Stakeholders In Health Care

Introduction: The amount of money the United States spends on health care is increasing, and the quality of health care provided to patients is not improving (Kumar, Ghildayal & Shah, 2011). In order for our society to have an effective health care system, groups of people work together to write policies to define, plan, and determine an action to provide adequate and proper care for citizens. The process is also known as the health care policy process. This process requires careful considerations of multiple variables as well as effective communication between the stakeholders and policy makers (Vogel, Oxman, Glenton, Rosenbaum, Lewin, Gülmezoglu & Souza, 2013). The groups of people working together are health care stakeholders and policy makers. Policy makers include state health agencies and other legislatures. Health care stakeholders are groups or individuals who are interested providing adequate and positive experiences for …show more content…
Key roles and responsibilities of hospitals are to provide adequate, high-quality care for patients and provide patients with a positive experience at the specific hospital. The different stakeholder roles at hospitals include the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, the administration staff, nurses, management, and the board of …show more content…
The key role and responsibility of healthcare consumers is to receive the adequate, high-quality and positive care they deserve, to pay for the services they are receiving, and to provide feedback to physicians and pharmaceutical manufacturers about ways to improve their services. Healthcare consumers have the option to enroll in commercial insurances or Federal funded insurances such as Medicare/Medicaid. (Feldstein,