Exploring Patients’ Experience on Hospital Merger: Have they benefited from Cluster Hospital Initiative in Malaysia?

Ng, Rui Jie; Mohamed, Nik Nur Eliza; Anuar, I; Lee, Kun Yun; Musa, Nurul Syarbani Eliana; Omar, Mohd Idris; Sapian, Roslinda Abu; Yunus, Sharifah Zawani Syed Ahmad; Shauki, Nor Izzah Ahmad; Bidin, Noriah

doi:10.47836/pjssh.28.4.09

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“…Hospital merger and clustering have been shown to enable smooth delivery of care [38,39], reduce duplication of services [40], enhance quality of care [41] and increase patient satisfaction. [42][43][44] Meanwhile, there are concerns within the broader healthcare system that medical tourism activities in private hospitals have a crowding-out effect on labour productivity, in which expansion of the medical tourism sector leads to a reduction of public healthcare provision. [45,46] Nonetheless, medical tourists only represent a small proportion of patients in participating hospitals to ll in the excess capacity.…”

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Assessing the Performance of Non-specialised Private Hospitals in Malaysia Using the Pabón‐lasso Model

Samsudin,

Lim,

Rochmah

et al. 2023

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Background The government has rapidly promoted the privatisation of healthcare to improve systemic performance based on the theory that markets improve efficiency. This study aims to measure the efficiency of private hospitals following private healthcare expansion and venture into the medical tourism industry through extensive governmental support. Methods Inpatient utilisation of 101 private, non-specialised hospitals in Malaysia in 2014 and 2018 from the Health Informatics Centre, Ministry of Health Malaysia database was studied using paired samples t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and the Pabón-Lasso model. Results Better quantitative performance was found among larger hospitals, those with hospital accreditation, and those participating in medical tourism activities. There is a scale effect of efficiency between smaller and larger hospitals. However, when compared within respective size categories, Category 1 (small hospitals with less than 100 beds) has the highest percentage of efficient hospitals (39.3 per cent in 2014 and 35.7 per cent in 2018 in Sector 3 of the Pabón Lasso graphs). Conclusion This study has found that a higher bed occupancy rate (BOR) and longer average length of stay (ALoS) are associated with larger private hospitals, hospital accreditation, and participation in medical tourism activities in Malaysia. There is a need to expedite strategic hospitals partnership for resource optimisation and capacity pooling towards producing better performance.

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Assessing the Performance of Non-specialised Private Hospitals in Malaysia Using the Pabón‐lasso Model

Samsudin,

Lim,

Rochmah

et al. 2023

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“…Through experience, meaning is constructed via specific issues. Therefore, resistance is necessary for human life as it can sustain the construction of meaning in life (Abowitz, 2000;Ng et al, 2020). Although resistance plays a role in dialectical change, resistance related to health and religion has a different meaning.…”

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Experience of the Muslim Community Resistance During COVID-19 in Moluccas, Indonesia

Ridwan¹,

Sulaeman²,

Gani³

et al. 2022

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The empirical analysis of this article presents an interpretation of religious attitudes expressed during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Muslim communities in Moluccas, Indonesia. The article explains religious experiences and the meanings of their resistance to COVID-19. Various measures to respond to the pandemic have created resistance in religious communities globally. As a result, there have been violations of health protocols, including in Indonesia. Data were obtained through interviews and observations around Ambon City, Moluccas, Indonesia. The data were analyzed through qualitative methods and constructivist paradigms based on a phenomenological perspective, especially a social constructionist perspective. This article explains the role that phenomenological and religious studies of resistance can play in understanding effective public health management and improving the government’s policies and the pandemic health protocols. Subjective experiences occurred in religious worship, community homes, educational institutions, and rituals amid uncertain information and political polarization. The results indicate that resistance encompasses planning, fraud, global disasters, negative labeling, panic, anxiety, and fear. Resistance will have an impact and become necessary due to the involvement of individuals; this affects daily life for religious belief and coping with fear, panic, and uncertainty of COVID-19. This article will benefit Muslim communities’ subjective experiences regarding resistance during the COVID-19 pandemic and encourage further research.

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“…Meanwhile, the term 'Rawa' carries a more distinct meaning in the Malay Peninsula referring to a particular ethnic group whose descendants migrated from Rao in West Sumatra. The integration process in Indonesia explains the amalgamation of the Rawas into the larger Minang group, yet in the Malay Peninsula, according to one view (Bungo, 2012), the ethnic name 'Rawa' is preserved due to the tendency among the migrants to remind themselves of their homeland and identity.…”

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“…This paper aims to trace the migration of the Sumatran people, particularly Rawas to Pulau Pinang, against the existing theories pertaining to the formation of early settlements and their contributions to the development of the state. Given the view that the migration of Sumatran people to the Malay Peninsula had occurred long before the arrival of Western colonial powers, possibly as early as 5 th century CE (Bungo, 2012;Omar, 2005), not to mention the special connection between Pulau Pinang and Sumatran Island and other feasible reasons, the history of the state is, therefore worthy to re-look into.…”

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“…Additionally, religious motives and the Rawa migration are interlinked following particularly the rise of Melaka as the center of Islamic da'wah in the 15 th century and the rise of Islamic reformist movements in the Malay world in the later centuries. Consequently, not only did the Sumatrans including the Rawa people travel to the Malay Peninsula to learn and teach Islam; but to transit there for a while before continuing their journey to the holy land for hajj (Fathil, Sulong & Manaf, 2018) or to the Middle East in order to pursue religious studies (Bungo, 2012). Apart from Melaka, Pulau Pinang used to be a very well known transit center for hajj pilgrims not only among the local people of the Peninsula but also those from Sumatra.…”

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Revisit the History of Early Settlements in Pulau Pinang: The Contributions and Legacies of Rawa People

Abdullah,

Fathil

2021

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It is common that the history of Pulau Pinang has often been affiliated with British as pioneers even among Malaysians, almost to the point of no return. This despite the fact that there had been Malay groups of both local and regional origin who had made Pulau Pinang as their homeland long before the coming of the British. Of the second group, Rawa people from West Sumatera were neither strangers to Pulau Pinang Island nor the mainland area that formed part of the northern state i.e. Seberang Perai. Adopting a content analysis approach via library research and qualitative methods, plus interviews involving the Rawa people of the state, the paper aims to highlight the often-dismissed fact that the Rawa people along some other Sumatran migrant groups had contributed to the early development of Pulau Pinang. Only recently that several studies came to prove the existence of Malay settlements on the Island prior to its so-called foundation by British explorer representing the British East India Company, Francis Light in 1786. This paper is to provide further proofs in that direction as the early Malay settlers deserved acknowledgement for the contributions made and recognition for the legacies left behind. Apart from assessing various reasons for the Rawa migration and their early areas of settlements, more importantly, the paper demonstrates that the Rawa migrants throughout their long years of existence in the state have contributed to the socio-economic and political developments of Pulau Pinang.

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Exploring Patients’ Experience on Hospital Merger: Have they benefited from Cluster Hospital Initiative in Malaysia?

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Assessing the Performance of Non-specialised Private Hospitals in Malaysia Using the Pabón‐lasso Model

Assessing the Performance of Non-specialised Private Hospitals in Malaysia Using the Pabón‐lasso Model

Experience of the Muslim Community Resistance During COVID-19 in Moluccas, Indonesia

Revisit the History of Early Settlements in Pulau Pinang: The Contributions and Legacies of Rawa People

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