Marketing in Healthcare Catholic Healthcare West Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) is a not-for-profit healthcare organization serving parts of Arizona, Nevada and the majority of California. With 42 hospitals it is the largest Catholic hospital syste Continue Reading...
Reimbursement and Pay-For-Performance Pay-for-performance This entails day-to-day programs designed to offer monetary incentives to health care providers and physicians to meet efficiency, quality and other defined targets. Pay-for-performance enta Continue Reading...
("Addressing Regulatory Compliance in Health Care," 2006) Any required organizational change management strategies that would enhance successful implementation To advance the implementation of this strategy, two different management principals mus Continue Reading...
Explaining the Differences in the U.S. and European Health Care SystemsHow can it be that the richest, most powerful nation on earth can tolerate 47 million uninsured, the highest health care costs per capita by far on earth, and health outcomes that Continue Reading...
Health Care Economics Monopsony power is defined as a situation where there is only a single buyer in the market (Investopedia, 2014). In a monopsony situation, all of the bargaining power rests with the buyer, such that the seller is a price taker, Continue Reading...
Individual Mandate Policy Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: Individual mandate Supreme Court's recent upholding of the individual mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 was deemed to be an essential co Continue Reading...
Working Poor and the Efficacy of the Earned Income Credit and T.A.N.F. When many Americans think of poverty, they think of people who are not working. Moreover, when they think of social welfare programs, they think of those programs aimed at assist Continue Reading...
HEALTHCARE Management. Allocation Health Care Resources From review readings week, provide a critique quality -- life surveys health care economic analysis determine allocation health care resources Issues in health care management The healthcare Continue Reading...
As well as expanding patient's abilities to obtain primary care, virtually, telemedicine can enable patients in isolated locations to see specialists. When rural patients are connected to a hospital network such as the Grinnell Regional Medical Cent Continue Reading...
Another factor, which increases the number of working uninsured, is the increase of healthcare costs. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, employees costs have risen by 47% and employers have seen a 20% increase. The employee's higher percenta Continue Reading...
Women who see their physician two times a year for refills would see an individual cost savings of $85 per year for a total cost savings of $307 million for the population. In addition, approximately 2.1 million women would eliminate their annual gy Continue Reading...
Hiring a Nurse Practitioner reduces wait times (overcrowding) in the Emergency Department estimation of the ED (Emergency department) compromise with care afforded to patients because of overcrowding from the perspective of the provider of services. Continue Reading...
Break Even Point Analysis Using the "Front Lines" case study, various Break Even points can be calculated with the given data provided. In order to calculate these Break Even Points for Total Fixed Costs, Average Net Revenue, and Average Variable Co Continue Reading...
Health Care Changes and Trends The healthcare industry in currently undergoing a highly necessary phase of reform. Following the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), hospitals, physicians, patients and economists are working to determine what Continue Reading...
Training staff members requires additional costs. There is also the 'time' cost of using the system on a daily basis. Furthermore, many find the demands of using the system -- typing into a machine as the patient talks -- to be profoundly impersona Continue Reading...
Healthcare Legislative Bill The expanded and improved Medicare for all Acts The Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act was introduced to the House of Representatives in 2009 and seeks to lobby for the implementation of a common single-payer hea Continue Reading...
One can effectively build a senior market campaign around newspaper, radio and direct mail. One thing to take into consideration is that seniors like to learn. This means that one can draw in seniors via educational opportunities. Recently the finan Continue Reading...
The quality of the food brought into the home can increase caloric intake. For example, calorie-dense foods such as regular milk, sugar sweetened beverages, high-fat foods, and fast foods are potential sources of excess caloric intake. Family food p Continue Reading...
Reforming any major national policy such as the immigration policy can be tedious at best. The current policy may not be perfect, but it is certainly working in any number of areas, as many studies indicate. These writers note, "We must recognize t Continue Reading...
Hospital Case Study In any case study, it is important to gather information concerning the topic, or "case," and then ask three questions. The questions are, "What's going on right now?," "What can we do about it?," and "What can we do about it?" Continue Reading...
Business Management Plan for Primary Care Setting Develop a business management plan for a primary care setting Promote an APN practice to the public Expertise of professionals specialized in the skills and knowledge are vital towards the achievem Continue Reading...
United States of America has a long driven history where two political parties ruled the territory and its people since it assumed independence. Several presidents with different political and moral beliefs/views have come into power, which largely Continue Reading...
Health Care In the wake on new and very contentious health care reform, many firms have undergone extensive transformations. These transformations have been predicated on both cost control and quality management. In particular quality management has 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...
Critical Thinking Case Study Faith Community Hospital is a not-for-profit hospital and has a mission statement which is interpreted by everyone the way the want to interpret it. Their mission statement compels them to provide health care services an Continue Reading...
New York Times by Fred Brock, dated June 2, 2002 details a national medical problem that is having a concrete impact upon the practice of advanced nursing and health care, particularly in emergency rooms across the country. Due to the recent downtur Continue Reading...
electronic system in the health care system, new ideas and approaches are introduced. Electronic health records are helpful if they are meaningfully used. The concept of meaningful use is explained by many healthcare authorities. The Medicare and Me Continue Reading...
With that in mind, even more changes will be coming to the planet in the near future. Even within the next 10 years, those changes are going to become more obvious and the health of people who are ingesting these chemicals and modified foods will li Continue Reading...
This is done by emphasizing organizations and systems as a whole rather than focusing on individual;s only. CQI is a management philosophy that cost containment on the once hand and customer service on the other hand to deliver service withing budge Continue Reading...
The pro-life sections were deeply disappointed as they had considered Casey as an ideal opportunity for the Court to overturn Roe. Legal Reaction to the Case The legal fraternity realized that the U.S. Supreme Court was loathe to re-visit its prev Continue Reading...
Background Passion Home Health is a provider of home health care services in Camarillo, CA. The company`s challenge typically revolves around a shortage of care workers given the number of clients. There are two sides to this issue - one is the dema Continue Reading...
Fire-Based providers as the sole form of EMS EU member states do not follow a uniform EMS model. This often leads to difficulties at the times of crisis as the preliminary response to the situation varies from state to state. Each region is characte Continue Reading...
What is the current level of autonomy among NPs? How independent are nurse practitioners? It is well-known that NPs desire and deserve autonomy -- which gives NPs "substantial control over [their] professional practice" (Bahadori, et al., 2009, p. Continue Reading...
Sociology -- Social Work Poverty Poverty is the condition of one who lacks a definite amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the one who lacks basic human needs, which normally includes clean and fresh wa Continue Reading...
Consequences of an Older Population Consequences of Older Population A consequence of the fast growing base of older people is a burden on the younger population for their upkeep. They have to battle out all the dilemmas of the entire population o Continue Reading...
WHY WAS IT A SMART Management MOVE? There are several reasons that this commitment and plan provided a smart management move on the part of the organization. One of the first things the HMO did once the plan was announced was to begin challenging Continue Reading...
Customer relationship management (CRM) is an essential component of organizational management. The purpose of this discussion is to focus on a CRM strategy for United Behavioral Health a subsidiary of United Health Care . . United Behavioral Health i 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...
" (National Conference of State Legislatures Forum for State Health Policy Leadership, 2007). However, regardless of state, the applicants have to meet certain qualifications. First, applicants have to be both uninsured and not eligible for Medicaid Continue Reading...
Universal health care system also termed as single-payer system in intended for all individuals irrespective of their financial standing. No procedure is considered perfect for the universal or single healthcare system. Several nations are adopting v Continue Reading...
