I have chosen The Woman's Hospital of Texas for my LTT1 task. It was founded in 1976 in Houston, TX. The Woman’s Hospital of Texas is affiliated by the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), which offers health services for women and newborns. The Woman’s Hospital of Texas has been one of the state’s foremost care providers for women and newborns for more than 30 years with over 650 board-certified physicians. The hospital also received a High-Performing ranking in gynecology in the U.S. News & World Report's (2008) annual survey with an overall ranking of #40 in Texas, recognized in Gulf Coast and ranked #13 in Houston metro area. According to the Medical Journal Houston (The Leading Source for Healthcare Business News, November 2008 ), major growth that enhanced patients care was a newly incorporated design of the hospital. The goal of the new design was to increase the ability to care for more patients and to make improvements on the function of the hospital, while staying mindful of current and future trends in women’s gynecologic, obstetric, pediatric, and general healthcare. Another priority is keeping medical care accessible to newborns at all times – and quickly. To address this issue, the most critical care nursery was placed immediately adjacent to the operating room suites. Now instead of having to mobilize a computer, with the redesign all patient rooms have a local computer in place. This helps the medical staff with being able to stay in patients’ rooms unlike before. The redesign also included a just like home ambiance to allow patients a relaxed environment and also allows patients the use of their own electronic devices with wireless Internet access. With a mission of providing exceptional compassionate custo... ... middle of paper ... ...wsroom/named-top-performing-hospital-in-quality-and-safety Notice of Privacy Practice - The Woman's Hospital of Texas. (2010). Retrieved from http://womanshospital.com/about/notice-of-privacy-practice.dot About - The Woman’s Hospital of Texas | Healthgrades.com. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.healthgrades.com/hospital-directory/texas-tx-houston/about-hgstda3bc8b6450674 The Woman’s Hospital of Texas and REACH Air Medical Services Partner to Provide Emergency Air Transport to Houston Region - FierceHealthcare. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/press-releases/woman-s-hospital-texas-and-reach-air-medical-services-partner-provide-emerg Woman's Hospital of Texas - Women's Radiology Associates - Houston place for Breast Care. (201). Retrieved from http://www.womens-radiology.com/Womens_Place_for_Breast_Care/?gclid=CODcrb6I97sCFQbl7AodAWYAPQ
The challenges that all acute care hospitals and facilities faces are the demand for highly specialized services has increased. The US population is constantly aging and the elderly tend to need more acute care services. Because many people lack health insurance, they tend to use emergency rooms in the hospitals as their source of care. The increase demand in acute care prompted hospitals to expand their facility
The International Shrine is a brotherhood that is dedicated to having fun with a specific purpose. They are a fraternity based on fellowship and the Masonic principles of brotherly love. The fraternity, which has nearly 200 temples in seven countries and thousands of clubs around the world helps to operate the unique pediatric healthcare system they founded years ago (About Our Fraternity). Through the philanthropic work of International Shriners, transportation and free medical care are provided for those children that meet the qualifications, which in turn remove a huge financial burden from the family.
Formerly known as Adolescent Reproductive Health Programs, the Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit (SRHU) has worked with youth-serving organizations for (xx) years. Through that time, they have developed a number of resources for usage by Teens in New York City. One of the most notable resources is their Clinic Guide, a wallet sized guide to clinics in New York City, in all five boroughs that provide low-cost and confidential services to teens as well as those of legal adult age. While they had been providing resources such as the clinic guide for a number of years, there was never a clear way for them to ensure their proper use and distribution. This past year, they developed the Teens in NYC: Getting Sexual Health Services Workshop Facilitation Guide. The workshop is designed for use with teens aged 13-19 and can be used by any person who is comfortable with the material, regardless of whether or not they have any prior health education history. Featuring a role-play and an activity, which explicitly requires use of either the Clinic Guide or the mobile app developed for use, the workshop would ensure that teens are properly instructed and exposed to the clinic guide and the possibilities for receiving services in New York City.
Health care providers not knowing their surrounding community impacts the way they provide health care to a patient. I hope to use my background in community work with underrepresented populations and the qualities I gained to hopefully reduce and someday diminish the concern that health care isn’t keeping up with the demographics of the surrounding community. The third health care concern I will talk about is another near and dear to me which is the severely low quality health care women in developing countries receive.
The organization that I choose to do my SWOT analysis on is the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. This organization is a nonprofit organization based here locally in the Atlanta area. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta was established in 1998 with the merger of Egleston Children’s Health Care System and the Scottish Rite Medical Center. Out of this merger was born the largest pediatric system within the United States. In 2006 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta continued to acquire Hughes Spalding Children’s Hospital with expanded the system to a total of three hospitals. To date, according to their website Children’s Health Care of Atlanta has 27 neighborhood locations spread throughout the Atlanta area, and six urgent care facilities that offer primary care, sports medicine, rehabilitation and surgical services.
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). Staff Analysis Statement of Problem HCA, after following a conservative financial policy since its establishment, has entered the new decade preparing to make some changes in order to realign their financial strategy and capital structure. Since its establishment, HCA has often been used as a measure for the entire proprietary hospital industry. Is it now time for the market to realign their expectations for the industry as a whole? HCA has target goals that need to be met in order to accomplish milestones in the future.
Have you ever wondered how it felt being in the Battle of the Alamo? Have you ever wondered why a woman would ever contribute to Texas? Well Susanna Dickinson could tell you all about it.
Primary health care - Fact Sheet - First Ministers' Meeting on Health Care September 2004. (n.d.). Welcome to the Health Canada Web site | Bienvenue au site Web de Sante Canada. Retrieved January 31, 2011, from http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/delivery-prestation/fptcollab/2004-fmm-rpm/fs-if_08-eng.php
She decided to tackle the health problems of a small area of few roads and no physicians, called Leslie County in Eastern Kentucky. Here she tested to her health care plans, thinking that if she succeed here, she could succeed anywhere. Horse backing around Leslie County, she asked residents about health care needs and local lay-midwives about birth practices. The results from her surveys revealed that these nursing mothers were lacking prenatal care and that they were giving birth to large quantities of children often by invasive practice.
The staff will now have to rely heavily on technology to monitor delicate vital signs and feeding schedules as well as charting assessments. The large panoramic view of a room has been replaced with walls and a nurse watching a com...
Perhaps the greatest problem faced throughout this tale was that of miscommunication. The Merced Community Medical Center or MCMC for short was the place where Lia was being treated. This hospital was the Merced county's only hospital and unlike most rural county hospital it is state of the art, ."..42,000-square foot wing ... that houses coronary care, intensive care, and transitional care units; 154 medical and surgical beds...."3 This was a teaching hospital made up of interns mostly, but also with some great doctors like Peggy Philp and Neil Ernst. Peggy and Neil are married and have children. They graduated together at the top of their class, and have created quite a practice for themselves. Although MCMC is a great rural hospital, it also has the same problems as most rural hospitals do which is the health care crunch, where most of the money goes to the urban hospitals and then the leftover money is spread among th...
Technological advances enable nurses to provide accurate, timely care for a patient. This is due to the fact that these advances enable doctors and nurses to quickly diagnose, explain and predict the health-illness status of a patient, thus allowing health care professionals to spend less time finding answers, and more time providing quality care. For nurses, this includes spending time with the patient establishing rapport, communication and a trusting relationship for optimum clinical care.
In the past several years the healthcare system has experienced new changes in its structure and technology. The macro trends in healthcare are healthcare reform and the regulations of technology in healthcare that the government has put in place. Healthcare systems in the past have had some real complications both in the provided care and computer technology
After moving to the United States, I took the initiative to familiarize myself with the US healthcare system by doing many clinical rotations in different family practice and pediatric clinics in Houston, TX. After these rotations, I was enamored with the delivery of public health measures in each clinic, according to the US public health standards.
The nursing field has experienced plenty of advancements both in technology and medicine since the twentieth century. Not only have these advancements changed the face of nursing but have also become an intricate part of the field. Technology has the capacity to improve patient care and outcomes and is therefore of great importance to nursing. How nurses manage clinical workflows and how they deliver patient care have been completely changed by various innovations in software. The rationale used in selecting the topic of advances in nursing is that the world is fast evolving and so is the healthcare sector. Extensive analysis and synthesizing of knowledge, interpretation of information, research and innovations in nursing has been done over the years. It is interesting to have an in-depth look at what has been done by various influencers in the profession. Purpose of this paper is to demonstrate both technological and medical advancements in the nursing field.