Her father was a prominent dentist and a financial supporter of black institutions and charities and her mother was active in the Catholic Church. She later became active in the Catholic Church. She earned a Papal medal, “Pro Ecclesia and Pontifex,” in 1959, for her service to the church and to her community. Education Euphemia started her education at Miner Normal school in Washington D.C. and Graduated with distinction in 1909. She attended Smith College in Massachusetts and earned her degree in Mathematics with a minor in psychology in 1914.
Lillian D. Wald was born on March 10, 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio. A firm believer in nonviolence, she helped lead the first women peace march in 1914.She was a nurse; social worker; public health official; teacher; author; editor; publisher; activist for peace, women's, children's and civil rights; and the founder of American community nursing. Lillian Wald was from a German-Jewish middle-class family in Cincinnati, Ohio, (her father was an ophthalmic merchant). In 1878, she moved with her family to Rochester, New York where she attended Miss Cruttenden's English-French Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies; upon graduation she tried to enter Vassar College but was repudiated, as the school thought she was too young at 16. In 1889, she joined New York Hospital's School
UMass Memorial Medical Center is affiliated with UMass medical school and consists of a level one trauma center, as well as three community hospitals. UMass Memorial in Worcester has three campuses offering 41 different services. The organization has over 1200 medical staff and 2200 registered nurses, as well as emergency life flight services. UMass Memorial Medical Center University campus is the focus of this learning needs assessment. The Emergency Department consists of a 14+ pediatric department, a 29+ bed adult pod, four trauma bays and a locked emergency mental health department.
Factors Associated with Hand Hygiene Compliance at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 34(11), 1146. doi:10.1086/673465 | Background Information | The stated purpose of the article was to identify factors associated with hand hygiene conformity. As stated by Kowitt (2013) hand hygiene is considered the most important measure in preventing hospital-acquired infections which in 2004 related to about 99,000 deaths, affecting 1.7 million patients with a cost of $6.5 billion to the healthcare system. In the abstract, it is stated that these factors were tracked over four years and involved over 161,526 observations of hand hygiene compliance. This initiative was to see if factors are reliable in increasing compliance rates among all categories of hospital workers.
Programmatic Assessment Grant Review and Evaluation Jacqueline Chavez BSHS 451 March 11, 2013 Credibility Component Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (NBIMC) is a 673 bed regional care, community based tertiary teaching hospital in Newark, NJ. The center is seeking the grant of $29,898.00 for the project of Depression in seniors. The annual budget is $3,774,500; the center currently has 2765 full time employees, 281 part time employees and a volunteer base of 250. Contact persons in the center are director, vice president of development Holly Gauthier and development director Amy Engel. Organizations diversity is 86% of NBIMC’s 24,691 patients discharged are of minority background, 69% are Black/African, 12% are Latino’s, 5% are other minority population.
St. John Providence Health Systems Angelita Delanoche HCS/235 April 13, 2011 St. John Providence Health Systems When people are sick his or her first instincts is acquiring medical attention and going straight to a hospital. In the earlier years no hospitals existed, so most care was done in homes by untrained friends or neighbors. The first American hospital originated in Pennsylvania in 1751 (Upenn.edu, 2011). All hospitals today are capable of providing any medical procedures. St. John Providence Health System is among one of the finest hospitals in the nation offering an enormous array of medical services.
There are 2,995 employees who work in NHS direct. 2,445 are in front line staff (www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk) of which 1,085 are trained nurses who give any necessary advice and if an individual need for referral in emergency they guide them according to their situation. in November 2000 the Department of health said that NHS direct receive over 3.5 million calls and take 60,000 call a weak, it may be raised at the end of year. In 2003, 20 million calls received. Currently NHS direct answer 8.2 million calls per day including website and
Many of these families were Catholic and there were four Catholic churches within walking distance of my home; St. Stanislaus, Nativity BVM, St. Mary Gate of Heaven and St. Helen’s. Specific ethnic and/or socioeconomic groups comprised the majority at each of these churches. St. Stanislaus had a large Polish-American congregation. At Nativity BVM, the congregation was made up of the families of blue-collar workers of Italian, Irish, German and Polish descent. Italian Americans comprised the majority of parishioners at St. Mary Gate of Heaven.
The Consumer Domestic segment includes household products such as Oxiclean, Orange Glo, Scrub Free, and Kaboom and personal products such as Trojan condoms, Nair Depilatories, and First Response home pregnancy and ovulation test. The Consumer International segment is a variety of personal care and household products to markets in France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Brazil and China. Specialty Products consist of specialty chemicals, animal nutrition, and specialty cleaners. The company sells over 40% of their consumer household products under the Arm and Hammer brand and has 3,700 employees. Church and Dwight have reported sales of 2.3 billion for household, personal care, and oral care products, in addition to corporate sales of 2.5 billion and a net income of 249 million.
He was appointed Vicar Apostolic of New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land on the 3rd of July 1832. John became determined to move to Sydney and set up a Benedictine monastery. So in September 1835 he arrived in Sydney and eventually he was appointed the first bishop of Sydney on the 5th of April 1842. His dream now was to build a Christian society in Australia through the influence of the Benedictine way of life. During his office as bishop of Sydney he established two Benedictine communities of women: the community at Jamberoo whose founding members he transported from England in 1848 and the sisters of the good Samaritan of the order of Saint Benedict which he founded in 1857.