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  2. Certificate of need - Wikipedia

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    The 42-bed hospital has been in the works since 2020, with a tentative opening in 2026, if not for the existing providers' objection to the new facility's construction. In 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services recommended that states repeal their CON laws because they are a significant reason for increasing medical costs, and they ...

  3. Roemer's law - Wikipedia

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    An increased number of beds may be due to patient preference for in-patient (rather than outpatient) care in a region." [ 5 ] [ self-published source ] Enoch Powell , the British Minister of Health, propounded a similar proposition, which he called Parkinson's law of hospital beds: "the number of patients always tends to equality with the ...

  4. Hospital bed - Wikipedia

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    A modern hospital bed at public hospital at Hong Kong Hospital beds per 1000 people 2013 [1] A hospital bed or hospital cot is a bed specially designed for hospitalized patients or others in need of some form of health care. These beds have special features both for the comfort and well-being of the patient and for the convenience of health ...

  5. Nursing documentation - Wikipedia

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    Electronic nursing documentation is an electronic format of nursing documentation an increasingly used by nurses. Electronic nursing documentation systems have been implemented in health care organizations to bring in the benefits of increasing access to more complete, accurate and up-to-date data and reducing redundancy, improving ...

  6. Admission note - Wikipedia

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    An admission note is part of a medical record that documents the patient's status (including history and physical examination findings), reasons why the patient is being admitted for inpatient care to a hospital or other facility, and the initial instructions for that patient's care. [1]

  7. Fowler's position - Wikipedia

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    Semi-Fowler's position at 30 degrees. The Semi-Fowler's position is a position in which a patient, typically in a hospital or nursing home in positioned on their back with the head and trunk raised to between 15 and 45 degrees, [4] although 30 degrees is the most frequently used bed angle.

  8. Health information management - Wikipedia

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    Healthcare quality and safety require that the right information be available at the right time to support patient care and health system management decisions. Gaining consensus on essential data content and documentation standards is a necessary prerequisite for high-quality data in the interconnected healthcare system of the future.

  9. Bed-making - Wikipedia

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    In a hospital or other health-care environment, beds must sometimes be made while occupied by a patient. Specialised techniques are taught to healthcare staff to enable beds to be made efficiently with due care for the patient. [5] [6] Moving the patient out of the bed before remaking it is the preferred option.