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Butterfield, 2015). This direct attention of individual needs and rights is the center focus in today’s healthcare system, especially in a hospital setting. Bekemeier and Butterfield (2015) states that this shift to individual care has limited the practice of focusing on the systems that have created the medical problem, preventing social reform that serve the greater good of the population. I agree that patient center care has limited are advances of social justice and…

healthcare personnel have to report on in order to receive some sort of reimbursement from the government. The three reporting sections contain Quality Measures, Improvement Activities, and Advancing Care Information (Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.). The individuals will have the entire month of May to obtain an efficient amount of information that will be useful for the new educational program. The assistant manager will also be in charge of ensuring the information is…

(U.S.), approximately 29.1 million Americans, 9.3% of the U.S. population have a diagnosis of diabetes, additionally, 8.1 million individuals remain undiagnosed, and 86 million people are pre-diabetic; 90% are unaware of their pre-diabetes status (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014). Lifetime risk of developing diabetes is 40% for most Americans; and 50% for ethnic groups at increased risk such as, American Indians; African Americans; and Hispanics (CDC, 2014). Glucose is…

I am a detailed oriented person, so I see the merit in a lot data to make an informed decision. One of the most significant obstacles to improved patient care, at a reasonable cost, is the relative lack of real-time access to current, comprehensive patient medical information that is easily retrievable for patients, healthcare providers, and healthcare payers. To impact the quality of US healthcare, patient information must be captured, updated, and shared with all stakeholders in a timely and…

Plan for Tampa General Hospital The overall goal of a nursing curriculum plan is to meet the desired educational outcomes that will prepare graduates to achieve professional practice standards that improve the health and well-being of populations in service to society (Billings & Halstead, 2016). In continuation, the second part of the course project outlines the Southeast region curriculum plan. The staff development program will focus on educating Tampa General Hospital (TGH) nurses on the…

2014). PMH also has high patient satisfaction ratings. According to Medicare (n.d.), 88% of patients gave PMH a rating of nine or ten on a scale from zero (lowest) to ten. This is 21% higher than West Virginia’s average and 17% higher than the national average (Medicare, n.d.). Weaknesses PMH has battled poor financial…

Health & Human Services (HHS) website, and is a government website in which all the content provided on this is considered to be authentic. I considered this website a good starting point for anyone who is doing graduate level research on a topic related HIPAA. This website contains pretty much most of the information need to understand HIPAA. http://www.cms.gov/ it is another federal government website that is managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service. CMS is…

provides integrated pharmacy health care services in the United States. The company operates through Pharmacy Services and Retail Pharmacy segments. The Pharmacy Services segment offers pharmacy benefit management services, Medicare Part D services, mail order and specialty pharmacy services, retail pharmacy network management services, prescription management systems, clinical services, disease management programs, and medical pharmacy management services. This segment serves employers,…

financial decisions to establish laws. The President and approximately 5,000,000 workers are part of the Executive Branch, who enforces the laws of the land. Finally, the Judicial Branch that involves the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Judicial Center. These two systems work to apply the laws made. Therefore, for a bill to become law, it has to receive the approval of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate, and the President. In particular, it is a process that makes way through…

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 required that the services funded by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services must be provided in a person-centered setting (Burm, 2014). Recently, however, this concept is beginning to get strictly implemented in most HCBS settings, in order to provide integrated and coordinated care. ‘Person-centered’ care allows for a holistic methodology to enhancing an individual’s health and well-being. Person-centered care focuses on an individual’s “physical health,…