Control of Health Care in Puerto Rico Josie Valentín Walden University Overview of the health care system The Puerto Rico Department of Health (PRDH), the State Health Agency (SHA), is a free-standing, independent agency. Under its jurisdiction are all the health-related affairs of Puerto Rico. The PRDH performs the following functions: Planning, evaluating, and regulating as well as auditing the programmatic, administrative, and fiscal aspects of health facilities and services. The PRDH
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Facility Planning Part I University of Phoenix HCS/466 February 1, 2012 Facility Planning Part I In my community there is a significant need for an urgent care facility. The emergency room in my community is providing care for uninsured, and emergencies at the moment. If it was an urgent care facility for the ambulatory patients who are uninsured; this would take a huge load off the emergency room, and it would allow true emergencies to be treated accordingly. Currently many services that
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Approach to Care of Common Genitourinary Problems Student’s Name Institution Integrated Approach to Care of Common Genitourinary Problems This approach will incorporate techniques for care and treatment for the infected persons. Genitourinary infections are diseases that are caused by either virus, bacteria or even parasites that are transmitted during sexual association with an infected partner (Barlow, 2011). Efforts or attempts to develop a comprehensive approach to care for people
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healthcare system. Therefore, since 1949, the Chinese government has gradually established a free medical care, labor insurance and cooperative medical care system as the main content of the health care system, and initially formed a socialist country's health care system. The government owned, funded, and ran all health care facilities, including large hospitals in urban areas and small township clinics in the countryside. All providers were employees of the state. Meanwhile, private health practice and
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advantages and disadvantages of doing so. Running a health care organization should involve many people. Incorporating a vast number of multi-disciplinary specialists is required for the organization to be managed appropriately. This is helpful as it ensures that the facility has enough people with different levels of expertise and all medical fields are properly furnished with adequate personnel. This also helps patients know the health care services provided are of high quality. The additional skills
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All citizens of Canada are granted the right to health care and cannot be denied due to the inability to pay. Since health insurance in Canada is handled by each of the individual territories and provinces, a new citizen to Canada must apply and be accepted for a provincial health card from their residing province or territory (OECD, 2008). This card must be used whenever visiting a health care provider in order to render coverage in that particular province or territory. Select provinces like
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Baylor Health Care System. We are a large network of close to 800 providers serving patients in almost 200 care sites throughout North Texas and Fort Worth who are dedicated to providing you with outstanding quality and service when it comes to caring for your medical needs. Having your healthcare needs overseen by a HealthTexas physician means that your care is coordinated across our network and the Baylor Health Care System. As long as you are seeing a HealthTexas primary or specialty care physician
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quality and affordable care for members and the vision for the organization as a leader in healthcare in the country. Leadership Theory of Each Key Player in KP Ambulatory Care Nursing Practice The Department Administrator (DA), Provider/Physician (MD), Registered Nurse (RN), and the Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) are our key players in our leadership change proposal. Being the department head, the administrator has the ultimate responsibility for the operations of the clinic. The DAs are selected
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provide care in many settings, including community health clinics, churches, homeless shelters, and schools,” (p. 19). Community health nurses aim to improve health outcomes and improve the infrastructure used to monitor and manage disease within the community. Healthy People 2020 has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time to improve health outcomes. Each community has unique needs and the role of the community health nurse is to work with and provide comprehensive care to patients
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time (1.0) FTEE staff nurse in the hemodialysis clinic. In addition to her required roles and responsibilities she has cross trained to be responsible for the peritoneal dialysis patients on a prn basis. Ms. Costa applies the nursing process and care management principles within a collaborative, interdisciplinary practice setting while continuously demonstrating sound evidence based practice and critical thinking in the delivery of patient care. With the help of the interdisciplinary team she
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