Responsible for operating private branch exchange switchboard for MemorialCare Medical Group. Answered entire after hours calls for all MemorialCare Medical Group doctors offices and speciality doctor's offices. Maintained politeness while on phone with patients. Triaged calling ill patients to on-call nurses or on duty nurses. Paged on call doctors after receiving calls from nurses at local hospitals.…
Financial Statements Review Patton-Fuller Community Hospital completed and distributed financial statements to its stakeholders. It is the responsibility of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and management staff to review each report in order to make wise financial decisions for the future success of the institution. When reviewing these reports, it is imperative to understand three vital aspects. Firstly, when looking at the annual report, the CFO should understand the differences between audited and unaudited financial statements. The second aspect to consider when reviewing financial statements is the effect revenue sources will have on financial reporting.…
Lights, sirens, and a horn are all a man on the ground can hear and see. When the ambulance arrives he is asked, “Which hospital would you prefer to be taken to?” The man is just four blocks away from Caldwell Memorial Hospital, but he says, “I want to live so take me to Frye”. Why would a man so close to a hospital want to go to one 18 miles away? Caldwell Memorial Hospital, the only hospital in Caldwell County, does not provide adequate health care for the county.…
The nurses in the ED have up to three patients for whom they are for. The nurses do not have CNA, so they are responsible for taking vital, providing blanks, water, assessments, treatments, and the nurses are responsible for doing everything for the patients. This is also the case for nurse whom I worked with previous clinical experiences. This clinical setting is similar to Labor and Delivery because the nurses are super involved and continuously monitor the patient. The one way the role and responsibility differed from past clinical experience is that client-patient relationship is short-term.…
The health service organization researched for this assignment is Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda Maryland. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) is the nation largest military medical center providing services in over 100 clinics and specialties for military beneficiaries in the National Capital Region (NCR) (WRNMMC, 2016).…
In today’s healthcare, case management ascends to an irreplaceable component in delivering quality care. The interaction of the case managers with multiple departments in a health system allows open communication, resulting in quality metrics demonstrating value in areas such as length of stay, observations, accounts receivable, and appeals or denials of patient care (Miodonski 2011). According to the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) hospital case management exists as a collaboration of assessments, plans, implementations, coordination, monitoring and evaluations of options and services for healthcare consumers. Huntsville Hospital (HH) Case…
costs of such action so incurred, including, without limitation, reasonable attorney’s fees and applicable court costs. Ex. A at § F.3. Additionally, Hospital is entitled to recover its reasonable and necessary attorney’s fees under Chapter 38 of the TEXAS CIVIL DEFENDANTS & REMEDIES CODE.…
Texas Health Harris Methodist-Cleburne is located in Cleburne, Texas. It is part of the Texas Health Resource, a nonprofit hospital. Through this case study we will see why Texas Health is the top performers in the county on the surgical care process of care measures (Core) or Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP). Also, known as “core measures”. The four clinical areas under the core measures are: heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, and surgical care.…
The design was chosen in July of 1997, and groundbreaking was held in October 1998. the field of empty chairs was dedicated on April 19, 2000. This memorial was designed by Butzer Design Partnership, which is composed by Hans and Torrey Butzer. In 1997, they participated in an international design competition for the outdoor symbolic memorial component of the Oklahoma City National Memorial.…
During my leadership rotation, I observed, shadowed, and interviewed Lorraine Leach, charge nurse of the 4 North Telemetry Unit at Saint Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne. Leach has over forty years nursing experience and has had the opportunity to work in various health care settings on multiple units. In terms of the telemetry unit at Saint Joseph (St. Joe) hospital, Leach is in charge of overseeing patient care of all the 31 beds on the unit. On most days, all 31 beds are filled with patients suffering from heart disease with complicating conditions and/or patients with moderate to severe illnesses that needs constant assessment and evaluation. As the emergency department is always admitting new patients, it is rare that all 31 beds are not…
Your healthcare organization, Harris Memorial Hospital, needs to look at both “hard” and “soft” savings when considering a system’s return on investment. Today’s presentation we will take a deeper look at the soft returns when implementing an electronic health record (EHR) system. It is important to remember that indirect savings are usually applied to processes not easily measured and, thus, quantifying savings can be difficult to see at first. We will look at the three steps in documenting soft returns: (1) identifying a process improvement opportunity, which is improved time/efficiency; (2) create a formula to calculate the benefits; (3) and determine the costs of the process and the net benefits. In order to determine the return benefits from EHR implementation, it is necessary to establish baseline metrics that can be used as a guideline for measuring success after the implementation.…
The Heartland Cancer Center is an outpatient health care facility located in a convenient community setting. We offer external beam radiation therapy services using the most advanced equipment and techniques for both cancerous and benign conditions. External beam (NCI, 2015) radiation therapy involves delivering a high-energy x-ray beam produced by a linear accelerator. The beam is a patient specific customized treatment field that takes into account the size and shape of the tumor. By customizing the treatment field allows us to better spare normal surrounding tissue and organs.…
Charge nurses oversee and support the nursing staff, at the same time also care for a limited number of patients. They are responsible for evaluating other nurses and acting as an educational resource and as well as accountable for maintaining a high level of patient care. Charge nurses are often experienced registered nurses who not only display leadership, communication skills and management but also are responsible for providing administrative support and patient care. Some of the daily routine responsibilities and actions of the charge nurses include directing the admissions of the patient and at the same time planning on discharge treatment and goals. They are in charge of making work schedules and assigning patients to appropriate staff nurses while prioritizing and being flexible in cases of emergency.…
Implementing mandatory training by professionals on how to give patient centered care should be incorporated into yearly competencies. Secondly, dealing with high patient to nurse ratios need to be examined so the nurse can spend more time with the patient and family. Achieving a first good impression will help the patient and family have a positive outlook on the patients care. Also, having a patient or family advisor for the facility and family can help with care that is given to the patient run more smoothly, and questions answered, with the whole family present.…
Kettering Health Network, located in Kettering, Ohio, is a not-for-profit network of eight hospitals, Kettering College, and over 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio with nearly 12,000 employees and 2,100 physicians. Patients have access to high quality maternity care, state-of-the-art cancer fighting technology, along with Ohio’s leading heart hospital, as well as revolutionary brain and spine surgery. In the spirit of Seventh-day Adventist health care ministry, Kettering strives to be innovative and to convey God’s love in a caring environment, along with transforming the healthcare experience with world class health services for every stage of life. Charles F. Kettering was born and raised on a farm in Loundonville, Ohio. Through adversity, poor eyesight, Charles earned an engineering degree from The Ohio State University in 1904.…