The North Texas State Hospital (NTSH)

This is a report of an Interview with Karen Gordon-Sosby, associate director at Texas State Student Health Center. Karen is a highly motivated professional, an experienced healthcare administrator and appears to possess inherent management and leadership skills that are quite significant and noteworthy. Her expertise in performing the indispensable task in managing and analyzing financial records, brings a unique blend of health administration and public health prowess to the healthcare industry.

In the case of Shahine vs. Louisiana State University Medical Center, the plaintiff Ms. Shahine experienced right ulnar nerve damage following a right total hip arthroplasty. She filed suit against the University Medical Center and her anesthesiologist, Dr. W for medical malpractice and requested the court to infer negligence under the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. Dr. W was fully responsible for Ms. Shahine’s care while she was under anesthesia and Ms. Shahine obviously could not assess the true cause of injury while she was anesthetized. However, Dr. W provided evidence of non-negligence by thoroughly charting in Ms. Shahine’s medical record proper positioning and padding. Another anesthesiologist provided the court with uncontroverted

The site explains the primary objective in Memorial Hermann Hospital, which is mainly about advancing Health, reforming healthcare and bringing together all characteristics of the health system - care delivery, physicians and health solutions to construct a truly integrated health system. The site also offers an in depth study on Memorial Hermann hospital and its reputation of being the largest non-profit health system in Southeast Texas with several hospitals and innumerable specialty programs and services located throughout the Greater Houston area.

Jones Regional Medical Center is a huge academic health center with 900 beds and are known for its research and teaching hospitals. Additionally, the IT staff at Jones supports 300 applications and 12,000 workstations. The center uses Technology Med (TechMed) for their admitting system. The system includes registration, inpatient charge, payment entry, master patient index, admission, hospital billing, and more. The TechMed system has been accessible since 1998; Jones is beginning to plan a replacement of this systems because of the fragility of the software (Wager, 2013).

In mid-April 2000, Sherri Worth was faced with some very unsettling news about Pate Memorial Clinic’s future with a competitor potentially moving into the area. Worth was the assistant administrator at Pate Memorial Hospital (PMH) and was also responsible for the Pate Health Clinic (PHC). A study by the competitor was being done to see whether sufficient demand existed to establish a clinic 5 blocks north of PHC. The two biggest concerns in regards to the new competition were:

The Methodist hospital of Indiana was undergoing organizational and leadership change in 1988. Their longtime head had retired and William J. Loveday became their new CEO. He brought in a whole new management team to help him implement new ideas and create a new culture there. His new CFO was in charge of the IS department and after discovering that the department was in shambles with no real direction, he hired Walter C. Zerrener to become the Chief Information Officer. Zerrener found that the Methodist Hospital had spent about $20 million to install a state-of-the-art proprietary patient management system called TDS in 1970s but had done no upgradation after that . The IS department was solely focused on keeping the TDS

Tulsa Memorial Hospital (TMH) is one of the nine acute care hospitals that serves in the general population area. Historically, it has been highly profitable due to its well-appointed facilities, excellent medical staff, good-standing reputation for quality care and its ability to give individual attention for each of its patients. The hospital, in addition to its inpatient services, operates an emergency department and an urgent care center located two miles from the hospital across the street from a major shopping mall.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital is a hospital located in Dallas, Texas. This facility is an acute care hospital that provides a variety of services to patients. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital participates in many registries such as Cardiac Registry and Nursing Care. Registries are in place to help hospitals collect and analyze data to improve care.

The Midhudson Regional Hospital has  diversed employees. They are made up of individuals with different culture, gender, socio-economic and race. During the infection control awareness week,I was very  conscious of the diversity. Everyone was welcomed. Some of the participants received very easy question to avoid embarrasment . I was able to met and interact with many employees, patients and visitors with different cultures, genders, race and socioeconomic backgrounds. Cultural competency was applied..

Jefferson County has been without local access to healthcare for decades. Over 10 years ago the county commissioners agreed that a local hospital is in the best interest of the people of Jefferson County and, therefore, began a fund to achieve this goal. As of today, the fund is worth $25 million, but to build and equip an adequately sized hospital, the county needs an additional $75 million. The commissioners appointed a committee to discuss the issue and determine the best plan of action going forward.

Floated among all areas of Critical Care, in order to meet the staffing needs of the Tenet Hospitals; to include Providence, Sierra and Sierra Providence East Medical Center. The areas floated to included Intensive Care Unit, Coronary and Cardiovascular care Unit, Intermediate Care Unit, Telemetry and Emergency

West Florida Regional Medical Center (WFRMC) located on the north side of Pensacola, Florida competed strongly with sacred heart and Baptist hospitals for patients. WFRMC’s CEO John Kausch was an active member of the Total Quality Council of the Pensacola Area Chamber of Commerce (PATQC) (McLaughlin, C.P., Johnson, J.K., & Sollecito, 2012).. PATQC’s vision was to develop the Pensacola, Florida area into a total quality community by promoting productivity, quality and economic developments in all area organizations both public and private (McLaughlin, et, al., 2012). John

The case study revolves around the issue of Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA] compliance at Graceland Memorial Hospital [GMH], a non-profit community hospital located in the midwest. Under current OSHA regulations, the hospital was required to enforce correct usage of respiratory mask and conduct respiratory fir-testing. This new update was to protect employees who had frequent contact with patients that suffered from airborne communicable diseases and to prevent its further spread. Failure to comply with OSHA regulations would result in the hospital incurring large fines. Senior hospital staff at GMH was facing hurdles implementing the law due to refusal

Twin Oaks Hospital in Lexington, Colorado is a 100-bed hospital with a staff of 350 employees that include over 200 nurses and 40 clerical and secretarial employees, the majority of which are women. Recently the staff has had some apprehension and discontent over pay levels. Lexington Memorial Hospital, a public facility near to Twin Oaks recently agreed to demands from their nursing and clerical staff to increase wages five percent. They further agreed to introduce a job evaluation program which would evaluate the nursing and secretarial jobs based on comparable worth and that results of the study would be utilized as the basis for any future pay adjustments. As a result of this the staff at Twin Oaks has come to demand similar wage

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