...vanek-140512-620-thumb-620xauto-370865 Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin skates amid a drill at the group's preparation camp on Friday in Arlington, Va. In the first place year Capitals mentor Barry Trotz needs Ovechkin to turn into a more finish player and the initial phase, in the seat manager's eyes, is to recover the Russian objective scorer on the left wing. (Scratch Wass/Associated Press) Alex Ovechkin moved again to left wing by new mentor Barry Trotz As though he knew the inquiry was impending, Alex Ovechkin grinned when asked what his new mentor needs him to take a shot at. "On backcheck?" Ovechkin said from Arlington, Va. An alternate season, an alternate opportunity to discover whether one of the class' most gifted objective scorers can genuinely assist some all the more on resistance. The Washington Capitals opened preparing camp Friday with new mentor Barry Trotz, who says he'll work, as different mentors have before him, to make the three-time group MVP into a more finish player. On the off chance that Day 1 is any evidence, Ovechkin sounds prepared to be a co-agent understudy. "On the off chance that you need to be great," he said, "you need to chip away at everything." Step No. 1, as Trotz had shown at one time, is moving Ovechkin once more to left wing, turning around a seismic movement under past mentor Adam Oates. Ovechkin headed the NHL with 51 objectives keep going season playing generally on the right, however his in addition to short was less 35, and...
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...Weekly Overview Week One Overview Selecting a degree program is an important step in guiding your career. This week, you will look at the focus of the bachelor’s degree and how all the pieces fit together for your learning experience. A bachelor’s degree is comprised of 120 credits that include general education courses that provide a general foundation of learning. Courses in this area can include English, mathematics, history, and science. The remaining credits focus on coursework related to building your knowledge and skills in the business side of health care. In addition, you’ll look at how you can select a curriculum track or certificate to expand your career opportunities. What you will cover 1. BSHA Program Overview a. Describe the purpose of the BSHA program. 1) Program Description a) The Bachelor of Science in Health Administration (BSHA) Program is designed to integrate a framework of general education courses with a health care curriculum that prepares the graduate with the foundational knowledge needed to enter today's challenging health industry. The BSHA curriculum addresses the basic body of knowledge, understanding, and skills identified as relevant to an ever expanding and diverse health care arena. Coursework includes content in some of the following areas- management, finance, legal and ethical parameters, risk and quality management, human resources, and information systems. Upon completion of the core curriculum health care students...
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...Key Components of Affordable Care Act HCS/455 Key Components of Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA) came into federal law in March 2010 and was drafted by the Obama Administration. ACA is often referred to as “Obamacare” and one of the major objectives of the Affordable Care Act is to provide Americans with health care insurance. There are many types of individuals that will be seeking coverage through Obamacare. There are many types of benefits and drawbacks to any new health care policy and ACA has many of both. The Affordable Care Act has made a substantial impact on Medicaid and Medicare programs and well as health care in general. All of these will be discusses in this paper. Who Will Use the ACA? With private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and health insurance through employers there are many Americans still left without healthcare coverage. Many of these people were younger adults that could not afford health care coverage after being dropped from their parents health insurance after age 19. the ACA is expected to provide financing to increase the proportion of legal, nonelderly residents with insurance from about 83 percent to about 94 percent, resulting in a reduction of 32 million nonelderly individuals without insurance by 2019 (Shi, 2014). Young adults without health care coverage are faced with outrageous bills when facing emergency medical treatments. Under the Affordable Care Act, young adults ages 19-25 are able to retain...
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...Women's Health/Reproductive Health KristaLace Clifford HCS 455 February 16, 2012 John Papazafiropoulos Women's Health/Reproductive Health Women are large consumers of health care services and products. Women have reproductive health needs have longer life spans, and greater health care needs than men. Women use many reproductive services such as contraception, infertility, abortion, testing for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), pregnancy and child birth. In the United States child birth is the leading cause of hospitalization. Federal and state programs are required to cover many of the reproductive services. This is the important for women because women comprise the majority of participants in publicly funded health care programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. Women are important stakeholders in public policy debates about the proposed health care reform. Women are also normally of lower social statuses than men because women generally earn a lower income than men (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2009). According to the American Journal of American Health 73.8% of women have received at least one reproductive health service annually, this shows how much influence women have on policy changes in this area. Women received these services in several different settings. Some women prefer a private clinic while other women choose a public ran clinic. Women might choose their clinic because of the services that are offered...
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...heaa CMS Expansion to Bundled Payments Jimmy Lei HCS/455 July 14, 2014 AuRiesheaua Bell CMS Expansion to Bundled Payments There are many articles that discusses different issues in health care reform. Recently, an article discussed about how hospitals, nursing homes and healthcare providers are ready to join Medicare’s test of bundled payments. According to the CMS website bundled payments is defined as, “Four broadly defined models of care, which link payments for multiple services beneficiaries receive during an episode of care.” (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, 2014) The models consists of different focuses, which include acute care inpatient hospitalization, retrospective and prospective arrangements. The idea behind bundled payment is to increase quality of care and lower costs for Medicare. The fee for service model has been scrutinized by many who believe that it has perverse incentives for organizations to not efficiently provide care. According to the article, a reported 100 organizations are currently participating in the program; however the success of the organizations are unclear. The bundled payment initiative was introduced in 2013 under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as an effort to shift financing of healthcare away from paying for each procedure. The bundled payments initiative is still in its infancy, so results are not solid; however many experts and officials say that it holds promise. Currently the initiative is in the experimental...
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...Health Care Reform Summary Alfreda Bostick HCS/455 February 27, 2012 Marilyn Ketchum, CANP Health Care Reform Summary Health Care Reform is generally used for discussing major health policy creations or changes. This is saying the government policy affects health care delivery in any given place. Health care reform attempts to: * Broaden the population that receives health care coverage through a private or public insurance program. * Expands the options of health care providers for consumers to choose among * Improve the access to health care specialists * Improve the quality of health care * Give more care to citizens * Decrease the cost of health care (New Federal Health Claims & Appeals Laws & Regulations, 2010). This paper is going to examine the proposed health care reform by the Obama-Biden plan. It is going to highlight the major current problems in health policy. This paper is also going to show what role the health industry played in the health reform. Also, this paper is going to show that the profit driven HMOs are the problem and not the solution. Our health system has grave problems that require reform. These problems are examples of the unrelenting growth in the number of Americans uninsured over the past years. About one-third of the Americans are inadequately insure, either completely uninsured, or underinsured such that if a major illness like cancer, he or she would likely go bankrupt because of this disease and treatments...
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...Policy Topic Search and Selection HCS/455 Policy Topic Search and Selection The policy topic chosen for this paper is HIV/AIDS also known as the human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Polices in healthcare are necessary, to achieve a common goal of the organization at the same time keeping patients and healthcare providers safe. Policies around HIV/AIDS are important due to the nature of the illness and disease. There are many stakeholders in healthcare that can be affected by polices surround HIV/AIDS such as patients and caregivers. According to, "What Is HIV?" (n.d.),”The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that attacks the immune system.” HIV is passed from one individual to another through bodily fluids such as semen and blood. This can be passed from patient to caregiver if there are not policies in place for prevention, an example would be a nurse not recapping a needle after providing a patient with an injection. This would be a policy that every institution has to avoid a nurse getting an unnecessary needle stick. Another example would be a policy on contaminated items in an healthcare organization. Most institutions require using the bio hazard red bags, to disposes of anything that has bodily fluids or waste so those items can be handled with the appropriate precautions. The Centers for Disease Control also known as the CDC are dedicated to reducing the spread of HIV. According to "HIV/AIDS" (2013),”Through prevention...
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...Key Components of Affordable Care Act Justin Knox HCS/455 June 11, 2015 Reginald Bernard Key Components of Affordable Care Act 1. Prohibiting denying coverage of children based on pre-existing conditions- This law prevents insurance companies from denying coverage to children under the age of 19 with pre-existing conditions (U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, 2015). 2. Providing Free Preventive Care- This law allows preventative services such as mammograms to be done with a deductible charge (U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, 2015). 3. Cracking Down on Healthcare Fraud- Under these law resources are provided, and new screening measures are in place to reduce fraud (U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, 2015). 4. Extending Coverage for Young Adults- Under this young adult up to the age of 26 can remain on their parents insurance coverage (U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, 2015). 5. Bringing down Healthcare Premiums- This healthcare law requires 85% of the money collected by large corporations are spent on health services (U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, 2015). 6. Linking Payment to Quality- Under this health care law incentives are offered to hospitals to improve the quality of care being provided (U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, 2015). 7. Making Care more Affordable- This law wants to make it easier for those families or individuals who are considered middle class the opportunity...
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...Policy Topic Search and Selection HCS/455 Health Care Policy: The Past And The Future December 6, 2010 Stephen T. Gregoire Policy Topic Search and Selection The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law on March 23rd, 2010. This law enacts several measures that change the heart of the health care system here in the U.S. This new law encompasses different aspects of the health care industry and will take effect over the next four years. Some provisions of this act are as follows: It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history It sets up a new competitive health insurance market giving tens of millions of Americans the exact same insurance choices that members of Congress will have. Reducing premium costs for tens of millions of families and small business owners who are priced out of coverage today. It will end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions. It puts our budget and economy on a more stable path by reducing the deficit by $100 billion over the next ten years – and about $1 trillion over the second decade Closing the Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” coverage gap Strengthening the provisions to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid Coverage to children under 26 on their parents’ policies Individuals would be required to purchase coverage or face a fine Companies with more than 50 employees would...
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...HIV/AIDS in the U.S. University of Phoenix HCS/455 April 14, 2010 In every region of the world, more people are living with HIV/AIDS. This paper is written on the subject of black Americans living in the United States with HIV/AIDS, how the health care policy affects them and the different stakeholders that are being affected by the health care policy. The (CDC, 2010) explains that Black Americans have been excessively affected by HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic. Blacks account for more new HIV infections, AIDS diagnoses, people estimated to be living with HIV disease, and HIV-related deaths than any other racial/ethnic group in the U.S. The epidemic has also had an excessive impact on Black women, youth, and gay and bisexual men, and its impact varies across the country. The CDC claims that today, there are approximately 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S, including more than 500,000 who are Black. Analysis of national household survey data found that 2% of Blacks in the U.S. were HIV positive, higher than any other group. Health insurance, whether it is public or private, improves access to care. Medicaid is the nation’s health insurance program for low-income Americans and the largest source of public funding for AIDS care, is a critical source of coverage for people with HIV/AIDS. Although the U.S. has been involved in efforts to address the global AIDS crisis since the mid 1980s, the conception...
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...Women’s Health Issues Mary Shipp HCS/455 June, 18, 2012 Katherine Smith According to freedictionary.com the definition of health care policy is “a principle that no one can legally perform any acts that endanger the public health.” Health care access is an “ability of a person to receive health care services, which is a function of availability of personnel and supplies and the ability to pay for those services.” Health care policy also are many rules, regulations, and guidelines that exist to operate, finance, and shape health care delivery. Women’s Health Care Besides developing the same health care issues as men do, women have different health care issues also. Health care for women’s issues should be deal with differently from that for men. If health care providers do not take these issues seriously, women will suffer. Heart Diseases Men and women are affected from heart disease differently. It is the number one cause of death in both men and women. According to the Center of Disease Control (CDC), heart disease causes 29% of deaths in women annually. Usually more men die from heart disease but women are more likely underdiagnosed or mis-diagnosed. Once the heart conditions are diagnosed correctly, it is often too late. Breast Cancer Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women. Breast cancer can cause fear in women causing them not to go to their providers for testing. Breast cancer can also cause women to make harsh choices in getting mastectomies...
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...Women And HIV/AIDS in the United States Barbara Snyder HCS/455 October 22, 2013 Renee Skovira This summary will be focus on Women and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the U.S. What is HIV/AIDS, history since 1981 through 2010? Also, who are the stakeholders and how they are affected? In addition to this summary will examine what it is like living with HIV, statistics, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation there is a form of diagnostic testing, prevention care. HIV is a virus that once you have it, you will have it for life. HIV can be controlled with proper medications and medical care. A treatment for HIV is often called Antiretroviral Therapy (ART). HIV attacks specific cells in the immune system called CD4 cells, or T cells (Prevention C. F., 2013). HIV in the United States has been around for three decades. Women have been affected since then and heterosexuals transmission became known in the 1990’s. There are several ways to transmit this horrible disease with one being through drug use with needles, blood transfusions, and, of course, through multiple sexual encounters without protection. Women count for one in four of the more then one million people living with HIV in this country and one in five with new infections (Foundation, 2013). An estimated 1.1 million people are living with HIV in the U.S. It is a challenge living with HIV. “It is important that medications are taken as prescribed, as to when...
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...Kiley Overholt HCS/455 June 24, 2013 Elaine Bobo Legislative and Implementation In health care there are five stages involved when policies are introduced into the health care system. Policies are at a constant pace of being reviewed to better the health care system, with each one having an effect on the changes in health care. Since each stage takes special consideration before policies are proposed and accepted, in this paper we will talk about two, the Legislative and Implementation stages. Legislative The Legislative phase is similar to the steps of passing a bill; with the exception that it is only for the health care aspect. It all begins with an idea in which evolves into something more, where steps are to be taken in order to get the policy into action. Congress is involved in this phase to help legislative officers in making executive decisions by offering guidance on actions. The Office of Legislative Policy and Analysis (OLPA) “helps by providing information and advice on Congressional actions that affect those involved” (Office of Legislative Policy and Analysis (ofm)-Other Related Resources”,). The functions that are involved to help support during the process is: • “To serve as the principle legislative with the congress, and other Federal agencies • Prepare if there is need to testify • Analyzes pending legislation • Monitor and keep those involved informed • Brief members of Congress and staff;...
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...Facility Planning - Part 2 HCS/455 January 12, 2014 Michael Leger Facility Planning - Part 2 The community of Hillsboro Oregon will be getting a new family health care facility. The city of Hillsboro has grown in numbers over the past few years and it is expected to continue to grow. This new facility will be a great asset to the community. It is thought it would be more beneficial to build a new family clinic verses remodeling an already existing building. It was found to be more cost effective starting from scratch when compared to the expense of a remodel. There are many details that go into the facility planning process, this paper will go into why this community is in need of a new family health care facility, and the type of population the facility will be serving. Community Need The community of Hillsboro Oregon is continuing to grow at a fast rate. This is believed to be the case because of the employment opportunities offered by the major industries that have taken residence in the area (Kearns Moore, 2014). A recent study done at Portland State University believes Hillsboro could rival Gresham for the title of the fourth largest city in Oregon by the late 2020s (Kearns Moore, 2014). This increased growth is why there is a need to add a new family health care clinic in order to provide the community with quality health care in a timely manner. Adding a new family health care clinic in the city of Hillsboro Oregon will also benefit those who live in...
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...The Policy Process: Formulation, Legislation and Implementation HCS/455 24 November, 2014 The Policy Process: Formulation, Legislation and Implementation In order to first start a policy process, the problem for which a policy is to be created must be identified and the policy holding a solution to the problem. Researchers and stakeholders will investigate the problem to identify if the policy will reach the policy making agenda. Policies must be to improve society’s health and wellbeing. In the United States (U.S.) public health related issues that require a formulation of a new policy and come from local, state, or federal legislations which ruling govern the provision of health care services and regulations. In this paper the stages in which a topic becomes a policy will be discussed. Objective of Policy For many, it is a scary thought to go to a hospital. This is because of fear of contracting an infectious disease while at the hospital. The disease could be contracted from the waiting room or from improper procedures from staff members. When a patient enters a hospital, that person could have a serious illness and that illness could potentially be highly contagious. The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) is put in place from the federal government as an advisory committee to provide guidance on the processes for infection control. The primary activity of the Committee is to provide advice on periodic updating of...
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