The Indus Hospital is a nonprofit, private hospital that established in July 2007 to serve area of about 2.5 million people. It is located in the heart of Korangi, one of the densely populated areas in Karachi with a population of around 18 million. Around 150-bed Indus Hospital is the tallest building for miles. Indus 20-acre campus also included a walk-in filter clinic, an open-air TB clinic, a pharmacy, and a nursing school. The hospital ground floor included a reception area, a patient welfare office, 10-bed emergency department, six outpatient clinic rooms, and areas for X-ray, ultrasound, blood drawing and a blood bank. The first floor have four operating theaters, six-bed intensive care unit (ICU), six-bed cardiac care unit, cardiac …show more content…
When a terrorist bomb blast occurred in Karachi Civil Hospital was unable to cope with the casualties. In response, a group of young, idealistic Patients Welfare Association members led by Abdul Bari Khan, raised money for the emergency department and build a blood bank at Civil Hospital. The experience earned the group a glowing public reputation for honesty and the ability to achieve results. Over the next two decades, Bari dedicated his career to building of cardiac surgery department at Civil Hospital. He raised private money to buy new technology, subsidize salaries, and sponsor cardiac procedures at the public safety-net hospital. After 20 years and 3,000 bypass surgeries, Bari came to believe that there are two ways to improve health care in Pakistan—fight the government system or create external delivery models of high-quality, efficient care that would prompt people to demand that the government offer the same. He invited their colleagues from Patients Welfare Association to join him in realizing their youthful dream of running their own full-service, charity care hospital. They were all trained and worked in the United States and United Kingdom and returned to Pakistan, where they started successful …show more content…
This facility was developed with the help of International Committee of Red Cross and Chal Foundation (Walk Foundation). Between 2000 and 2500 artificial limbs are manufacturing and fitted to patients free of cost every year. The hospital will also train disabled persons. The hospital has a Research Center with its own field workers along with a core team of epidemiologists and biostatisticians. The center is working in collaboration with international universities and is quite capable of executing community outreach programs and then precisely analyzing the gathered data. Center have video conference facilities enabling direct communication with universities and research centers worldwide.. Around 45,000 online books and 23,000 journals are also available for the faculty, researchers and trainees at the Indus
“Hospitals today are growing into mighty edifices in brick, stone, glass and marble. Many of them maintain large staffs, they use the best equipment that science can devise, they utilize the most modern methods in devoting themselves to the noblest purpose of man, that of helping’s one’s stricken brother. But they do all this on a business basis, submitting invoices for services rendered.”
Dr. Atul Gawande, a Harvard Medical School graduate and writer for The New Yorker, phenomenally illustrates the unknown side of healthcare professions in his book, Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science. By exploring the ethical and analytical aspects of medicine while entertaining readers with relatable anecdotes, Gawande impresses on his audience the importance of recognizing the wonders of the healthcare field, as well as the fallibility of those within it.
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The Texas Medical Institute of Technology, through programs such as Chasing Zero, is bringing a public voice to the issue of healthcare harm. The documentary is a stirring example of the quality issues facing the healthcare system. In 2003, the NQF first introduced the 30 Safe Practices for Better Healthcare, which it hoped all hospitals would adopt (National Quality Forum, 2010). Today the list has grown to 34, yet the number of preventable healthcare harm events continues to rise. The lack of standardization and mandates which require the reporting of events contributes to the absence of meaningful improvement. Perhaps through initiatives such as those developed by TMIT and the vivid and arresting patient stories such as Chasing Zero, change will soon be at hand.
For much of the United States’ history, problems with private hospitals refusing to treat people without financial means and transferring them to public hospitals existed. Many patients who were in serious medical crisis did not survive the journey or many died soon after. This proved that these transfers can be detrimental to the emergency victim’s health.
Hospital A before the merger was a for-profit hospital, relatively new facility, in east side of town. It consisted of 110 hospital beds, 8 of which were reserved for transitional care. Services provided were: general surgery and same day surgery, full-service rehabilitation department and radiology department. Other services included kidney dialysis center, on-site retail pharmacy, blood bank, women’s center e...
Working in the health care industry takes a lot of courage and patience in order to deal with different individual’s personalities and to be equipped to handle stressful situations according to the issues at hand. As a senior consultant at the Practical Health Care Consulting firm, my supervisor has instructed me to spend three months at the Caring Angel Hospital. While at the hospital there are a few tasks for improving the quality of care, adding value to the organization, improving employee morale, etc. Although these obstacles will be a challenge, there is an opportunity for improvement. This will allow the Caring Angel Hospital to increase revenue and accomplish the goals that are established.
The Hospital has a capacity of 89 beds. There are 5 operating rooms where 33 to 36 operations are performed on an average day. The Hospital follows a 5 day week. It employs 12 full-time surgeons, 7 part-time assistant surgeons, and one anaesthetist. The nursing staff consists of 22 full-time and 18 part-time members. An operating team consists of a surgeon, an assistant surgeon, a scrub nurse, and a circulating nurse. A surgeon's typical day begins at 7:30 A.M. and ends by 4:00 P.M. Each surgeon typically performs 3 to 4 operations each day.
... facilities. The medical scientists perform experiments on these donated organs, tissues, and bodies, in order to find cures and treatments for various complex medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes, etc. The newly found treatments further aid the medical practitioners in saving human lives (Dhillon, 2013).
The staff, physicians and board members were not ready to fail. They didn’t want to abandon all those who depended on their services, but they also knew closing the hospital's doors would hurt
The purpose of this paper is to examine the Heritage Valley Medical Center case study. The paper will start off with a brief background of Heritage Valley, along with a summary of the major problems and issues faced there. Next, the author will explain the role that was chosen while addressing the challenges of Heritage Valley and their reasoning in doing so. The author will then identify the strengths and weaknesses of Heritage Valley and offer to select the best alternative and recommended solutions, which will be followed by a brief description of the evaluation plan that could be used to measure the effectiveness of the recommended solution.
During the last 3 years of my education when I started my clinical practice in hospitals and clinics, and especially now after my short experience as an intern doctor, I came to understand that it’s not that easy to have an effect on the health of the patients, especially in a low income country like Palestine.
The cost of Medical equipment plays a significant role in the delivery of health care. The clinical engineering at Victoria Hospital is an important branch of the hospital team management that are working to strategies ways to improve quality of service and lower cost repairs of equipments. The team members from Biomedical and maintenance engineering’s roles are to ensure utilization of quality equipments such as endoscope and minimize length of repair time. All these issues are a major influence in the hospital’s project cost. For example, Victory hospital, which is located in Canada, is in the process of evaluating different options to decrease cost of its endoscope repair. This equipment is use in the endoscopy department for gastroenterological and surgical procedures. In 1993, 2,500 cases where approximately performed and extensive maintenance of the equipment where needed before and after each of those cases. Despite the appropriate care of the scope, repair requirement where still needed. The total cost of repair that year was $60,000 and the repair services where done by an original equipment manufacturers in Ontario.
Patients sitting in bed, doctors making their rounds, nurses running from place to place, family coming to see their beloved family members, and the lowly diet aide bringing around some lunch; all of these things can be witnessed at the hospital at which I work. All of these things pile together into the schema of what most people come to call a hospital; working there the typical schema of a hospital has become a whole lot more complex. To start, “A schema is a cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information.”
Hospitals play an important role in the health care system (Hospitals, n.d.). They are health care institutions that have an organized medical and other professional staff, and inpatient facilities, and deliver medical, nursing and related services 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Hospitals offer a varying range of acute, convalescent and terminal care using diagnostic and curative services in response to acute and chronic conditions arising from diseases as well as injuries and genetic anomalies. In doing so they generate essential information for research, education and management. Traditionally oriented on individual care, hospitals are increasingly forging closer links with other parts of the health sector and communities in an effort