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provided by the health care system. Following my analyzation of the hospitals, its services and organizational structures I choose the University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) located in Seattle, Washington. It opened on May 5, 1959 and grew out of the medical school that the university opened on October 2, 1946. It is home to the world 's first pain center and was the location of the world 's first…

he cannot afford the insurance to get back to work. The list of stories continues because of the failure of Bill Haslam, Tennessee’s governor, and the Tennessee state legislature to expand medicaid to the 280,000 people that fall into the legislative Medicaid gap. These people do not qualify for TennCare (Medicaid), do not make enough to buy subsidized plans on the…

In the United States our health care system is the talk of much debate. Single payer healthcare is a health care system in which a single organization organizes the health care financing for all health care in the country. In a single payer system, the single payer organization would collect all health care fees and pay all health care cost from that money. The United States should use a single payer system for health. The first reason that The United States should switch to a Single payer…

” We have seen several small hospitals merging with large health systems in Western Pennsylvania. For instance, Titusville Are Hospital joined Meadville Medical Center, Corry Memorial Hospital joined Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Health System, Jameson Hospital joined UPMC Health System, and Southwest Regional Medical Center joined…

Social support and access to quality health care services can have an impact on breast cancer screening. Using the ecological model can help understand how to reduce risk of breast cancer on the individual level and population level determinants of health. At the individual level, when there is a lack of follow-up after receiving an abnormality it is important for the individual to engage in patient advocacy where they can ask doctors questions about risks or other concerns. At the…

Dr.Briggs and class, A policy is a purposeful plan of action or inaction developed to deal with a problem or a matter of concern in either the public or private sector. A policy includes the authoritative guidelines that direct human behavior toward a set of specific goals and provides the structure to direct action, including guidelines to impose sanctions that affect the conduct of affairs. Policies can be determined by the private or public sector that together can have a significant and…

Technology is the utilization and application of knowledge to solve problems or to accomplish tasks by way of goods or services (Technology, 1998). Technology advancement is increasing and society is looking for easier ways to manage their lives. The healthcare system must innovate to meet the demands of this growing industry and the people that utilize these products. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, in the next decade, fifty-seven percent of the population will be between the ages of…

money must be spent to treat a single patient. Hospital readmission rates have recently come under more scrutiny. Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act established the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, which requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce payments to hospitals with an excess of readmissions (cms.gov). These readmission rates are judged by the quality of care received through randomized audits and reimbursed accordingly. A major standard of quality…

current cost associated with the utilization of the services provided at the Regional Hospital, is in need of immediate review. The Regional Hospital is located in the Charlotte Mecklenburg area of North Carolina. If the current costs are not contained and measures put in place to reduce cost, this could affect the hospital’s ability to continue providing service to this community. In light of these circumstances it has been decided to employ the services of a disease management company. Under…

organizations Non-profit hospitals can be public or private healthcare organizations and the majority of U.S. hospitals are categorized as non-profit and usually exempt from paying taxes. They are structured under Section 501(c) (3) in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax regulations and they pay no federal…