The Harris Health System : An Provision Of High Quality Healthcare At The Residents Of Harris County

Providing the best care to each patient starts with providing the proper amount of staff members to each unit. Looking at the needs of different units not only allows administration to see areas for improvement, but also areas that are being handled correctly. Utilizing the indicators provided by The Joint Commission, 4 East, a pediatric medical/surgical floor, has a high rate of falls and nosocomial pressure ulcers that appears to be related to the increase overtime nurses have been working for that floor (Nightingale, 2010). Research has shown increases in adverse events have been related to nurses working over 40 hours a week (Bae, 2012).

A huge effect of boarding patients/overcrowding emergency departments is ambulance diversion. It occurs when a hospital ED cannot accommodate any more emergency patients so

The emergency department (ED) I worked for was a Level I Trauma Center, so patients were transferred by ambulances, most of whom were in very severe conditions, such as cardio-pulmonary arrest, unconsciousness and multiple trauma. There was no room for patients to choose a hospital. Roughly a third of patients coming to the emergency room (ER) died unfortunately. The other third admitted to the intentional care unit (ICU), and the remains stayed at other wards in the hospital or went back their home in a few days. In the ICU, the patients were laid on the beds that were lined toward walls and separated on the side from their next patients with only roll curtains hanging from the ceiling. Hence, they can

Thank you for reaching out to Dallas County Health and Human Services(DCHHS). In response to your inquiry, DCHHS is unaware of an increased incidence of Tuberculosis among Square Cottage residents. In the event as such, DCHHS would not disclose a specific location due to medical confidentiality and personal privacy reasons. Overall, DCHHS has shown that the number of annual TB cases have decreased by 37% from 1993 to 2015 in Dallas County. In regards to homelessness specifically, I can confirm the proportion of TB cases occurring in persons experiencing homelessness has increased since 2014. Please note, homeless individuals are disproportionately affected by Tuberculosis in Dallas County as well as the United States. In an effort

While there are 13 beds for every 10,000 people, patients tend to view the hospitals as old, out-of-date, and generally not well run. Despite this fact, hospital Emergency Rooms are considered overused, as a large percentage of the population of Marcus Island seeks treatment at the hospital, rather than visit their primary care physician. As a whole, hospitals tend to lack many necessary specialists, such as surgeons and oncologists.

Every patients main concern when going to a hospital is to get a surgery to fix a problem that they have, or to receive prescriptions for illnesses and diseases. But a factor most probably are not worried about when they go to a hospital is how they are being treated. Doctors already have a difficult task to perform, but overcrowding the hospitals will cause them to be busy and possibly conduct their job with out the amount of care that is required. Giving out prescriptions in a hospital could also be effected. Patients vital medicine could be mixed up with someone else’s and cause even more harm.

When overcrowding occurs, patients are placed in the hallway waiting for room to be transferred to. Any time overcrowding occurs most ambulances divert away from the closest hospital to the patients and in this situation hospitals lose a lot of revenue. Data published in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 2004 report national hospital ambulatory medical care survey on ED summary depicted that ED in United State are approaching a boiling point in terms of increasing patient demand and shrinking bed capacity, Levin et al (Fall,2006). According to the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, a recent survey conducted by the American College of Emergency physician of about 200 hospital administrators, majority pointed at overcrowding as their major constraint and about 60% said overcrowding in their facility forces the diversion of patients with urgent need

With so many cases of unfilled position in the hospital patients is not obtaining great services. Patient not receiving proper cares leads to closures, because of prolonged postponements that have led to deaths. Patient complaints at the emergency room have increased in recent years. Numerous patients that were admitted to the hospital’s emergency room are at high risk of dying. Six percent of emergency rooms in the U.S. have closed. These closings took place in the inner-city and low-income areas, but with an emergency room visit increasing by nearly 51%, the overwhelming amount of closures.

Nurse-Patient staffing ratios have created debate among health care professionals for years. Who determines where, when and how many patients a nurse can handle on any given shift? Who determines the acuity of the patients handled by the nurse? Does the floor nurse have a say in what she or he can feasibly handle during their shift? At what point does patient care begin to suffer? These questions and many others have led to federal and state legislation coming to light to better serve the care of a patient. “The varied agendas and the inability of nurses, hospital administrators, and financial experts to communicate toward a single purpose, as well as the complexity of meeting staffing needs, have moved the issue into the political arena (Hertel, 2012, p. 1)”. Several states have already instituted mandatory nurse-patient ratios. While you can debate for or against political involvement, I will look at many factors regarding care and safety of patients.

St. Anthony North Health Campus (SANHC) ED is a busy Level III trauma center in Westminster, Colorado. The ED sees approximately 27, 775 patients a year. Of those patients, approximately 27.3% are Emergency Severity Index (ESI) Levels 4 and 5. The average wait time (WT) for all patients is 11 minutes, the average length of stay

The state of Georgia did not expand Medicaid, and the emergency department continues to face problems with overcrowding. The quality of care is lowered for all patients needing emergency medical services. A lot of the emergency department demand is from patients that could be treated by a primary doctor. The ambulance diversion is when the hospital is over the capacity for the emergency department. However, this problem affects every member of the community, and forces the hospital to send ambulances to other hospitals because of overcrowding issues. The issue of patient boarding, the emergency department holds the patient, even intensive care patients until a bed become available. The overcrowding has caused increased stress on

(CITE) Despite its success the Canadian health care system has some concerns associated with it and It is important for policy makers, and the health management sector to address these issues and provide solutions for them. Health management is a complex social goal, and a major initiative in Canada, which is heavily relied on the public sector. One of the major issues the health care system is currently facing the over crowded emergency departments and extremely long waiting times. . In this paper I will discuss the issue of overcrowded hospitals as a results of the rising population of the elderly. Many of our hospitals are over crowned, there are long waiting time, and the elderly are not provided with sufficient care. Overcrowding will place an increasing amount of burden on the hospital by delaying testing and diagnosis times, creating a shortage of nurses and doctors, and it may also have a negative impact on the financial state of the hospital.

Harris County Public Health provides a wide variety of health services to the Harris County community through activities, clinics, testing, and education seminar. Harris County Public Health known as HCPHES main priorities are preventing diseases, providing procedures to a healthy lifestyle and protecting the community from any environmental outbreaks. There are eight significant departments/ offices in HCPHES. The departments/ offices are disease control & clinical prevention (DCCP), veterinary public health, office of policy & planning and mosquito & vector control. In addition, to four departments listed above there are also office of communications, education, and engagements, environment public health, nutrition & control disease prevention

As a new graduate registered nurse, I know that when I begin my first job the reality shock will occur. I will be overwhelmed at times by anxiety, fear, failure, and disappointment. Burnout is higher for new nurses, and it is my responsibility to help combat it for my fellow graduates and for myself. For years nurses have felt the increased impact of compassion fatigue, with patient safety and satisfaction rates plummeting. Nurses are faced with sicker patients with shorter hospital stays everyday. The pressure to treat the patients, but get them out of the hospital as soon as possible; without making any mistakes is a huge burden most nurses will feel at some point in their career. There have been countless studies, thousands of hours, and billions of dollars for research spent on finding a solution to the problem. In order to find a solution one must first understand the problem. These are three separate issues with one common problem, high nurse-patient ratios.

The hospital is currently utilizing 71.43% of their beds, this is actually an ideal operating point. To increase its rate of utilization might decrease the service quality.