Quality Assurance: Kaiser Permanente Case Management Programs are More Concerned with Reducing Costs Than with Improving the Quality of Care Rather than relying on generalized statements about case management programs, focused research on Kaiser Pe Continue Reading...
nationalized health care v. private insurers During the past three decades, both Federal-funded healthcare programs like Medicare and private insurers have battled the rising tide of spending on personal health care with a variety of cost containmen Continue Reading...
Expenditures on health care has been mounting faster than the economy for many years, representing a challenge not only for the government's health insurance programs, but also for the private sector. As health care expenditures consume a larger sha Continue Reading...
Managed Care Plans Analyze how the policies and practices related to Managed Care Plans can influence the activities of managers in health services organizations. Over the last several years, the role of health care organizations has been continual Continue Reading...
Change Plan for SBAR Implementation Change Proposal - Healthcare Change Proposal Change Issue The benefits of the SBAR are apparent to the nursing staff in the Labor, Deliver, Recovery, and Postpartum Unit of St. Johns Hospital Birth Center. All Continue Reading...
Chapter 2: Review of Related Literature Chapter Introduction This chapter provides the background and an overview of the debate concerning national health insurance and the issues surrounding the provision of universal health care in the United S Continue Reading...
Healthcare Benefits The 1990s demonstrated to be the period of maximum turbulence so far, as regards the healthcare industry is concerned. When rising expenses were tied with growing number of unremitting ailments and increase in life span, it appr Continue Reading...
Budget Plan for $10 Million Fund Allocation Positive economic development in any city in the United States relies on the provision of effective, efficient, and strong infrastructures that will attract investment to generate job opportunities in the Continue Reading...
This is because in most health facilities, the data is kept in a uniform way and the same is used for your next visit. According to the privacy law which applies to medical practitioners, confidentiality and privacy of the patient should not be comp Continue Reading...
Healthcare Trends in regulation of Healthcare reform with the potential for the most positive effect on care quality, sustainability of organizations and why they are so important Reforms in payments, anchored on recent patterns in the private and Continue Reading...
Doctors too are crippled and pressured by managed care organizations that tend to influence their decisions. Today, Managed care presents an unhealthy prospect and the future for such an unethical, unprofessional and profiteering approach is rather Continue Reading...
Labor Laws and Unions Kaiser Permanente Labor Laws and Unions In today's competitive business environment, there are a number of facets that must be perfected within any organization in order to succeed within its industry. Any given organization m Continue Reading...
Improving Healthcare Delivery in Nursing Homes: Focus on Broken Bones The objective of this study is to focus on health care management issues, problems, and policies in a current organization and specifically that of a nursing home with a focus on Continue Reading...
Mental Health Care System The mental healthcare system in the United States is historically fractured. A "silo"-based foundation precludes correlation between varied and integral systems that, collectively, offer a range of services to treat the who Continue Reading...
How serious was this e-mail security breach? Why did the Kaiser Permanente leadership react so quickly to mitigate the possible damage done by the breach?The e-mail security breach by the KP online Pharmacy was grave because it violated various HIPPA Continue Reading...
Evolving Practice of Nursing and Patient Care Delivery Models How the Practice of Nursing is Expected to Grow and Change: The Future of Nursing has a few healthcare delivery challenges unique to it, but there are several such issues that commonly oc Continue Reading...
). Over time, from one second to the next, human behavior constantly changes, contributing to the fact that human behavior, consequently human cognition, constitutes a dynamic process. (Thelen and Smith, 1994). Communication, also a continuous inter Continue Reading...
Advance Practice Roles in Nursing The Main Roles Within Advanced Practice Nursing Nurse Practitioners They are charged with the responsibility to provide primary health care for clinics, hospitals and similar settings. They diagnose and treat comm Continue Reading...
1 Introduction 1.1 Statement of the Problem Lack of health coverage has been a prevalent issue in the United States. Research indicates that in the second year consecutively, there was an increase in the number of uninsured people. Insurance coverage Continue Reading...
Introduction/Background The basis of self-management is rooted in patient-centered care. The idea behind it is that the patient will feel empowered to take ownership of his or her care process. Patient collaboration helps to get to the heart of patie Continue Reading...
The independent physician groups and hospitals provide services under the organization's guidelines, but they may also care for patients who are not members. (1997) While managed care does offer employers more control in choosing the specifics of t Continue Reading...
Nursing shortage is a problem in many countries. It is often difficult to get trained nurses. While nurses are an integral part of the health care system, a shortage of trained nurses leaves an impact on the health care system. Due to the shortage o Continue Reading...
Reduce Medicaid Program Costs and Enhance Utilization and the Quality of Care Through Medicaid Managed Care Medicaid is a type of health insurance provided and funded by the federal government and states to provide coverage to all Americans who are Continue Reading...
, 2005). The framework centers strengthening the compatibility with existing values and practices to also ensure a high level of simplicity and observable results, two other factors crucial to creating an effective framework (Rogers, 2003). All of th Continue Reading...
Many of the same issues that arise in regards to diabetes, also apply to control of obesity as well (Tilghman, 2003). Conceptual Model The symptom-focused intervention model was developed by the University of California -- San Francisco Nursing Sy Continue Reading...
Asthma and ER utilization Asthma Asthma is a particularly debilitating condition. Asthma is characterized by a tightening in the chest with difficulty in breathing and wheezing. This difficulty in breathing can result, at best, in a decrease in qua Continue Reading...
Health Policy Analysis The author of this report has been asked to cover two major subjects over the course of four pages. The first half of the paper will pertain to a health policy topic of the author's choosing. The author will use a health polic Continue Reading...
It is also argued that the insurance mandate is not constitutional since the government does not have the right to tell the United States citizens what products to purchase, even when these products are beneficial for them, and even less when the s Continue Reading...
Strategic Alignment In the last several years, the Strategic Alignment Maturity model is focusing on understanding how an organization can evolve with the different challenges they are facing. This is achieved by carefully examining the business an Continue Reading...
Business Terminology in Health Care The Health Care Industry, idealistically is a large conglomeration of helping individuals and organizations who's sole purpose is to help people become more healthy, be that through prevention of disease or treat Continue Reading...
al., 2010). Nursing and the ER The Emergency Room is often one of the most visible parts of healthcare for political debate. It is also one of the most difficult environments for a modern nurse. It is interesting that one of the founders of modern Continue Reading...
Adaptive Strategy The main adaptive strategy that was selected by this hospital was one of analysis: this was the preferred strategy for the hospital. The main rationale for its overall use was that the hospital was founded on a vision that was dis Continue Reading...
Envisioning Future of Physician Leader of Medical Group Practice Health care industry to get financial and management praises are also adopting the strategies of retail giants Wal-Mart, Google and Amazon. A research study have suggested that merely Continue Reading...
Some of the funding is to come from a national prevention trust fund (Kaiser Fdn, 2010). However there are additional funding resources for the near-term that are readily assessable. Social Justice The National Secretary of Health has been called Continue Reading...
Critics of the ACA highlight several concerns, however, with the way that the law affects their businesses. For the 10,000 or so employers over 50 people who do not offer insurance, the cost per worker increases immediately. For companies just unde Continue Reading...
Gonzalez (2007), discusses the company WellPoint Inc. that provides its members with the capability to develop their own personal health records, an option to receive test results online, provide a limited set of records to their providers and to al Continue Reading...
The success of PPACA, and its provisions for people who are currently or chronically uninsured, will depend on reform of public programs as well as private insurance practices to create "new pathways to coverage (Gulley) and address the problematic Continue Reading...
Employee turnover and customer satisfaction: a comparison of rural and urban healthcare facilities Staff turnover within the long-term care industry continues to increase at a significant rate (Castle, 2003). National averages show the overall turn Continue Reading...
Medication Reconciliation Evidence-Based Practice and the Procedural Education of Nurses Medication reconciliation is a critical issue in healthcare reform. Today, improvement in this area of treatment could have a transformative effect on the curr Continue Reading...
