Essays on CAHS

The Joint Commission (TJC) describes Critical Access facilities (CAHs) as hospitals that meet three primary conditions as follows. First, the hospitals should not maintain more than 25 beds, including swing and acute care beds. Second, they should keep inpatients for not more than 96 hours. Finally, such hospitals should be under authorization from the state government to become CAHs. My change project looks at reducing the length of stay/excuse days for patients in CAHs. It is my hope that reduced length of stay following TJC accreditation not only improves the quality of care but also reduces the cost of ...

1. Primary prevention avoids the development of a disease. Promotion activities such as health education are considered primary prevention. True or False (Explain) It is true that primary prevention avoids the development of a disease. Primary prevention involves all the measures that are taken to prevent any disease from occurring through reduction of the risk factors (Bloom, 1996) Risk factors are the conditions that when present, they encourage the development of a particular disease. Risk factors also encompass certain behaviors and exposures that have a potential of leading to occurrence of a given disease. Interventions that are taken may include but not ...

Background

Health Information Advances better known as ‘health IT’ hold immense promises for assisting minute and rural communities prevail over challenges in the provision of personnel shortages and distance in healthcare. Despite clinical health information technologies progress in recent years, rates in adoption seemingly remain low in areas like computerized provider entry (CPOE), electronic health records (EHRs) and the electronic medication administration record (RMAR). A report published in May 2006 from the Flex Monitoring Team which is an association of rural health research centers from North Carolina and Minnesota universities show that although 95% of critical access hospitals (CAHs) have ...