Nursing Home Abuse Vicki Jones HCS/430 January 21, 2012 Nursing Home Abuse Elder abuse is a serious problem that affects thousands of elderly citizens each year. Nursing home abuse happens in many forms and is all damaging in one way or another. Nursing home abuse can be in form of emotional, physical, financial, homicide, sexual, neglect, inappropriate restraints, isolation, verbal, and intimidation (Nursing home abuse center, 2010). One of the biggest forms of abuse in nursing homes
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Article/Case Law Search HCS/430 February 4, 2013 Vanessa Williams Article/Case Law Search The aftermath of the 9/11 in 2001, has left the United States of America in frenzy. It is this particular event that has been devastating to our nation and unforgettable. Furthermore, stressing the importance of the safety and health of the general public. September 11, has caused federal and state governments to merge public health and public safety into one. This merger brought about the significance
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prison healyh care paper Prison Health Care Paper Tinamarie Edwards July 11, 2012 HCS/430 Legal Issues in Health Care: Regulation and Compliance Terry Matherne Introduction Prison health care is caring for the inmates in prisons and correctional facilities around the United States. Even though a prisoner is incarcerated does not mean that a prisoner should receive any different care than a person outside the prison. The federal prison population around the United States was 217
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Article or Case Law Search Paper Maria January 27, 2014 HCS/430 The article that I have read and did my research for the article case law search is about a hospital in New York will have to pay $2.3 million dollars for overbilling the Medicaid program. Two Westchester County Hospital had overbilled the Medicaid program of $70 million dollars by improperly approving home care for Medicaid patients. The Attorney Generals Medicaid Fraud control Unit found out that the two hospitals were billing
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Summary of Research for Legal Project Presentation Tammy Fergerson HCS/430 7/15/2012 Edna Wilkerson The Center for Disease Control provides leadership, guidance, and research to help control the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic by working alongside the communities on a state and national level. They are also partners with other countries abroad in research, surveillance and evaluation of activities among the world’s population. The activities
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Chandra Brazier, Natasna Jiggets, and Susan Wallace November 30, 2014 HCS/430 Ann Nevers It is the policy of this organization to not base its hiring practices on any form of discrimination. Types of discrimination that is not tolerated include age, disability, equal pay, nationality, pregnancy, race, color, sex, veteran status, and religion. This organization also prohibits any act of retaliation and any form of harassment (“Laws & Guidance”, n.d.). Organization’s Position in Response to Non-discrimination
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Disposal of Hazardous Waste Micheal Walters HCS/430 July 25, 2013 Cliffornia J. Rolle Disposal of Hazardous Waste The way that huge amounts of hazardous waste are disposed of could be one of the most dangerous aspects of the health care industry, at least as it relates to security measures. Safe and proper disposal of hazardous and toxic waste is a primary issue for developing regulatory compliance because it affects not only the general populace, but the health care employees
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Regulation Issues in Health Care Amanda R. Williams HCS/430 February 3, 2014 Ann Nevers Regulation Issues in Health Care The Nevada Institutional Review Board (IRB) is a group that is designated to oversee research that is done that involves human participants. This committee or group is to make sure that the rights and welfare of the human subjects remain intact. According to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), “Each Institutional Review Board (IRB) at UNLV falls under the umbrella
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Case Law Search Janelle Byers HCS 430 May 20, 2013 Susan Kajfasz Case Law Search Many medical ethical problems arise within hospitals and other facilities. In fact this has been an ongoing issue for many years. With the developing growth of technology and new medicine, more concerns arise. The organization has to look at the issues on hand and determine the quality of health care that someone is receiving. Critical thinking caps of both consumers and health care organization personnel
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Reporting Practices and Ethics Paper Jessy Dominique-Clark HCS/405 Health Care Financial Accounting September 24, 2013 Debra Brindley Reporting Practices and Ethics Paper The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association assess that the economic damages cause by health care fraud is more than ten of billon dollars every year. Financial controlling is difficult, but by using the four fundamentals of monetary management correctly and following the generally accepted accounting principles, revealing
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