Timing. No other opportunity. These are a few of the reasons why I took the assignment I didn’t want. You may be wondering‚ why I did not want to take this assignment in the first place. I have a simple acronym for my answer. LTACH. What is an LTACH? If you are familiar with this term‚ you probably already understand why I didn’t want the assignment. If you are not‚ let me clue you in. LTACH stands for long-term acute care hospital‚ and it’s a truly unique combination of hospital and nursing
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How successful is the Shouldice Hospital ? Shouldice Hospital Limited is an 89 bed healthcare facility located in the suburbs of Toronto‚ Canada. The 17‚000 square foot facility is housed on a sprawling 130 acre estate and specializes in repairing external abdominal hernias. Currently‚ 7‚600 surgeries are performed each year on patients from all across the United States and Canada. Founded by Dr. Earle Shouldice circa 1940‚ the organization enjoys a reputation for effectively using a unique surgical
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Meghan Weir Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V Kristan Farley May 16‚ 2013 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm As the health care atmosphere changes‚ there has been a growing interest to closely examine how spirituality‚ values‚ and morals contribute to patient outcomes; specifically what it means to truly heal a patient. In the past‚ medical care was mostly geared towards curing our patients and their illnesses physically.
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Who am I Ten years from now? Where do i see my self in the future? This is an often asked question‚ where do i see myself being in six months‚ one year or even ten years. This was asked of me and i intend to answer. Starting at six months moving into one year and further down the road of life. Thinking onward to my own future To-Do List What am I/ are we going to become ten years from now? Quite a clichéd question indeed‚ but sometimes thinking about the distant future actually drives hopeful
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FUNCTIONS OF THE HOSPITAL Hospital administration functions can be classified into three broad categories: 1. Medical - which involves the treatment and management of patients through the staff of physicians. 2. Patient Support - which relates directly to patient care and includes nursing‚ dietary diagnostic‚ therapy‚ pharmacy and laboratory services. 3. Administrative - which concerns the execution of policies and directions of the hospital governing discharge of support services in the
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intense competition between WFRMC and the other two hospitals within the area of Pensacola in 1992‚ Sacred Heart and Baptist Hospitals. The 130 doctors practicing at the Medical Center Clinic and its satellite clinics admitted mostly to WFRMC‚ whereas most of the other doctors in this city of 150‚000 practiced at both Scared Heart and Baptists Hospitals. At the time it was estimated that 90% to 95% of patients that would be admitted into any of the hospitals would experience discounted prices due to
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The world has become a safer place now than it was ten years ago. Do you agree? Ten years ago‚ people hoped that the future generations will have a better‚ safer place to live in. Ten years on‚ it has seemed that their hopes have been fulfilled. As Martin Luther once said‚ “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” In the world now‚ crimes rates have been decreasing steadily and the world has been inventing new protection equipment. Moreover‚ the world is winning the war against terrorism
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Evolving Hospitals in U.S. Healthcare System Hospitals have been a long central figure in health care environment and the image of hospitals have evolved. As the second largest private-sector employer‚ hospitals have a major economic impact. They have adapted to major growth and medical advancements dating back as early as the mid- 1751. When the nation’s first hospital was built in Philadelphia‚ it was based on the idea from a physician Thomas Bond which was "to care for the sick poor of the Province
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Hospital care differs from care at a nursing home facility. Hospitals specialize in short-term patient care. On average‚ a patient stays at the hospital for about four days. Hospitals treat and release their patients rather quickly because of the lack of rooms to accommodate them all‚ and the many demands from the insurance company. Patients come for numerous reasons that differ for all individuals. Patients come to the hospital in crucial situations‚ for which teams of medical specialists come
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Hospital is a place where we find only the sick and the disabled. The smells of medicines‚ the sight of the doctors and nurses running here and there‚ and wheelchairs rolling from one end of the hospital to another is all that we see in a hospital. The aura is ever so depressing and disheartening. Some people even get nausea or faint with the effect of the pungent smells hanging in the very air of the hospital premises. Once when my grandfather was very seriously ill‚ and was hospitalised I
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