Essays on Urgent Care

Insurance for Arab women migrants v their counterparts in their homelands

In the United States, Arab migrant women are part of an immigrant population from the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) regions. Health insurance coverage for this group depends on their legal and income statuses. In essence, several thousand have gained coverage under the now threatened Affordable Care Act, with others covered under Medicare, Medicaid, or alternative sources of private insurance. This group majorly comprises of current U.S citizens of Arab origin (Amer & Awad, 2015). However, non-citizen Arab women migrants fall under the 21 percent uninsured residents. These individuals include both undocumented and legally present Arab immigrants. In essence, ...

Introduction

Unexpected medical expenses are very common, and they are frustrating when they happen. These medical requirements have to be met, and this necessitates the need to have an insurance cover. The US federal government offers health insurance programs called Medicare and Medicaid that cater for the financial burden for aged and poor citizens respectively (Rowland & Lyons, 1996). A hospital that accepts Medicare or Medicaid as pay sources is very sensitive to its clients. Furthermore, a hospital should satisfy its customers fully and reduce the cost of medical services for them (Rowland & Lyons, 1996). This paper analyzes quality initiatives that ...

Introduction

Effective marketing strategy is necessary for ensuring that a new product or service is well communicated to the target segment. With that, this report presents a summary of a marketing strategy for a walk in clinic. The report describes the product, the consumers, the impact of outside agencies and regulators, anticipation of the changing market and the importance of the marketing strategy.

Marketing strategy

Product Information Service Description The proposed service is a walk in clinic focusing on the urgent care services such as laboratory testing, sutures, x-rays and removal of foreign bodies. The Clinic will be based in New York ...

A referral system is a system used in health institutions to transfer safely patient care services across different departments, such as referring to a specialist, conducting assessments and treatments, and coordination of services for complex patients. An automated referral system is online. An electronic form is filled out with information about the patient and the primary care provider and the reasons for the referral request with relevant exam results and case history. Upon getting the request, the specialist reviews the form and begins to manage the case. The speciality aims at ensuring that the patients get the needed care ...

Part I Organizational Structure

The structure of the organization is a plan layout of how responsibilities, activities and duties of the organization are to be carried out. Hence, the structure of the organization defines how certain aspects of the operation of the firm are organized towards the achievement of the goals and objectives of the institution (Pugh, 1990, p. 64).The organizational structure usually details the roles that each part of the organization is mandated with which includes individual responsibilities (Russell, 1992, p. 640). The Island Urgent Care (IUC) organizational Structure is a lean structure with a hierarchy that is headed by the founder Robert Ruggeiri, ...

Current reforms under the Obama Care are geared towards greater accountability in the U.S. health care system. The use of technology, including electronic medical record (EMR) systems, is essential in effectively adapting to such changes. A robust EMR system has the capacity to reduce medical errors, makes the documentation and communication of information more efficient, and enables the cost-effective storage of records (Harrington et al., 2011). It is a highly useful technology that will enhance the quality of care of patients, reduce the probability of lawsuits arising from medical errors and increase the job satisfaction of nurses. Hence, investment in ...

Introduction

According to Jack Trout and Steve Rivkin (2010), “what have changed in business in recent decades is the amazing proliferation of product choices in just about every category” (2). Authors exemplified this statement by referring to the choice of providers in the U.S. healthcare industry. If earlier, nothing but services by your doctor, your hospital, Medicare and Blue Cross was on offer, modern healthcare industry us characterized by a strong rivalry of multiple providers. So, under the circumstances of modern highly competitive market, companies need to offer products and services that have the potential to stand out the competition.

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Much like the architectural blueprint of a house which reflects its functional layout depending on the wishes and needs of the client, the design of an organization is also indicative of its function as delineated by its founders. Design consists of people, the division of labor into different units and coordination between them (Jonker et al., 2012). This means getting people to assume roles and responsibilities, defining the relationships between various roles, setting up processes to get all tasks done, and establishing systems to facilitate these processes. External and internal factors influence organizational design at the onset and continually reshape ...

Introduction

Strategic Management is an important, albeit an often taken for granted part, of organizational management . What most people do not realize is that trends and changes in consumer behavior and preferences exist in any market and so successful implementation of major initiatives and goals as elected by the top management, in behalf of the owners and members of the board, are imperative for a continuously successful and evolving company . As many of us know, a company that fails to change and evolve is a company that would eventually fail to survive. The objective of this paper is to discuss the overall organizational ...

Introduction

Health informatics is the use of informational science and computers for the advancement of health care. Utilizing computers, medical technology, and communications infrastructure the goal of the field is the advancement of health care and the better delivery of health care services. Many fields fall under the purview of health informatics including: medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacology, occupational therapies, and medical research. Health management information systems combines “people, data, processes and health information technologies to collect, process, store, and provide needed results – all in support of healthcare” (Tan, 2010, p. 71). Several enterprise level software packages exist in order ...

Marketing techniques and trends enable health care organizations (HCOs) to effectively compete in an ever-changing health care environment by continuously finding ways to best meet consumer demands. As a result, patients now have more options as to type of product or service, price and the setting or place where this is offered or performed (Berkowitz, 2011). With the use of marketing techniques, HCOs also have a greater tendency to comply with regulatory measures, adhere to standards and meet benchmarks as well as quality indicators as doing so gives them a competitive advantage. Consumer satisfaction, and thus quality care, has also become a central ...