You have been asked to develop a database system for the Elijah Community Hospital. ECH is a small, local community hospital with approximately 125 beds. The basic goal is to provide high-quality, cost-effective health-care services for the surrounding community in North Georgia.

The various business functions that the hospital currently has are:

1.Patient care administration software-record keeping aspects of patient care

2.Clinic and lab services software-provides lab testing and procedures and patient monitoring & screening

3.Patient care software-provide patients with medical care and support services

4.Financial management software-manage the financial resources and operations of the hospital

5.Administrative services software-provide general management and support services not directly related to patient care

The patient care and clinic and lab services include: laboratory tests, radiology procedures, admissions, in-patient and out-patient surgeries, labor and delivery services, intensive care, cardiology, open-heart surgery, neurology department, pediatric medical and surgical care, orthopedics, oncology and a 24-hour emergency department.

The staff on the hospital include 600 full-time and 200 part-time personnel including doctors, registered nurses, laboratory technicians, counselors, rehabilitation therapists, social services staff, admittance/discharge staff, insurance staff, janitorial staff, and security staff.

For this lab, we will take our E/R diagram from lab 1 part 2 and redraw it (after using the feedback and other information given in Module 3 - with the extended E/R diagram information.