Health Care -- Licensing, Accreditation and Certification -- Case Assignment King/Drew Medical Center JCAHO accreditation is a formal "seal of approval" by an authorized organization while JCAHO certification is a "gold seal of approval" by a privat Continue Reading...
d.). Accreditation is basically important for various functions such as promoting the quality of healthcare delivered to consumers and other purchasers of care. Secondly, the accreditation is important because it helps health care organizations and f Continue Reading...
As one of the largest of the country's non-profit hospital systems, Banner has more than 36,000 employees and twenty-three facilities (Banner, 2012). These facilities comprise acute-care hospitals and various facilities for health care. Research don Continue Reading...
Health Care Free SHOULD HEALTH CARE BE FREE? The following debate takes place between four individuals as follows: Dr. Barker, a public health sector physician with an experience of fifteen years; Ms. Gomez, a social activist working for improving Continue Reading...
In doing so, organizations: advance the idea of public assurance that the organization is concerned for patient safety and the quality of care present a safe and capable work environment that adds to worker satisfaction negotiate in regards to sour Continue Reading...
Ethics of Good Business vs. Gender Inequality in Health Care In excess of any other organization, concerns that deal with patients and their well-being are of utmost significance in the healthcare industry. This is since; individuals in this busines Continue Reading...
universal health care in the U.S. There are numerous compelling arguments in favor of establishing universal health care access in the U.S.; this essay surveys the literature on this topic and presents these arguments. Providing universal health ca Continue Reading...
Healthcare System Change M.S. Healthcare Administration Exploration National quality performance improvement initiatives. The organizations noted focused specific areas research, study practices information dissemination national organizations publ Continue Reading...
Lee is only the first step in the process of building a team that is able to cover all aspects of Mrs. Lee's care. The team approach involving a social worker, nurse, physician, pharmacist, and physical therapist affords Mrs. Lee a full range of pro Continue Reading...
Healthcare Inequalities Are healthcare inequalities UK Defining Health Inequality The term healthcare disparity or healthcare differences have been defined in a number of ways. Healthcare inequality can be defined as the difference of the health l Continue Reading...
Web Health Care Located in Wichita, Kansas, Via Christi Health is the agency that serves the eponymous region through the site via-christi.org. Via Christi provides care through hospitals, outpatient centers, senior communities, and in-home care for Continue Reading...
Healthcare Management and the Knowledge Economy Today, the healthcare industry is undergoing myriad changes, most of these stimulated by a combination of regulatory need and technological advance. Where the two intersect, the industry is under a con Continue Reading...
Managing the soaring health care costs due to litigation and mismanagement should be a key concern to any healthcare organization. Attempting to manage those costs oftentimes will run into barriers such as government regulations that require doctors Continue Reading...
S. healthcare structure do not include the unobserved disparities. This may sound very rudimentary, even silly to point out, but in by understanding that the numbers are actually worse than they appear, and that the rising costs of healthcare service Continue Reading...
Lastly, the sixth issue is that the hospital has no relationship with an HMO. They have not been able to come to an agreement with Kaiser Permanente. This reduces revenues, reduces traffic flow and creates a problem where Kaiser is building a new ho Continue Reading...
Health Care Communication Background- Within the modern nursing paradigm, there must be a clear link between a health outcome and the process that helps ensure those outcomes. Typically, outcomes are classified in terms of preventability, impact, se Continue Reading...
Health Care Situation: Medical Error Due to Doctors' Bad Handwriting Identify a health care news situation that affects a health care organization such as a hospital, clinic or insurance company. I have identified the following health care news sit Continue Reading...
Case managers are expected to have the necessary education requirements, but also have the personality to effectively communicate between healthcare professionals, insurance agencies, and patients (Case Manager, 2011). Case mangers must be both comp Continue Reading...
Mortality prevention is certainly an area where the strongest interventions are most justified. Bluegrass Hospital Quality of Care Industry Comparison Quality of Care Standards ("Patient safety and," 2011) 1. Based upon the report card alone, Continue Reading...
Accommodating Vulnerable Populations in Healthcare Within contemporary healthcare, access to healthcare services is negatively impacted by a variety of potential barriers. Typical examples of such barriers include cultural and ethnic isolation, adva Continue Reading...
Healthcare Administration Risk Involved in Poor Chart Documentation: An Overview in Total Quality Management Poor chart documentation in the behavioral health field is a concern for risk management and a critical area for total quality improvement. Continue Reading...
This idea is supported by a Journal of the American Medical Association. The study found that 60% of the teens surveyed said that their parents knew they were using a clinic for sexual health services. These statistics act as a counterweight to the Continue Reading...
(Gigante, S. February 22, 2010). These numbers suggest a population which will demand a high level of services over their retirement lives, and as such place enormous pressure on premiums and fees. The result of this excess demand will be a rejoind Continue Reading...
Personal Professional Healthcare Communication Paper What is Healthcare Communication? Communication can be generally defined and the method of imparting information from a source to targets. The process of sharing thus has its own set of rules and Continue Reading...
The hospital should always defer to the patient and family that has an advanced directive in place, and if the patient cannot speak for themselves but has an advanced directive, then a proxy must make the decision. The only case where the hospital s Continue Reading...
This is not the way it should be; people should not have to choose between what is best for themselves and what is best for the people they love because an insurance company is standing in the way of their lives. People have the right to health care Continue Reading...
nytimes.com/2010/05/24/health/policy/24health.html?scp=6&sq=congress%20health%20care%20may%202010&st=cse http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/why-americans-hate-single-payer-insurance/?scp=7&sq=health%20care%20the%20single%20payer% Continue Reading...
Then, when you combine this with the fact that Medicaid serves 53 million people with an annual budget of $329 billion, means that rising costs is severely affecting this program. ("Medicaid Reform," 2005) the inflexibility of this program has contr Continue Reading...
As the sole owners of a license to practice medicine on which industries and other business entities build profits, they need to take solid steps to assert their rights. They listed strategies to put their situation and demands across to the current Continue Reading...
In their move from a completely government-paid and -- operated healthcare system to a fees-based approach, the Chinese have greatly improved the efficiency, availability, and efficacy of their healthcare system (Wan & Wan 2010). This suggests t Continue Reading...
By reducing stress levels, this could even have a direct medical benefit. It is essential that a healthcare professional be knowledgeable and efficient, but to make them truly excellent they need to have good people skills, too. In essence, being a Continue Reading...
Medical procedures, like chemotherapy and radiation, are frequently used to alleviate pain and symptoms and for cure. Intravenous medications tackle pain but are also costlier than other forms. The appearance of new and costlier drugs blurs the fine Continue Reading...
Because unions retain the exclusive right to negotiate on behalf of its members, the individual worker may have little recourse to easily address incompetent leadership. The Disadvantages of Unionized Labor for Healthcare Employers: The primary di Continue Reading...
The reluctance to refer patients to specialists may also mean that nurses must practice more holistic, rather than specialized forms, of nursing. The desire for cost containment has resulted in many nurses assuming physician's duties, such as those Continue Reading...
Combined with the widespread entry of women into the labor force, an aging population, and minimal assistance for high quality long-term care at the end of life, these economic and social conditions raise a set of difficult policy questions for heal Continue Reading...
Third stated by Scott is: "People who neglect their own needs and forget to nurture themselves are at danger of deeper levels of unhappiness, low self-esteem and feelings of resentment." (Scott, 2008) the risk of taking care of others and forgetting Continue Reading...
In addition, contracts for supplies or other services takes 6 to 9 months to establish. He says that a lot of companies won't even bid on VA contracts because of this. This results in higher costs, with the exception of pharmaceuticals, because the Continue Reading...
In fact Congress should pass a bill that gives that prescription drug benefit to Medicare patients. QUESTION NINE: In the United States, healthcare is so expensive that over 45 million people are without health insurance. It is a broken system, lea Continue Reading...
How to Protect Revenue Streams The purpose of this research analysis was to discover tools healthcare organizations and practitioners can use to increase revenue streams while facing the rising costs of healthcare and an increasingly aged populati Continue Reading...
Toward that same end, the new strategic plan must also include provisions for a comprehensive centralized governance system. The second most important reason that MUSC requires a new strategic plan relates to the impact of managed care, HMO insuran Continue Reading...
