Medical Center Case Studies Samples For Students

Virginia Mason Medical Center: Kaplan’s Role and Learnings from Toyota

Virginia Mason Medical Center: Kaplan’s Role and Learnings from Toyota

Introduction

Virginia Mason was founded on 1920, when two physicians decided on a new medical practice approach, sharing one vision, “A single place where patients could receive comprehensive care for virtually any medical problem”.

Over the course of successive decades, practice grew potentially as it evolved to a world class-medical facility. On the tip of twentieth century, the Virginia Mason, being a nonprofit organization (reorganized from partnership), with a 336-bed care hospital and 400 physicians and multiple clinics located throughout the region, was a facing an alarming problem for ...

Section I Analysis of Statement of Operations

What is happening with the revenue?
There is not enough historical data to assess whether the revenue’s performance is good or bad. But if looking at how it affects income, the YTD shows that revenue is enough to cover allowances for doubtful accounts and operating expenses while the current month reported a net loss. As pointed out in the difficulties experienced by the hospital, it may be the increasing competition and excessive staff overtime, reflected in dwindling revenue (as % shows approximately 7% decline) and almost 5% addition in contractual allowances and salaries and wages.

What are allowances? Should these ever be a positive number? Why?

According to Fingers (2010), ...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) is very important technology in the management of healthcare institutions. The technology helps improves the quality of healthcare services, reduce costs, increase patients’ outcomes and promote collaboration among care providers. These cited benefits vary across hospitals depending on the model, version and type of EHR software used. Hence, the hospitals are encouraged to upgrade EHR system to increase its effectiveness. To this end, the board of Southeast Medical Center’s decision to replace its old EHR system with Epic ambulatory care EHR is a step in the right direction. According to the hospital, the new EHR ...

Question 1

More than often, changes in technology affect the level of productivity as it increases efficiency and reduces costs associated with projects. As a means of increasing efficiency, the use of improved technologies allows for achievement of increased faster payoffs as compared to the use of traditional systems of implementation because the programs are designed to specialize on specific functions that are targeted on increasing production. More so, these projects differ in terms of their focus on using systematic software that not only increases productivity but also the product quality. This is because, the software designed seeks to perform functions that ...

Alberto, age 55, was brought to the emergency department of a regional medical center by his brother-in-law. Alberto is pacing, demanding, agitated, and speaking vociferously. “I did not wish to come here! My brother-in-law is simply jealous and he is trying to make me appear like I am suffering from some sort of insanity!” Alberto’s treatment is financially subsidized by his brother in law. Alberto will undergo a maximum of 8 sessions at 2 hours each session. The session will start on June 25, 2014.

Presenting Problem

Alberto is a 55-year-old man who was brought to the emergency department of a regional medical center ...

Torts Exercise—Fall 2013

1.) Issue: Is Dr. Intenzio liable for selecting Madison Outpatient Pharmacy?
Rule: Under the principle of negligence, the law requires evidence that must show that there was a specific duty on the part of Dr. Intenzio to provide care for Adam and that he breached the duty of care, which resulted to actual and the proximate cause of Adam’s death. As a result, it entitled the estate of the deceased to recover for damages for failure of the parties to present an adequate defense.
Application: In the case of Dr. Intenzio, he has the duty to provide care ...

Electronic health record are form a very crucial part of a modern day hospital. Information in the hospitals continues to increase and an advanced system of management becomes important for successful service delivery and goal attendance. Many hospitals have implemented this technology and are enjoying every single bit of what it has to offer in terms of hospital success. Among these hospitals, three have shown great advancement to the extent of being awarded (Davis, 2012). They include, Citizen Memorial Healthcare, Maimonides Medical Center and the Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center.
The citizen memorial hospital applied this technology in 2005, and ...

Analysis of the proposal

Although, Mr. Spellman had come up with an outstanding proposal of improving services at Wise Medical Center, they are not fully acceptable. He did not consider the history on previous amendments, which have been conducted in the same sector. The proposal was not well thought of since Mr. Spellman did not consult fellow professional in the medical field. Therefore, this proposal needed some amendments to make it viable for Wise Medical Center.

The idea of putting all the departments under different organizational structure and administration is not vital. This is because each of these structures will be calling for ...

Application of ICT in Health Care

Provision of quality health services is the key agenda for health care through usage of innovative technologies. However, the most significant one would be the use of (Information and Communication Technologies) ICT in healthcare services. ICT can be described as tools that ease communication, the dispensation, broadcasting of information, and electronic distribution of data. This involves the use of electronic digital as well as analog ICTs. The use of ICT can be divided into two areas; basic ledger system and patient health care. The ledger system deals with the day to day purchases and payments made to the health ...

Borderline Personality Disorder: Case Study

Karen’s Case

Karen was admitted in the intensive care unit of West Raymond medical Center after she knowingly took an overdose of sedatives in addition to alcohol in a suicide attempt following a disagreement with her man.

Consequently, the 32-year old single, unemployed woman lost consciousness which meant that she had to inevitably spend three days in the hospital. While still in the hospital the doctors never wanted to discharge her until when they were convinced that she was under the care of a psychotherapist. Karen’s psychotherapist was, however, reluctant to respond to Karen’s calls concerning her discharge citing ...

Abstract

Cultural sensitivity is an issue that is central to health and ethnicity, and also to creating programs for disease prevention and health promotions for varying ethnic and racial populations. The rationale, under which programs for promoting health are build, is based on three basic observations; the varying patterns in the predictors of the behaviors of health, different groups show; the differences in the rates of disease prevalence as indicated by various ethnic and racial groups; and the patterns exhibited by the same groups in the prevalence of risk factors imposed by their behaviors. The differences between the prevalence rates ...