“Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes for the most part, governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place” (www.wikipedia.org) Affordable Care Act “This started changing the country’s health care system almost from the moment it was signed into law in March 2010. It had already expanded coverage of young adults by letting them stay on their parent’s plan until 26 years of age. It outlawed lifetime limits on what
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2010 Report on Nursing Due to the passing of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the health care system was going to have an increase in the number of people able to receive health care. Due to this increase, the health care system was going to need to find a way to transform itself into a more affordable, higher quality, more accessible, and a safer health care system. To be able to achieve this transformation many parts of the health care system were going to need to be changed. Since the nursing profession
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Professionals October 12, 2013 Change As the US population continues to grow and become more diverse, health care needs must change and grow with it. The US Government passed the Affordable Health Care Act in March 2010. This gives an additional 32 million Americans an opportunity to have insurance coverage. This leads to an additional 32 million people that will be seen in health care facilities across the United States. In October 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) developed a report depicting
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improving the population of health in the Springfield Community, there are a few issues that inhere to the quality of life of the residents and the remaining existing of Memorial Hospital based on the quality of care delivered and the limited of medical services that is available to the residents. With a population of approximately 100,000 and most individuals are 60 years and older residing in the Springfield Community, many of the residents due to a decline in the quality of life in Springfield have
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recent development on the landscape of nursing, it include “The future of nursing ,leading change ,advancing health” which was released in October 2010.Its mission is to “serve as adviser to nation to improve health”. Its opinion are highly regarded and carry heavy weight legislative decision. The report outlines major categories of change needed in nursing to meet the health care need of the nation (IOM,2010). -Nurses should achieve higher level of education and training through improved
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Intermountain Health Care Introduction: This report analyses the case of Intermountain Health Care (IHC) which presents the idea of integrated model of health care system and provides perfect explanation of medical organization. The purpose of this report is to outline various lessons learned from the case of IHC and set an example for other medical organization by explaining success criteria of this case. Success criteria of the IHC: IHC has succeeded to deliver uniform quality medical care with continuous
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Community Health Nursing: Quality of Life and Functioning A. Personal Perceptions After reviewing the case of Mrs. Thomas and her situation, there are many feelings I have about the final outcome. As nurses, we always have to take our feelings into account and rationalize what we feel about the health and well being of our patients. After a BRAC analysis was performed, significant results were indicated. I feel empathy for Mrs. Thomas because this technology showed what her odds were for
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the coming age of affordable care for all U.S. citizens. Both parties agreed that available, excellent care could not be attained without exceptional nursing practice and leadership. The report establishes that achieving a successful health care system in the future rests on the future of the nursing profession. The IOM and RWJF (2011) stated, “We believe that preparation of an expanded workforce, necessary to serve the millions who will now have access to health insurance for the first time,
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Quality Data Collection Grace C. Turne HCS/588 March 26, 2012 Ismael Caicedo Quality Data Collection Quality data collection plays an integral part in quality improvement. In order to measure performance, quality data must be gathered by the use of data collection tools that must be implemented. Nurses Just for Kids a pediatric specific home care agency specializing in the care of medically fragile children must develop a QI plan that best suits them by choosing data collection tools that
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Apollo hospitals Strategic analysis of corporate social responsibility practices Bhupesh Manoharan (0086/49) DESIGNING CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP INITIATIVES ASSIGNMENT 2 Industry overview – Health care Industry in India In India, the health care industry is split into public sector, private sector and a wide network of informal healthcare providers operating together in a large and unregulated network. This irregularity has caused wide disparities in access, especially in the regional and rural
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