158 Search Results for Medicare Medicaid Current and Future Trends
Reducing Turnover in New Graduate Residence Program
Introduction- The process of recruiting and training, particularly in high-impact fields like healthcare, has become increasingly complex and expensive. Turnover is the rate at which an organizatio Continue Reading...
Figure 1 portrays the state of Maryland, the location for the focus of this DRP.
Figure 1: Map of Maryland, the State (Google Maps, 2009)
1.3 Study Structure
Organization of the Study
The following five chapters constitute the body of Chapter I Continue Reading...
Psychology Treatment
For most of U.S. history up to the time of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, the mentally ill were generally warehoused in state and local mental institutions on a long-term basis. Most had been involuntarily committed by Continue Reading...
Leadership & Management, Health Care
Leadership & Management in Health Care
President Clinton's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, used to tell a story about her mother, who was 86 at the time but still a full-time attor Continue Reading...
Goal setting works well for simple jobs -- clerks, typists, loggers, and technicians -- but not for complete jobs. Goal setting with jobs in which goals are not easily measured (e.g., teaching, nursing, engineering, accounting) has posed some probl 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...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Evolution of Long-Term Care: Historic Trends and Future Challenges:
This essay topic would explore the history of long-term care services, examining how they have evolved over time in response to Continue Reading...
The way that this can be accomplished is by forming boards that are similar to Long-Term Care Committees. The only difference is that they would severe a similar role as a medical control board. Where, they will have the responsibility for determini Continue Reading...
One of the key reasons that was found to be a factor in readmissions is that insurance companies continue to push for shorter hospital stays. They have reduced the number of days that they will pay for certain conditions. This was found to be a key Continue Reading...
Introduction and background
Healthcare centers all over the US have been looking for cost- cutting techniques whilst simultaneously retaining the superior quality of their patient care delivery. Considering the present economic scenario, cost- cuttin Continue Reading...
Healthcare: Clinical Integration
Item Page
What is clinical integration
History of clinical integration
Goals of clinical integration
Importance of clinical integration
Health reform
New payment models
IT advancement
Barriers to clinical int Continue Reading...
Of course, as Medicare beneficiaries increase because of the number of baby boomers, the Medicare program may adjust. However, current hospice figures demonstrate that only about twenty percent of all elderly individuals that die are enrolled in hos Continue Reading...
Community Health Change Proposal Summary Report: Catron County, New MexicoExecutive SummaryToday, the United States is experiencing an unprecedented increase in the percentage of its elderly population, driven largely by the aging of the baby boomer Continue Reading...
web-based surveys and their usefulness in reducing the cost of business research. The writer explores several aspects of web-based surveys including performance and comparison to traditional type surveys. There were 10 sources used to complete this Continue Reading...
Public Health Resources
1• Information about country, state, and national public health resources
Public health is the bigger science of protecting and improving the health of communities by providing services based on education, healthy life Continue Reading...
future of health care in the St. Louis area
This paper presents a detailed examination of the future of health care in the St. Louis area. Included in the paper are discussions about economics and population issues as well as changes hat are coming. Continue Reading...
Health Policies Medicare
When everyone in our country finally starts to reach the age of 65 years of age or older, then every person will become eligible for Medicare. It is clear that there are some elderly that are having minimum health concerns w Continue Reading...
In respects, it could also reduce lawsuit expense when patients want to sue because of the wrong medication is given or harm is done in the process of medication administration.
"We often resist the new way of doing things..." (Thede, 2009, Sept). Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Nursing
Advanced Practice RN's in the Home Health Care Arena
Identification of the phenomenon.
There is an urgent need for APRN services in the home health care environment. That is the pivotal position this paper proposes to pu Continue Reading...
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAPHPS)
The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems gives consumers a chance to compare the available health cares around the country and to decide on what c Continue Reading...
U.S. Healthcare
The final legislation should have incorporated provisions to boost the IVD industry. On its entirety, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act must have benefited the IVD industry. This would have increased sales in a span of f Continue Reading...
Federal Debt and Deficit Reduction Plans
Federal debt is a public debt which represents the federal securities owned by individuals or institutions outside the United States government and United States Treasury securities that are administered by t Continue Reading...
However, because they make billing more efficient, the majority of large urban practice groups and hospitals have already made the switch to electronic records, according to Michael R. Costa, attorney and associate at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, in Bost Continue Reading...
The problems facing Medicare recipients and the federal government almost seem to be overwhelming. There are proponents of a plan to privatize Social Security and health insurance, placing the onus on the individual to pay for his own health care th Continue Reading...
Sunrise Foster Senior Community
The Older American Act (OAA) was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 14, 1965. The purpose of the law was to provide for the needs of an increasing number of older persons in the United States. The s Continue Reading...
The other dimension is related but is definitely separate. Some end-users are not only uninformed on how to administer electronic health records, they may actively resist and otherwise undermine the setup and these people need to be identified or e Continue Reading...
Social, Cultural, And Political Influence in Healthcare Delivery
Social, cultural, and political inequalities are detrimental to the health and healthcare system of the U.S. This is because the U.S. is one of the most multicultural, overpopulated, d Continue Reading...
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co
Insurance business in modern day has adopted a differential approach to dealing with policy issues and consumer behavior yet some companies like Northwestern Mutual Life retain their original course of actions w Continue Reading...
budgets of any major size will get most, but not necessarily all, of their money from taxpayers of several many sorts but the main goal of the agencies regardless of size and structure is to provide basic and needed services to the area they serve, Continue Reading...
This could hardly be seen as a way to lower the healthcare costs of people in this country.
Still, though, it is apparent that something must be done. Healthcare is extremely expensive anymore, and there are more and more people in this country tha Continue Reading...
Healthcare for Mentally Impaired Patients
Probing what information is available about the current status of placement or accommodation and level of personal healthcare available to mentally impaired and emotionally disturbed individuals, it is clear Continue Reading...
Business of Health Care
This study highlights essential facts about health care and health in the local, national, and international health care delivery. Healthcare in the U.S. stands at crossroads between opportunities and challenges. Both the loc Continue Reading...
status of Florida State's health care facilities and anticipates what kinds of steps should be taken to cater to the future population based on their developed needs. It has 15 sources.
With improved health care facilities and advanced medical inno Continue Reading...
Pneumonia and Timely Antibiotic Therapy
The purpose of this project to educate hospital staff concerning the fact that research supports a best practice protocol that pneumonia patients should be provided with antibiotics within 4 hours of being adm Continue Reading...
Healthcare Economics
Overall Healthcare And Economics
Healthcare economics: Current challenges from a nursing perspective
Although the subject of healthcare economics has been hotly-debated, on one issue there is widespread agreement: the aging of Continue Reading...
National Health Care Spending in the United States
For several years now, health care spending in the U.S. has been on the rise. In that regard, containing the situation has become a major headache not only for the government but also for consumers Continue Reading...
Community Analysis: Columbus, Ohio - Hilltop Area/Franklinton
Identification and History
The Franklinton/Hilltop area of Columbus, Ohio is located on the west side of the greater metropolitan area. Franklinton is in a river valley next to the Sciot Continue Reading...
(Menzel, 1990, p. 3) Fisher, Berwick, & Davis alude to the idea of integration in health care, with providers linking as well as creating networks of electronic medical records and other cost improvement tactics.
The United States and other nat Continue Reading...