Johns Hopkins Home Care Group (JHHCG) established in 1983 is a subsidiary of Johns Hopkins Medicine, one of the nation’s leading health systems. It provides home medical equipment, specialty infusion services, pediatrics at home, home health services, personal care and nursing, hospice care, and pharmacy—specialty and community services. JHHCG provided services all over Maryland and in some portions of northern Virginia and southeast Pennsylvania to pediatrics and adults in the comfort of their living space. Johns Hopkins Pharmaquip is responsible for providing respiratory and home medical equipment. The staff consist of certified service specialists, registered respiratory therapists and clinicians. JHHCG Specialty Infusion Services provide …show more content…
During my internship, I could apply the knowledge and skills learned from my core courses. This experience will allow me to work with John Hopkins Outpatient Pharmacy Operations Manager, Toni Carter-Radden and Johns Hopkins Clinical Infusion Pharmacy Manager, Michael Grimes and acquire insights into the management through observation, participation, and practical application of administrative skills. During my time with them, I was able to differentiate between the functions, roles, and responsibilities of healthcare managers, while working with the following managerial positions. I was able to view them carry out various management functions of planning—closing of a pharmacy, getting annual goals for annual merits, discuss implementation of FY18 strategic planning, staffing--interviews, directing—manager/leadership meetings and staff meetings, controlling—weekly safety huddles addressing patient safety events, addressing staff concerns, and addressing staff behavior, and decision making—completing daily tasks and going to
Zack has submitted resumes to a long-term care pharmacy, and a mail order pharmacy. These work environments have similarities and differences. Long-term care, home infusion, and mail order pharmacy have specific patients with special needs that have to be addressed.
In a changing healthcare environment, the role of the pharmacist has evolved from primarily dispensing to monitoring and managing drug therapy in collaboration with physicians and other providers. As a result, pharmacy technicians are beginning to take on some of the technical aspects of pharmacy practice. This means that better educated, more qualified technicians will be needed in the future.
Thank you for meeting with me regarding the employment opportunities. I will like to inform you that as of yesterday I accepted a Full time position as a recruiter with Marquis Home Care. They are located at 230 North Main Street Spring Valley NY 10977 and their phone number is 845-363-8140. Should you need further information, please feel free to contact me by phone or email.
Attached for your review are my job responsibilities during my internship in River’s Edge Specialty pharmacy. During my internship in River’s Edge Specialty, I served various type of patients: cancer patients, HIV patients, Hepatitis C patients, patients living in long term care facilities and nursing homes, as well as typical outpatients. River’s Edge Specialty practice incorporates elements of both the typical community and institutional functions and thus working on River’s Edge Specialty enriched my in both
I thought they were generated by QB when the reconciliation doesn't match but that entries were made before the reconciliation.
In 2013, Dorota Slawa Mankowska et al, worked on real study for a home care company that present the care for the at patients in their homes by staff members. They developed the mathematical model that aim to optimizing economical service cost and take care about individual qualifications of the staff, time preferences of patients, number of the staff required to this patient and certain time of patient’s drugs. This model has been able to achieve low average waiting times for patients, low traveling cost for caregivers, a fair distribution of inevitable tardiness, and service hundred patients in acceptable runtime.
This summer the new Mountaineer Pharmacy opened to provide exceptional care to students and the community. The pharmacy is conveniently located in the newly constructed Health and Education building and within walking distance from both the Student Recreation Center and the Personal Rapid Transport (PRT) system. The benefit this new site provides to West Virginia University isn’t limited to students seeking medication; West Virginia University School of Pharmacy students now have a new experiential learning site.
Monday, September 28th: Today I was part of the outreach team so I made home visits. We had six clients to see, two returning, and four new. Of those, we ended up seeing only two clients, one new, and one returning. The first client we saw was new, and her primary concern was getting a new mask for her CPAP machine. She had previously contacted the company who supplies the machine several times tells them that the mask causes her eczema to flare up and she needs a new mask, but with no luck. My plan was to get the number from her and try to call of her behalf, but the more I talked with her, the more I came to understand that this required a doctors order for a new mask, and even then the company may not accept that without the doctor saying she needs a new machine. There was not much I could do for this client in this regard except to talk through the situation with her and help her come up with some alternative methods such as switching medical supply companies to that which she gets other medical supplies from. The other thing we discussed was for her to increase the amount of times she checks her sugar from once a week, to a few times a week.
It is becoming increasingly more common for elderly people to choose to age at home. Unfortunately, it is also common for older adults to find it difficult to talk to others about any health issues they may be experiencing, which makes it difficult for their family members to know what is going on. Not only is it difficult for your elderly loved ones to acknowledge that they may need help with their daily activities, but often it’s even more difficult to introduce them to the idea of in-home care services for help. If you think your elderly family member can benefit from in-home care, here are a few tips on how to approach the subject.
During this three weeks’ rotation, I shadowed several pharmacists in different areas including IV, central pharmacy, trauma, antibiotic stewardship, emergency department, medication reconciliation, medical ICU and internal medicine. All the pharmacists are friendly and willing to introduce their daily duty to me. I really appreciate the fact that Regions Hospital provides lots of opportunities for us as healthcare professional students to learn, for example, we have medicine conferences every day to attend during lunch time, where are the patients’ cases discussion. I seldom have the chance to discuss with medical
As a Kaplan University student pursuing a Bachelors in Health Science I will hope to attain a position as a Medical and Health Services Manager. By position and title I will help to plan, direct, or coordinate medical and health services in hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations, public health agencies, or similar organizations. It is possible that I could manage an entire facility or a specific clinic or department. Maybe even manage a group of physicians. Managers must be able to direct changes that conform in healthcare laws, regulations, and technology to continue to evolve with medical practices and the government.
A good health-care manager has the knowledge, skills, and desire to be successful. The knowledge of staffing, organizing, and planning will provide the expertise to keep a productive workforce in order ((Buchbinder & Thompson, 2010, pg. 20). The skills of interpersonal, technical, and decision-making provide the manager with the necessary competencies to lead (Buchbinder & Thompson, 2010, pg 21). The desire to be successful stems
Now, thirty-two years later, a structured method for accomplishing this patient-centered care has come to life as the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care. It seems only natural that Dr. Reddy would choose this path as the future of Reddy Medical Group as it corresponds directly to his beliefs of quality patient care.
With the role of pharmacy expanding to a clinic setting, many facilities around the nation have hired pharmacist. The question has arisen at Madison Regional Hospital on the potential benefit a pharmacist in the clinic may have. However, many obstacles stand in the way before opening up the position.
Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians have a growing role in our health care system. In most cases, pharmacists dispense medications, counsel patients on the use of prescription and over-the-counter medication, inform patients about general health topics, and often complete third-party insurance forms and other paperwork. Pharmacy technicians help in this important process. Under the supervision of a pharmacist, they compound medical prescriptions, perform clerical duties, verify stock, and enter data to maintain inventory records. In 2015, there were 282,000 pharmacists and 397,430 pharmacy technicians employed in the United States. In 2014, 54 percent of pharmacists worked in retail pharmacies that were either independently owned or part of a larger chain, store, or merchandiser. The majority of these pharmacists were salaried, though some were self-employed owners. About 19 percent worked in hospitals, while others worked in clinics, mail-order pharmacies, wholesalers, home health care agencies, or the federal