over the past 40 years in underserved areas in all 50 states, and they are nonprofit, community-owned health care organizations that offer patients high-quality primary care and preventive services regardless of their ability to pay. They also provide enabling services, such as transportation, translation, case management, health education, and home visitation, which increase access to care. AF serves three counties – Yuma, Mohave, and La Paz – with diverse populations and needs. The service area
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Case Study Analysis The complex and dynamic realm of health care has generated a need to focus on cultural change to improve health care quality. To overcome a decade of difficulties and implement a program for improving their quality, the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC) began a journey to change the culture of their organization. Using the change model the new president initiated measures to revise the quality improvement program and strategies for meeting
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the leader in improving the health of the community and everyone they serve. Currently, they employ approximately 6,500 caring, highly skilled personnel who are focused on creating positive patient-care. Mercy Health System is a diverse, integrated system that embodies: Four Hospitals acute care hospitals: | Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital | A 213-bed teaching hospital in Delaware County and Southwest Philadelphia | | Mercy Philadelphia Hospital | A 268-bed community teaching hospital serving the
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workers Privately insured patients Objective: Alternative to physician practices by providing convenient and personalized ambulatory health care services Strategy: Differentiation Tactic: Preventive health care, minor-emergency care, referral for acute and chronic health care problems, specialized employer services, primary health care services, basic X-ray and laboratory tests. Objective: Service convenience Strategy: Direct channel strategy Tactic: PHC:
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methods for long term healthcare services which is making the United States Health Care system ever more complicated. Long term health care today is considered a reimbursement driven industry (Casto, 2006) . The term reimbursement refers to repayment or compensation of health care services (Bowman, 2007). Reimbursement is the process of being repaid for services that have already been given (Casto, 2006). In long term care, services are often provided prior to payment being made. Since patients have
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ORGANIZATION OF A HEALTH CARE FACILITY Assignment 4 HSA 515 Organization of a Health Care Facility As a chief operating officer, you are responsible for a 15-bed Emergency Room (ER). You have received many complaints within the last year regarding inadequate patient care, poor ER management, long wait times, and patients being sent away because of lack of space, staff, or physicians to provide appropriate care. Diagnose the root causes of the complaints
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Jersey’s largest integrated health care delivery system. It includes Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville; Community Medical Center in Toms River; Kimball Medical Center in Lakewood; Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch; Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark; Barnabas Health Behavioral Health Center in Toms River; and Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston. The System also includes the Barnabas Health Outpatient Centers with the Barnabas Health Ambulatory Care Center in Livingston and the
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In efforts to reform the United States healthcare system and create a nationally unified data exchange system the federal government has established an incentive program to eligible professionals and hospitals. The federal government has turned to certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to help facilitate the process of broadening health IT infrastructures. The federal government views EHR system used in meaningful ways as the key to reforming the healthcare systems. Meaningful use of
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facilities and ambulatory centers nationwide. The organization has been ranked as one of the top “Fortune 500 “largest corporations for 2011. With all of the accolades and successful growth it would be difficult to point out any discrepancies that the organization could have as it relates to organizational behavior. The company has progressed from several facilities in 1978 to a conglomerate of facilities in the millennium. The organization is the 5th largest for profit hospital managed Health Care Company
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difficult, clinical intervention associated with restorative health • Preventive: whole is greater than sum of the parts • PA’s and NP’s to extend primary care, about improving access and slowing cost curve increase • States are the primary vehicles for licensure for healthcare personnel, states need to expand the scope of practice • Managed care: managed cost, in 1980s there was financial disincentives for referring to specialists • Public health very small effort of maintaining health • Institution:
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