S I T S M O N E Y Prepared for The Access Project by Sarah Gunther Lane, MS Elizabeth Longstreth, BA Victoria Nixon, MS Under the supervision of Nancy Kane, DBA Harvard School of Public Health The Access Project is a national healthcare initiative supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. It works in partnership with Brandeis University’s Heller Graduate School and the Collaborative for Community Health Development. It began its efforts in
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Health Care Experiences A Health Care Questionnaire Lori Sorrells HCS/212 Professor McKinnon October 16, 2012 Health Care Experiences Health care resources are very important in today’s society. Everyone will need health services at some point in their lives. In today’s society health care is becoming a more common need for individuals. More people develop chronic diseases and diabetes than they did a decade ago. Through vast resources such as the internet, phone books, and family or
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Health Care Reform Lisa Juarez HCS 235 February 4, 2014 Holly O'Dell Health Care Reform The health care reform is an ongoing debate. We have heard it called to Obama Care, but it really is the Affordable Care Act. It was signed into law in 2010. The idea behind the Affordable Care Act was to provide affordable health insurance to every American. The law contains thousands of pages of insurance and health care reforms. All are designed to make it easier and more affordable for every American
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Public Health Reflection Marcia La Bruyere NUR/405 March 11, 2013 Michelle Hogsed Community and Public Health Reflection Public health nurses integrate community involvement and knowledge about the entire population with personal, clinical understanding of the health and illness experience of individuals and families within the population. They translate and articulate the health and illness experiences of diverse often vulnerable individuals and families in the population to health planners
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Department of Health and Human Services (2015), despite alarmists, there is sufficient evidence to support the benefits of federal financial assistance on for the economy. With this fact in mind, Group 7 will focus our research on three programs that are critical to the indigent population of Florida. They are as follows. Government services, including Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Accessing Community Care through Eastside Social Services (ACCESS). These programs
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Texas Administrative Code Title 25. Health Services Part 1. Department of State Health Services Chapter 91. Cancer Subchapter A. Cancer Registry Effective Date: August 14, 2011 §91.1. Purpose. This subchapter implements the Texas Cancer Incidence Reporting Act, Health and Safety Code, Chapter 82. This legislation concerns the reporting of cases of cancer for the recognition, prevention, cure or control of those diseases, and to facilitate participation in the national program of cancer registries
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1. What is access of care? Access of care is the ability for a patient to receive the health services they need in a reasonable amount of time. The services need to be affordable and effective, in most cases these services would be administered by the person's primary doctor (Shi & Singh, 2015). In a 2015 New York Times article they describe access as “all people receiving the quality health services they need, without being exposed to financial hardship”(Site NY website) In the article they examine
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The provision of health care within the past two decades have illustrated that industrialized countries have all undergone extreme changes in order to combat the ever-changing demands of health care. Now more than ever since the budget-cutting and privatization began around 1970 with the election of Ronald Regan from the United States and Margaret Thatcher from the United Kingdom, who vowed to reduce spending expenditures for public services and their privatization (Morgan & England, 1988). Since
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Mobile Health Clinics: The Children’s Health Fund of New York City The Children’s Health Fund develops and supports a national of 22 programs and two affiliates in 15 to 17 states in the United States and the District of Columbia. The Children’s Health Fund provides wide-ranging health care to the nation’s most medically underserved children up to the age of 24. The incorporated approach to the health care is dependable with the concept of “enhanced medical home” in which stability of care is ensured
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Future Direction of Health Care There are many challenges the health care system faces in the future. In moving forward in a strategic direction challenges they face are: access to health care, technology advancements, maintaining a skilled workforce, health care reform, legislation, and rising costs. These areas present challenges and there is much need for changes and reforms. In this paper I will address five areas with challenges in health care and strategies organizations can adapt to
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