Essays on Medical Facilities

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 ...

Chapter 2

Literature review Russia has a very large number of hospitals, physicians, and health care workers as compared to any other country in the world. In spite of this, the medical care fraternity has failed to offer standard and acceptable health care services to its people. Russia has faced a health care system crisis for an extended period since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Significant transformation in the social, economic, and political environment has adversely affected the health care system (Britnell, 2015). The poor health care system in Russia has been precipitated by the lack of medical and technical ...

Executive Summary

The document is a recompilation of information about the current status of a medical facility located in Bayonne, New Jersey owned by a multinational company located in the United Kingdom. Two analysts of the organization study the current status of the medical facility that is the current operations of the company, its economic performance and the trends of the business in the future. The medical facility has technology needs that are necessary for its normal operations. The considered medical facility executed its last technological overhauling in 2004, but the majority of the hospital equipment is from 1999 with a ...

Nowadays not a community is able to manage their businesses without having a well-developed computerized system of supporting it. Studies in the field of medicine are extremely important especially if they are based on ways of adoption and application of IT innovations in various healthcare services management and deliveries. The system of providing studies is the medical informatics, where people use information technology in order to achieve some goals in the healthcare industry. This paper is to analyze medical informatics` impact on the quality of care along with listing some potential issues of its implementation into the wide use. ...

The institutional affiliation

Nursing practice experiences constant changes due to the implementation of new trends related mainly to the demographic shifts, medical research, and technological advancements. Being the closest to patients’ caregivers, nurses are considered as major contributors to healthcare organizations. Nurses are obliged to have an evidence-based understanding of the significant influence that can be made through health promotion interventions and deliver this understanding to the community at large (Sanjiv, 2014). What are the most recent trends in the modern healthcare system; and what influence do they have on nursing? Nursing Roles: Due to the expanding opportunities within nursing, there is ...

Introduction

Managed care refers to the approaches and methods designed to reduce the cost of healthcare and leverage financial disbursements in order to improve the quality of healthcare to patients. This refers to a series of services offered by private insurance companies that provide health insurance to patients in the form of fee-for-service and value-based health care system for members of insurance schemes. There are group and individual insurance packages that are offered to members who make regular contributions for healthcare services as and when they are needed. Health insurance has always existed in history. However, the Health Maintenance Organization ...

Letter to Chamber of Commerce

[Address: XYZ] [City, State, Zip]

Executive Vice President Local Chamber of Commerce

U.S. Chamber of Commerce 1615 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20062-2000 RE: Letter from owner of XYZ organization to the Executive Vice President of local chamber of commerce, introducing XYZ health care organization.

Dear Mr. Vice President,

I’m writing this letter to familiarize you and the whole community with the noble mission of health care xyz organization. Healthcare organizations function in the society with an objective of providing best health at the affordable range to every citizen available. The social responsibility of healthcare organizations sums up the mission and vision envisioned by the creators of an organization. ...

Introduction

The present scenario evidently indicates the requirement of safeguarding protected health information (PHI) of the patients undertaking treatment across various medical facilities. The qualified nurse in the existing scenario surpassed the legal, ethical and professional conventions while encountering a traumatized lead singer in the clinical setting. The transfer of the protected health information of the singer through the smart phone to an unauthorized person and the social web sites, even in a good intent converted the scenario as the subject of a lawsuit requiring legal intervention. The selling of the significant information of the admitted patient to a famous ...

Interview

Interview The aspects of cultural privileges and stereotypes come in when discussing the differences between the subordinate and the majority people in the society. In the United States, for instance, several aspects act as differentiating factors between two different categories of individuals, for example, the physically challenged and persons with no disabilities, the whites and the people of colour among others. Hence, after findings found from interviewing Jordan Gallacher, a blind United States citizen, differences arose between these two different parties. The society tends to categorize its population due to the cultural stereotypes which are the beliefs that control ...

India’s Economy and Population

Introduction India exists as a peninsula in South Asia and it is surrounded by various water bodies like the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. The neighboring countries along the Indian border are China, Pakistan, Nepal, Burma, and Bhutan. The land size of the country is approximately 3,287,263 sq.km, and it is ranked 7th among the largest countries in the world (India Location para 2). India’s population is 1.33 billion, and 50% of this population comprises people aged below 25 years. The number of males is slightly higher than females, where sex ratio between males and ...

Introduction

This report has been structured and submitted to give insight regarding issues in health that are related to lighting and specifically the cost-benefit analysis that accrue due to the use of LED devices in the medical facilities. This is having in mind the fact that the research is linked to the people who serve as the medical practitioners and or engineers in the medical facilities. It applies the scholarly findings and analysis of these findings in a way that aims at coming up with clear reasons as to why the LED lighting should be considered as the best alternative ...

Implementation of the Hospital Emergency Incident Command System

Implementation of the Hospital Emergency Incident Command System Hospital Emergency Incidence Command System (HEICS) was established to assist medical facilities during times of crisis. Although the original version was developed in 1991, there have revisions, but the content has remained almost the same. Initially, HEICS was developed to assist individual medical facilities to handle issues of crisis. However, evidence has shown that a certain degree of external intervention might be required to integrate HEICS into the culture of a medical facility (AHA, 2016). For example, in order to work, one has to make a tour to a facility using ...

Introduction

An ideal organization reaps the best productivity out of it human capital by rewarding the right people at right time with right amounts and right reasons. Most of the organizations in the world have some sort of Reward philosophy although some do not articulate it as a guiding principle while others have them linked to their goals (Armstrong, 2012). There are different approaches to the development of the total rewards programs and the prevalent variable pay systems which help in devising adequate employee motivation strategies that boost the organizational productivity(Armstrong, 2012). However, in case of organizations facing a ...

Abstract

The above paper seeks to outline the role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) with a comparison of practices in two main states (Louisiana and Arkansas). The paper starts with a review of the prescriptive authority of APRN's in Louisiana, with an emphasis that the area faces a shortage of health professionals. According to the regulations of the state, it is a requirement that NP should offer prescription with an oversight of a physician. The collaborative practice agreement helps guide the two practitioners to work in close collaboration with one another in providing quality health care to the residents. ...

Health policies entail a set of actions or activities instituted by medical facilities or the government to obtain particular outcomes. The entire health system whether private or public has social and political forces that influence the making of regulations. The forces arise from interest groups that advance their wishes in the law making process to procure certain requirements. The special interest individuals range from entrepreneurs, foreign governments, certain demographic constituents, environmentalists, etc. Several theories have been advanced to explain the ideology of interest groups, but this essay will pay particular attention to elitist and pluralism. Elitism and pluralism focus ...

List of Figures

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Executive Summary/ Abstract

SoCal-Care is an organization which was formed in the year 2011 by a group of twenty medical students from the Texas Medical School. The main aim of this group was to help the people in the society, especially women, and small children, by giving them assistance to attain medical care. The group of students came together due to the various medical problems that women and children faced in various parts of the world. The group of students sets their mission to assist ...

Integrated Health System

Nowadays, the integration of health services has been a common issue. The government has been taking action on what would be the best option for its constituents. It is also inevitable for a country to uphold a new system of health services to accommodate diverse populations. Apart from that there are also existing problems in the health care industry that needs to be addressed. These are the rising costs of healthcare commodities, troublesome variation of quality care, diversified customers and the concern for the value of investment. The limiting factor to a successful health industry is not the lack ...

Introduction

The contemporary system of medical service has its respective roots in the health care system of the 19th century, where the dominating industrialization has resulted in the occurrence and further development of scientific medicine (Connerley and Wu, 2016). From the historical point of view, medical services have been provided by anyone who possesses enough skill/knowledge to be capable of healing people. In fact the majority of those people were the women (Evetts, 2000). According to the statistics of those days, it was less than 5% of women comprising the number of physicians working in the United States. The highest ...

Delivery date

ABSTRAC Developing countries are those countries which have not yet attained economic stability. Most of them thrive on debts and donations from other nations. They rely a lot on what others have to offer them in addition to the little they can produce using their natural resources. Such countries export primary products. They are yet to industrialize so that they can process their products and sell them to other nations as finished products. Developed countries take advantage of the developing countries. They buy their raw products at lower prices, process them, and then sell them back to these nations ...

Abstract

Continuing Professional Education (CPE) or Continuing Professional Development (CPD) enhanced the management, professionalism, team building, technology, interpersonal communication, accountability, and teaching. In the medical world, the knowledge, skills, attitude, and its concept has incorporated CPD in a wide range of competencies needed to practice the highest quality medical services, socially, ethically, and personally. The Diagnostic Medical Sonographer’s role is highly important to the treatment team such as the doctors, nurses, and other clinical health providers and the patients. The diagnostic medical Sonographer is a well-trained individual who operated the computers and machines to administer an image scan of ...

Introduction

Telenursing involves the use of information technology and telecommunication to provide medical services to patients. It is commonly used in cases where there is a great distance between the medical facility and the patients. This intervention is suitable among patients with chronic conditions who need regular assessment by a nurse but finds it difficult because of the distance between the doctor and the patient (Taylor et al, 2015). Telenursing involves the transfer and exchange of medical data such as glucose level, the urine composition and the blood pressure between the patient and the medical assistant to assess and diagnose ...