The following case study is about planning an EHR implementation. The Leonard Williams medical center (LWMC) is a community acute care hospital in New York state. LWMC offers several services and has a captive professional corporation. The medical center has five other hospitals. LWMC has an effective IT system‚ it was the first hospital to have a clinical information system and received several industry recognitions from its efforts. The management problem in this case is that the LWMC information
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The speech that John F. Kennedy spoke about during his time was about the Aerospace Medical Center and how the United States should be involved with it. This speech‚ “Remarks at the Dedication of the Aerospace Medical Center‚” has valid points to why America should be involved with space. Kennedy begins his speech by addressing his audience‚ the adventurers and scientists‚ who would be intrigued to help with Kennedy’s side of working with space. His purpose seems to be that he wants to discover
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researching and focusing on for this project is Loyola University Medical Center. Loyola University Medical Center is the main medical campus for the Loyola University Health Systems in Illinois. It is located in the western suburbs of Chicago in a city called Maywood. This medical center is a 589 bedded facility with a state of the art trauma center‚ burn center‚ Children’s hospital‚ Outpatient center‚ Cardinal Bernardine cancer center and many more specialty healthcare. The university also boasts
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Regional Medical Center and you are currently faced with a shortage of nurses. Your firm currently has plans to expand the nursing staff by 11%. In addition‚ the annual turnover of the current 400 person nursing staff is 36%. A. Describe how you would creatively recruit to fill your nursing position needs in this marketplace where there is a current undersupply of nurses. I would seek to form partnerships with colleges and universities that have nursing programs. Westcoast Regional Medical Center
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Scenario A: * What is happening to Ms. Jones’s kidneys‚ and why is it causing the observed symptom? Mrs. Jones’ kidneys are impaired. The kidneys regulate their own blood flow as well as GFR. When the kidneys become hypoperfused in Mrs. Jones case‚ narrowing of the renal arteries‚ and vessels in the kidneys dilate with the help of prostoglandims to facilitate the flow. * What other symptoms and signs might occur? * The most common symptom is less urine output‚ but in Mrs. Jones
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On 3/21/18 I went to The Hurley medical center. The visit was pre-arranged with the hospital case manager to coordinate when the son from Ohio would be at the hospital. Once I arrived a niece was visiting and I was told that David Brown the son had left 10 minutes before. I was able to obtain a phone number for Mr. Brown. I did contact him leaving a voice message. He did not call me until I had already left the facility. I did‚ however‚ go back to meet with him. During my visit to the hospital
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Case Study # 3 Rio Grande Medical Center-Cost Allocation Concepts 1) Is it fair for the Dialysis Center to suffer (in profitability) from the move even though it had nothing to do with it? I do not think that the Dialysis Center suffering in profitability from the move is fair. Being that the Dialysis Center was moved as a result of the Outpatient Clinics need for extra space‚ I do think that some of the costs of the new building and the relocation of the Dialysis Center should be paid through
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. Update Article NSAIDs and Kidney P Ejaz‚ K Bhojani‚ VR Joshi* Abstract NSAIDs are commonly used drugs. Even with the advent of selective COX-2 inhibitors‚ nephrotoxicity still remains a concern. The adverse effects of NSAIDs are mediated via inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis from arachidonic acid by non-specific blocking of the enzyme cyclooxygenase leading to vasoconstriction and reversible mild renal impairment in volume contracted states. When unopposed‚ this may lead to acute tubular
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The Case of the Man with the Swollen Kidneys Mr. Newman is a 49 year old male who has hematuria‚ fever and severe flank pain. He also has bilateral lumbar tenderness‚ bilateral renal enlargement‚ liver enlargement‚ ankle and facial edema‚ skin pallor‚ and lung sounds suggest pulmonary edema. His vital signs are as follows: BP 172/100‚ heart rate 92 beats per minute‚ and a temperature of 102.2 F. There have been some labs done. His red blood count is 3.1 million cells‚ white blood count is 22
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Through an existing partnership with local schools St. Mary’s Medical Center received information regarding poor dental health from school nurses that children were coming to school with tooth pain that they could not address. Furthermore this problem was complicating teaching these children due to the pain. Also fewer dentists were accepting Medicaid due to reimbursement and transportation issues that added to further lost revenue for community dentist. The hospital has access to invaluable community
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