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Budgeting for Healthcare and the Impact of Government Regulation

that health insurance is simply a fringe benefit as opposed to a fundamental right (1994). Another issue that comes into play is...

Health Care and Aging

are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...

Health Care Workders and Accountability Arenas

paralleled by the employers duty towards the worker. Legal accountability is that which is delineated by the civil and criminal la...

Overview of STAT

In six pages this paper discusses STAT order designations and its usage by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Org...

Overview of Chinese Beliefs

2002). In addition, dietary practices in Asia are often associated with religious practices and customs (Gifford, 2002). R...

Report Critique of 'Retiree Health Insurance: Recent Trends and Tomorrow's Prospects'

policies so that employees costs will not be so oppressive. In "Retiree Health Insurance: Recent Trends and Tomorrows Prosp...

Hospital Cost Drivers

the importance of the demographic mix, the provision of some services will be less expensive to provide, For example, where there ...

Culturally Sensitive Nursing/Hispanic Client

(Kemp, 2005). In American mainstream culture, making eye contact is expected, as this indicates that the other person is listening...

Medicalization

the degree to which homosexuality may be a medical condition. The medical profession has since moved on from this approach and the...

Solutions for Health Care Staffing Problems in Rural America

Resource Management Systems," 2007). Acquisition relates to recruiting employees as well as the selection process ("Contemporary P...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Healthcare: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

Canadian Healthcare System

federal government provides direct health care services to specific demographic groups: "First Nations people living on reserves; ...

Healthcare Administration/Conflict & Stress

inadequacies in the standard of patient care due to a clinician refusing "to consult the on call physician or group" due to a cont...

HR Employee Benefits and the Impact of Rising Employer Costs

15.4% in 2003/4 (Anonymous, 2004). The approach has been to look for new ways of satisfying the same needs, such as the use of gen...

Nonprofit Hospital's Strategic Management Plan

This hypothetical situation isnt necessary fictional - real hospitals face this situation almost every day. In order to examine th...

Healthcare and Dictates of Culture

a model in which not only the biological components of illness were considered but also the psychological and sociological compone...

Research Proposal for Healthcare Industry Survey on Consumer Satisfaction

There are a number of elements that come into consideration when assessing how these types of facilities determine the necessity f...

Financial Comparative Analysis of HCA Inc. and Tenet Healthcare Corp.

birth though to death with general and acute facilities as well as specialised facilities such as cardiology, oncology, orthopaedi...

Financial Prospects of Roche Holdings

be interpreted before looking at the bigger picture so that the movements and trends may be paced in a wider context and assessed ...

Online Education/Professional Development

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

The Purpose of Healthcare Organizations

and healthcare developments in this country. Many of these organizations have websites that provide information about the nature ...

The Re-designing of Job Specifications

more of a smaller part of each task, to increase efficiency, this is an approach that is linked to the efficiency approach. The r...

HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS

anyone who has an understanding about the pharmaceutical industry, for example, understands that the blockbuster drugs are expensi...

Healthcare Information Systems and Privacy Concerns

patients prior medical data no matter where that patient was treated. This way a doctor will be able to get a comprehensive view o...

Information Systems in Healthcare

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at healthcare information systems. Emphasis is placed upon the benefits of electronic ...

Healthcare Executives and Decision Making Ethics

as those offered by the American College of Healthcare Executives. The healthcare assessment they offer allows the respondent to r...

A Comparison of Supply and Demand Factors between the Healthcare Sector and Other Commercial Sectors

requirement to supply a wide range of services, even for hospitals or specialist medical facilities. The market may also be skewed...

Healthcare Unionization

whereby physicians and patients can broker deals directly between one another, without external influence, restoring the emphasis ...

Why is Healthcare a Budget Cutting Target

all areas are hit equally, the total federal government spend on health is budgeted to increase, from a total of $51,223 million i...