456 Search Results for Veterans Health Administration
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: The James a. Haley Veterans' Hospital's Solution to PSTD
The James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital (JAHVH) is dedicated to serving the nations veterans. It was activated in 1972 and provides patient care services, and als Continue Reading...
row in a database table. It is coded (or 'keyed') so that access to that information can be faster. An example particularly relevant to the field of Health Information Management System, where multiple data is coded and organized in Health-related o Continue Reading...
PPSPA bills would have enabled federal regulation to perform this more efficiently than present regulation efforts exerted by the States and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or ACGME. Restrictions to the ACGME self-regulation Continue Reading...
Linking PTSD to Sleep Apnea among VeteransToday, nearly 40 million American adults suffer from obstructive or central sleep apnea and far too many of them, perhaps as many as 7 million people, do not even realize they have the disorder (Stiles, 2024) Continue Reading...
Health Disparity
Health disparities refer to a certain kind of health-related difference closely tied to economic or social disadvantage. They negatively impact groups of individuals systematically subject to greater economic and social barriers to Continue Reading...
Human Resource Development Initiatives for the Department of Veterans Affairs
As the nation's largest healthcare provider and second-largest federal agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is responsible for administering a multi-billion do Continue Reading...
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates the nation's largest healthcare system through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), including 152 medical centers (VA Continue Reading...
Public Administration EthicsIn thinking about ethics in public administration, Marini\\\'s (1992) analysis of Sophocles\\\' Antigone helps to give some insight into and frame the ethical dilemmas likely to be encountered in public administration, but Continue Reading...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
In an era of American history which will likely be defined by the disastrous decision to launch two foreign wars simultaneously -- which resulted in the nation's volunteer military force suffering tens of thous Continue Reading...
Otherwise, they would not have been taken into the military (they were volunteers), supporting the theory that the military had an impact upon their being homeless (ibid., 377).
Among all of these populations, IQ dropped and mental illnesses such a Continue Reading...
Budgetary Politics
The United States of America has long grappled with the problem of drugs and has form time to time initiated measures to combat the usage and trafficking of drugs. It is common knowledge that the various wars that have been part o Continue Reading...
Introduction
Accurate measurement of blood pressure is critical for making appropriate clinical decisions in the management of high blood pressure in order to reduce cardiovascular risk and prevent organ damage. This is important because an inaccurat Continue Reading...
Running head: Biomedical and Psychosocial Treatments for Depression Biomedical and Psychosocial Treatments for Depression 8Biomedical and Psychosocial Treatments for DepressionMajor Depression is the second most significant source of disabilities and Continue Reading...
Therapies/Treatments That Can Be Done to Help the Immune System of a Patient 18-55 Diagnosed With Rheumatoid Arthritis
THERAPIES/TREATMENTS TO HELP THE IMMUNE SYSTEM OF An 18-55 PATIENT DIAGNOSED WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Therapies/treatments that Continue Reading...
One of the most frequent injuries is represented by the traumatic brain ones.. amongst other symptoms, one can mention anxiety, severe depression. Headaches and the difficulty to reason clearly. PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder is also manifest Continue Reading...
Military Marijuana
military has a number of jurisdictional and operational issues associated with what it will do with personnel involved with the use of medical marijuana. Though it claims that there is no ambiguity -- that its Directives (DOD 1010 Continue Reading...
Substance Abuse Treatment as it Is Related to Trauma
Research indicates that there is a strong correlation between people who have experienced trauma (whether in childhood or in adulthood) and substance abuse or dependency. Because patients who suff Continue Reading...
RESPONSE CResponse CD. JenkinsIn the first post, D. Jenkins opted to focus on preventing metastatic disease by early diagnosis of prostate cancer. Apart from the strategies provided by my colleague to deal with the challenges of willingness among par Continue Reading...
modal time for dropouts in live surveys either short or long is the half-point mark in the survey, the researcher needs to get to the most crucial information needed early in the survey (Cape, 2010). Choosing crucial information depends on the focus Continue Reading...
Governmental healthcare centers concentrate on providing primary care to individuals and to control and manage the spread of infectious diseases and to manage natural disasters (Christian et al., 2008). However, in the public domain, health care diff Continue Reading...
FY2012 President's Budget For Health Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/about/FY2012budget/fy2012bib.pdf
One of the most prominent roles of the federal government in health care is as a purchaser of health insurance and third-party payer for health Continue Reading...
Management Project in the Health Care Organization Setting
This study describes the implementation of a syndromic surveillance system. The syndromic surveillance system collects and analyzes prediagnostic and nonclinical disease indicators, drawing 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...
SPENDING IN U.S. HEALTHCARE
July 26, 2013 ASSESSMENT: Policy topic Search Selection. Research internet key words "Health" "Health Policy" select a policy topic interest. My selection topic "Cost Spending." You policy individual assignment.
Cost an Continue Reading...
By 1935, during the Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, the Social Security Act, "one of the great landmarks in the history of healthcare legislation in the United States" (Couchman, 2001, p. 245), prompted the government to accept some responsibility Continue Reading...
Globalization and American Health Care
What explains the directionality of flows in health care? Patients, health workers, managerial practices?
Globalization has brought in the information revolution and this has again brought changes in the medic Continue Reading...
Payers, and some doctors, will weigh the cost of a treatment against the expected outcomes to determine whether the treatment should be made available to a patient. For example: Rationing takes place when a treatment is denied by the Canadian govern Continue Reading...
Veteran/Purple Heart Recipient
CAREER Profile
Highly qualified and well-rounded healthcare administrator that has a strong and diverse background in healthcare, operations, facility management, strategic planning, Lean, healthcare development and r 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...
Introduction
The health care system in the United States is often compared with that of other countries, and the one that comes up the most frequently in Canada. The Canadian system has better outcomes in general than the American system, and is com Continue Reading...
CPOE primary use to manage cost and quality in the physician and pharmacy interaction?
An electronic process that enables providers of health care to manage the results of orders entered in to a computer electronically is known as Computer Provider Continue Reading...
veterans leaving the military. Specifically, it will attempt to solve some of the problems veterans being discharged from the military are facing. Veterans returning from the war in Iraq face a variety of problems and issues, and many of them are no Continue Reading...
Leadership Development Plan
Career Goals
What are my short-term career goals? To be a Health Care Manager
What are my long-term career goals? To become the Director of Healthcare
What are my objectives that I want to accomplish? Getting well educ Continue Reading...
This is important because it reflect the certain difficulties the government has to stimulate the employment of veterans in a line of work of their choice.
Other statistics mention that not only do a large number of veterans have a disability relat Continue Reading...
The tools used, in this case, for knowledge discovery and data mining where based on artificial neural networks (ANN) and consisted of four different models. All models represented supervised learning models with a known output. The four models of 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...
Accounting Fundamentals for Healthcare Management
This paper examines governmental and nonprofit accounting and discusses how it differs from commercial accounting. In the accounting field, there may not always be a clear distinction between the thr Continue Reading...
Best Practices in the Management of Congestive Heart Failure
In recent years, diagnostic testing and treatments for cardiovascular diseases have improved survival rates and the quality of life for many patients, with the sole exception of congestive Continue Reading...
Current Policy
The Obama Administration had pledged to end veteran homelessness, an interesting pledge given the myriad of complex reasons why people become homeless. But they were able to make progress towards that objective. The White House announ Continue Reading...