...include a family plan. (PR Newswire, 2014) The Family Plan features balanced, seasoned, kid-friendly menus for a family of four delivered to the doorstep. The Blue Apron family price amounts to about $8.74 per person which offers an appealing option to busy working families who desire to eat more nutritiously.(PR Newswire, 2014) From the inception of the company many families have been asking for a plan specifically tailored made for them. By marketing this new plan to their customers, Blue Apron is doubling the addressable market available to them and furthering its nationwide mission of making incredible, home cooking, easily available and accessible to customers nationwide at a reasonable price.(PR Newswire, 2014, para. 1) With the promotion and launch of the Family Plan even more families are now making Blue Apron part of the weekly routine. In November of 2014, Blue Apron announced the delivery of one million meals per month. In addition, they marketed and launched their curated kitchen ecommerce store that features cookware and tools that are hand selected by the Blue Apron culinary team. (PR Newswire, 2014) This strategy promotes sales of this equipment successfully with the pairing of the new Family Plan delivery service. The Blue Apron offers the flexibility of receiving two to four meals a week and utilizes the time saving, organizational convenience of having all the nutritious ingredients you will need for a perfectly balanced and delicious family meal delivered...
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...1. What kinds of natural imbalances might affect your region? What makes your region particularly vulnerable to these imbalances? 2. Provide a specific example of a weather incident/natural disaster that occurred in your area in the past and discuss how the incident was handled by local residents and town/state officials. 3. What can people in your area do to prepare for a similar incident? (Consider what can be done prior to, during, and after the disaster. Be sure to include specific details using information from the CDC and/or FEMA.) 4. Compare your area to that of a classmate. What environmental features do you have in common to produce similar natural disasters OR what features vary, leading to completely different disasters? Would rescue efforts differ as well? 5. What predictions are being made for how climate change will impact either the frequency or intensity of future natural disasters in your area? (Hint: Refer to the extreme weather and hurricane resources provided above to find information to support your ideas.) Hello Class and Professor, The agency that I work for is part of the community disaster coalition as well as the county's emergency operations center. What happens is that the EOC contacts our leader of the disaster unit and "activates" us in the case of any disaster among other agencies such as the sheriff’s dept. We recently attended our annual disaster drill and the staged disaster was a 6.2 earthquake. 2-1-1 Orange County (which...
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...UnitedHealthCare A deep dive into United States’ largest health carrier Report by : Guo F. Deng Jiarui Li Malavika Verma Srikanth S. Perinkulam : December’06, 2013 Published on afafaafa United Health Care Contents Company Profile and History ........................................................................................................................ 3 Financial Statement Analysis ........................................................................................................................ 5 Major Acquisitions ...................................................................................................................................... 11 Major Litigations and Public News.............................................................................................................. 13 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) .......................................................................... 15 Strategies and Foresight ............................................................................................................................. 18 Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................ 20 2 United Health Care Company Profile and History UnitedHealth Group is one of the largest health care companies in the United States. UnitedHealth Group is currently made of three entities which are UnitedHealthcare...
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...Health Education Plan NUR/405 October 10, 2011 Health Education Plan Educating the public is a role every nurse must participate in to promote, maintain, and restore health among a community. To accomplish such requires community members receive and have a practical understanding of health-related information (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2008). One method to accomplish such is to develop a health educational plan. The purpose of this paper is to create a health education plan based upon information collected from a windshield survey and Friedman family assessment conducted by a nurse in the community of Palmdale, California. Areas that will be discussed include, a description of the educational need based upon assessment findings, educational goals and objectives, educational methods that will be used to implement the health educational plan, and the methods applied to evaluate the educator and process used in the development and implementation of the health education plan. Identification of a Health Educational Need In conducting a windshield survey and Friedman family assessment, the nurse identified multiple educational needs. The priority educational need in common and identified among both the family and the community of Palmdale, California is the need for education on the maintenance of chronic illnesses. Determining what chronic illness to focus on in terms of development of the health educational plan however, presented more of a challenge. When observing...
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... Strayer University HSA 505 Health Services Strategic Marketing Dr. Pica-Branco November 16, 2011 1. Describe the selection process you would use to make the most cost –effective and employee-friendly decision. One major objective of the new health reform law – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is to ensure that the health insurance providers are regulated from driving up the cost of health insurance benefits. PPACA is supposed to allow families and businesses to choose the health coverage that is flexible and affordable. This new law applies to all health insurance plans. For example, in June 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services, Labor and the Treasury issued guidelines to enforce PPACA-which permitted children with pre-existing conditions gain coverage, and keep it, protect all Americans’ choice of doctors, and lifetime limits on care consumers may receive. (www.healthreform.gov). In order to select an employee benefit package for our company that is consistent with our current budget, cost-efficient and employee-friendly, our organization will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the current benefit plan. Internally, our organization will review the current benefit plan and the need to maintain or purchase another plan that will be in line with our budget, cost efficiency and employee-friendliness. Additionally, the...
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...enables the culturally competent practitioner to identify health traditions, evaluate needs, and create appropriate plans for health maintenance, protection and/or restoration of the patient. Heritage and culture are interchangeable words that represent the concept of learned or inherited thought processes, ideas, and traditions that have been passed down from parentage, nationality and/or ethnicity. It is important for the practitioner to understand the beliefs of their patient to better facilitate treatment compliance and enhance rapport with the patient and family. As noted by Edelman, Kudzman & Mandle (2014), culture has an impact on a person’s health, healing, perceptions of wellness versus disease and attitude towards health practitioners. Many times important revelations regarding the patient’s health practices, traditions, and perceptions are gleaned not from the patient answering direct assessment question but from their relaxed conversation, ramblings, and casual remarks. The patient will not feel comfortable to converse with a practitioner they don’t trust or have a rapport. It is through cultural sensitivity, competence and appropriate assessment that practitioners are able to develop the trust and rapport needed to assist them in developing a workable plan of care that involves patient participation. Through the use of 29 questions, the Heritage Assessment Tool assisted in the evaluation of the common health traditions and needs of three individuals from different...
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...Health Promotion Plan Marie St. Fort NSG4075 Holistic Professional Nursing Kathryn Sagess, PhD, PNP-ARNP Nova Southeastern University Thesis Statement and Introduction Despite the many services Delray Beach offers to residents, there are still major health concerns. This major concerns call for an effective health promotion plan to address the lack of adequate assistance to low-income pregnant women and their families. This plan will allow one to make a great impact in healthcare, attests to the art of nursing even as a student, the whole multidisciplinary team and the most important of aspect of healthcare; the patients that are being served. This paper will offer insight into the community, including a thorough assessment of low income pregnant women and their families’ lack of access to adequate care in Delray Beach Florida. In addition, this paper will highlight a health promotion plan for improving quality of life and health of low income, underinsured Delray Beach residents by discussing state and local programs. Also, discussing the community stakeholders as well as the financial and political implications of the health promotion project is a pivotal point. By addressing the barriers in creating the health promotion in the community, the community health nurse can serve as a patient advocate and present a plan an alternate plan and any possible interventions in case of unforeseen, confounding issues that may arise. The Aggregate Being poor and having to take...
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...to "Healthcare.gov" (n.d.), There are different types of Marketplace health insurance plans designed to meet different needs. Some types of plans restrict or encourage you to get care from the plan’s network of doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, and other medical service providers. Others pay a greater share of costs for providers outside the plan’s network.” (Comparing health plans). However choosing the best form of medical coverage and being able to pay for it can be stressful to some. Each person and family may need different types of coverage and finding one that suits everyone in the household and accepts all family members due to their medical needs can be hard to find. This case study will look at such a family. A family with multiple medical issues to include, two members having diabetes and being obese, one of which has COPD and a child with asthma. We will look into different health care options and cost, a recommended plan for the family and then take a look at what the family will need within a year. Health care costs & coverage options Health Maintenance Organization Plans (HMOs) have a low out-of-pocket cost, which makes them a good choice if you want to avoid spending a lot of money. Also, since your co-pay commonly covers services outside the basic office visits, it is rather wide ranging. On the other hand, there are disadvantages for the reason that your choices are much more limited versus other plans such as, having to choose one primary care doctor and receiving...
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...Family values paper Health begins at home, if family adapts healthy life styles, eat healthy meals, and involve exercise regime, then it benefits every member of the family. Applying this principle of family health to nursing practice, gives us a concept of family nursing. In this set up nurse develops care plan which revolves around client and his family. Involving family in care helps patient and family members bond better during the critical times and it also results in improved patient outcomes. Nurses can use multi-disciplinary team approach to educate family members and introduce them to different aspects of patient needs post discharge. Family members can be educated regarding dietary needs, swallowing and aspiration precautions, mobility issues and patient transfers, assistive devices and lastly and most importantly medication regimen. This education can be further classified into categories such as wound care, tubes and drain care. Community resources and community services need to be included in plan. Resources such as community health services and public health clinic are added value to family nursing. As these services work for not just the client but the welfare of the whole family and they help prevent hospital visits and ER visits. Family nursing is relatively new concept in patient care but it is showing growth in the patient care area. Since we have new healthcare restructuring in process, this has introduced rapid growth of managed care systems. Part of...
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...Heritage Assessment Paul Bockoven Grand Canyon University NRS429-V October 14, 2012 Heritage Assessment Cultural assessments can be useful tools for a registered nurse to develop adequate plans of care, especially when it comes to education. They have limits however, as not every individual within a certain cultural ‘category’ can be expected to conform the way their heritage may dictate. Assigning a score to any person to predict how they may act, or learn, is contrary to the direction nursing care plans in general have taken. With that in mind, there is some value to using tools like the heritage assessment as a baseline, or starting point. The problem arises because of this particular tool being used to generalize instead of individualize. Developing a sense of a person’s cultural heritage and assigning an ambiguous score has no real meaning when the focus of a care plan is not supposed to take into account anything that is not directly related to the individual for whom it is being tailored. Standards clearly state that the assessment, planning and delivery of a person's care must be centered on the individual, and developed with them or their significant others (Rollin, 2011, p. 541). A person filling out the heritage assessment may, in fact, not adhere to or agree with it’s findings, may not understand it’s significance and as such, this tool could actually lead a caregiver in the wrong direction. The idea that any person who, according to this tool, identifies...
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...article, “Mom’s Policy, Medicaid Or A Health Exchange Plan: What’s A Grad To Do?” by Michelle Andrews explains how Meagan Samuel relies on her mom’s health insurance even though she had a option to choose the employer sponsored coverage. I learn by having health insurance you can receive preventive care including contraceptives at no cost. In the Health Care Delivery class last fall, I also learn that the ACA allows children to stay to stay on their parents health insurance plan until 26 allowing the Medicaid to expand covering individuals with incomes up to 138 federal poverty level. As a result, many young people graduating from college still received health insurance from their parent’s plan. ACA help decreases the rates...
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...not afford health care? What would you do if you had to pay a lump some for healthcare no matter your financial state? This is where healthcare exchanges under the Affordable Care Act can help those in need of health care, along with giving people a choice. The health care exchanges under the affordable care act allows people to “shop” for a healthcare plan no matter their financial state. Health care exchanges under the affordable care act in Washington State includes healthplanfinder. Healthplanfinder allows people to “shop” for insurance coverage such as apple care, different coverages for their family as well as for their employees. Health care exchanges under the affordable care act allow for a free market because people have a choice of what particular health coverage they want under the health care exchange. Many people choose not to have healthcare due to the fact that they cannot afford it. healthplanfinder.org is a Washington State based website that allows people to search for a healthcare plan that fits their lifestyle and needs. When looking up plans one must first make an account based on their annual income then choose if the plan is for themselves, family or employees. There is also an option to choose either a Health Maintenance Organization,HMO, or a Preferred Provider Organization, PPO. A HMO insurance coverage is where someone can only go to clinics or hospitals under that specific insurance. For example, if someone is covered by Group Health and needs to...
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...Oregon’s Outline for Health Care Access “We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare”. Barack Obama Here in Oregon we have the Oregon health plan (OHP) this is our state’s Medicaid program. Our Governor John A. Kitzhaber MD was an Emergency room doctor before going into public service and becoming the governor of Oregon. So he knows first hand the need for accessible health care here in Oregon. Although, we do have the Oregon health plan set in place, it did have some serious problem with accessibly and coverage. Then with the help of other of Oregon’s governors our Oregon health plan, started to grow and succeed into a better deliver system of a public health care access point. Oregon has made remarkable progress when it comes to health care access for local children through the Oregon healthy kids program, which is a feed off program from the Oregon health plan (OHP). The Oregon health authority with the help of Frist Governor Kulongoski then Governor Kitzhaber, Oregonians have made sure that kids in our state have full access to the health care they need when they need it. However, over the next few years the Oregon health authority’s next step along with Governor Kitzhaber is to not only work into the Affordable care Act, but to expand our Medicaid program, to extend health care access to cover everyone below 133% of the federal poverty line (Kliff, 2013)...
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...Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama on March 23, 2010 as the means to enforce Health Insurance reform. Its main object is to make Health Insurance and Preventive care accessible and affordable to the American population. The Affordable Care Act The ACA major components include: Medicaid expansion, allowing states the opportunity to expand their existing Medicaid programs to include, (OPA, 1015) “individuals under 65 years of age with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level… (as well as) certain low-income adults without children” (Medicaid Expansion). Health Insurance Marketplace (HIM), available for access to individuals and small businesses enabling them to compare a variety of plans on the basis of price, quality and benefits and to choose the most affordable option according to their needs. The proposed three models are State Operated, State and Government Operated, and Federal Government Operated, for States that choose not to establish a program. Under the ACA, health services provided by all Insurance companies (participating or not on the HIM) are required to offer individuals and small businesses, affordable health Insurance plans that allow access to ten services identified as Essential Health Benefits (EHB). EHB services include, Ambulatory and Emergency services, Hospitalization, Maternity and newborn care, Mental health, substance use disorder, and behavioral health treatment, Prescription drugs, Rehabilitative and “habilitative” services and devices...
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...Study Comparisons HCS/490 February 9, 2015 Case Study Comparisons There is a lot to consider when it comes to choosing a healthcare plan for you and your family. We are going to talk about the different options you have, such as whether you want a HMO, PPO, or a CDHP. There are many things you need to consider when looking at health plans. Some of these include your age, health, and whether you are single or have a family. We will discuss each of the options and which one may work the best for this situation. HMO Health maintenance organization or HMO, is a standard health care plan available through most health insurance companies. An individual with an HMO maintains their health by visiting their primary care physician on a regular basis for routine check-ups. Typically with an HMO, the individual will select their primary care physician within the preferred network. The individual will see their primary care physician for routine check-ups and preventive care. If the individual has a particular issue, they must go to their primary care physician first. If the primary care physician is unable to treat the patient, the patient will be referred to a specialist by their primary care physician. If the individual chooses to see a doctor outside their preferred network, the individual will be subjected to pay 100% of costs. Health maintenance organizations tend to be more cost effect for the insurance provider and less expensive for the patient. When choosing the preferred...
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