Essays on Berenson

The Most Appropriate Way to Evaluate the Five Year Strategic Plan that has been in place for the Last One Year Implementing a five-year strategic plan to ensure that it is executed in the stipulated period of time requires an elaborate evaluation method. The most appropriate method of evaluating the plan is an outcome based and a process based method. The proposed methods are effective for firms, which intend to show the effectiveness of their program (Pantoja et al. 2014). The outcome measurement method will help the hospital measure the quantitative and qualitative differences between the programs (Lamont et ...

Nursing as a practice has continuously evolved in order to align with the variety of stimuli that influence the profession. These may include new medical treatments and technical systems and dynamic social norms and expectations. One recent trend that has significantly influenced nursing is the need for culturally competent care, a situation attributed to the increasingly dynamic and multicultural society. For this reason, nurses are required to provide culturally competent care in the high-stress and high-acuity environments they operate in (Dayer-Berenson, 2011). This would allow one to improve their skills as patient advocates as they can adequately comply with ...

Ensuring that a particular patient has been adequately diagnosed plays a central role in seeing to it that the ailments which such individuals may be suffering from are satisfactorily addressed. It is only through a thorough and careful diagnostic process that a healthcare practitioner can be able to establish the illness that a patient may be grappling with at a particular time (Berenson, Upadhyay & Kaye, 2014). As such, a proper and well thought out diagnostic process is essential as it will help in creating a form of care which specifically meets the needs of a particular patient. There are ...

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Numerous attempts to reform health care in the United States on the federal level have been made since the 1930s, but differences between each state represent a significant barrier to every previous federal health care reform. In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, but the current implementation and effects of the law are not the same across different states. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the effects of the health care reform in California and Florida, as well as the positions of the two states. It was found that the insurance ...

In the light of working towards a healthier prosperous nation, United Healthcare group has initiated efforts geared at ensuring that it offers a comprehensive medical cover for all the American citizens, catering for over 70 million people worldwide (United Healthcare, 2016). The United Healthcare group works at ensuring that patients have quick access to the various health practitioners across the nation which ends up being life changing. The institution collaborates with different organizations to make sure that they have a functional cover for their employees. Further, there is an individualized medical scheme for the people who may lack employer ...

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The payer mix in healthcare financing currently comprises of three broad groups that include private insurance, government payers, and private payers. Private insurance covers 61% of the US population and contributes 49% in revenues. Government payers cover 31% of the population and contribute 55% of the revenues while the private payers account for 5% of population and contribute 6% of the revenues. The Affordable Care Act seeks to increase the insurance coverage in the United States. It would increase the contributions from government payer and reduce the default risk associated the private payers. This would also ensure that all ...