Essays on Health Care Delivery

I. Management Summary The FM General Hospital aims to develop its growth marketing strategy, and the purpose of this plan is to present a market penetration strategy to address the health care trends projected over the course of the following five years. Specifically, it is expected that outpatient care and sub-acute care (i.e., home health) will be the most important trends in health care delivery and marketing in the future. It is also expected that targeting millennials with different sources of educational health materials, including websites and print materials, will be required to improve relationships between those groups of ...

The number of specialized fields in nursing have increased significantly making nurses the largest workforce in US. With the ever-increasing population, the nursing profession requires certification of additional nurses annually. However, the field has called for various specialties that are categorized in respect to different duties, expected salaries, and certification requirement. Although every specialty is equally important when it comes to patient treatment, some specialties are popular than others depending on the duties held by the nurses. This essay will address a few nursing specialties majoring on clinical nurse specialist, the duties given to the nurses, their annual salaries, ...

Current Health Policy Debate regarding the Affordable Care Act

Introduction The health policy debate regarding ObamaCare focuses on the interest of average U.S citizens. The Affordable Care Act offers protection and benefits to all United States’ citizens regardless of their economic status and social lifestyle. The ACA seeks to reduce the insurance premiums to ensure the majority of average American families are covered. The law seeks to ensure 30 million of 44 million Americans without insurance get access to health coverage (ObamaCare, 2015). The government through the health insurance marketplaces, employers and Medicaid would ensure more Americans obtains health insurance coverage. The health law focuses on low-income Americans ...

Introduction

When working as a master’s prepared nurse, it is important to understand some of the key aspects that would define one’s capability or capacity to work as a nurse, as masters programs offer high-level training to nurses. The high-level training programs offered through masters programs allow them to prepare for any eventualities or challenges arising within the nursing practice. In addition, masters programs also provide nurses with information that they would require in their bid to engaging in progressive change. The key element of focus for this report is to address a key health care delivery situation ...

Information and Communication Teachnology

ABSTRACT As telemedicine is used throughout the rural parts of Africa, there are many professionals and patients who find the entire process very beneficial because there is an allowance for a decrease in transmission of highly contagious diseases such as MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). If there are clinics that are found in locations surrounding rural Africa, there are strong concerns that patients will be able to transmit their diseases to other people who are otherwise healthy. With the use of telemedicine, the patients and the health care providers can see each other through a confined space and there is ...

Introduction

The aspect of client-centered care has gained increasing interest as the delivery of care shifts from nurse-focused norms to care that focuses on individual needs and beliefs. The presence of a holistic, compassionate client-centered care has replaced traditional modes of health care delivery to modern types where nurses apply both the science and art of health care delivery to ensure a positive patient outcome. Understanding the meaning and characteristics of a holistic, compassionate client-centered care creates a collaborative health environment.

The meaning of holistic, compassionate client-centered care

The holistic, compassionate client-centered care refers to the process of providing care to the diverse population whereby the care ...

Introduction

The term managed care refers to various healthcare insurance plans used in the United States, which are aimed at moderating the cost of providing care to the citizens. Essentially, the techniques used are intended to enhance the quality of patient care provided in the medical facilities. The approaches also include the systems of financing the enrolled organizations under the managed healthcare concept and techniques. In this essay, three types of managed care plans will be discussed. Furthermore, their impact on the way services are delivered at Healing Hands Hospital will be included. The paper will identify the changes that ...

Article 1:

Leininger, M. (1996). Culture care theory, research, and practice. Nursing Science Quarterly,

9(2), 71-78. doi:101177/08943184960090028

Introduction Nursing theories continue to play a critical role in the delivery of care to diverse populations in the present era. The health care sector is working towards advancing the discipline and professional of nursing by ensuring providers acquire relevant nursing knowledge to deal with present and upcoming health challenges. The author of the article, Madeleine Leininger, uses the culture care theory to show its relevance in helping educate health providers how to transform the practice of nursing through modern practices that accommodate cultural competency.

Synopsis

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"I need you", said Lisa, a patient of cervical cancer, and the mother of three children, to Rocco, a registered nurse employed by the First Congregational Church in Hudson. Rocco accompanied her to the doctor's appointment, arranged volunteers to bring meals and take care of children thrice a week during her treatment. "I do not know what would I have done without you," said overwhelmed Lisa. This particular care highlights the modus operandi of parish nurses. Parish nursing is a growing movement where nurses do not give first-hand care or shots but focus on prevention of illness and promotion ...

Introduction

The health of individuals and communities is dependent on many factors defined by the environment and circumstances. Among the environmental factors affecting the health of the people are disease and illness beliefs of some cultures and communities. The type of health and illness belief found in a specific group of people influences the outcome of the disease assessment process. The United States continues to experience high population growth rate leading to increasing diversity in the delivery of health care. Therefore, health care providers need more knowledge and skills on how to deal with people from diverse populations to increase ...

Introduction: Australia is made of 6 state and 2 territories. It has one the best performing healthcare system in the world. At present, Australian healthcare system is a mix of public and private health care providers. The public health care system is funded by the government. Australia has a three tier government: the federal or commonwealth government, the state/territory government, and the local government. The health care system in Australia is complex. Given below is an overview of the system and its functions. 1. The structure of Australian Health Care System: The system of health care delivery is fragmented ...

Introduction

The nursing profession is one of the chief cornerstones of health care delivery worldwide. The role that nurses play in delivering heath care to populations cannot be overemphasized, which makes the profession such an integral part of the medical sector. One of the basic tenets of the nursing profession is that it comprises an integrated approach to various nursing models that work to ensure the effectiveness of the professionals while ensuring patient safety. This paper explores the models and their importance to the overall health care delivery system. Specifically, it reviews journal articles that examine both the synergy and ...

The young generation endeavors to build a healthy and high-performance society based on principles of activity, vitality of the body and positivity. According to that and due to the fact of raising unfavorable disasters the popularity rating of starting the career within the healthcare area has been increasing throughout past decades. The many young adults show an interest in life saving and demonstrating their skills to provide the community with well-qualified medical workers such as registered nurses (RN). It is significant to absorb the features of the nursing profession in order to estimate its pros and cons for those ...

One of the branches of science that is currently gaining popularity is health policy. Health policy is defined as the study which deals with the different actions and plans done by the local, state, and even the national government. Additionally, it includes the different efforts in terms of legislative and regulatory aspects, especially with organizing, financing, and delivering of health care services. Some of the health care concerns associated with health policy include trainings and seminars of health professionals, ensuring the safety of the different medicines, drugs, and medical services, implementing different public health programs, and regulating of the ...

Advanced nursing practice is recognized as an advanced level of nursing care that uses in-depth nursing knowledge and nursing expertise to meet health care needs. Unlike traditional nursing practice, advanced nursing practice involves numerous streams of activities like: analysis, knowledge synthesis, critical thinking, decision making, interpreting, evidence based practice and managerial/administrative roles. The evolution of advanced nursing practitioners happened when nurses were expected to take extra responsibility in addition to their traditional role. Due to lack of a sufficient number of doctors to attend to people in remote areas and in families, nurses were given the added responsibility to ...

Abstract

Rural residents have different health care needs compared to urban populations. There are economic, social and cultural as well as educational aspects that impacts the manner by which health care is delivered in rural areas. As a means to address the different health care needs of urban residents, legislators worked towards the development and implementation of policies that are perceived to improve the health and well being of the urban population. Included in these programs is the adoption of better payment plans, the promotion of wider and more affordable health insurance, and the alteration in the health care delivery ...

1. Introduction The health care system in the United States is considered to be unique among other developed countries, including those participating in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). What is more, the system is recognized as one of the most complex ones across the globe. This attitude towards complexity is mostly associated with high costs which derive from the necessity to cover the expenditures of doctors’ training and education, prices on drugs, equipment and technologies as well as costs of chronic diseases. Moreover, access to quality health care refers to another side of complexity, because uninsured ...

The health care system of America has been declining, and over the years, discussions about how to address the said problem has been going on. According to reports, there are several other factors to this issue that should make the health care system one of the country’s priorities. Among Western countries, the United States were found to be spending more on health care than any other progressive nations. Compared to Canada, which was found to have the second highest spending in terms of health care, but in 1990, America has surpassed Canada’s spending by 44% (Cicconi and ...

Innovation in Health Care

Abstract This paper explores innovations in healthcare and the barriers involved. Research includes the trials of political and managerial influences and how they promote or delay the execution of innovative health care. The benefits of innovative healthcare will be outlined as well as the challenges faced through barriers on many levels throughout business and political operations. Ultimately, the paper is in favor of innovative healthcare and advocates to enrich the reader on the overall importance of effective and rapid innovation in the medical sector. The paper also explores the weak points of the American health care system and references ...

Abstract

The transformation of the Primary Care Practices (PCP) into The Patient- Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model is expected to improve patient’s care, comprising even the ones with complex needs. According to Rich et.al (2012), PCMH is expected to reduce the risks associated with fragmented care and poor outcomes. The paper will also address factors as whether or not patient health care needs and even preferences are being met, whether the care is appropriate for the illness, timeliness, and procedures involved. Moreover, it will comprehensively address the state of provider contracting and its direction in the future. Nonetheless, the ...

Part 1

Nurses will continue to play an important role in the health care delivery system. The United States just like any other country across the world is faced with challenges in the delivery of quality healthcare. For instance, an increased in the aging population creates a demand for quality care in the treatment of chronic diseases (Shi & Singh, 2014). To adequately address these challenges, transformation of nursing profession becomes necessary. Health care professionals are needed to take care of the patients in all settings that are; in the hospitals and homes. Caring for the sick is becoming complicated day in ...

America has a great diversity in terms of culture; this is due to different ethnic and racial communities living in the United States. The same also applies to Washington Dc, a city that is made up of diverse racial communities. For every research or an assessment, the demographics of the target population or certain geographical area play a very vital role in determining the data collection and assessment methods. For this cultural mental health assessment, we shall therefore first analyze the demographics of Washington DC, northwest area. According to the U.S Census which was carried out in the year ...

Introduction

The competitiveness of nurses is essential in order to provide quality and safe care. The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses or QSEN provides a framework, which aims to emphasize the essence of different competencies, from which the Patient-Centered Care in included. It is important that nurses understand the significance of focusing on patient’s needs towards the provision of better health outcome and overall quality care. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Patient-Centered Care competency and how it affects the delivery of care. Additionally, this paper will discuss how the evidence-based practice in nursing relates ...

Informatics

The health profession continuously evolves through time. It entails the use of technology in order to deliver the quality service that the clients deserve. As such, informatics could be of great help for improving the health profession. The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing (2016) defines “the study and application of information technology to the arts, science and professions, and to its use in organizations and society at large” (IUSIC, 2016). As for science, informatics involves the engineering of information systems and the practice of processing data and information. It studies human interaction with information, as well as ...

Overview

When a leader has the facts at hand about patients, the possibility of handling emergencies amicably is very high as this leader will be highly equipped and ready for an emergency. The culture of data evaluation inculcates in leaders the proficiency of offering secure, safe and quality services to their patients. This paper seeks to examine a leader’s role in data evaluation for quality and safety improvement. It will also look at the quality improvement plans and leadership attributes that help in evaluating data, therefore, improving quality and safety. In evaluating quality improvement, the concept of health quality ...

Executive Summary

Executive Summary

Over the past few years, there has been a notable increase in the number of car accidents on our road leading to an increase in Emergency cases in the hospitals. The emergency section of the hospital has proven to be a little bit small for these increased cases; as it was not designed to suit that high number of patients at once. With this in mind, the purpose of the project would be to create a wing that would be specifically designed to handle such cases. This will result in effective health care delivery to the patients and utilization ...

Question 1

When not handled well, conflict can stifle team work efforts and multidisciplinary collaboration, an element that is very essential in the delivery of patient centered care. Although Rubenfeld & Scheffer (2010) argue that conflict can have adverse effects on patient care, conflict can also be handled differently in order to yield positive results and promote collaboration and interdisciplinary team work. Nelson, King & Brodine (2008) argue that conflicts between nurses and physicians at time arise because of differences in opinions with regards to the requirements for patient care. The enduring hierarchical relations between nurses and ...

In 2010, the Institute of Medicine released its report Future of Nursing and this document identifies specific areas to improve the nursing profession. In the report, the IOM recommends that (a) the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree is increased to 80% by 2020, (b) the number of nurses with a doctorate is doubled by 2020, (d) nurses engage in lifelong learning. There is already an existing high demand for nurses in the US. Such demand will continue because there are a growing number of older populations, and the population has also become more diverse. The change in the demographics of US patients ...

Abstract

This paper discusses how collaboration among various players in a health care delivery process can be promoted. It initially emphasizes on the manner in which various tasks in health care delivery are interconnected. Approaches that a health care administrator can apply to foster collaboration among clinicians are discussed. Collaboration is depicted as an important way to minimize human error in order to promote patient safety while also reducing organizational risks. The paper also discusses how physician leadership can encourage initiatives to promote reduction of organizational risks and patient safety.

Delivery of health care services in the current world is shifting towards a ...

In past years there was a constant increase in the health related costs. The expenditure touched $2.3 trillion in United States in 2008 alone which was just $714 billion in the year 1990. The expenditure was eight times more in 2008 compared to 1980. It accounts to $7681 per capita expenditure spent by US health care in 2008.Adverse effects has been observed amongst citizens and government due to unprecedented rise of health care costs. Obviously, US government is spending less in economic growth and more on health care. Concerns were raised by citizens and businesses to implement health care reforms ...

Letter to editor

Letter to the Editor and copy to Legislative Representative Health Care delivery measures require the imparting of high quality medical and paramedical care in primary, secondary and territory care. With the rapid advancement in the fields of medicine, surgery post-operative convalescence and long term geriatric or tertiary cure there have emerged more areas for making mistakes. With this emergence of new techniques and methodologies of health care delivery there have become possible several levels of care. Along with the provision of such care came the greater responsibility of ensuring the best possible quality of care. There ...

Anna Maria CollegeNursing ProgramsNUS 314 - Essentials of Nursing Research

The Abstract Nurses enter the medical field with the belief of changing the lives of their patients by providing quality care and helping them overcomes their health concerns. However, most of them do not anticipate the challenges that may arise from taking care of patients with special health concerns. In this case, nurses are prone to experience various issues that arise from taking care of patients. This study aims at identifying the risk factors that icnr4ease the chances of nurses experiencing compassion fatigue. Many nurses in practice experience secondary Post traumatic stress disorder that arises from taking care ...

The National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards in Healthcare was set up to ensure that inequalities in the provision of healthcare resulting from cultural and linguistic differences are eliminated. The need for equal treatment of all persons irrespective of gender, social status, culture or religion, is inevitable in a diverse society (Jeffreys, 2010). Communication between the patient and the nurses or physicians is crucial in the health care setting. This communication can, however, be limited by existing societal or cultural barriers. Professionalism coupled with cultural competence for healthcare providers is crucial in order to understand the patients’ needs. ...

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Designation Abstract The issue paper is about the discussion of health care as a commodity with responses from patient, suppliers, and principles of supply and demand and impact of health insurance on purchase decisions. The issue paper argues that health care must not be seen as other commodities and relevant discussion is made. This is followed by the critical evaluation of CDHP policy initiative in health care to promote transparency in the health care sector. The role of government in promoting transparency is discussed. This helps in making the health care sector sensitive to the market ...

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Designation Health Care Delivery Systems 1. Accessibility is cited as the major reason for the poorest outcome of the US Health Care system. Health care in the US follows the market justice model. The patients pay for the health care service. The service varies according to the pay. Hence people with good financial resource can get outstanding health care services in US. People with poor economic resources are neglected of quality health care in US. Lucas Kawa, 2013 discusses the increasing mortality rates and poor health care measures in United States. The life expectancy of ...

Taking the current meteoric and disturbing rise of lifestyle and chronic diseases into account, the shift from treatment diseases to chronic diseases will be a significant issue in the delivery of healthcare. Diseases and conditions such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, mental disorders, heart disease, pulmonary conditions, and stroke are projected to see a 42% rise by the year 2013. Chronic diseases cause about 60% of deaths worldwide. Most developed countries in the world are facing aging populations, and this will also affect the health delivery system because older people are more likely to be affected by chronic diseases. Older people are ...

United States health care system focuses on delivering quality healthcare services and improving people’s wellbeing. The practices and services offered by U.S. healthcare focus on ensuring patients receive quality care and achieve a better patient outcome. The health care delivery system used in U.S. is unique and very effective. Health care centers must comply with the rules and regulations of the U.S. Department of Health. The two major components of U.S. health care system are health care delivery and health services delivery (Jonas, Goldsteen, & Goldsteen, 2007). Well, Being Hospital must ensure accomplishment of these components by using effective health ...

Introduction:

This paper describes some of the areas of potential advancement towards quality improvement at Phoenix Children’s Hospitals and among its Medicine Centers. One significant improvement strategy is measurement. As Dickson and Tholl (2014) espouses, the attribute involves collection of clinical data to advance patient care and outcomes. By using measurement as a tool, clinical leaders can understand the direction and status of the services delivered as well as define the quality levels within the organization.

Areas of potential improvement:

The core areas of consideration are pediatric research and trauma diagnostics. Both of these aspects have a significant impact on the organization’s mission statement ...

Introduction The increasing technological advancement, changing healthcare policies and progression of some illness calls for evidence-based research in heath care. The need to adapting to new techniques in the contemporary nursing has led to researchers coming up with a large volume of literature. Decision in healthcare has then turned out very complex. It requires a systematic search and analysis of every article and document by caregivers to get the appropriate evidence-based information. The use of a systematic review in managing large volumes of research evidence involves the process of documenting the methods before starting any search to identify different studies under the ...

Quality Improvement Plan: John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County [Institution Title]

Abstract

This paper present a Quality Improvement Plan for John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. Specifically, the focus of the QI plan relates to advocating injury prevention programs as well rendering superior quality patient care, the quality improvement plan shall concentrate on this aspect of health care. The said plan is directed towards the patient service, My Cook County Health, and clinical service pertaining to the Psychiatry Department. The two areas were selected because of the direct correlation of the following departments and areas of ...

[Institution Title] The United States of America is known all over the world for its so many names and titles. However, the country with the highest quality of health care is not among those title. In fact, in 2000 the United States ranked 38 among the 101 countries included in the World Health Organization’s list of Health Care System in the world . This rating was earned despite leading the per capita spending on health care issues and concern. In the 2010 online article, it enumerated the United States taking the spot among the seven highly industrialized nations ...

Executive Summary

The quality improvement plan will highlight St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital an autonomous nonprofit organization that has committed to improving the quality and affordability of health care in Memphis. The paper will highlight the mission, goals and objectives of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital using different quality improvement activities mentioned. The quality improvement activities help hospital generate income for the free treatment services they offer. The QI activities include the created campaigns such as ‘Partner in Hope’ and ‘Genome Project’. The initiatives have helped save more children from cancer and increase their chances of survival. In ...

THE HEALTH CARE MARKET

Qn 1 Access to health care services varies from state to state. In the U.S, healthcare services have tremendously evolved from a predominantly volunteer or charitable system where patients paid little or no money at all to business entities (Ameringer, 2008). The healthcare industry is now one of the largest industry employing over 13 million workers with a projection to increase by 5 million by 2015. According to Ameringer, its very unfortunate that the health system problems lie with delivery system that drives low quality and inefficient care in a country filled with latest technological advancements and skilled health care professionals. ...

Health Care Delivery in TRICARE (United Healthcare)

Introduction TRICARE is a uniformed services health care program under the umbrella program of United Healthcare that is offered for active service duty members together with their families as well as retired service members with their dependents and members of the National Guard and Reserve with their families and other eligible survivors. The main objective of TRICARE is to deliver world-class health care services and benefits for all the Military Health System (MHS) beneficiaries. It also aims at providing the highest level of satisfaction of its patients and bringing together all the networks of civilian health care services for ...

Demographic shift and morbidity trends in United States: Implications for health systems

Introduction The proportion of population requiring different types of medical and health care services is a fundamental input for strategic health care planning. Moreover, the evolving demographic profile and relative burden of key morbidities in different age groups are important considerations in designing health care delivery systems. The ongoing demographic transition in developed countries is bringing about profound changes in their morbidity patterns with significant increases in burden of chronic ailments, diseases linked to aging and lifestyle-related disorders like obesity. The long term costs associated with treatment and rehabilitation support for an increasingly aging population is a serious constraint that ...

Nurses in advanced roles apply “an expanded range of practical, theoretical, and research-based competencies to phenomena” (Barker, 2009, p.19) within specialized areas of nursing. Advanced roles include nurse practitioner, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator. Each role is distinct yet all roles share similarities in the areas of clinical practice, primary care, education, administration, and research. This assumption is explored by comparing and contrasting the different roles. A good background on advanced nursing roles assists in situating this student’s own role as family nurse practitioner. Henceforth, it becomes easier to analyze this specific role in terms of ...

Safety is a one of the essential elements that stand out in the definition of quality health care by the IOM.Quality health care must also be patient centered, equitable, efficient, timely and effective. Health care providers strive to meet these essential elements in providing health care services as well as in the management practices. The International of Medicine Website provides stakeholders within the health care sector with key guidelines that need to be used towards delivery of safe and quality health care. In nursing practice, the elements of quality health care can easily be applied in nursing since the ...

Introduction

Good health care systems are essential in the prosperity of any population. The ability to access and afford quality health care systems is a pre-requisite in the building of a prosperous nation. Therefore, it is mandatory that professionals in the health care sector acquire the adequate skills and qualifications necessary to provide satisfactory health care services. Proper education and training are crucial aspects of effective health care delivery. Patient outcomes heavily rely on the amount of experience and expertise acquired by health care practitioners.

Importance of Education and Training in Health Care

Education provides the basic theoretical understanding health care provision. It involves gaining an in depth insight into ...

Life is always a journey with many challenges and tempting situations. It is worth noting that the society today is very diverse, and the field of nursing is characterized by tremendous challenges and diversity of culture. Initially, I have embarked in the career education and it is my belief that the academic journey will help me in my contribution to nursing. For many decades, I have developed the compassion about helping people with many problems. It is worth noting that the academic journey is a platform towards my contribution to nursing. There are many people in society and in the field ...

The Article on the Standards of Practice for Culturally competent Nursing Care: 2011 update published in the Journal of Transcultural Nursing in 2011, looks into the practical standards that can be applied in the health care setting to ensure safe and effective health care services to the patients. The standards stated in the article reflect a global health care practice environment in terms of clinical practice, education, research as well as administration. Therefore, the standards addressed in the article address different parties for health care services which range from individuals to populations. One such party is the Military population in ...

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Designation Introduction The critical thinking paper begins with the discussion of health financing concept. The paper explains the process and techniques that will be used in designing the healthcare services package as well as health financing mechanism/s for Province A in country Y. Priority setting and Programme Budgeting and Marginal analysis techniques are discussed in a critical manner and recommended to be the techniques established for the health care package at Province A. Economic evaluation methods are discussed with Cost benefit analysis recommended for the case. The Strategies for implementation of health care system at Province A are ...

REGISTERED NURSE

Their Scope of Practice Registered nurses (RN) are responsible for the provision and the coordination of heath care. They are also bestowed with the role of educating patients and also the public about an array of health conditions, provide both emotional support and relevant advice to patients and their families. As an RN, one is in the line of defence between the patient and the misunderstanding that may be facing the patients since most of the patients do not like asking the doctor questions but prefers to ask the RN. Additionally, an RN specialises in a certain line of ...

U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM COMPARED TO AUSTRALIAN The United States and the Australia follow very contrasting healthcare system. To highlight their best, and to learn from their shortcoming, it useful to compare and contrast the system. It will be useful to compare them according to their: accessibility; cost structure; quality; types and availability of the health care settings and services; healthcare quality and outcomes; and health care personnel. Like the rest of the world, United States has both private and public insurers in their health care system. What makes is unique is the dominant role played by ...

Question 1 = Australia Health System Efficient Health care system is an essential component of a country. The three levels of healthcare have its scope and benefits to the populace. The primary care is usually referred to as the first point of contact to the health professional. This is basically because of the scope of practice at this level. It is here we find the primary care physicians, family physicians or general practitioner. At this level of service, the patients do not required referral to access services unlike the secondary health care services that required their patient to have seen ...

Health Care Reform in the United States has been a central subject owing to the high costs involved and the relative lack of access to health care. Health care reform has been a campaign issue and a number of initiatives in addressing the issues. Most Americans grapple with the high costs of health care and lack of access especially to the poor who may not afford health insurance cover. In relation to the White House Health Care Reform government website, I find the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, as the most intriguing health care reform for a number of reasons. ...

Rep. Donna Howard, BSN

Donna Howard is a 61 years old woman, Community advocate by profession. She is currently in thein the Texas House of Representatives Texas as the Representative of House District 48 under the Democratic Party. Her campaigning mostly focus on removing barriers to Health Care, strengthening public education, promoting fiscal responsibility of tax dollars and tax increasing transparency in all levels of government. Rep. Donna mostly focuses on health care delivery system, on September 2013; she made it a felony to abuse emergency room staff in the ERs. Before that, it used to be a misdemeanor, thereby taking the wellbeing of health ...

Introduction

Access to health care in the United States has consistently been changing over time and through various generations. Different generations have necessitated different health needs and, therefore, there has been a need to change and refocus health care policies. Health policy analysis encompasses an approach that seeks to provide an insight and answers to the interaction that exists between institutions, interests and ideas in a policy process. Owing to the different demands that have been posed by different generations, there has been a shift both in the mode of access to health care as well as in health care policies and programs ...

My decision to launch a career in Health Care Management by joining this university was fuelled by the growing desire to serve the community through enabling efficient health care delivery and more so in modern exciting times in the field. Looking back to the time that I enrolled for the course as well as the expectations that I had then, I conclude that the time spent in training has been fruitful and has indeed superseded my expectations. At the time of entry for this postgraduate program, I was impelled by the feeling that my experiences as a child in hospital where ...

Introduction

Health care delivery would not be as efficient as it is now without valuable contributions coming from established experts in the field of medicine. The Mayo Clinic stands as a notable health care institution that has provided some of the most important aspects of modern health care delivery currently in use. Starting from a cause of social concern to provide relief efforts, the Mayo Clinic has emerged as a key player in health care today through its notable innovations and emphasis on the well-being of patients. This study concisely yet comprehensively covers the nature of Mayo Clinic in its enduring importance in ...

Introduction to the U.S. Health Care Industry

History The US health care industry is a little unique when compared to other developed nations. Over the years, in the US, it is only insured Americans who have been able to access basic and routine healthcare services on a continuous basis. It therefore goes that the healthcare insurance schemes that provide these covers are privately owned. However, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010 (ACA) seeks to provide a universal coverage which shall be manned by the Government. As much as it aims at expanding healthcare services to all affordably, cost ...