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The History and Mission of Tripler Army Medical Center

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

Training, Teamwork and Benefits in Patient Care

with physicians to "Yes, doctor," the still-proceeding transitions in healthcare continue to elevate the position of nurse while n...

Classifications and Divisions of Hospitals

a serious or highly unusual medical problem, a hospital devoted to the care of patients with similar conditions may be preferred. ...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Problem of Uninsured Patients and New York's Metropolitan Hospital Center Operations

respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...

Uninsured Issues for Metropolitan Hospital Center of New York II

continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...

Federal Spending and Quality Care in Hospitals

2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...

Computer System Development

data needing a broad bandwidth, but also the need for security as patient files are confidential and security measures are not onl...

Fires in Hospital Operating Rooms

of such fires; and learning how to prevent them. Some of the material addresses all three points, some does not. Because there are...

Evaluation of Hospital Quality

which of these three factors was the most influential in propelling hospital quality improvement. This research revealed that the ...

Health Care and Information Technology Utilization Increases

matter crucial in todays health care industry. The health maintenance organization (HMO) was born of an effort to reduce the rate...

Failed Information Technology Project at Washington Mercy Hospital

but fails to deliver in terms of system response. The hospital and its IT contractor, DCS, are entering non-binding mediation in ...

External Environment of Shands Healthcare

either to reduce benefits or require employees to pay a greater share of the costs of their health care insurance premiums. Risin...

A Look at Two Mergers

the FTCs complaint is true, "alleging that the systems three hospitals extracted huge price increases from payers after the deal a...

Reduction of ICU's Nursing Ratio and Change Management

The reason is that the hospital has been unsuccessful in recruiting an adequate number of qualified nurses. Ultimately, the blame...

Sick and Dying Catholic Ministering

in the world (McClory 2002). The Cardinal had lost his battle with cancer and he was ready to let go (McClory 2002). Letting go a...

The Economic Impact on Home Health Issues

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

Euclid's Hospital Health Care Data Protection

feel that ongoing, regular access to and the use of health information is essential to achieve important public health objectives ...

St. Francis Hospital in Arizona and IS Upgrades

any other industry, but health care is different in that practitioners are constrained by patient progress. A doctor may order a ...

Medium Sized Hospital Implementation of the Windows NT Server

for medium and even smaller individual hospitals. Hospital administrators must both understand and communicate the fact that the ...

Anarchist Ed Kienholz

In five pages this essay considers the anarchist art of Ed Kienholz in terms of the artist's attitudes and style of composition wi...

Administrators, Staff Nurses, and Shared Liability

In two pages this paper examines how hospital administrators and staff nurses share medical liability in a definition of the term ...

Hospital Care That is Family Centered

In five pages a hospital environment is considered in a discussion of a family centered care approach with pediatric nursing being...

California Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exempt Status Assessment

In ten pages this position paper discusses challenging the tax exempt status of a California nonprofit hospital in terms of legali...

Nosocomial Infections

This research paper reports on recent studies that concern the most prevalent pathogens causing nosocomial, that is, hospital-acqu...

Assessing Risk in Critical Care

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the problem of infections contracted in the hospital setting and considers the i...

Outsourcing Hospital Functions

This research paper explains how many hospitals are turning to outsourcing, that is contractual arrangements with outside vendors ...

MRSA Article Critiques

This paper critiques three articles that focus on the control, treatment and prevention of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant...

Health Care Reimbursement, Its Future

This research paper discusses reform trends pertaining to hospital reimbursement. Several new Medicare rules and initiatives are d...

Prenatal Education in a Military Program

This research paper addresses a scenario that describes a prenatal education class that pregnant military personnel and wives are ...