Evaluation of Good Health Hospital (Essay Sample)

Evaluation of good health hospital
[Name]
[Instructor]
INTRODUCTION
When patients visit hospitals to get treatment for diseases, they expect to receive quality health care and recovery in the shortest time possible. Patient want to recover and resume their daily lives as soon as possible. It is sad that hospital-acquired infections are still a great barrier to a quick recovery in this 21st century (National Audit Office, 2015). Infections that patients acquire while receiving treatments like operations that were not present during the time pf admission have become a challenge to a quick recovery in many hospitals across the globe like Good Health hospital. Health care-associated infection have affected patients at Good health hospital in the past in many ways. Although the data can’t be validated, it is estimated that some patients have died at the facility due to negligence to the healthcare professionals at the time of treatment. Some of the most common nosocomial infections that patients have acquired ta the facility include MRA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections, VRE (Vancomycin-resistant enterococci) infections, Clostridium difficile and the most common being surgical site infections (SSI) and bloodstream associated infections. (World Health Organization, 2015).
About 40 percent of ex-patients of the Good health hospital facility claim to have contracted new infections while undergoing treatment at the facility. A large number of this percentage being children who had been brought to the facility for treatment. Mothers claim to have noticed new symptoms in their kids that were not present when they admitted them for treatment. Some of these symptoms include rashes, higher temperature, and coughs. This, according to health experts might be as a result of poor ventilation or overcrowding at the facility that can easily lead to patients catching airborne diseases like cold flu. Whereas direct person-person touch seems to be the primary way through which nosocomial infections are obtained, the healthcare environment of Good health hospital is also a possible route to of transmission. Bacteria can survive on many objects within the hospital like call buttons, door handles, chairs, mattresses, taps, bedrails, etc. for this evaluation, I compiled the following questions to probe the hospitals administrators on this issues of nosocomial infections.
1. What is the number of patients that the hospital ward can hold efficiently? This question is meant to give us an insight into the holding capacity that the wards at Good health hospital can manage in comparison to the number of patients that they usually receive. When a hospital receive many patients that they can handle, there is a likelihood that there will be negligence from the health staff at the facility in attending patients because they will be overworked when handling high number of patients. In the case of Good health hospital, they can only handle 500 patients at a time in their wards.
2. What is the number of patients that the facility admits in a week? When I have figured out the holding capacity of the facility, I will ask this question to make a comparison between that and the patients they receive. I will do that to ascertain whether the hospital have been admitting the number of patients that they can comfortably handle. In this case, the number of patients that hospital admits is slightly higher than what is expected. Records show that the Good health facility have in several occasion admitted over 600 patients. When there is an increase in demand in terms of more patients requiring health care, and low supply, in terms of space and time from healthcare providers, patients do not usually receive the best treatment at the Good health facility
3. How many healthcare workers does the facility have? There are expected standards for the best healthcare giver to patient ratio in hospitals, and this question is set to the administrators to inquire if the facility have enough nurses and doctors to take care of their patients. In the case of Good health hospital, they have a good number of physicians but seems to lack enough nurses to take care of the patient. Patients in any hospital usually have more time with their nurses than they do with their doctors. It is the nurses that take care of the patients’ conditions while they are on admission and make sure that their conditions are stable and improving. Therefore, a hospital needs more nurses to monitor the progress of patients and how they respond to treatment. Nurses’ observation on a patients’ progress is very significant to doctors in analyzing whether a treatment is working on a patient or not.
4. How often do patients develop symptoms for other diseases while receiving treatment at the facility? This question is very important to our research as it probes the administrator to reveal how often nosocomial diseases occur at the hospital. Apparently this has happened one too many times at Good health facility. New cases of bacterial infections, flu, surgical site infections have been reported by patients while at the facility. My inquiry reveals that at least 50 percent of former patients have acquired one of these infections while ate Good Health hospitals.
5. Have patients been retained for longer than the expected time of admission because of a new infection? This question is very significant in ascertaining the extent to which new infections deteriorates a patients’ health and worsen their condition while at the facility. Patients with acquired air-borne diseases are not allowed to leave the facility until they have fully recovered. This is to prevent spreading of diseases to the healthy citizen
6. Are patients charged for the treatment of new infections at the hospital? I ask this question because many ex-patients have complained of how an unexpected infection affected their planned bills because they had to re-budget and find other means of clearing their fees. This situation can even traumatize a patient because they did not expect extra charges on their already tight budget. Good health hospital charges for all the treatment that a patient receive inclusive of any infections that may have occurred the patient is receiving treatment. This is very unfair on the patients’ part.
Implementation plan
Patients’ safety is key in every hospital and based on the findings from my interview with the healthcare administrator, I will use the following steps to implement a safety procedure that ensures patient do not acquire any infection while receiving treatment, especially for children, because they tend to be more vulnerable
1. Ask the top management for employment of more nurses at the healthy facility to incorporate for the undeniable shortage
2. Suggestion to the management of the hospital to pass a law that there will be no charges for treatment of nosocomial infections or for overstay at the hospital that results from these infections.
3. Suggest a separate unit in the hospital to cater for children because they tend to be more vulnerable to contagious diseases especially from adults.
4. I will suggest for the management to pass a la...