long-term acute care hospital‚ and it’s a truly unique combination of hospital and nursing home. The definition of LTACH according to a white paper from Hospital Medicine is as follows: “A Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) is an acute care hospital that specializes in the treatment
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The aim of this essay is to ascertain what hospital acquired infection entails‚ the detrimental effects it causes and to highlight the active role nurses can take in the prevention of this type of infection. Hospital acquired (or nosocomial) infection is: ’one that originated in the hospital environment; i.e. was not present or incubating on admission and which appeared 48h or more after admission ’ (Azzam et al. 2001). Infection is caused by pathogenic organisms which invade the hosts immunological
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The type of facility that I have chosen for this SLP is the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Johns Hopkins was born in 1795. He inherited his unusual first name from his grandfather‚ who was named after Johns’ great grandmother‚ Margaret Johns. Johns went into business for three years with a friend‚ and then with three of his brothers‚ forming a wholesale provision house called Hopkins Brothers. The firm shipped whiskey into Baltimore in exchange for staple supplies that were shipped back to Western whiskey
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Front Street Hospital Case Study Domonique Chapman Professor Ed Schaffer August 09‚ 2014 Serving the Uninsured According to Kaiser Family Foundation (2013)‚ more than 47 million Americans were uninsured in 2012. These gaps in health insurance undoubtedly increase healthcare costs‚ discourage the use of preventative care‚ and negatively impact the lives and health of the American people. One way to combat this issue is for hospitals and providers to offer charity care to those who qualify
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Studies show that almost half of American adults‚ give some sort of their time to voluntary associations each year. Volunteers not only make an impact on the lives of those they come in contact with‚ but are also a financial resource for organizations‚ allowing
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have an idea how different cultures buried their dead. I visited the Live Oak Cemetery and the Greenville Cemetery in Greenville‚ MS. The Live Oak Cemetery is a predominately black cemetery and the Greenville Cemetery is a predominately white cemetery. Both cemeteries have a lot of history behind them by containing tombstones from the 1800s‚ 1900s and the 2000s. The body of Holt Collier was buried in 1936 at the Live Oak Cemetery and this is made known at the entrance of the cemetery. Holt Collier
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Results Demographic characteristics A total of 5‚617 patients were seen at Limbe Regional Hospital ED over the study period with 88.2% of these patients residing in the Limbe municipality (Table 1). The average age of patients was 26.8 years [CI: 26.4‚ 27.2] with a median age of 26 years [IQR: 19‚ 34]. The peak age incidence of injury was 20 to 29 years (36.5%) followed by patients aged 30-39 years (22.4%) and 10-19 years (15.3%) (Figure 1). About two-thirds of patients were male (67.6%) (Table
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scanning performed is known as a SWOT analysis and when perform properly it can show the organization areas needing improvement that were not known. Strategic managers need to look at the forces that influence the long-term decisions and these are the economic forces‚ technological forces‚ political-legal forces‚ and sociocultural forces (Hunger and Wheelen‚ 2011). Purpose of an Environmental Analysis Conducting a SWOTT Analysis requires Banner Churchill Community Hospital (BCCH) to evaluate
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Wyndham Park City has been operating for approximately 2 years and find it necessary to focus on staffing based on historical data resulting in a more streamlined scheduling process‚ reduction in staffing expenses‚ and determining staffing requirements. The staff of Wyndham Park City is comprised of two departments: Resort and Member Services‚ with a total of 64 staff members to serve the owners and guests. The most crucial departments affected by this optimization of scheduling will be the Front
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position of the local government of Aubigny towards the Hmong community of this city?” Indeed‚ the answer to this question is decisive for the rest of the development of the thesis. This question makes it possible to know who took the initiative to organize this festival. In the case the initiative was taken by the town hall of Aubigny‚ this would signify a real commitment on the part of the French government to be interested in this community‚ and to open the doors on a relationship to fill the mutual
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