...The Future Challenges for Health Care Management Name Institutional Affiliation The Future Challenges for Health Care Management Introduction Health care is one of the fundamental aspects of a developed country given that it is a requirement of every single citizen. Many countries over the world exhibit a similarity in the managing health care. Modern health care management systems result from past strategies that were implemented to address past challenges. It is therefore misleading for health care managers to think that the future is going to be stable. Apparently, health care management is facing many challenges that call for proactive approaches in addressing those problems at present and in the future. The aim of this paper is to discuss the future challenges facing health care management. Past researches indicate a change in the demographics, particularly an increase of the elderly. As of 1990, the elderly hit 31.2 million and increased to 35 million by 2000. According to statistics collected in 2010 in US, the number of the aged reached close to 40.3 million people accounting to 13% of the whole population. Future projections indicate that this group of people will hit close to 88.5 million accounting for 20% of the US population by the year 2050. This increase presents economic challenges bearing in mind that the elderly are prone to chronic illnesses. Chronic diseases are expensive to treat and therefore the health care management needs to inject more financial resources...
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...considered as one of the US major group of people. Baby boomers are characterized as a demographic group of people born during the post-World War II baby boom, and whom now would list between the ages of 53 and 71 years of age in this year of 2017. According to many studies, it has been reported how health care has been shaped by both demographic and technological changes. The Influence of The Baby Boomer Generation has essentially made with significant impact in today’s healthcare industry and the future of the healthcare market. As many new advancements in technology the life expectancy of baby boomers has been extended and has presented a unique challenge to health care institutions and systems across...
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...• • • • • • The Future Challenges Facing Health Care in the United States • Donna Kester • Dr. James Driscoll • HSA 500 • December 7, 2011 • The Future Challenges Facing Health Care in the United States Identify and describe at least three of the most difficult issues facing health care in the United States today. One of the most difficult challenges that our healthcare system faces is in long term health care policies such as Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare is the federal program for the elderly and disabled. It covers many of the costs associated with acute medical care but covers very few long term care services. Medicaid is a federal and state health program which covers long term care but only for those people who are poor or have become poor paying for medical care (Williams & Torrens, 2010). Although long term health care services are less of a priority compared to other health care services, problems in the current long term care system are due to the controversies and lack of responsibility of the state and federal governments. Even though we have seen tremendous growth in home-care services, nursing homes continue to dominate the service system. State and federal governments continue to struggle to manage costs of the different services they provide and continue to quarrel over their respective financial responsibilities. Another difficult challenge is life style diseases. The life style diseases...
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...Professional Development of Nursing Professional: The Future of Nursing Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V August 18, 2013 Introduction In 2010, the United States (US) lawmakers approved the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) attempting to improve the United States health care system by focusing it’s emphasis on cost maintenance, access, and quality of care (Poghosyan, Lucero, Rauch, Berkowitz, 2010). This transformation will now necessitate a restructure of the many roles within the health care professionals, including registered nurses (RNs). In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the institute of Medicine (IOM) launched a two-year planned response to the critical need to assess and transform the nursing profession (Institute of Medicine, 2010). According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Changes, Advancing Health, suggest that the future of nursing is advancing with the opportunities that will transform the healthcare system by using knowledge and skills of nursing. The purpose of this discussion focuses on the impacts of the health care reform in nurses’ practice, education, and leadership. The implications on Nursing Education In the US, the health care system is changing dramatically. As the baby boomer population is aging, there has also been a surge of obesity triggering the complexity of chronic illness, such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. These factors demand...
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...Reflect on the influence and effect of health care in your life. What questions or concerns have you developed about health care delivery in the United States? Think about your experiences in one or more of the following roles: * Patient/consumer * Friend or family member * Health services professional * Member of your local, national, and global communities Health care delivery is a service received in a health service organization when it needed. In fact, it has a great influence in my life. Cause in order to stay healthy and then prevent certain diseases, as a patient, I have to go to my physician to make check-ups every month. In that case, I have to have a medical insurance, facing the market for price and quality. Health care delivery system in United States, however, faces a lot of challenges and changes over decades; mainly in response to concerns, regarding cost, access, and quality (Leiyu S. & Douglas A. 2012).Cost ,access and quality are three major cornerstones of health care delivery (Al-Assaf 1993a). Why do not United States have a national health system that can give free access to everybody? With these thoughts in mind, review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider the following questions: * Why is health care such an important field? (Consider this question from your personal perspective, as well as from a societal perspective.) First of all, it is an important field because it keep the population or the community safe of chronic...
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...HCA/240 It is amazing how much the health care delivery services have changed and improved over the years. Today, the health care systems have advanced by prolonging life expectancy and quality of life. Though, providing health care is not cheap and easy to do. Cost, accessibility, and quality is a challenge that they face in order to provide the people with healthcare. Learning and being aware of disease trends has definitely impacted our society in a good form. For example, there are organizations such as WHO and CDC that provide the nation with health care information to inform about diseases that can affect the population and how to prevent them. Instead of worrying about curing the diseases, now there are ways to prevent them before they even spread. Though, will these disease trends as well as demographics have an influence in health care delivery services in the future? If it is now being a challenge, what can be expected of health care delivery for the next-generation? Although some disease trends are preventable, it is impossible to not get any form of disease or illness throughout a life time; also there are many factors that can affect the health care delivery systems in many forms. Demographics and disease trends will influence health care delivery services in the future in many different ways. Not only will the current aging population affect the delivery of heath care services because of its rapid growth , but also obesity. Obesity is one of the...
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...There are some issues that affect the health care industry negatively and positively. There issues with the pharmaceutical companies, the drugs pricing in America, the impact of different medical career trends, why has the numbers for health care professionals decline over the years, the effect of the different health care policy and what kind of development need to help fix this already crumbling health care industry. There have out cried from the public to congress and health care professionals to help elevate this issue from the American people suffering. There have been little or no definite and concrete solution on their part and the American people are suffering the consequences of high health care bills. This has led to stress on the pharmaceuticals companies all across the United States. The pharmaceutical market is looking forward to the by the year 2020 the United Sates pharmaceutical sales will double fifth globally. The issue with increase of chronic disease will increase in the develop world as it is the under develop world, if there is no effort to improve the health care system. Some of the example is the rising cost of drugs on the American people. The United States people pay a high cost on drugs than any other develop country. This one of the injustice in the health Care industry has must be taken care of in the future to come. The United States forbid the selling of drugs or important it in the United Sates even if that drug has met the FDA requirement...
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...Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) When some doctors, healthcare providers and hospitals get together to give their patients a high quality and well coordinated care, forms an organization. This organization is known as Accountable care organizations. ACOs are based on integrated systems of delivery and posses a range of doctors and physicians, virtually connected. The aims of this organization is to look after the patient and deliver them right treatment at the right time and also coordinate all the efforts so not to overlap or repeat anything. This results in reduction of the medical errors. This procedure saves the cost of medical treatment. Another important aim is to stop spread of diseases through preventive measures and spreading education. The most important objective is to bring reduction in costs and reduce the waste of money in healthcare system. The conditions which will result in ACOs,if physicians and other related professionals are practicing in a group, or they have form a network or there exists a collaborations between physicians, hospitals and professionals. If these conditions exist anywhere it will be called as ACOs. The requirements any ACOs need to fulfill are, it must have a formal legal framework to distribute the savings, it should possess a minimum of 5,000 numbers of beneficiaries, it should agree to take part for three years or so. An organization must fulfill these requirements to form a ACOs. (American Hospital Association, 2010) This new treatment...
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...The Health Care Reform LaNette Hardy HCS/440 November 28, 2012 Facilitator : Thomas Kehoe The Health Care Reform The United States Healthcare reform went under transformation with the changes of Presidents. During the year of 2009, changes were made when our country begin to face difficulties in the financial deficit, which the country still today experiencing. It will explain that the level of the National Health cares spending that was impacted whether it was for the good or worst. It also gathers the total expenditure percentage. The economic of the future of the expenditures is explained to be at a percentage that is represented. The National Expenditure level of the Healthcare in the United States in 2010 was in the round or about $ 2.6 trillion of the Healthcare expenditures .During the time of 1980 the Healthcare expenditure gradually spent over ten million dollars which was approximately stated to be $256 billion. So with the over spending the nation would be explained whether the there should be and cut and or why it was needed.(Expenditures Data, January 2012). A forecast of the health care system in the future economic has a need. The future according to the Health care spending, 2008 It has been predicted that the forecast will have a growth in a faster rate in the nation. During the earlier years the rate had begun to rise in the year of the 1900's and early 2000's the growth rate had slowed down tremendously. (Health care spending...
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...Challenges Facing Nurse Practitioners Over the last decade, the changing demands in health care have resulted in a significant demand for Nurse Practitioners. A nurse practitioner (NP) is a nurse with a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing. The NP has completed a nurse practitioner program in primary health care and has advanced knowledge and clinical expertise in assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and health care management. The nurse practitioner provides wide-ranging and constant care to patients in a variety of medical settings. There are a number of challenges facing nurse practitioners. The need for a more flexible and progressive approach to a nurse practitioner's delivery of care is a fundamental challenge. Much of the work traditionally carried out by general practitioners will need to be delegated to properly trained personnel such as nurse practitioners. This means that the ability to work with the medical profession and with other healthcare professionals is most important to the leadership challenges facing nurses. This is particularly important in poorer communities where access to a general physician is limited. Nurses in these settings will be relied on in such areas as providing medical advice, assessing illnesses and injuries, screening and categorizing patients, monitoring and care for patients with chronic illnesses, prescribing and interpreting diagnostic tests, health promotion and education, nutritional advice, breast and cervical screening...
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...and windy conditions have made the situation more extreme (with the lingering smoke posing as a health risk). As a result, an advisory has been issues for everyone to stay indoors unless outside travel is absolutely necessary. For the hospital, this means that they are facing an increasing number of patients being admitted secondary to the effects of smoke inhalation. Once the staff is able to effectively, deal with the current influx of patients, the hospital is inundated with another round of patients being admitted through the emergency room. This is placing pressure on the hospital staff, as they have to work longer hours and are often frustrated by these issues. To make matters worse, the administration has announced that they will require everyone to work additional hours (with no overtime pay). This has angered many people, who believe that their timing is poor given the challenges they are facing. To make matters worse there is infighting between the staff about the availability of more beds (from patients who are constantly overwhelming the facility). This is creating a problem for staff members who feel as if they are not receiving the necessary assistance (“Neighborhood News,” 2012). In the case of the senior center, everyone has been reporting negative effects from the smoke inhalation include the exacerbation of emphysema and asthma. This is impacting the health of older individuals in the community. They continue to be adversely being affected by the lingering...
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...Medicare? What are the components and how are they financed? What are the problems facing Medicare? What are your solutions? Medicare: Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant). Administered by the US government since 1966, Medicare is currently using 30 private insurance companies across United States. In 2010, Medicare provided health insurance to 48 million Americans—40 million people age 65 and older and 8 million younger people with disabilities. On average, Medicare covers about half (48 %) of the health care charges for those enrolled in Medicare. The enrollees must then cover the remaining approved charges either with supplemental insurance or with another form of out-of-pocket coverage. Components of Medicare: Medicare has four parts. These different parts help cover specific services. Medicare PART A (Hospital/Hospice Insurance): Part A covers inpatient hospital stays including semiprivate room, food, tests, care in a skilled nursing facility, and hospice care. (Hospice care focuses on palliation of seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs) Medicare PART B (Medical Insurance): Part B medical insurance covers certain doctors' services, outpatient care, medical supplies, preventive services and products not covered by Part A. Part B is...
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... With the rapidly changing health care settings and an evolving health care system ,nurses should achieve higher level of education through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression Ever changing technology and to cope the nurses need education through out life .In 2008 ,the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ( RWJF ) and the Institute Of Medicine ( IOM ) launched a two- year initiative to respond to the need to assess and transform the nursing profession .The IOM appointed the committee on the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing ,at the IOM , with the purpose of producing a report that would make recommendations for an action –oriented blue-print for the future of nursing. The nation needs highly educated nurses because of the demographics , socioeconomic factors, race and ethnicity. The US health care system was primarily built around treating acute illness and injuries but most health care today relates to chronic conditions ,such as diabetes ,hypertension ,arthritis, cardiovascular disease, and mental health conditions. The 20th century nursing ...
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...Case Study 4 Hospitals and Public Health Instructor December 9, 2012 Introduction Safety net hospitals are the non organizations that are both public and private that have taken the initiative to assist in the provision of the health services to the citizens in the county. Over the years, the organizations have experienced high increase in the number of the centers. With the result of the high number in the country, the centers have experienced a number of challenges that have led to some of them being closed down. The paper will look at the reason as to why many safety net hospitals were closed down, the effect that the closure had on the customers as well as to the public health and lastly, it will look at the market trend that the hospital administration have to consider in the time of coming up with their strategic plan and how the market trend will be of help to them. Reasons for the Hospitals to Close The safety net hospitals have over years facing some of challenges that have led to some of them to be closed down. These reasons are such as; liability problem, high cost being encountered at the hospitals and lack of proper management of the hospitals (Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization a RWJF Program, 2008). Liability is the accountability that any of the organization is awarded to attend to. The safety net hospitals have been awarded the accountability for the health and the survival of the patients...
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...Accountable Care Organizations: Key to Transforming Healthcare? The Talia Goldsmith, MHA Candidate 2011 Suffolk University Sawyer Business School HLTH 890AE: Healthcare Strategic Management Professor Richard H. Gregg, M.A., M.B.A. April 28, 2011 Table of Contents Objective .....................................................................................................................................3 Introduction ..............................................................................................................................3 Overview of ACOs as a Mandate and an Opportunity for Healthcare Organizations............................................................................................................................4 Examples of Missions, Visions, Values and Goals for ACOs........................................6 Mission ................................................................................................................................................. 6 Vision ....................
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