Admittedly, there have been some minor improvements since 2007. Specifically, legislation enacted in 2009 by President Barack Obama eliminated the ability of health insurance companies to exclude certain individuals from coverage and to deny covera Continue Reading...
Health Care Right or Privilege Health Care Right Privilege Whether health care is a right or a privilege is one of the most intensely debated social questions of the modern era, but phrasing it in this binary way of one or the other masks a deeper Continue Reading...
During times of labor scarcity, workers have less of an incentive to take low-paying jobs, and employers have more of an incentive to provide benefits, to attract a higher-quality workforce. During times of high unemployment, workers are more desper Continue Reading...
When this kind of attitude is common, it means that medical errors will decline and the quality of care that is being provided will increase. (Brown, 1992, pp. 18 -- 23) How will the effectiveness (success) of your plan be measured? The best way t Continue Reading...
Meanwhile, without any competition, such as n the form of a public healthcare insurance system, the private healthcare insurance industry also continually increases premium fees virtually at will (Kennedy, 2006; Reid, 2009). Furthermore, by refusin Continue Reading...
Health Care Roles in Communication Communication is a fundamental piece of health care education and has been shown to improve health outcomes, patient compliance, and patient satisfaction. Quality health care emphasizes knowledge and utilization of Continue Reading...
The reason why, is because this is a sign that the quality of care that is being provided in declining. What normally happens is staff members, will often become frustrated with: health care environments that are inefficient and where management has Continue Reading...
The idea with this part of the strategy is to be able to form some kind of a partnership with these individuals. This will help to push for a transformation inside the organization. As, these people will help to provide everyone with: a reason for a Continue Reading...
(Preist, 2007) The different issues that are affecting the facility are: directly tied to a lack of leadership inside the organization. This is problematic, because the staff members will often look to upper management and supervisors to determine Continue Reading...
The expectations for these kinds of changes will be to see gradual shifts at first. Where, it may not seem like anything is changing at the facility. However, over the course of time, these kinds of changes will be obvious in the quality of treatme Continue Reading...
Medical Futility in Nursing Care CARING AND CHOOSING Bioethics is described as both a field of intellectual inquiry and a professional practice that examines moral questions affecting various disciplines (Arras, 2007). These disciplines include bio Continue Reading...
Healthcare Partnership in the Community Discuss an example of healthcare partnership in your community and specifically cite examples that show how nurses, both individually and collectively, influenced the care provided. What obstacles were confron Continue Reading...
Healthcare Delivery Imagine what would go through a person's mind if he or she had wrong site surgery. What emotions would arise? Can he or she take legal action? Are ethics involved? One will study in depth the legal and ethical aspects of healthc Continue Reading...
Outline some considerations that an organization must address when negotiating a risk contract. Some considerations that must be taken into account during any part of the negotiation process include: the overall impact that this will have on reven Continue Reading...
These revenue sources fluctuate significantly over the year, often requiring a rationing of budget for critical supplies. The clinic's budget is one that fluctuations on a quarterly basis depending on funding from the foundation donors and how quick Continue Reading...
Within some managed care systems, physicians who perform more procedures and spend more time with patients than is deemed necessary are penalized or physicians are simply paid based upon their number of patients, rather than the extent of the care t Continue Reading...
3. How the quality of service changed and why? The quality of service increased significantly as all practices areas of the hospital better aligned to the cultural norms, values and needs of each ethnic population represented by the segments serve Continue Reading...
health care economics. Terms: Quality, resources cost. Quality, resources and costing health care The modern day health care providers are subjected to incremental pressures. They are for instance required to best respond to the changing health ca Continue Reading...
Healthcare Changes Changes to Healthcare Practice and Delivery: A Study of Two Detroit, MI Healthcare Facilities Separated by Twenty Years Changes to technology and to the political and regulatory landscape have led to many changes in the ways that Continue Reading...
Internet/HealthSites The Internet provides a wealth of resources users can access for information about health care delivery in the United States. Three such resources were recently examined. Their importance to health care workers and consumers was Continue Reading...
Research has shown that good communication amid patients and health care providers is directly connected to a person's happiness, treatment adherence and affirmative health results (Cultural Competency for Health Care Providers, 2007). The goal of Continue Reading...
These environmental factors of patients' rights with regard to reporting their medical histories, allowing them to review them, and also ensuring they are archived to HIPAA standards are all risks for the clinic as well (Huang, Liu, 2011). The gove Continue Reading...
The Surgeon General remains a respected figure, but the job is ill-defined, budgetless, and subject to the whims of political appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House. The Surgeon General is widely considered to Continue Reading...
Analysis The ability to schedule online and also have the ability to view records online significantly increased he patient satisfaction levels, judging from how much happier the families seemed to be to get into see the physicians. This same loca Continue Reading...
Not only is there cost competition, but the real cost of a lot of services have actually gone down over the past fifteen years despite a tremendous increase in demand and enormous technological change. For example, the cost of conventional LASIK vis Continue Reading...
Even worse, because the negotiated rates for services is so much lower than the non-insured rates for those services, many providers may actually provide services more liberally than necessary to make up for the lower revenue of each service rendere Continue Reading...
American Healthcare Reform: The benefits of a single-Payer solution The American healthcare system is unsustainable. It is the most expensive in the world. Despite its costs, American healthcare does not measure up in terms of performance when compa Continue Reading...
Health Care Settings Cover Letter Hospital Chief Executive Officer There are a number of different issues that have been affecting the health care facility over the last several years. Recently, the various cutbacks in assistance from government p Continue Reading...
Older people are associated with increased risk for hospitalisations due to illness or trauma (Seymore & Cannon, 2010). The nature and burden of the illness that the older person faces is related to the quality of health care services they may r Continue Reading...
One very timely and cogent example of this is within the realm of Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS). These systems are interactive computer programs designed to assist medical professionals in the analysis and diagnosis and provide greater hea Continue Reading...
Encouraging physicians to strictly limit the budgets of each patient's care will surely drive down costs and may even conspire to encourage physicians to improve patient preventative care. But there is always the fear that patients will be denied ne Continue Reading...
Insurance mandates are another important consideration in connection with proposed healthcare reforms. Tumulty references the Clinton administration's failure to achieve universal healthcare coverage largely because of the insurance mandate issue. Continue Reading...
Each of these was included in the initial Senate bill, but was struck from the final Senate version. Despite the victories, the group isn't ready to pledge support for health reform bills. The AMA will not endorse any legislation unless Congress get Continue Reading...
A group of writers note about the country, "In 2003, the official HIV prevalence declined to 6.7%. Tuberculosis, other infectious diseases, and malnutrition remain some of the country's biggest public health problems" (Hugenberg, Anjango, Mwita & Continue Reading...
" (King, 1) This means that interpersonal communication is not simply a process by which we pronounce and defend our interests, but one by which we attempt to understand the position of our opponent or relational partner. Using the method of clear co Continue Reading...
The truth is that we do need a National Healthcare System but one that wouldn't replace multi-payer system but co-exist with it to offer more benefits to those who cannot afford health insurance on their own. Single-payer system or a national health Continue Reading...
Through the use of statistical modeling the researcher was able to arrive at the validation of their hypothesis. Assessment of Research Findings Based on the results of the statistical modeling used in conjunction with the Household Component of M Continue Reading...
114). Rising medical costs and diminishing quality of care demand that something be done, however (IOM 2009). The Quality Chasm documents and the research that went into producing them have been specifically requested and utilized by the Department Continue Reading...
10). While basically valid, this claim is disingenuous and actually self-defeating. While we might not have a "right" to any of these things, the government does provide food, shelter and clothing to those in need, and not just on an emergency basis Continue Reading...
He further goes on to say that, "I am my brother's keeper and I am my sister's keeper" to bolster this point. In a separate interview, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele refutes Obama's speech and maintained that Obama's call for Continue Reading...
