it is a folder that is four inches thick called "Policies and Procedures".
What exactly is your question?
2006-12-13 17:07:16
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answered by jloertscher 5
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It is true that all hospitals have different protocols but this is due to the classification of hospitals. Different types of hospitals utilize different needs and provide specific services as a result of their budget. As a result, their protocols reflect on their classification. Therefore, I will only discuss the certain types of hospitals out there.
Hospitals are classified by their length of stay, type of service, and ownership of control. However, some hospitals may belong to more than one category.
For length of stay, there are short term hospitals that patients stay an average of less than 30 days. For example, acute care hospital patients only stay there for 3-5 days. There are also long term hospitals with an average stay of over 30 days for example like chronic care hospitals and psychiatric hospitals.
For types of service, there are general hospitals which offer a wide range of services including general medicine and surgical services. Specialty hospitals care for patients that have specific diseases for example mental disorders or cancer. They can also serve for segments of a population like pediatric or veteran patients.
For ownership and control, hospitals can be affiliated with the government or non government.
For government hospitals, they are divided into federal and non federal hospitals. Federal hospitals serve very specific populations like the veterans, military personnel, Native Americans and they are funded by the federal government. An example are the V.A hospitals. Non federal hospitals are operated by city, county, or state governments and are mostly general and psychiatric hospitals. They are funded by the state government.
For non government hospitals, they are classified as for profit or non profit. Profit hospitals are private hospitals that provide a service to make more money. Non profit hospitals are operated by mostly community or religious organizations. Their excess revenue are re-invested into the organization for new equipment and new infrastructure.
There are miscellaneous types of hospitals like community hospitals that include non federal, short term, general, and specialty that are open to the public to serve the community. There are also teaching hospitals that are associated with medical schools that serve as a teaching site for physicians and residents.
Issues facing hospitals today that affects their budgets are the shift towards ambulatory care medicine, increasing cost for example the ER operates on a 24 hour basis and is the most expensive department in a hospital and also increasing competition from health maintenance organizations (HMO’s).
2006-12-12 09:43:21
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answered by bier9999 2
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