Community Health Center (AF) is a community health center serving western Arizona from 11 clinics and 4 mobile service vans. Community health centers have been established 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
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disease accounts for the majority of health care spending in the U.S. Identify and discuss three ways we could potentially reduce spending on chronic diseases while improving health status. Chronic diseases account for 75% of the nation’s health care spending. Chronic conditions are expected to last a year or more, bestow limits upon the patient’s, and may require ongoing care. They are significant and presently a growing challenge in the U.S. health care system. People with chronic conditions
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Administrative Ethics Paper Dennis Lang HCS/335 May 2,2011 Lawerence Fergus Administrative Ethics Paper On January 8, 2011 nineteen people were shot, six fatally, one of the survivors was United States Representative Gabrielle Gifford. She is in critical condition from a gunshot wound to the head. Her political status and the nature of the horrible crime is a national topic. This incident carries it’s own ethical issues with second amendment gun rights and public safety. Representative
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Readings and Commentary. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 2003:20-23. 2 Heintzelman CA. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Its Implications for the 21st Century. The New Social Worker. 2003. http://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/ethics-articles/the_tuskegee_syphilis_study_and_its_implications_for_the_21st_century. Accessed September 20,
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Workforce One in order to meet the needs of a client who require services from more than one agency. Workforce One offers assistance in the following listed below (VDE 2007). Health Care Services: Provide referrals for other health care services—medical, dental, eye glasses, hearing aids, mental health, substance abuse, home care, pregnancy, and family planning. Employment and education: Includes referrals for job training, job search, English for speakers of other languages, legal assistance, and
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mental health issues. Lindsay, ASW, one of the several case managers, has worked at College Hospital Cerritos for four years. Her time at College Hospital has been divided between the role as therapist or “counselor” Lindsay believes her role as a social worker in integrated care is to be another witness and observer who can contribute important information that would not otherwise be revealed to other treatment team members. This also means that her specific role within the CHC integrated care setting
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Ethical Financial Management Dana Doody HCS 405 2 Sep 2014 Working as a financial manager comes with a lot of responsibility; and a lot of standards of practice. Just like physicians and nurses, financial managers of health care organization have a set of rules and ethical guidelines they must follow in their practices. In this paper, I will what the four elements of financial management are. There will also be a summary of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and financial ethical
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“right” and “privilege”. An individual’s right, as defined by our constitution, is vast and detailed yet a right to health insurance is not discussed. What I did find was a statement that reads and individual has the right “to enter into contracts, and thereby acquire contractual rights” (United States Constitution, 2012). The question of contract is raised when discussing health insurance for it is a contract between member, inurance company and providers and this is a person’s right to enter
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Administrative Ethics Paper Heather Simmons HCS/335 September 19, 2011 Claudia Haywood Administrative Ethics Paper Health care organizations are responsible for the privacy and proper handling of people’s personal medical and financial information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been set into place to set the standards to organizations on how to handle patient information and how to deal with any situation that may arise to the best interest of the patient
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differences in opinions will be explored in the following paragraphs, analyzing the issue from different perspectives. Yet the act of abortion appears to break the vows of non-maleficence that health professionals must remain committed to uphold. According to John Stuart Mill, utilitarianism is a moral theory of ethics in which “an act’s of rightness or wrongness resides either in the nature of the act itself or in the results that the act brings about” (Mill, 2001). In today’s modern society, the utilitarian
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