The Joint Commission (TJC) surveyed Nightingale Community Hospital two years ago. The Joint Commission is a non-profit organization that accredits and certifies healthcare organizations. The mission of The Joint commission is “To continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value”(The Joint Commission, 2012). The previous Joint Commission survey results found opportunity with six standards at Nightingale Community hospital. The area of greatest opportunity, with four findings, was within the Provision of Care, Treatment and Services: · PC.01.01.07 Pain is assessed in all patients(The Joint Commission, 2012).
34, No. 11 p. 1146-1152. | Background Information | This study reports, in 2004 hospital infections accounted for 99,000 deaths, affecting 1.7 million patients. The authors also present the argument hand hygiene practices among healthcare workers average 5% to 89 % compliance rate. Several interventions have been implemented by hospitals to improve hand hygiene compliance.
The Four-Step Continuum and Informatics Sean Leonard Walden University Nursing 6051 Transforming Nursing and Healthcare August 25, 2015 Wisdom with Informatics Nursing informatics plays an important role in managing healthcare for patients with degenerative disorders of the central nervous system. Managing complex medical issues for patients with Parkinson’s disease involves applying previous knowledge or wisdom in treatment (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Continuum of care approach uses previous wisdom gained in outcomes to deliver patient care through a defined period of time. Better coordination of patient care helps to produce best possible outcomes. According to Laureate Education (2010) nursing informatics is a major player in continuum of care and it consists of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.
What would be the purpose of such meetings? The general purpose for this meeting should be identical to the response from Fleming, “ The purpose of these meetings would be to discuss the results with each department and determine the extent to which processes of care or patient factors affected outcomes, with a view toward making recommendations for improvement” (p.116). What specific recommendations might the QI team make? Quality Indicators are published from the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality report, |The AHRQ QIs are a set of quality indicators organized into four "modules," each of which measures quality associated with | |processes of care that occurred in an outpatient or an inpatient setting. All four modules rely solely on hospital inpatient | |administrative data: | |Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs)--or ambulatory care sensitive conditions--identify hospital admissions that evidence | |suggests could have been avoided, at least in part, through high-quality outpatient care.
For the year of 2010 Cleveland Clinic physicians were recognized for their specialization in the following adult and pediatric specialty out of 4,852 hospitals. These were amongst the top services graded. They are heart disease, rheumatology, kidney disorders, urology, orthopedics, gastroenterology, neurology, diabetes and endocrinology and cancer to name a few. In pediatric they were nationally ranked for their specialization in pediatric cancer, cardiology, diabetes, gastroenterology, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology. One can go to various websites for rating of this hospital services.
Memo Date: August 8, 2011 To: SVP, Tenet California From: Jason Chang Subject: Posada Surgery Center Posada Surgery Center has notified Twin Cities Community Hospital that it intends to apply for a Medicare Provider Number and become an in-network Ambulatory Surgical Center for the major commercial managed care providers in San Luis Obispo County. Posada Surgery, located at 322 Posada Lane in Templeton is a four suite ambulatory surgery center owned by 8 surgeons, managing partner William Sima, David Bolivar, James Carr, Steven Herron, Lauren Prewitt, N. Birrell Smith, Mareeni Stanislaus and Shan Thomas. The operating model of Posada Surgery has been as a non-par provider electing not to hold any payor contracts. Historically,
My practice placement was situated in a Primary Care Liaison Team within a community mental health setting. This is a multi-disciplinary team which links with General Practitioner surgeries, inpatient and day treatment services. The team aims to provide a responsive service that assesses, treats and co-ordinates care in the recovery of adults with enduring mental health problems (NHS trust, 2005) who have potential to improve their quality of life. This team is part of four community mental health teams (CMHT) within its Primary Care Trust (PCT), one of the six PCTs within the counties NHS trust, which provides all mental health and learning disability services within this area (NHS trust web) For the purpose of this report, change management is the main theme relating to the setting. This will relate to a strategy developed by the NHS trust in question, to develop it service provision.
Via Christi Clinic includes more than 200 doctors practicing in more than 40 specialties in Sedgwick, Harvey and Butler counties ("Via Christi Clinic", 2015). They target their patients throughout their many clinics to use their immediate care locations when needed. Via Christi Clinic targets their existing patients to use their Immediate Care so they can save then time and money over using an ER, because minor illnesses are kept waiting at the ER to give priority to patients with life-threatening conditions. Co-pays are also less for Immediate Care and Via Christi Clinic Immediate Care offers online check-in at Wichita locations. In order to target consumers who do not see a primary care physician in the clinic, they advertise on television, radio, print ads and through social
Date Jxx Mxx Axx HIPAA Training Program Analysis Jxx Mxx Axx is a medical services company that provides family doctors, pediatricians, and several specialty medical providers such as internal medicine doctors, endocrinologists, urologists, and obstetricians. They are a fully fledged provider in their market that cares for approximately 5,000 patients with various issues with a staff of approximately 500 employees. This analysis will outline the steps necessary for Jxx Mxx Axx to analyze, build, implement and evaluate HIPAA training for the organization in four steps. First is the Training Needs Assessment. Second is the Lesson Plan, Return on Investment and Transfer of Training.
(Connell school of Nursing, 2010). During her career, she has completed a multitude of achievements including a series of health studies that has aided in the practice and research of nursing care. She has in fact written various books that have been published in different languages and are used as a tool for teaching nursing care and theories in 48 different countries. Her theories are still used today. This specific method of functional health patterns is used by nurses to provide a patient with a more thorough assessment by systematically collecting data.