Comparing the Financial Impact of Several Hospitals on Their Local Markets
Several studies that measured the financial impact of hospitals on their local markets are examined. Descriptive analyses were performed to ascertain if there are any identifying characteristics and emerging patterns in the data. After hospitals were categorized into small, medium, and large classifications based on the number of employees, various predictive insights were discovered. Smaller hospitals could be expected to contribute approximately 7.3% to the local economy, whereas medium-sized hospitals would likely contribute approximately 11.4% to the financial value of the local market. Finally, larger hospitals may co...
Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Case in Health Care Management
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Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Case in Health Care Management Source Type: research
The Impact of Race on Patient Satisfaction With Primary Care Physicians
Patient satisfaction has become an important measure of health care services and outcomes. The purpose of this empirical study was to investigate factors that impact the satisfaction of primary care physicians (PCPs) by patients of different races in the United States. This is an empirical analysis of the Center for Studying Health System Change's 2010 Health Tracking Household Survey. Correlation and regression analyses were done to examine the impact of various factors on PCP satisfaction of 12 472 American respondents. Whites were most satisfied with their PCPs, and Hispanics were least satisfied with their PCPs. Satisf...
Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Hospital Chief Executive Officer Perspectives on Health Care Administration Academic Preparations
A dynamic health care industry continues to call upon health care leaders to possess not one but multiple competencies. A post hoc review of 3 secondary data sets (previous parallel surveys administered in 2007, 2011, and 2015) was conducted to determine what preferred academic program of study (master of health administration, master of business administration, or a clinical degree preparation) may exist by current hospital executives and potential trending of executive degree preparations over time. In addition, any relationships among individual hospital administrator, individual personal characteristics, and their pref...
Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
The Effects of the Transforming Care at the Bedside Program on Perceived Team Effectiveness and Patient Outcomes
The objective of the study was to document the impact of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) program on health care team’s effectiveness, patient safety, and patient experience. A pretest and posttest (team effectiveness) and a time-series study design (patient experience and safety) were used. The intervention (the TCAB program) was implemented in 8 units in a multihospital academic health science center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The impact of TCAB interventions was measured using the Team Effectiveness (TCAB teams, n = 50), and Clostridium difficile–associated diarrhea and vancomycin-resistant Enterobacter rat...
Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Lead Time to Appointment and No-Show Rates for New and Follow-up Patients in an Ambulatory Clinic
High rates of no-shows in outpatient clinics are problematic for revenue and for quality of patient care. Longer lead time to appointment has variably been implicated as a risk factor for no-shows, but the evidence within pediatric clinics is inconclusive. The goal of this study was to estimate no-show rates and test for association between appointment lead time and no-show rates for new and follow-up patients. Analyses included 534 new and 1920 follow-up patients from pulmonology and gastroenterology clinics at a freestanding children’s hospital. The overall rate of no-shows was lower for visits scheduled within 0 to 30...
Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
From the Editor
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Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: From the Editor Source Type: research
Improving Primary Care Retention in Medically Underserved Areas: What’s a Clinic to Do?
To reduce health professional shortage areas, the National Health Service Corps has attempted to increase the number of primary care providers in underserved communities through scholarships and loan repayment. Program evaluations assessed Loan Repayment Program (LRP) propensity to work in underserved communities. The National Health Service Corps LRPs were asked about preferences for particular retention strategies and which strategies were utilized by their clinical sites. Loan Repayment Programs were asked to rank retention strategies. Loan Repayment Program top choices were competitive salary, 88%; professional develop...
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Are International Classification of Diseases Codes in Electronic Health Records Useful in Identifying Obesity as a Risk Factor When Evaluating Surgical Outcomes?
This research addresses an important methodological issue on patient safety and obesity for the purposes of examining clinical and administrative data for the reliability of using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) diagnoses codes alone to reliably identify obesity as a comorbidity and risk factor in care and management. The findings of this research confirm ICD codes for the obese surgical populations were underutilized. Despite more than 70% of patients classified as overweight or obese, ICD-9 codes for obesity were assigned in less than 10% of the overall sample. Patients in the extreme category of obesity (...
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Oral Health Behaviors and Perceptions Among College Students
This study was nonexperimental in nature with a quantitative method and a cross-sectional design, which included 126 participants. The survey instrument included 2 Likert-type scales. The oral health–related quality-of-life model was used as the theoretical framework to guide the study. (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Demand for Dental Services in Shiraz, Iran, 2013
This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study aimed to estimate the demands for the use of dental services by Shirazi inhabitants in Iran from June 2013 to October 2013. Six hundred eighty subjects older than 18 years were selected from among the people living in Shiraz, using a multistage sampling method. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 16.0 and Stata 11.0. The results showed that the factors affecting the number of referrals to the dental services centers and the use of these services included the age groups of 28 to 37 and 38 to 47 years, household expenses per month, and having supplementary health in...
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
A Trend Analysis of Succession Planning in Health Care as Perceived by Chief Executive Officers in US Hospitals
A study was conducted to analyze the perceptions of chief executive officers in US hospitals regarding leadership development and succession planning. Results of the study were compared to identical surveys delivered in previous years for the purposes of identifying possible trends and changing perspectives related to how executives use succession planning in their facilities, what factors influence the identification of successors, what positions are the more likely to use succession planning efforts, and who specifically should be responsible for building the leadership pipeline. (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Case in Health Care Management
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Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Case in Health Care Management Source Type: research
The Association Between Residential Care Facility Manager's Educational Attainment and the Presence of Structural and Service Innovations
For many service-oriented firms, knowledge is a key commodity, and the process by which knowledge is codified is critical for firm survival. The administrator or top manager acts as the repository and disseminator of organizational knowledge. The purpose of this project is to examine the association between the administrator's educational attainment and innovation in residential care facilities. The study hypothesized that administrator academic education and certification or licensure would be positively associated with facility innovation. Data for this project comes from the 2010 National Survey of Residential Care Faci...
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Consumer Health Informatics: Promoting Patient Self-care Management of Illnesses and Health
This study examines the present status of CHI and its effect on medical consumers. For the development of CHI, we discuss the need for tailored health communications and capacity building with chronic patients at the medical center. First, empowerment is a key characteristic needed for medical consumer health care management. However, promoting patient self-care management of illnesses and health is necessary to create conjugation where cooperation with medical service providers is possible. Also, establishing a health care delivery system that will support cooperation is necessary. Second, tailored health communications c...
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
