Hospitals

Topic: Acute Hospital Care Course: Health Care and Insurance Date: November 28th, 2012 Acute Hospital Care Acute care is medical treatment at a hospital which is short-term. Acute care is a level of health care in which a patient is treated for a brief but severe episode of illness, for conditions that are the result of disease or trauma, and during recovery from surgery. Acute care is generally provided in a hospital by a variety of clinical personnel using technical equipment, pharmaceuticals

for hospitals; private and public. Private hospitals are either for profit (FP) and not-for-profit (NFP). Public hospitals are owned by agencies of a State or Federal government. Public hospitals are different from their FP and NFP peers. The funding sources for public hospitals depends on their purpose but in general, they are funded by allotment of public funds, fee for service billings, or a combination of the two. The American Healthcare Association (AHA) reported 19.75% of hospitals are

Hospital Analogy My analogy is a hospital to an animal cell. The nucleus directs all of the cells’ activities. The nucleus is similar to a boss in a hospital in that it takes charge of these activities. The cell membrane regulates what substance enters and leaves a cell. The cell membrane is similar to a lobby of a hospital. The employees in the hospital lobby check in and out similarly to how the cell membrane checks in and out of various substances. Mitochondrion

Hospital in every sense of it should be a place of safety for everyone especially for those that are sick or having one ailment or the other. It should be a place where the sick can confidently walk or carry in to with almost if not 100 percent safety from any other things apart from the condition he or she came with as his condition is being attended to so that he or she can go back home without additional problems. Of recent, the health system of many countries around the world was ranked based

A hospital strives to deliver the highest quality of healthcare services within its capacity by having a professional group of employees that deliver high quality medical and nursing services. Memorial Hospital is a general healthcare facility that doesn’t have a specialize area in the type of medical care they provide. The hospital prides itself in providing quality care at a reasonable price that won’t take customers to the poor house. The issue at hand is that management doesn’t believe that

The three governing entities for hospitals-- the medical staff, the administration and the board of trustees—seemingly have the same goals of providing safe, quality patient care and to do so at a reasonable cost. Tension between the three often exists, however, despite the common goals. I believe there are three main reasons for this tension: Mistrust, unclear expectations and lack of communication. These three concepts are intertwined, with each one affecting the other two, so it generates a

this study indicates that hospitals with high percentage/rate of 30-days readmission for heart failure patients such as Norths Hospital (21.5%) have a very low rate of mortality within 30-days of hospital admission (6.6%). Whereas, some hospitals such as the Metho Hospital has low Readmission rate for heart failure patients (20.7%) but high percentage for mortality rate (12%). On the other hand, there are some hospitals such as the Norwe hospital with a high rate of hospital readmission within 30 days

Civil Hospital Karachi is a 1900-bed tertiary care public hospital that imparts both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training. It is one of the teaching hospitals affiliated with the Dow Medical College[1] now the Dow University of Health Sciences. Civil Hospital Karachi is arguably the largest teaching hospital of Pakistan, catering not only to all areas of the province of Sindh but also the neighboring province of Balochistan as well. -------------------------------------------------

to the hospital? I believe one the reason is that sometimes when people go to hospitals they get other infections/disease different from what they had gone in for. They go home well and healthy and few days or weeks later, they discover that they have contacted an infection resulting from their stay in the hospital. The infection can also start during their stay at the hospital. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 20 hospitalized patients will have a hospital-acquired

doctors who treat patients in hospitals, except, the consequences of spreading germs are more severe because someone’s life could be put on the line. Hygiene is not only necessary of the hands of doctors and nurses, but also with the products provided and the medical equipment being used on various patients. Cleanliness is important in hospitals and should be reinforced as a required rule to the representative employees of a hospital.(alliteration) Sanitation in hospitals keeps the sicknesses and diseases