Organizational Culture In A Terminally Ill Hospital, 2013 Marshall University
Organizational Culture In A Terminally Ill Hospital, Alberto Coustasse, Douglas A. Mains, Kristine Lykens, Sue G. Lurie, Fernando Trevino
Alberto Coustasse, DrPH, MD, MBA, MPH
This study analyzed an organizational culture in a community hospital in Texas to measure organizational culture change and its impact on Patient Satisfaction (PS). The study employed primary and secondary data, combining quantitative and qualitative methods for a case study. Participant observation was used and archival data were collected to provide a better understanding of the organizational culture and the context in which change was taking place. This study also applied a “Shared Vision” of the organization as the central process in bringing forth the knowledge shared by members of the community hospital who were both subjects and research participants. …
What's Happening: July 15, 2013, 2013 MaineHealth
What's Happening: July 15, 2013, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
What's Happening: July 8, 2013, 2013 MaineHealth
What's Happening: July 8, 2013, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Telepsychiatry In The 21st Century: Transforming Healthcare With Technology, 2013 Marshall University
Telepsychiatry In The 21st Century: Transforming Healthcare With Technology, Stacie Deslich, Bruce Stec, Shane Tomblin, Alberto Coustasse
Management Faculty Research
This article describes the benefits and constraints of telemedicine, focusing primarily on the field of psychiatry in the United States with the current system of healthcare. Telepsychiatry is believed to provide better access and higher-quality care to patients who need psychiatric care and cost savings to providers of such care. Telemedicine has been successfully integrated into psychiatric facilities reaching rural areas, prisons, and urban facilities. It has increased the volume of patients that physicians can reach and diagnose, as well as allowing them to treat patients with limitations in mobility. While telepsychiatry has been shown to be beneficial, this technology …
What's Happening: July 1, 2013, 2013 MaineHealth
What's Happening: July 1, 2013, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Medical Malpractice Reform Measures And Their Effects, 2013 University of Arkansas School of Law
Medical Malpractice Reform Measures And Their Effects, Robert Leflar
Robert B Leflar
New rules and methods for medical injury dispute resolution have been launched in New Hampshire and New York, and demonstration projects are underway elsewhere. This article describes major medical malpractice reforms undertaken and proposed in recent years. Reforms are classified as (1) liability-limiting initiatives favoring health-care providers; (2) procedural innovations promoted as improving dispute resolution processes, such as patient compensation funds, “sorry” laws, disclosure and early offer laws, health courts, and safe harbor laws; and (3) major conceptual reforms to move liability away from physicians to hospitals or administrative no-fault compensation systems. Empirical evidence about the practical effects of already-implemented …
Variables To Predict Risk Of Hospital Readmission, 2013 University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service
Variables To Predict Risk Of Hospital Readmission, Julie I. Carroll
Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations
As the healthcare industry transitions toward accountable care and payment reform, creative approaches to healthcare is imperative. Poorly coordinated care and shorter hospital stays have resulted in higher rates of readmissions. This has large implications for hospitals and health systems.
Describing The Falls Prevention Program At An Acute Care Hospital In Ontario Using Leveson’S Systems Model, 2013 The University of Western Ontario
Describing The Falls Prevention Program At An Acute Care Hospital In Ontario Using Leveson’S Systems Model, Mahboubeh Mehrjoo
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Falls are the most frequent adverse event in acute care hospitals. Although a large number of studies have addressed the patients’ risk factors for falls and best practices in fall prevention, patients falls still remain a major problem. This study applied a systemic methodology (Causal Analysis based on STAMP (CAST)) to depict Ontario’s acute care hospital structure related to patient fall prevention. The system’s component behaviours and interactions were described and deficits and inappropriate control mechanisms among the system’s controllers were identified. As a result of the CAST analysis, the complexity of the health care system, lack of a consistent …
Cms's Proposed Rule Implementing The Aca-Mandated Medicaid Dsh Reductions, 2013 George Washington University
Cms's Proposed Rule Implementing The Aca-Mandated Medicaid Dsh Reductions, Kathryn Linehan
National Health Policy Forum
State Medicaid programs make Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments to hospitals to help offset costs of uncompensated care for Medicaid and uninsured patients. Unlike most Medicaid spending, annual DSH allotments for each state are capped. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), DSH payments will decrease starting in fiscal year (FY) 2014 and continuing through FY 2020. This paper describes the proposed rule for reducing these federal allotments, which was released on May 15, 2013, by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Comments on the proposed rule are due July 12, 2013.
2014 …
What's Happening: June 24, 2013, 2013 MaineHealth
What's Happening: June 24, 2013, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
What's Happening: June 17, 2013, 2013 MaineHealth
What's Happening: June 17, 2013, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
From The Frontier: Translating Research To Practice…Qi As The Hinge Point, 2013 Department of Public Health, University of Tennessee
From The Frontier: Translating Research To Practice…Qi As The Hinge Point, Paul C. Erwin
Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research
This article is number three in the series From the Frontier: Translating Research to Practice. The narrative describes the work of a practice-academic network in Minnesota which explored the degree to which having a culture of quality at the local health department level influenced the capacity to implement a new statewide initiative. The network conducted a mixed-methods study of grantees funded to develop and implement local policy, systems, and environmental change strategies to promote nutrition, increase activity, and reduce tobacco use and exposure. The results of their study indicated that grantees with higher performance levels in Quality Improvement (QI) …
Addressing Health Inequalities In The United States: Key Data Trends And Policy Action, 2013 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Addressing Health Inequalities In The United States: Key Data Trends And Policy Action, Sara N. Bleich, Marian P. Jarlenski, Caryn N. Bell, Thomas A. Laveist
Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research
Health inequalities, which have been well documented for decades, have recently become policy targets in the United States. This report summarizes current patterns and trends in health inequalities, commitments to reduce health inequalities, and progress made to eliminate health inequalities. Time trend data indicate improvements in health status and major risk factors but increases in morbidity, with black and lower-education individuals experiencing a disproportionate burden of disease. A common policy response has been priority setting in the form of national objectives or goals to address health inequalities. More research and better methods are needed to precisely measure relationships between stated …
What's Happening: June 10, 2013, 2013 MaineHealth
What's Happening: June 10, 2013, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Minutes Of 06/07/2013 Hsc Board Of Directors Mtg, 2013 University of New Mexico
Minutes Of 06/07/2013 Hsc Board Of Directors Mtg, Patrice Martin
HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)
No abstract provided.
Notice Of 06/07/2013 Hsc Board Of Directors Mtg, 2013 University of New Mexico
Notice Of 06/07/2013 Hsc Board Of Directors Mtg, Patrice Martin
HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)
No abstract provided.
Agenda Of 06/07/2013 Hsc Board Of Directors Mtg, 2013 University of New Mexico
Agenda Of 06/07/2013 Hsc Board Of Directors Mtg, Patrice Martin
HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)
No abstract provided.
Public Health Delivery Systems And Population Health, 2013 University of Kentucky
Public Health Delivery Systems And Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Despite high overall health expenditures, the U.S. continues to fall behind other high-income countries on many measures of population health. While health care delivery systems are now studied intensively for solutions to U.S. cost and quality problems, the nation's delivery systems for public health programs and policies are only now becoming the subject of rigorous empirical study. This presentation examines recent studies of public health delivery systems and important directions for future inquiry.
What's Happening: June 3, 2013, 2013 MaineHealth
What's Happening: June 3, 2013, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Introduction To Personalized Medicine, 2013 Jefferson School of Population Health
Introduction To Personalized Medicine, Robert D. Lieberthal Phd
Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)
No abstract provided.