You Now Are Chris Morgan, Director of Health Information Services

question 14

Essay

You now are Chris Morgan, Director of Health Information Services at Rocky Mountain Hospital. You have received this letter from Rocky Mountain Nursing Home and have received complaints from several other nursing homes and home health agencies that they do not receive transfer information from your hospital in a timely fashion. List or describe procedures you could put into place in your department to resolve this problem.

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Definitions:

Preparation Stage

A stage in the transtheoretical model of behavior change where individuals intend to take action to address a behavior within the near future.

Smoking Cessation

The act of stopping the use of tobacco, substantially lowering the chances of diseases associated with smoking.

Emphysema

A long-term, chronic disease of the lungs that primarily causes shortness of breath due to over-inflation of the air sacs.

Lung Cancer

A type of cancer that originates in the lungs, characterized by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells that can lead to various health problems and is often associated with smoking.