Hospitals with more elderly, poor patients likely to face readmission penalties" by Katie Sullivan (January 8, 2014) Are some hospitals discharging patients before they are ready, causing them to be subsequently readmitted? This would seem to be th Continue Reading...
Hospital Readmissions In any profession today, quality control means the prevention of problems that were the aim of the business to solve in the first places. Recurrence of these problems means that the business has not been functioning optimally a Continue Reading...
Our prejudiced minds and clouded vision make us believe that all black men are criminals resulting in a twisted criminal justice system. Thomas Sancton (1991) reveals, "...blacks and Hispanics are proportionally far more likely to be sent to death c Continue Reading...
DESIGN FOR CHANGE PROPOSAL Re-hospitalization of older adults has become prevalent in most of the health facilities in Canada, posing financial challenges for the health system as well as the older adults. Besides the rise in healthcare expenses that Continue Reading...
Quality Indicator Healthcare Quality Indicators With the adoption of the Affordable Care Act, also now commonly referred to as Obamacare, the array of quality indicators used to assess healthcare facility performance has expanded. The addition of a Continue Reading...
Health Information Improving Healthcare with Personal Health Records (PHRs) With the inception of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2012, the United States began undertaking the most dramatic reconfiguration of its healthcare system Continue Reading...
Health Education on Re-Hospitalization of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure The heart failure is one of the top health problems in the United States leading to high rate of morbidity and mortality among people aged 60 years and above. The complic Continue Reading...
Discharge Education to Promote Self-Efficacy in Heart Failure An Education Intervention For Patients With Heart Failure Management of congestive heart failure (CHF) continues to be a financial burden on the economy of the United States of America ( Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act & Nursing There are a number of different provisions of the Affordable Care Act that were designed to improve the health care system -- well, all of the provisions were designed to do that. The most immediate improvements wil Continue Reading...
The Affordable Care Act means that health coverage will be required for almost every American and will be partially subsidized. However, it will not change the employer-centric, private-insurer-based system of financing and coverage. Demand for care Continue Reading...
Healthcare Quality Measurement Compare one measurement that you identified in the Week 2 Discussion with one measurement outlined by the CMS restricted reimbursements and explain how these two measures demonstrate evidence of compliance with their r Continue Reading...
Health Care Reform Effecting Public Health United States Healthcare reform is an integral part of the United States healthcare system. Below is an evaluation of the effects healthcare reform has had on healthcare in the U.S. Internet sources as well Continue Reading...
Strategic Plan Part II - Environmental Analysis and Setting Strategic Goals The objective of this study is to complete an environmental scan for the Bon Secours Health System. This study will assess the organizational internal strengths and weakness Continue Reading...
Economics of Medical Errors Medical Error Economics The 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System pulled the curtain back on the dark secret of medical errors (Institute of Medicine, 2000). The best est Continue Reading...
Nurse BurnoutIntroductionAmong the various factors contributing to nursing shortages and high turnover, nurse burnout stands out as significant (McDermid et al., ). Indeed, burnout is a serious problem because it impairs individual nurses\\\' health, Continue Reading...
Introduction The main objective of this assignment is to conduct a SWOT analysis for a healthcare organization. Essentially, SWOT analysis is a beneficial framework for scrutinizing an organization’s strengths and weaknesses, and the opportunit Continue Reading...
Introduction As rising health care costs continue to pose problems for stakeholders in the health care industry, the question of just how to solve this dilemma remains an elusive one. The trouble is that it is not just a question of cost—but al 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...
Electronic Health Records (EHR) Description: The legislation Over the past fifty years, Electronic Health Records or EHRs have quickly transformed just like all other technologies in computing. The pace of these transformations has seen more accel Continue Reading...
