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100 percent and also to create a neighborhood health and daycare facility. Another proposal is the creation of a preventative diag...

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

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

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

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

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

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

costs to the tune of more than $10,000 dollars and also have to stay in the hospital an average of 3 to 4 days longer than they wo...

isnt being seen - and read - by unauthorized personnel (such as the cleaning crew or perhaps the cleaning crews friends). The like...

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

occur in an EMS vehicle in the summer months (McElroy, 2002). Such degradation can occur with no visible changes to the medicatio...

its founding in the late 18th century, the United States has opened its borders to people from a variety of countries and cultures...

litigious society where health care workers and institutions are open and easy targets, this dearth of lawsuits reported in The Ne...

ineffective - organizational structure on the organizations ability to function at optimal levels has been known literally for dec...

processed, but also in terms of the culture where employees feel appreciated. They are paid more than the average wage, on top of ...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

employers are increasing employees portion of premium payments or ceasing to contribute anything at all. Many employers have ceas...

HMOs now are listed as the responsible parties for 97 percent of all Americans who have insurance coverage and are not covered thr...

of the market (Christensen, Bohmer and Kenagy, 2000). The area of disruptive technology is the same one through which personal co...

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

laws of the state and to prevent "illegal operations, e.g., operating without a license" (VDH). Regulations that are adopted by t...

defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...

Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...

and staff. Of lesser concern have been the indirect impacts of disinfectant use, including the risk to the sanitation workers due ...

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...