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Dignity Health Methodist Hospital of Sacramento is a nonprofit general acute care hospital located in the southern part of Sacramento on 7500 Hospital Dr, Sacramento, CA 95823. Methodist Hospital has been serving the Sacramento region since 1973. The hospital has 329 licensed bed in total, out of the 329 beds 162 are acute care bed type. Methodist hospital provides patients a full range of services ranging from skilled nursing, Family Birth Center, Emergency Room, Orthopedic, to Physical Therapy Center. It offers 24-hour basic emergency services but unfortunately, it does not offer trauma services. Provider Id 050590.

I would like to focus on one non-profit organization that has been doing very well in the recent years. The name of the organization is St Jude Research Hospital, which deals with the cure and treatment of children suffering from catastrophic diseases. In the five decades, it has been operational, the mortality rate has gradually reduced therefore saving lots of lives. St Jude started its operations in 1962. Danny Thomas was the one who started the organization and was helped by two other close friends (Pui, Pei, Pappo, Howard, Cheng, Sandlund and Gajjar, 2012).

The nurses at Memorial Hospital work a regular schedule of four 10-hour days per week. The average regulartime pay across all nursing grades is $12.00 per hour. Overtime may be scheduled when necessary. However, because of the intensity of the demands placed on nurses, only a limited amount of overtime is permitted per week. Nurses may be scheduled for as many as 12 hours per day for a maximum of five days per week. Overtime is compensated at a rate of $18.00 per hour. In periods of extremely high demand, temporary part-time nurses may be hired for a limited period of time. Temporary nurses are paid $15.00 per hour. Memorial Hospital has a policy that limits the proportion of temporary nurses to 15 percent of the

Lastly, in the surgery theatre, misidentification may happen due to the same factors formerly mention plus failure to mark site/side of surgery, failure to properly perform time-out, and multiple surgical teams (Chan et al., 2010). To analyze the risk for these errors, few factors will be analyzed including human factors (staffing, scheduling, supervision, and qualification), equipment and technology (scanners, computers, and software), Communication (between staff and patients, between staff, between staff and physician, between physician and patient, and between units), environmental factors (physical, safety, security, and preparedness), and procedures and policies (planning, staff education, patient education, protocols, patient identification, and patient observation) (Chan et al., 2010).

This paper strives to answer questions based on the case study “Emanuel Medical Center: Crisis in the Health Care Industry”. As excerpted directly from the case study, Mr. Robert Moen, Emanuel Medical Center (EMC) president and CEO, was experiencing a number of challenges in 2002. The medical center faced numerous challenges in its external and internal environment. First, EMC garnered an onslaught of negative attention for the “Haley Eckman incident” in which a young man, who happened to be a gang member, died within view of EMC’s Emergency Department (ED) medical personnel rendered no care and watched. The emergency department at EMC was also experiencing greater pressure to deliver services in an increasingly

I chose United Hospital Center (acute) located in Bridgeport, West Virginia. This hospital is transitioning from paper to EHR (EPIC) as we speak, and the EHR (EPIC) is going live on August 1, 2017. At this point, doctors’ offices (non-acute) who collaborate with the hospital are implementing and using the EHR system. The person I interviewed from the health information management department is Tina Williams. She has been a long time employee of United Hospital Center, and it is very abreast to all the critical areas of health information management.

“The mission statement is a short, concise statement describing the purpose and reason for existence. It serves as the framework for the vision statement, which is composed of the key characteristics that leadership desires the organization to become” (Spallina, 2004). Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis is one of Tennessee’s highest volume hospitals. Baptist Memorial Healthcare mission is to follow the three-fold ministry of Christ- healing, preaching and teaching. The organization has many programs in place to spread the practices of Christ to the many communities that the hospital serves. The vision is that the organization “will be the provider of choice by transforming the delivery of health care through partnering with patients, families,

From this analysis the University of South Alabama Medical Center has the highest average for Quality-Overall Recommended Care with an overall average of 99.048%. Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi is the second highest with an overall average of 98.918%. The third highest average for Quality- Overall Recommended Care is Baylor Medical Center with an overall average of 98.78%. (Why Not The best) These are the top three highest averages. The other healthcare facilities that came in line after the top three is Emory University Hospital- 97.927%, University of Mississippi Medical Center-96.001%, and St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital-95.838%. It is important to provide exceptional services to patient so that the healthcare facility can keep a high recommendation rating.

At the beginning of the semester when service was mentioned I was assuming we would have to perform an act to assist Shriner’s Children Hospital. However, this was not the type of service we were doing and I was perfectly okay with that. During the tour of the Shriner’s Children Hospital I learned that the land was not given to the hospital by USF, yet they paid a dollar a year, if I understood that correctly. I also got the jist of the time and effort that goes into making prosthetics limbs for a young child. The amount of pride and effort that these staff put in for this sick children are the most heartwarming thing. I really appreciate the love the employees have for the job. While I really enjoyed this experience, I was bummed out as the tour guide did not speak

Seattle Children’s Hospital is located in Laurelhurst, Seattle, Washington dedicating its medical and educational time to helping children within the Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho area. It was founded in 1907 by Anna Herr Clise after her 5 year old son died of inflammatory rheumatism. This 250 bed and 19 licensed Level IV NICU facility provides inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic, surgical, rehabilitative, behavioral, and emergency and outreach services; also it, is currently ranked number 6 among the top 10 children's hospitals in America reported by the U.S. News & World Report. (COMAROW, 2012) In 2007, Child magazine ranked it as the #15 children's hospital overall and #9 for cancer care. (Seattle Children's Hospital, 2014) U.S. News and World Report has ranked it nationally as #4 in kidney disorders, #5 in urology, #7 in cancer, and #8 in neurology & neurosurgery.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center-Omaha has recently been recognized for excellence in accommodating individuals with disabilities. This is an excellent accomplishment and one that everyone should be proud of. The state of Nebraska, the State Medical Board, and all persons with disabilities who visit the medical center are very proud of this accomplishment and recognition.

A) California hospital medical center (CHMC) is a member of Dignity health, a California based not-for-profit corporation located in California. Founded in 1986 by the Sisters of Mercy under the name Catholic Healthcare West, Dignity health operates hospitals and ancillary services in seventeen different states and it is the fifth largest health system in the nation. CHMC, is located in the South Park district of downtown Los Angeles. It serves the South Central communities of Los Angeles and other neighboring communities. CHMC a 318-bed not-for-profit hospital is known for its wide range of medical services like obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics and cardiology, oncology, telemetry, sub-acute, and operates the only Level II trauma center in downtown Los Angeles. The CHMC Emergency Room treats over 70,000 patients each year and a gateway to the many homeless people in the area. CHMC is a teaching hospital to most medical and nursing schools in California. It also offers a family residency program that attract residents from all over the state. Prominent neighboring centers include Staples Center, L.A. Live and the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas was established as Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium. Chartered on Oct. 16, 1903, by the State of Texas, the hospital began in a 14-room renovated house. In 1900, there were 3 contributors who founded Baylor and one of them was who are Charles M. Rosser, M.D., founder of the Baylor College of Medicine, who saw the need for "a hospital of great importance" for a growing city like Dallas, and which would support the medical school. The second founder was Rev. George W. Truett, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, convinced Dallas citizens "to build a great humanitarian hospital," and thirdly, Colonel C.C. Slaughter, a devout Baptist and wealthy cattleman, gives a major gift of $50,000 to establish the hospital. There were many contributors who helped raise funds for the hospital and one of them was The Baptist General Convention of Texas.

The surgical technician worked closely with the surgeon to pass him the correct surgical tools and pass him anything he would need should they be out of his reach or if a complication arose. She prepared and pre-counted all of the tools including any type of gauze that would need to be accounted for at the end of the procedure to avoid leaving any tools inside the patient. The circulating nurse’s job was to monitor vital signs to make sure the patient is stable during the procedure, keep track of surgical tools, and provide the surgical technician/surgeon any tools they may need. The circulating nurse also charted all of the information about the patient such the start and end time of the procedure, what position the patient was in, the patient’s vital signs, the side of the patient the procedure would be on and what procedure was being done. The circulating nurse also initiated the time out, wherein all members of the surgical team time out and verify that they have the correct patient, correct procedure and site of

This case study includes different diagnosis/problems that originate from a Cerebrovascular accident commonly known as a CVA or stroke, these diagnoses includes; subdural hemorrhage, Hemiplegia, visual field cut, and side inattention. In order to begin, let’s familiarize with these particular conditions. A CVA is a sudden loss of blood supply to the brain that damages and kills brain cells. There are two different types of CVA one is an Ischemic strokes which is a blood clot that causes blockage and the other is a hemorrhagic stroke which is a ruptured blood vessel. Some of the signs of a stroke are sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm, or leg, especially on one side of the body, sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding,