The type of facility that I have chosen for this SLP is the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Johns Hopkins was born in 1795. He inherited his unusual first name from his grandfather, who was named after Johns’ great grandmother, Margaret Johns. Johns went into business for three years with a friend, and then with three of his brothers, forming a wholesale provision house called Hopkins Brothers. The firm shipped whiskey into Baltimore in exchange for staple supplies that were shipped back to Western whiskey makers. Hopkins Brothers sold the whiskey under the brand name Hopkins Best (U. S.
News & World Report, 2015). Johns was to go far beyond shipping whiskey, however, as he was a genius at investing and lending. Two projects that particularly interested him were building warehouses around the harbor, and financing the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad, of which he became the largest stockholder. (U. S. News & World Report, 2015). On Christmas Eve 1873, Johns Hopkins’ death marked the birth of two of America’s greatest institutions. His will instructed that his fortune of nearly $7 million should be divided to establish The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The University and Hospital seem fitting achievements for the life of Johns Hopkins. His Quaker upbringing helped him to develop a sense of charity. Johns was not able to receive the education he longed for, so he wanted to provide a University for others. Seeing the epidemics that ravaged Baltimore caused him to realize the need for a hospital. His business ability earned him the funds he needed to provide education and health care to citizens of Baltimore and the world (U. S. News & World Report, 2015). The University was incorporated under the terms of Johns Hopkins’s bequest, and instruction began in 1876 (Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2015a).
Today, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD is ranked nationally in 15 adult and 10 pediatric specialties. Johns Hopkins Hospital is a 951-bed general medical and surgical facility with 46,673 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 23,647 annual inpatient and 37,615 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 93,194 visits. Johns Hopkins Hospital is a teaching hospital. It is also accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) (Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2015; U. S. News & World Report, 2015).
The Johns Hopkins Hospital is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins. The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine are the founding institutions of modern American medicine and are the birthplace of numerous traditions including rounds, residents and housestaff (Henderson & Marek, 2001).
Many medical specialties were formed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, including neurosurgery, by Harvey Cushing; cardiac surgery by Alfred Blalock; (U. S. News & World Report, 2008) pediatrics, and child psychiatry, by Leo Kanner (Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2009, 2015/ The types of services that are provided at this facility. Include a description of both inpatient and outpatient services. The Johns Hopkins Hospital inpatient services provides care for many types of patients, some with medically complex and disabling conditions, including but not limited to stroke, spinal cord injury/dysfunction, heart surgery, amputation, orthopedic injury or surgery and cancer.
Johns Hopkins Hospital is committed to patient care coupled with cutting-edge research that make them the destination of choice for your physical medicine and rehabilitation needs. Johns Hopkins Hospital’s f). mission is to bring quality to the lives of patients with physical limitations. Their treatment teams focus on your capabilities rather than your disabilities. This positive approach allows Johns Hopkins Hospital rehabilitation team to help restore function and return patients to their highest levels of independence (Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2015b/c).
The Johns Hopkins Hospital Comprehensive Inpatient Integrated Rehabilitation Programs (CIIRP) are CARF-accredited, offering the highest quality of inpatient rehabilitation services. If you and your doctor decide that your needs can best be met during a stay at the hospital, you will enjoy our home-like setting, allowing you the freedom to perform your own care with the guidance of their team of experts including therapists, social workers, rehabilitation nurses, psychologists, dieticians, orthoptists, and physicians (Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2015b/c).
The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation provides an extensive offering of outpatient services at multiple locations to better serve the needs of our patients. Appointments for physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language therapy, physician-based rehabilitation therapy (physiatrist), and psychology are available around the greater Baltimore area. Their experienced team works with individuals to address rehabilitation needs and restore function for a variety of conditions.
In addition, the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s comprehensive team offers programs and support groups designed to help patients and their families get back to life post injury or illness (Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2015d). The types of patients that receive care at this facility. The Johns Hopkins Hospital has built a reputation for excellence unsurpassed by any health care institution in the world. Pioneers in their fields, Hopkins clinicians and scientists have been responsible for many of the last century’s major discoveries and innovations in patient care.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital is equally committed to its communities, providing primary care to children and families, chronic care to seniors, and a range of rehabilitation services, occupational and environmental health programs, as well as health promotion, disease prevention and home care services as well as taking a team approach to your safety (Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2015e). Provide a minimum of two examples of how this facility has responded to changing trends in healthcare. Examples of this may be new programs, cost containment strategies etc.
Evidence-based design (EBD) is the process of basing decisions about the built environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes. Every day, more and more healthcare facilities are remodeling and revamping their design aesthetic to coincide with evidence-based design trends and ideas. This design development is largely due to extensive research proving that our surroundings and the built environment have a profound impact on our health, well-being, and healing process (Wilkie, 2015).
Evidence-based design is largely embraced by the healthcare community because of its focus on health and healing. In short, healthcare design is not strictly about functionality anymore, it’s about creating a space that promotes patient and staff well-being, healing, health, stress reduction, and safety. The concept of evidence-based design is drawing interest because it moves beyond the general idea that the physical environment affects occupants: It seeks to gauge the impact of specific designs on productivity, employee and patient morale, and patient outcome (Wilkie, 2015).
Experts are completing studies to determine how different design aspects affect a person’s health and healing from the type of decor, the placement of furniture, color, and much more. However, most healthcare facilities have already adopted some sort of evidence-based design with real results. As more designers embrace the evidence-based approach, the more the practice is gaining traction in the healthcare design field. This traction is causing designers from other fields such as educational, institutional, and commercial industries to look at it as well for their design approach and implementation.
Research is constantly building on the validity of evidence-based design, producing a growing number of advocates of the practice and proving that this design approach is here to stay (DeVore, 2014; Wilkie, 2015). On the other hand, the iMDsoft announced that The Johns Hopkins Hospital has gone live with the MetaVision Anesthesia Information Management System in 39 operating rooms on its main campus, including its 16 room oncology operating room and 23 room general operating room.
The general operating room is one of the largest in the region, open 24/7 and deals with as many as 80 cases daily. Rollouts for the Wilmer Eye Institute and Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center are upcoming, with additional implementations in the pipeline (DeVore, 2014; Healthcare IT News, 2010/15). MetaVision generates complete, accurate anesthesia records and ensures that all billable events are registered, which is, along with iMDsoft’s custom-built billing interface, designed to maximize both professional fee capture and hospital billing.
MetaVision impacts the operating room workflow and documentation processes and will provide powerful decision support tools to improve adherence to internal protocols and regulatory guidelines. Cases in the Johns Hopkins operating room range from trauma to transplants, in both children and adults. The system is being personalized to suit the diverse workflow needs of the hospital’s operating room environment (Healthcare IT News, 2010/15).
