Essays on Healthcare Quality

Should U.S. Provide Free Healthcare Coverage For All? Should U.S. Provide Free Healthcare Coverage For All? The healthcare system is an important factor in the success of any country. It is an engine for innovation, as it disseminates life-enhancing treatments for the citizens to have better health. The healthcare system can provide enormous benefits to its citizens. With continuous consumption of healthcare services by individuals comes a growing demand for healthcare services that provide happiness and satisfaction to people. For this, patient satisfaction has been labeled as “a complimentary measure of healthcare quality” (Browne et al., 2010, p.921). In ...

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Several legal and ethical principles influence the workforce in healthcare organizations, particularly in light of employees belonging to diverse cultural backgrounds coming together for achieving common organizational goals. Towards managing employees in a huge healthcare setting it would be effective for HR functionaries to understand the legal relationships existing between the organization and employees in the first place. Most importantly, healthcare organizations that employ diverse employees must clearly define ethical behavior patterns of employees among each other and with the patients and their family members. Ethical behavior with employees belonging to another culture calls for not only treating each ...

Concern for quality clinical and healthcare services has risen over the past few years. People want value for their money. They want to be treated courteously, they want to use the best equipment their reimbursements can afford them and above all they want to be guaranteed of their health. However, as the healthcare industry is shifting to adopt more tech-savvy methods of delivering its services, who will be responsible for overseeing the level of quality of health services? Should hospitals and other healthcare facilities have separate quality control department or should the efforts of quality control be integrated into ...

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Recent research on healthcare cost and quality shows that Americans remains more positive about their personal healthcare situations as compared to healthcare situation in the nation. This suggests that the general population in America responds negatively to the new healthcare laws partly as the majority have not faced any personal problems with their healthcare system (Americans' Views of Healthcare Quality, Cost, and Coverage, 2016). About seventy percent of Americans rate their personal healthcare good and are more positive about healthcare coverage after Barack Obama became president. There is a relatively high personal satisfaction with healthcare coverage. The satisfaction with ...

For an organization to perform as envisioned, it should ensure that quality management is practiced all through from management, to the staff, and even the subordinates. In doing so, it should focus on several key areas as discussed in this paper. Quality management is a broad scope, ranging from its purpose, how different stakeholders define quality, accrediting bodies, and information resources. This paper looks keenly into quality improvement, focusing on the health care sector. Furthermore, it highlights the role it plays, gives details on various accrediting bodies involved in quality improvement and various peripheral resources that deliver quality information. ...

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Technology is constantly changing with a rapid pace that has greatly influenced the healthcare setting. The practices within the healthcare settings have adopted different innovative and information technology system and devices that have change the nursing practice (Westra & Delaney, 2009). In this document, the problems related to the adoption of technology’s impacting nursing practices are discussed. It critically analyzes the role of the nursing leadership as counteracting to the resolve the issues and concerned related to the technology use in nursing practices. It focuses on the application of leadership strategies to overcome the problem. Moreover, it concludes with ...

The innovations that the Hill Physicians Medical Group (HPMG) employees can be replicated in 2014 and beyond. The purpose of HPMG’s innovation agenda is to improve and transform healthcare delivery through an affiliated, but not fully integrated healthcare group. The innovations that HPMG employed in 2009 can be replicated in 2014 because of some reasons. First, the technology still exists in 2014 in the same, if not improved, status. For example, HPMG uses health information technology approaches to maintain electronic medical records and integrate them into the daily medical practice of the physicians (Emswiler & Nichols, 2009). The physicians ...

The CIHQ is one of the country’s newest agencies that offers accreditation services to acute care providers in meeting Medicare participation standards. The organization offers accreditation support to home health agencies, hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory care facilities. CIHQ receives its funding from CMS and membership fees. The resources available for those seeking accreditation includes surveys and support tools. These resources are helpful in ensuring that organizations maintain their services in an EBP and cost effective manner. Lastly, CIHQ defines quality improvement as the achievement of care quality, service, and treatment through cost-effective measures (Tavenner, 2013). The ...