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...
GENDER DIFFERENCE AMONG VETERANS Does Gender Affect the Utilization of Mental Health Care Services among Veterans? The decision one takes when choosing a career poses a lifelong effect on his own life as well as of his family members. The deployment Continue Reading...
Health Care Delivery Systems The structure and organization of the resources that make it possible to provide health care services to target populations is referred to as a health care system. The variety of health care systems is very wide with str 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...
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...
Healthcare Reform Initiatives in California The citizens of California are fortunate to have one of the best healthcare systems in the United States. This paper reviews the laws and initiatives that relate to the healthcare coverage and facilities t Continue Reading...
Stated to be barriers in the current environment and responsible for the reporting that is inadequate in relation to medical errors are: Lack of a common understanding about errors among health care professionals Physicians generally think of erro Continue Reading...
In particular, the attorneys working on this issue claim that the VA is "structurally unsuitable" for dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) which is "a signature problem" veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are suffering from (Wei Continue Reading...
Veterans & Retirees; Is Government Keeping its Promise This study aimed at exploring the experiences and perceptions of Veterans belonging to Lousiana and Mississippi about three variables; the accessibility of organization; the accessibility of Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act decreased the number of Americans without health insurance by the millions, which was its primary objective. It used three different mechanisms to achieve this goal -- the expansion of Medicaid, the insurance exchanges, and the ex 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...
Healthcare Coordinator Interview An overview of VHA's tele-health program is given in this article which includes an interview of a leader who is involved in this program. This program along with its operational and strategic considerations can be u Continue Reading...
A recent article touted the 6.1% growth of spending on medical care in 2007. The same article cautioned however that, "most experts know that no matter what the numbers say, there is still a great deal of work ahead to reform a healthcare system th Continue Reading...
Security in Healthcare The recent advances in technology -- databases that store personal medical records and information -- are bringing tools to patients, doctors and other healthcare professionals that were simply not available just a few years Continue Reading...
Information on a Person with Chronic Illness: Mr. Barnard WestToday, approximately 300,000 adults in the United States, representing less than 1% of the American adult population, suffer from ankylosing spondylitis, also known as inflammatory back di Continue Reading...
cultural diversity issues and its impact on nursing professionals' practice. It assesses a client hailing from a different culture, and employs information derived from the assessment determining and reflecting on health practices and beliefs of the 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...
Health Politics "What is the role of Congress in policy making process"? Policy is a plan to identify goal or possible course of actions with administrative or management tools to accomplish these goals. On the other hand, policy is the authoritati Continue Reading...
It promised to be a very important resource to the primary care setting, but at present, the performance has not been considerable and there have been lack of funds and local consensus, which thwart its implementation (Pidd). Shared Care Between GP Continue Reading...
Current status in implementing the affordable care act with regard to veterans' mental health problems The Affordable Care Act's enactment gave rise to major concerns with regard to greater healthcare expenditure and reduced benefits for the Continue Reading...
Does Gender Affect the Utilization of Mental Health Care Services among Veterans? The decision one makes when choosing a career poses a lifelong effect on his own life as well as of his family members. The deployment decision of a career that the per Continue Reading...
Healthcare as an Obligation of Each Citizen Live chat The commercialization of services and goods has been on the rise with the prevalence of globalization to an extent that even essential services that human cannot survive without like the health Continue Reading...
GI Bill do? It provided health care to wounded veterans of World War II. It allowed American veterans of World War II to go to college free and to obtain low-interest mortgages. It gave American veterans a pension so that they would not have to w Continue Reading...
Some of the other benefits of the NHI include the fact that contributions are payroll - related and, of course, as previously mentioned, the fact that the contributions are shared between the three main actors: the employer, the employee and the go Continue Reading...
Health Administration The purpose of this study is to show that there are many reasons why nurses leave their profession, but that financial reasons often rank very high on their list of concerns. Managed care issues and job dissatisfaction also pla Continue Reading...
SWOT Analysis DraftSection I: SWOT TableThe organization of interest is the U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) which operates the nations largest integrated network of health care services, providing caring for 9 million enrolled veterans annu Continue Reading...
Internet Risk and Cybercrime at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Internet Risk Cybercrime Today, the mission of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as taken from President Lincoln's second inaugural address is, "To care for him who Continue Reading...
1. Veteran Health Needs Returning veterans and their families need early identification and treatment, as well as continuity of care. Early identification of mental health issues is critical, but needs to take place within a veterans’ healthcar Continue Reading...
organization: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) What this organization does -- its mission, vision and overall strategy: The mission of the VA is taken from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address which is to "To care for him who shall have borne the Continue Reading...
First of all only a scant few of these Veterans groups will acknowledge the "promise" of free health care; for the most part these groups will tout the benefits already promised by the Veterans Administration and assert that cuts in these benefits Continue Reading...
1529). Linked to but separate from attachment theory, cognitive theories focus on identifying deficient or distorted cognitive structures and processes that may contribute to a disorder (Mash & Barkley, 2003). Taken together, the foregoing findi Continue Reading...
Veteans Health Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Locale of the firm The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the conveyance of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) head by the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health t Continue Reading...
Department of Veterans Affairs Claims Processing Dilemmas Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a cabinet-level agency in the U.S. government. The mission of the VA is taken from Lincoln's second inaugural address and is to "care for him who shall 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...
, 2011, pp. 263). In implementing something as simple as phone-based CBT with the veterans in the research project at hand, an overall improvement in mental health and well-being could be achieved through relatively few treatments as research has sho Continue Reading...
The organization being analyzed is the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), which is the largest integrated healthcare system in the U.S. VHA is a component of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and it is led by the Under Secretary of Veterans Continue Reading...
