Significance Of Nursing In The Implementation Of Health Care Reform Abstract The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides for new professional roles and educational opportunities in nursing. As the number of insured Americans increases, so will patient numbers. Increased insureds will increase demands for nursing care as this legislation is fully enacted. The ways in which
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not include a health plan. The Mayo Clinic started in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1887, serves as an excellent example of this model (Shi and Singh, 2008). The Mayo Clinic has salary-based compensation, a physician-led governance structure, shared electronic medical records across inpatient and outpatient services, and the use of information technology. These characteristics, along with a private, not-for-profit status and full integration of the hospital and clinic, are key attributes that have contributed
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POLICY: It is the policy of Mercy Clinic Family Medicine and Obstetrics to define the designation of Primary Care Physician for the patients that they serve. PURPOSE: The policy will define designation of Primary Care Physician. The policy will also define when and how it may be appropriate to change or delete the designation of a Primary Care Physician from a patient’s chart. Definition of Primary Care Physician (PCP): • A PCP may be designated either by a patient’s insurance
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According to the supreme-court ruling, states have an option to opt out of Medicaid expansion. Washington State is one of those states that have decided to implement Medicaid expansion. Community health centers (CHC) play a vital role in providing care to uninsured and low-income people even if the patients regardless of their ability to pay. CHC are also known as Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). One such community health center in Spokane is CHAS. The purpose of this analysis is to assist
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of Nursing and Patient Care Delivery Models The Speech Hello, my fello nurses. Thank you for being here at the Summit of Nursing Evolution. My name is Chhay Yann-Ly and I am a nurse. We are living in an era where the United States (US) health care system is going through tremendous changes and challenges, with sky-rocketing health care costs, fragmented and poor quality of care, high volume of aging population, and passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010.
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URGENT CARE Paul Padilla Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Abstract Little things, like a skinned knee, can be treated at home. Life-threatening conditions, like chest pains, require a trip to the ER. For everything in between, there's urgent care. Urgent care offers treatment to patients of all ages for injury and illness, like the flu, asthma attacks, broken bones, cuts requiring stitches and more, providing you a one-stop option for unscheduled, time-sensitive care. Urgent care centers
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emergence of urgent care clinics, consumers have begun to have more choice in medicine. But with this additional choice has come some confusion as to the differences between urgent care and emergency medicine. This distinction is very important to consumers, especially families who tend to have multiple urgent care needs each year and are concerned about being able to afford that care. This article will break down the main differences between emergency rooms and urgent care, including what can be
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Columbia Memorial Hospital is an acute care hospital with 300 beds and 160 staff physicians, and is one of 75 hospitals owned and operated by Health Services of America, a for profit, publicly owned company. In addition, Columbia Memorial operates an emergency room and stand-alone walk-in clinics. Currently, 8,000 of these walk-in clinics exist around the country. Because of Columbia’s profitability, the other three hospitals in the area opened walk-in clinics as well, thereby increasing Columbia Memorial’s
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This was expressed in several forms such as difficulty to follow up of results, concerns regarding their knowledge about other providers’ patient and time needed to discuss. All PCPs readily acknowledged the shortage of time in the clinics. Most pointed to the effectiveness of MAs for pre-screening to increase the flow of the patient population. However, the PCPs in our study also pointed to patient questions they felt would inevitably rise resulting from these pre-screenings and screenings
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states, each state is able to determine the laws about second and third trimester abortions. Shortly after Roe v. Wade was passed, Congress banned the Hyde Amendment that took away all federal funding for abortion care. This leaving low-income women without the resources to seek abortion care if necessary. While Roe v. Wade made abortions legal in the US, women are still fighting the many obstacles put in place restricting them from choosing what they do with their own
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