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Quality Nursing Care

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

Long Term Health Care and Quality Management

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the importance of quality management in long term health care in a consideration that includ...

Health Maintenance Organizations' System Improvements

In three pages this paper examines how HMOs can be improved in order to ensure better care quality. Three sources are cited in th...

Projections for the Universal Health Care System in Canada

7 pages and six sources used. This paper considers the existing status of the universal or national health care system in Canada ...

Managed Care and the Rights of Patients

In four pages this paper discusses how heath care quality has deteriorated as a result of the managed health care system. Four so...

Decentralization and Respiratory Care Departments

In six pages this paper discusses the costs and quality of health care in a consideration of the impact of decentralization in thi...

Healthcare, Clinical Pathways Importance, and QA

In 1992, for example, this organization issued a mandate that all hospital chief executive officers become familiar with continuou...

IT Applications for Health Care Reform

technology. It stands to reason then, that an embrace of 21st century technology should be a key starting point in moving towards ...

Questions on Health Care Delivery System in the U.S.

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

Glenwood Resource Center Quality Measures

sets for itself for assistance in achieving its mission include customer focus, excellence, accountability and teamwork (Strategic...

Health Care: Proposal

quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ways to reduce costs. It has also been noted that socialized health ca...

Health Education Professional Organizations and their Websites

This research paper offers an overview of the websites for the following health education professional organizations: the Society ...

An Article on Improving Nursing Homes Reviewed

the nursing homes as well as greater accountability. Accountability is achieved through the requirement for the nursing home to su...

Function of Political Institutions in Combating Epidemics

This research paper examines the significant role that governments take in battling epidemics, which occur both domestically and i...

Year 2035 and the Pharmacy Profession III

In six pages this paper contemplates what 2035 would have held in store for the pharmaceutical industry had there been passage of ...

Policy Memo on Massachusetts' Single Payer Health Care

the United States is that this population generally consists of middle class families and children. In 1991, there were almost 36...

Gary Pisano's 'Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

Analyzing Behavioral Health Care Organizations

of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...

Comprehensive Overview of America's Health Care System

family became very sick, required surgery, or even broke a bone. Medial bills of this sort have wiped people out and put them in b...

Health Care, Human Resource Training, and the Value of Marketing

In five pages this paper examines health care organizations' human resources and discusses the values of marketing and human resou...

The New Health Care and Columbia/HCA

Managed care has caused an upheaval in the way medical services are delivered in this country. This paper discusses the largest su...

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Issues

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. It is a progressive, sequential act with different parts mandat...

21st Century Leadership For Health Care Organizations

and they want guidance to improve their conditions and diseases Canton (2007) reminds the reader that technology has changed eve...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

The Major Problems Facing the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

Canada's Health Care System

services to their residents. The system is intended to provide access to medically necessary services to each person. In the lat...

A Critique of the 2006 - 2011 Indian Health Service Strategic Plan

the management of health care programs that affect them. The 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan not only focuses on performance of ...

Improving Management at Shannondale

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...