Effects of Hospital Merger on CCU & IMCU

NORTHWEST COVENANT MEDICAL CENTER: AN ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDY WITH EMPHASIS ON CRITICAL AND INTERMEDIATE CARE UNITS AT THE DENVILLE CAMPUS

The Northwest Covenant Medical Center was created through the merger of the Dover General Hospital & Medical Center and the St. Clares(Riverside Medical Center. The resulting institution operates four acute care campusesùBoonton (formerly a St. Clares campus), Denville (formerly a St. Clares campus), Dover (formerly Dover General), and Sussex (formerly a St. Clares campus).

The four Northwest Covenant campuses provide 927 beds. A total of 3,900 persons are employed directly by the organization. Additionally 700 physicians and dentists are accredited to the medical center, and 2,100 volunteers provide additional services. On the average, 27,500 persons are served each year as inpatients, while a

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ng on the extensive use of UAPs increases. A more effective approach may be the use of multi-skilled health practitioners (MSHPs). The use of MSHPs can both enhance employee productivity and improve the cost effectiveness of health services delivery (Fottler, 1996, p. 55). An MSHP is a person who is cross-trained to provide more than one function, often in more than one discipline. These combined functions can be found in a broad spectrum of health related jobs ranging in complexity from the non-professional to the professional level, including both clinical and management functions. The additional functions (skills) added to the original health care worker's job may be of a higher, lower, or parallel level. Such a system within an acute care facility is managed best through case managers. At several acute care hospitals, the patient-centered care model uses MSHPs cross-trained to perform numerous procedures that (taken together) were not traditionally associated with the role of any single professional provider. These MSHPs continued to use their licensure (RN, RTT, and so forth) but required new skills including performance of pre-admission and admission services, EKG procedures, respiratory care treatments, basic physic
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