systems Yeadon, skilled nursing where she stated for over 30 days for rehab. The Pa was discharge home on 4/5/2016 with skilled care from Mercy Home Care. According to Lynda the Pa had no falls, or new health problems or medication change. Lynda reported that the Pa had her first post hospital visit with on 4/14/2016 by her visiting nurse practitioner from visiting physicians. She also stated that the Pa visiting nurse from Mercy’s health is scheduled to visit the Pa on 4/15/2016 followed by PT. The SC asked if the current services are stilling

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.

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

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,

This office represents Teamsters Local 251. I have your letter of March 15, 2016, regarding Edmund C. Carreiro and his bill for services rendered by Rhode Island Hospital. We understand that this matter was not a workers’ compensation claim but Mr. Carreiro has health insurance and the matter should be processed under his medical coverage.

I’d like to volunteer at John Muir Hospital, because not only that it looks good on your college applications. It would be beneficial to learn more about particular careers and be an opportunity to maintain or even develop existing skills.

The Children’s Specialized Hospital (CSH) located in New Brunswick, New Jersey is a rehabilitation hospital that provides mental health and medical services to children 0-21 years of age and their families. The CSH is a privately funded rehabilitation hospital that is accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC) and American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and holds memberships in Children’s Hospital Association, The New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA), The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey (BIANJ), American Academy of Pediatrics, International Pediatric Rehabilitation Collaborative, Pediatric Complex Care Association and is affiliated with RWJBarnabas Health

The cost of Medical equipment plays a significant role in the delivery of health care. The clinical engineering at Victoria Hospital is an important branch of the hospital team management that are working to strategies ways to improve quality of service and lower cost repairs of equipments. The team members from Biomedical and maintenance engineering’s roles are to ensure utilization of quality equipments such as endoscope and minimize length of repair time. All these issues are a major influence in the hospital’s project cost. For example, Victory hospital, which is located in Canada, is in the process of evaluating different options to decrease cost of its endoscope repair. This equipment is use in the endoscopy department for

I am writing to you today regarding the full-time staff nurse position on the in-patient Psychiatry unit posted on the DMC.org website. I would be honored to be a part of the Patient Care Services Team in order to emphasize communication and collaboration with all team members including secondary and support services where applicable. I believe my qualifications, independent judgment, and work-related experience make me an ideal candidate for the job position.

I would definitely recommend this book to other 9th graders, the Great Gatsby is interesting. I was hooked immediately within the first sentence! This book portrays the glamorous life in the Roaring Twenties(1920s), with flapper dresses, excessive amount of alcohol, luxurious cars, the Charleston(a popular dance move at the time), the Ford model T(a popular, yet affordable car at the time), Jazz music, speakeasies, iconic inventions, and more! The 20's was a time to be alive! Everything was so fun and carefree. This book is a classic, a major read. This book is about Jay Gatsby acquiring his desire, Daisy Buchanan, the love of his life that he lost five years ago. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, all for Gatsby. Read the Great

Columbus Regional Health (n.d.) serves 10 counties in Southeast Indiana. The demographics include a predominantly Caucasian population of approximately 300,000 people (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.). In southeastern Indiana, about 140,000 individuals have employment, and 15% of them, who are over the age of 24, have a bachelor’s degree (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.). Approximately 30% of the high-school students drop out in this mainly rural area with a flat population growth (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.).

The overall topic areas for this research article are electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and depression. The research question for this article is; is twice-weekly high-dose unilateral ECT inferior to twice-weekly moderate-dose bilateral ECT and which therapy has the least cognitive side effects? The hypothesis for this research question is that twice-weekly high-dose unilateral ECT will be as effective as twice-weekly moderate-dose bilateral ECT, but will have less cognitive side effects. Overall, the aims of this study were to compare the short-term and long-term effectiveness and side effects of twice-weekly moderate-dose bitemporal ECT and twice-weekly high-dose unilateral ECT for severe depression over six months.