political scrutiny and media coverage, the Veterans Administration (VA) is facing a lot of questions about its ethics, its practices and its performance when it comes to the care of the patients they are charged with healing (Hicks, 2014). Whether i Continue Reading...
VA Medical Center Quality Improvement at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center The Philadelphia Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center is in the process of improving their quality of care for patients. The VA Medical Center provides care to veterans of Continue Reading...
Patient Satisfaction in Quality of Managed Care Aspect to be compared Gender and Patient Satisfaction in Managed Care, etc. Stakeholder Perceptions of Quality in Managed Care Plans Two Steps to Enhance Managed Care Quality Author(s)/Date Emily Continue Reading...
Home Care for Veterans Needs Analysis Training Goals and Specific Instructional Objectives Location, Attendees, Time Methods and Media Training Evaluation Methods Sample Lesson Plan Home Care for Veterans Home care for veterans is a much need Continue Reading...
components of value-based purchasing (VBP) that are most pertinent to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) based on its vital mission to provide high-quality health care services to the nation's veterans while identifying opportunities to re Continue Reading...
cabinet-level agency in the U.S. government termed "Agency X" herein is the largest healthcare provider in the nation. With a multi-billion dollar budget, virtually universal support from the American public and a national network of healthcare faci Continue Reading...
VA Ambulatory Care When it comes to the job and duty of the Veteran Affairs (VA) Administration, there are many forms and types of care that commonly come up and that are discussed or debated. Just one of those, and perhaps one of the less commonly Continue Reading...
Health Care in the U.S. And Singapore Healthcare in the U.S. And Singapore This paper compares the U.S. healthcare system with the Singapore healthcare system. It starts with a brief description of both healthcare systems and then explains and comp Continue Reading...
Hospice Care and Catholic Ethics Is Hospice care consistent with Catholic bioethics? Chapple, in her discussion of the topic "Hospice care" in Catholic health care ethics, argues that ultimately the answer is yes, but she acknowledges that there are 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...
Cox, T. (2010). Legal and ethical implications of health care provider insurance risk assumption. JONAS Healthcare Law, Ethics and Regulation. 12(4):106-116. How healthcare providers really feel about managed care and other forms of insurance is v 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...
Transparency empowers consumers to become better shoppers. Economists assert that transparency stimulates productivity, for example, in exchange for money, one individual obtaining fair value. In every aspect, except healthcare, Davis points out, tr Continue Reading...
Federal Role in Healthcare There are two very entrenched camps in the universal health care debate as well as regarding what the federal role in healthcare should be. It is clear that the private and employer-based system is not serving the American Continue Reading...
Organizational Analysis The Medical care sector is one of the most significant departments in the country today since it is a sector that includes everyone from all the classes of the citizenry. It is therefore significant that the organizational cu Continue Reading...
" (2004, p.159) Activities have included: (1) Development and promotion of industry-wide standards; (2) Funding of research for investigation of the impact of IT on quality; (3) Provision of incentives that provide encouragement of investment in I Continue Reading...
Health Care Reforms Healthcare reform has been a national issue for some time and the ability to afford citizens the opportunity to adequate healthcare services is an interesting debate with many ideas and arguments both for and against the practic Continue Reading...
Each of these was included in the initial Senate bill, but was struck from the final Senate version. Despite the victories, the group isn't ready to pledge support for health reform bills. The AMA will not endorse any legislation unless Congress get Continue Reading...
And, secondly, what's the rush? If this is so good for us and everyone understands the program, then what is the answer to those two questions? The answers are, in order, because most Americans have no clue what the program is due to the fact that Continue Reading...
(Worcestershire Diabetes: a New model of care Stakeholder event, 2007) The continuum of care for the diabetic patient is shown in the following illustration labeled Figure 1. Diabetes: Continuum of Care Source: Worcestershire Diabetes: a New mode Continue Reading...
Veteran Access to Healthcare Services As he stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol's East Portico in early 1865, President Abraham Lincoln articulated what would become the motto of the Department of Veterans Affairs, "To care for him who shall have Continue Reading...
Reducing Length of Stays on Critical Care Wards in a Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates the nation's largest healthcare system and provides training for more than half of all of the Continue Reading...
One of the issues with this program is that it creates a great amount of legacy costs, in that public employees still get full benefits after they retire, but don't have to pay into it, With the implementation of the new Obama Health Care law the e Continue Reading...
Unless the physicians can succinctly argue their case for care and services, the managed care entity will, for reasons of medical necessity, deny access to care and services. What Cost-Added Ratio Based on Illegal Immigrant Population? The argumen Continue Reading...
VHA Mental Health Care Very recently, beginning in 1995 the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) began a series of progressive reforms. The reform has included a substantive list of functional and fundamental changes, including everything from facil Continue Reading...
Cultural Issues in End of Life Care In this age of increased social diversity the cultural aspects of end-of-life care have become increasingly important in the nursing profession. This importance is however complicated by technology and the cultura Continue Reading...
Problem and Solutions at the Veterans Health Administration The chances are good that most Americans have either received health care services from the Department of Veterans Affairs’s (VA’s) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) directly 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...
Provider Education for Chronic Pain Management Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest healthcare provider in the United States and one of the largest in the world. In fact, fully half of the physicians in the United States rec Continue Reading...
Healthcare System Practice Guideline Introduce an overview of one healthcare system practice guideline There are numerous areas within health care that demand change in everyday healthcare practice. More often than not, irrespective of the healthcare Continue Reading...
5) Celebrate the customer decision and ask for feedback- Many customers will be with us for the duration of their lives. Everyone will inevitably become sick and will need to make tough decisions in regards to their health. Whatever their decision, Continue Reading...
Who lives with you in your household? Quien vive con usted en la casa? B. Tell me about your family. Cuenteme acerca de su familia C. What's a typical day like for you? With your Family? With your friends? Como pasa Usted el dia? Con su familia? C Continue Reading...
Experiential Exercise: Observing and Reporting Surroundings at a VA Medical Center To satisfy the requirements of this assignment, the author recently volunteered at a local Department of Veterans Affairs medical center (VAMC) and the results of thi Continue Reading...
Improving Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Wait Time for Veterans Care Veterans are senior citizens who have served the nation in a dedicated manner and in their elder days need to feel the reciprocation of the nation on the sacrifice that they Continue Reading...
Practice Experience Interviews Interview with "Jennifer," RN, MPH, director of quality assurance at a Veterans Affairs medical center. In a telephonic interview with this nursing professional, questions were posed concerning how research is found, Continue Reading...
Dropping the interest rates and doing other things to make consumers breathe a little easier when they make a purchase shows that the country is pulling together, which is something that the recession is teaching almost everyone in America - that pe Continue Reading...
Veterans and the Affordable Healthcare Act The veterans suffer various challenges emanating from their roles they actively in the battle frontlines. They suffer mental problems like the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, aggr Continue Reading...
Telehealth / Telemedicine The concept of telehealth holds that there are a range of medical services that can be delivered remotely. Some early telehealth might have been conducted over the phone, perhaps a patient calling to get an opinion of wheth Continue Reading...
