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A 5 page paper discussing how rising numbers of uninsured patients might affect New York City's Metropolitan Hospital Center (MHC) in the future, and some of the ways that MHC can act to meet those future challenges. The paper discusses staffing, physical space, technology and structural changes that the hospital could consider to help it to continue to serve the local community in the way it intends, even though growing numbers have no insurance support. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShlthCarUninsNY2.rtf
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Center (MHC) is a member of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), the public hospital organization of New York City. Serving increasing numbers of uninsured patients
in coming years promises to be problematic for the hospital, but likely not as much so as for other public hospitals. It also is unlikely to be as adversely
affected as private, for-profit hospitals that depend solely on operations for revenues. The purpose here is to assess MHCs human, financial and physical needs over the next five years
in light of increasing numbers of uninsured patients. Staffing Considerations There is union presence at MHC at all levels of direct patient care
and facility maintenance, which precludes any meaningful bidirectional flow of ideas between management and the "front line" workers directly involved in patient care. The dearth of lawsuits over the
years, continued JCAHO accreditation and MHCs affiliation with New York Medical College and similar factors indicate that MHCs staff and management have come to a workable understanding of each other
not common in most unionized organizations. This is a positive feature for the hospital, but the fact remains that all of health care
continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and
long hours for those nurses still active in the profession. Hospitals are adding new wings but not opening them because they cannot staff them (Ocala, Fla., Hospitals Tackle Nursing
Shortage, 2002). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) says that the problem has become one in which patient safety is an issue (Closer link made between
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