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Tombstone, Arizona: Social Work in a Rural Community

the communities where they carry out their practice, learning about the local culture in order to better serve the needs of the in...

Leadership and Social Work

social work, one can find many people idealistically devoted to causes that are important to them. It is not an easy path to becom...

American Social Security in the Future

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the current and future state of Social Security in America. This paper includes a discussio...

ACA Took Away Some Freedoms

Few stakeholders are satisfied with health care in America despite the fact that health care costs more than in any other develope...

Primary Health Care Trusts and Environmental Factors

personnel needs of the PCT and develop a strategic development plan so that the needs of the PCT are met with the ultimate aim of ...

Health Care Services Case Study

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

The Need For Consistent And Predictable Care

birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

Overview of Intensive Care Nursing

a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....

Issues of Managed Care and Patient Rights

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

Analysis of Incurred but Not Reported

payment has yet to be received. Given this, IBNR can end up being a problem for hospitals and/or health care organizations...

Managed Care Research and Ethical Issues

majority group in the United States. When considering other population groups, the disparities are even greater. The purpose her...

CASE STUDIES BASED ON AAMF CODE OF ETHICS

Presents four cast studies concerning ethics and family/marriage therapy. Topics involve religion, culture, technology and managed...

Financial Statements: Helping To Evaluate A Hospital's Financial Viability

having done so. Performance measures in general help to provide a composite of the respective hospitals financial viability, howe...

Case Management and Managed Care

the caregiver needs other information, information that is clinical "for patients or covered members from all segments of integrat...

Questions on Managed Care and Medicare

Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...

Managed Care and Politics

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

Questions on Managed Care Answered

the processes of care and generally utilizes claims data in order to discern rates of service delivery that are, in turn, linked t...

Program of Dental Managed Care

Numbers and Types of Patients Treatment Type Daily Total Annual Total Age Group Perio Oper Prosth Endo Income Income 20 - 30 2 1...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Ethical Implications of Shortages in Nursing

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

Problems of Managers Regarding Managed Care

By the early 1930s, the issue had become politically viable and in 1938 "the struggle over control of health care spilled over int...

U.S. DentalCare and a Program of Managed Care

and Types of Patients Treatment Type Daily Total Annual Total Age Group Perio Oper Prosth Endo Income Income 20 - 30 2 1 1 0 808...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

Preventive Strategies, Cost Containment, and Managed Care

stability, while the goal of tertiary prevention "is to help the patient return to wellness following treatment" (Torakis and Smig...

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 ...

HMOs and The Evolution of Managed Care

century, business and corporations began offering pre-paid health insurance programs to railroad workers, miners and dockworkers. ...

The Development of Healthcare Financing in the US

millennia ago, it is the first recorded use of pooled payment systems to proved healthcare. There are many examples of similar soc...

Nursing Relevance of Jean Watson's Theory of Caring

phenomenological, existential, and qualitative components (Cohen, 1991). These combine to create a theory that addresses the pers...

Nurses, Patients, and Managed Care

as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...