The healthcare industry is operating world widely at a level of effectiveness and quality below the required standards of patients, industry supervisory bodies and healthcare professionals. The mainstream of concerns moves around access to care, excellence of care, dominance of erroneous medical diagnoses and increasing costs. Health care field requires many changes and quality initiatives at various levels. First, it should appoint a good number of health care professionals. They will deal with their patients well and provide them with all the necessary care. In this way, patients will feel better and they will not become ill earlier because they have been provided with all the basic and essential care. When there is scanty of profession, the quality of work is affected and so does the quality of care. Though, at first it will cost high to the government, but eventually it will prove to be beneficial for them. In this way patients’ satisfaction and reduction in cost will be achieved.
A number of hospitals where there are an adequate number of doctors, the patient output recorded is quite satisfactory. Other important implementation that would help in reducing costs and achieve satisfaction of patients is to start program providing patients with necessary information they can utilize in choosing hospitals, together with tools or apps that demonstrate both cost comparisons and outcome data for particular procedures. One study has been conducted by the National Health Insurance to check the effectiveness of implementation of programs providing necessary information to the patients. The study showed 39% fewer complications and 46% reduced costs on each procedure.
The third quality initiative highly needed is to promote diagnostic as well as preventive screenings. Early detection of disease is not only important for the patient but also for the healthcare professional and the government. It is seen people come to hospital when their disease has been advanced. At this stage, healthcare professionals cannot offer satisfaction. Also, the control of disease requires vigorous treatment and expenditure. It is therefore recommended to detect the disease earlier than it becomes too late. It can be explained by considering an example of a patient whose cancer is detected in its initial stage. Now, his treatment will be different than when it would be detected in the advanced stage when chances of cure would be poor too.
Three out of every ten elderly people faces every day on an inadequate income with little flexibility for additional or unforeseen medical expenses. Medicare or Medicaid is their only way to assist them with their medical bills (Rowland & Lyons, 1996). I think both are good means to support needy people. No doubt these payment methods are not in healthcare professional’s favor yet these are helping people in their time of need. I therefore support and accept these programs for the human wellbeing. As far as my position is concerned, I consider that medicare and medicaid should be accepted as the potential pay source in the urgent care centers.
This will indicate that the hospital or care centers are able to provide stabilized treatment and can provide facilities to patients as and when required. (Zibulewsky, 2001). For example, I will provide skilled and accomplished nursing facility that includes medical care. Rehabilitation facility will also be provided to the injured, disabled and ill people. Moreover, long term treatment and health care services that are not available in community will be provided to the patient that need regular checkup due to their disturbed physical and mental conditions.
References
Zibulewsky, Joseph. (2001). The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA): What it is and What it Means for Physicians. Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center), 14(4), 339-346
Rowland, Diane, Lyons & Barbara. (1996). Medicare, Medicaid, and the Elderly Poor. Health Care Financing Review/Winter, 18(2), 61-85
