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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Hospital Network"”.
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Analysis of a hospital network transportation system with discrete event simulation
VA New England Healthcare System (VISN1) provides transportation to veterans between eight medical centers and over 35 Community Based Outpatient Clinics across New England. Due to high variation in its geographic area, it has been a continuous challenge for VISN1 to develop an optimal …
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Patients as stakeholders: a mixed-methods evaluation to understand patient experiences of care at a public-private partnership hospital network in Lesotho
… Partnership (PPP) Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital Integrated Network (QMMH-IN) in Lesotho, we explored patients’ experiences of care. METHODS: Guided by the Quality of Care and Donabedian Model frameworks, we administered surveys and in-depth interviews (IDIs) in three sites across …
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Volunteering and Social Capital: A Case Study of Older Hospital Volunteers in Southern Ontario
… on older adults’ volunteerism in a community hospital network in Southern Ontario. Utilizing in-depth interviews with 10 older volunteers (over the age of 65), document analysis, and a key informant interview, I explored their experiences of volunteering and social capital development at six …
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O trabalho do enfermeiro na rede hospitalar privada: caracterização da sua pratica
… of the practice of males nurses in the Private Hospital Network (P.H.N.) was done with the purposes of identifying the tasks they perform, checking their feelings toward their job and analyzing the impelling and/or restrictive factors involved in the performance of the male nurse’s professional …
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Primary Care Physicians’ Experiences Treating Patients with Behavioral Health Needs
… physicians working in primary care for a large hospital network. Burnout scores were used to categorize participants into one of five burnout profiles, including engaged, overextended, ineffective, disengaged and burnout. Pen portraits were created for each participant and categorized by burnout …
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Optimal allocation of surgical services
… the consolidation of multiple community hospitals into larger care organizations and a renewed focus on the delivery of affordable care. In order for the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMc) to respond and adapt to this changing landscape it will be critical to not only understand …
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Using prediction to facilitate patient flow in a health care delivery chain
… (IU) chain is an example chain, common to many hospitals. Recent literature has suggested that predictions of IU admission, when patients enter the ED, could be used to initiate IU bed preparations before the patient has completed emergency treatment and improve flow through the chain. This …
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Optimal Decision Making for Healthcare Operations: Models and Implementation
… with Hartford HealthCare (HHC), the largest hospital network in Connecticut, spanning seven hospitals with $5 billion annual revenue. In Chapter 2, we optimize nurse staffing at the Emergency Department (ED) of Hartford Hospital. We develop a two-phase methodology: (a) a robust optimization …
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Design of a Pragmatic Test Lab for Evaluating and Testing Wireless Medical Devices for Deployment on an Integrated IT Wireless Network
<p>In today’s healthcare environment, networking of medical devices is becoming more and more prevalent. There is an increasing need for mobile technology to meet clinical needs. Wireless communication is essential for allowing medical devices to be able to move with the patient, while continuing …
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Carilion: A Corporate System of Managed Health Care
… STS scholars. Carilion's mission began with its hospitals. From 1954-1988, Carilion's predecessor, the Roanoke Hospital Association, developed a network for delivering care, training programs and management to small community hospitals throughout southwest Virginia. In 1988, the Roanoke Hospital …
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Diagnosing intensive care units and hyperplane cutting for design of optimal production systems
… harms, we leverage electronic databases in the hospital to measure Total Burden of Harm, which is an aggregated measure of a broad range of harms. We believe that this measure better reflects the true level of harm occurring in Intensive Care Units and also provides hope for more statistical …
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Review of Financial Performance and Efficiency Resources Utilization of Hospitals: Lessons Learned From U.S. Hospitals
… performance and resource utilization of American hospitals. To compare performance, hospitals were categorized into independent, networks, and system hospitals, based on structure and characteristics. For the study acute care general hospitals in 100 largest cities in the United States are …