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The Health Insurance Crisis

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

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...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

Community Health & Teen Pregnancy

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

Access to Services for People with Disabilities

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

The Major Problems of 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...

Selecting Child Care

equipment was very important to them. It needed to be safe and there needed to be a lot of it. These parents have read to their so...

Homeless and Nursing

In seven pages this paper discusses the health care profession's lack of providing decent care to impoverished and homeless member...

Quality in Health Care and the Effects of Agency Nurses

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the U.S. system of health care in terms of the empirical studies that indicate the...

Health Information Management

the store improving customer service quality, but it might not generate sufficient income to pay the extra costs. Coppola, Erchk...

Medicaid/Long-Term Care

why. First of all, the student researching this topic does not offer any indication of what specific "everyday life issues" were...

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES AND HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...

Aspects Of Universal Health Care In U.S.

Canadians must also pay for dental and vision costs. Dental problems can lead to other health problems and diseases. The desired...

Health Care Pricing and Costs

The actual cost of production of the 100th package of Microsoft Word(r) certainly was not the $500 it sold for at retail in the ea...

HMO Incentives for Doctors

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

AN EXPLANATION OF CAUSALITY CONTINUUM

example of this was introduced by Coreil et al in 2001 when discussing breast cancer - they point out that incidence rates for bre...

Funding Universal Health Care

care without knowing some data. It is also lopsided to discuss the cost without discussing the savings. In 2009, the National Coal...

Progressively Aging Population

the standards of care and service reimbursement. With the growing elderly population and the changes in our familial lifestyles we...

Behavioral Health Management, Case Managers and Primary Care Physicians

to treatment; and "significant benefit restrictions for treating serious mental illnesses and addictions," have prompted advocates...

The Government Role in Health Care

Health care is something that should be available to everyone. At the same time, it isnt logical to expect to...

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 ...

Access to Care for Underprivileged, ESRD in NC

and Abecassis, 2010). Available treatments for ESRD and economics of treatment from an organizational perspective: The only trea...

Primary Care and Specialists

managed care, hospitals have found that there is a higher margin of profit in specialized services, such as cardiology, pediatrics...

Government Involvement in Health

It also freed Blue Cross from the traditional laws that governed insurance companies. The justification for this status was that t...

Looking at the Practical Aspects of Introducing a New Strategy for a Home Care Agency

legislation an the economic feasibility of the plan. A major role of the board will be to make the decision, to ensure that there ...

Nursing Ethics/A Diabetic Patient

2010). The first provision of the ANA code specifies that nurses should show "compassion and respect" in regards to the "dignity, ...

Future Trends in Managed Care

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

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...