Hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) are an undesirable situation or condition that affects the patient and the care they receive. The condition was not present on admission (POA)‚ it developed while the patient was in the hospital. HACs lead to increase length of stay (LOS)‚ increase in patient care cost‚ poor patient outcomes‚ and even death. It is estimated that in 2010 adult patients experienced roughly 4.8 million HACs out of 32.8 million hospital discharges. There are eight initial conditions
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Winterbourne View Hospital A Serious Case Review By Margaret Flynn The Winterbourne View Hospital Serious Case Review What happened? Winterbourne View was a hospital in South Gloucestershire for people with learning disabilities and autism whose behaviour sometimes made their families and professionals worry. It was meant to help by assessing and treating patients so that they could have ordinary lives in their own homes. 24 Winterbourne View Hospital was owned by a company
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Management Vol. 5‚ No. 7; July 2010 Health Care Marketing and Public Relations in Not for Profit Hospitals in Nigeria R. A. GBADEYAN BSc‚ MBA (Zaria)‚ MSc‚ Ph.D (Ilorin) Institute Of Public Administration and Management Department Of Business Administration‚ University Of Sierra Leone Freetown‚ Sierra Leone Tel: 23-233-349-523 E-mail: drgbadeyan@hotmail.com; timigbade@yahoo.com Abstract Government Hospitals are largely Not for Profit Organisations‚ because the purpose of establishing them is to provide
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more than 34 million people. The Leapfrog Group has focused on measuring and reporting hospitals’ adoption of evidence based practices to improve patient safety. Through annual surveys‚ the program measures whether hospitals have adopted these practices and make the data publicly available on the Leapfrog Group Web site (http://www.leapfroggroup.org). One goal of the program is to direct consumers to hospitals that have adopted Leapfrog’s patient safety practices. Overall‚ I think it is useful for
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one local health or social care service provider and identify its place in national provision. In this assignment I have to have an understanding of service provisions in health and social care sectors and in this criteria I will be talking about hospital provision. ‘National provision is described as set of rules and guidelines from a specific government that is established to ensure that quality and equality of care‚ in schools‚ nurseries‚ child minders‚ social services among others’. The provision
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| | | | Scenario | | Scenario Summary | You are the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Middlefield Hospital. Middlefield Hospital is a 450-bed tertiary care facility in a major urban area in the Northeast. The hospital is an integrated health system that provides the full array of inpatient and outpatient services. The hospital enjoys a reputation for quality care in the area. As the new CEO‚ you have learned that the hospital’s employee turnover rate exceeds 20%‚ and there are over
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patients. Patients are weary of their information being universally available to anyone having access to the internet and intelligent enough to breach or hack medical records. Mishandling patient privacy is high; therefore it is very important that hospitals have a system to protect files from being released to unauthorized personnel and the public. This is when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act come into effect. HIPPA sets a standard for electronic transfers of health data and
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Hospital employees and the instructors of Keiser frequently hold in-services and attend professional development opportunities to enhance their knowledge. Laura states she is “constantly reviewing equipment while in the clinical setting and often attends hospital new nurse orientations” (personal interview November 23‚ 2016). Instructors and nurses have certain policy and procedures
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from a hospital setting should be very easy‚ according to all of the patients that are in the hospital and don’t care about anything at the moment except getting home. While the patient is inpatient there are many things that could go wrong‚ however in house the patient is being controlled and managed. When a patient goes home there are no monitors or hourly blood draws to ensure their safety and survival. Discharge planning is not easy‚ and should never be perceived as such. Hospitals must have
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most severely hit by the earthquake had the highest concentration of hospitals. Most of the damages occurred in secondary and tertiary hospitals. Thirteen hospitals of six or more floors were partially or totally destroyed‚ most of these public institutions. One out of every four then-available beds were lost. The National Medical Center of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) was considered the most important hospital complex in Latin America with over 2‚300 beds and the largest medical
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