Saying psychiatric hospital facility policies need to improve significantly is an understatement. During my eight-day stay at Clarion Psychiatric Center‚ located in western Pennsylvania‚ was one of the worst experiences in my life. I know staying in a psychiatric center wasn’t a life or death situation but‚ the horrid experience was certainly a catalyst to my reoccurring nightmares. Hitherto‚ I still have nightmares of being sent back to the psychiatric center. While I was there‚ I could have almost
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Dr. James is a consultant and specialist in Surgery at Mercy Hospital. The interview took place at his office in Mercy Hospital. The interview focused on his career‚ why he chose the field of medicine‚ various challenges experienced in his career‚ his day to day activities and how he dealt with emergencies and stress due to the workload. Why did you choose to be a doctor? Dr. James chose a career in medicine because he wanted to help ailing people. He grew up in a village where access to medical
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The City Main Hospital Cochin‚ was incurring losses inspite of its rising popularity and increasing number of outdoor patients. The management had been thinking of doing something to solve the problem. As the major burden of the heavy cost was due to the surplus manpower‚ the simplest solution‚ according to the Hospital’s Executive Director‚ was to reduce staff‚ especially‚ from the nursing department. The hospital had five floors. The fifth floor was meant for keeping chronic and old age patients
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Hospital Emergency Room Overload As the name implies‚ the purpose of hospital emergency rooms is to provide quick and expert medical treatment for urgent and life threatening medical problems. The truth of the matter is that patients seek the ER for a variety of illnesses and injuries. They can range from catastrophic to as minor as a young child running his/her first fever. The downfall to this is that those patients who are truly not suffering from life threatening situations are taking
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Ever since I was a kid‚ I’ve always saw hospitals as a scary‚ evil place that takes away a person’s life. To me‚ once you entered‚ you’d never come back out. I thought of it as the grim reaper in the form of a building. The reason I believed this was because I would ask about one of my mom’s adult friends and she’d tell me that they went to the hospital but they won’t be coming back. Unexpectedly‚ my view on the hospital has since changed at the age of ten. It was a night that I heard a high pitched
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Question 5 13 Question 6 14 Question 7 16 V. CONCLUSION 18 Bibliography 19 INTRODUCTION The case is about manufacturing company‚ Hospital Supply‚ Inc.‚ that produced hydraulic hoists for the local market. The hydraulic hoist is useful to the hospital for moving bedridden patients. Most of sales made to local hospitals. Significant to activity of sales and production of hydraulic hoist‚ there are costs incurred due to the consumption of resources. Presented in Exhibit 1 are
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the Director of Informatics for the Metro Hospital in Brisbane. The Metro Hospital is a 363 bed facility on the Northside of Brisbane. The services include general surgical‚ general medical‚ oncology‚ vascular‚ ear‚ nose and throat‚ palliative care‚ ophthalmology and maternity and children’s services. It has good links with the General Practitioners who fall into the catchment area for the Metro North Medicare Local. Your mandate is to lead the hospital to achieve level 7 of the HIMSS EMR Adoption
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Since grade 9 the volunteering aspect of receiving my OSSD has always been something that I did not consider as important as the others aspects; yet‚ it has been the one‚ true representation of my leadership abilities and real-world experiences. This has primary been the case due to my main volunteer activity being with Seva Food Bank‚ a client-centric organization that provides food to low-income families living in specific locations across Mississauga. My first experience with Seva Food Bank was
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Masina Hospital is more than a century old. It is the first privately run Hospital which was established in 1902.This Hospital was established by Dr. Hormasji Manekji Masina. Dr. Masina acquired the palatial building called “Sans Souci” (which means “without care”‚ though care is at the heart of its business) from the
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Case of Perpetual Mercy Hospital Problem The broad focus of this case is one of strategy planning. Perpetual Mercy Hospital has to determine the best course of action to help the Downtown Health Clinic achieve its stated objectives of expanding the hospital’s referral base‚ increasing referrals of privately insured patients‚ establishing a liaison with the business community‚ and becoming self-supporting within three years of its opening. This last objective is jeopardized by the possibility
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