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Improving Health Care Quality Through Public Reporting and a Reward System

Leapfrog Group, 2009). That report made the astounding observation that more deaths (some 98,000) result from preventable mistake...

Portland Oregon and Its Policies with Regard to the Uninsured

County Health Department, 2009). It appears from this brief examination that the City of Portland depends on the County for its pu...

BUNDLED PAYMENTS AND CHANGE IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

This 10-page paper discusses how bundled payments might impact health care delivery in rehabilitation and physical medicine while ...

Focusing on Process Involvement Rather than Individual Error in the Health Care Workplace

safety culture; hereafter "Trust thrives"). The culture is based on understanding and trust, and is further supported by a system ...

E-Health, Telemedicine and Impact

abreast of new developments in their field without information management tools. On any average day, there are "55 new clinical tr...

Health Care Staff Shortages

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

CHALLENGES OF HEALTH CARE IN KENYA

under-five mortality and a decrease in the number of children who are fully vaccinated (Ambrose, 2006). Furthermore, the problem i...

Jean Watson's Nursing Theory

and technology, however, she refers to these elements as the "Trim," which is a term she originated that differentiates between ca...

Errors in Health Care

on the other hand, are certainly not immune from making errors. Everyone has heard horror stories of doctors amputating t...

Improving Productivity

Logistics/Supply Chain management; Financial m management; Process and quality improvement; and Technology and optimization (Langa...

Eye Health Among Australian Indigenous Populations

US and New Zealand have succeeded, in varying degrees, to raise the health standards of their indigenous communities since the 198...

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY AND ECONOMICS

Discusses the Affordable Health Care Act in economic terms. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliography of this 5-page paper....

U.S. HEALTHCARE AND CHALLENGES

Discusses various challenges facing health care in the United States. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliography of this 4-pag...

Senior Citizens in Miami, Florida

to the area (via migration or birth) than those that are dying. The bulk of the increase in Florida is due to people migrating dur...

Reducing Health Care Costs through Exercise

is no mystery that physical fitness keeps people healthy. However, what many people do not realize is that by staying active they ...

Richard Branson's Ventures into Healthcare

The company was founded by entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson in 1970. He began with a magazine he wanted to publish, then he and a ...

Definitions of Nursing Meta-paradigms

the profession of nursing has developed some basic ideas that serve as the foundation that guides all subsequent professional prac...

Allocating Medical Resources in the U.S.

allocated according to need and funds are obtained according to the ability of people to contribute? The answer is more complicat...

LEADERSHIP: FOUNDATION OF A PATIENT SAFETY CULTURE

a part of the healthcare culture. Technology, however, has led to some wonderful things in healthcare, from the polio vacci...

Future of Pharmacy

the procedures for preparing medications, procedures for dispensing medications, and the responsibilities of a pharmacy profession...

Tougher Laws Needed To Address Domestic Abuse

justice to the battered victim, it is also to educate the health care industry about how to identify abuse and the steps necessary...

Universal Health Care Is Too Costly

doctors, administrators and health care objectives overall lack strategic connection when it comes to major issues. Anderson et a...

Allocating Healthcare

saved. In essence, to allocate health care is to pick and choose who gets to live in a world where there are not enough resources...

MANAGING HEALTHCARE FOR THE UNINSURED

The problem is that the system is broken when it comes to getting appropriate healthcare to the uninsured. Even if Congress passes...

TERTIARY PREVENTION AND HEALTH CARE

measures of prevention, and determine their effectiveness in a given health care model. An Overview of Tertiary Prevention ...

MEDICARE MODERNIZATION - AN OVERVIEW

Medicare Part D has the ability to impact millions of individuals who are currently enrolled in Medicare and who were unable to ge...

Viability of Health Care Reform

system is overloaded and completely unorganized. Managed care doctors are typically overworked, overstressed and underpaid, a com...

EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION ESSAYS

an employee "at will," in other words, whenever the employer decided. Basically, the doctrine seemed to protect the employer from ...

Developing a Care Plan

prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...

The Public Option is Necessary

very wrong with health care in the United States. Presidents have been trying to fix the problem for decades but they are fightin...