Healthcare Commission

social care services There is a growing demand for healthcare services and this is because there is an inevitable need for care (Stevens and Gabbay, 1991). These services are delivered as a result of a combination of inputs, including resources, organisation, funding, management and knowledge (Mills and Ransom, 2001). Whilst it being simple in principle, it is much more difficult in practice as all these factors put together make very complex healthcare systems, by the means of which health…

In today’s technological era, there is a high demand and need of healthcare policies that can provide major improvements in the quality of care. Health care is a continuous process, in which medical information is progressively accumulated; therefore there is a need of a systematic system that can track all the various health policies as well keep up with the innovative technology used in health system. Health care sectors may further even vary within a country, consisting of a small scaled…

Hendrick Medical Center is located in Abilene, Texas and has been established for the past nine decades. Hendrick Medical center mission states that the staff will “deliver high quality healthcare emphasizing excellence and compassion consistent with the healing ministry of Jesus Christ” (Hendrick Health System, n.d.). The vision of Hendrick Medical Center is to “be a financially stable, regional health and medical system providing quality comprehensive services with optimal outcomes that meet…

offers smartphones, personal computers, text messaging and Skype. According to Waegemann (2010) views of “mhealth as the new generation of telemedicine that is laying the foundation for a new generation of healthcare” (p. 334). Patients and providers are using mhealth to provide healthcare for patient-centered, is using communication, to ensure continuous patient care. The model is moving health care from provider…

The concept of Sustainable development explores the relationship among economic development, environmental quality, and social equity (Rogers, Jalal & Boyd, 2005). The terms of Sustainable development has been evolving since 1972, when the first international community determined the correlation between quality of life and environmental quality at the “United Nations Conference on the Human Environment” in Stockholm. Gladwin et al. (1995) had stated that it was hardly possible to require a…

One problem within the healthcare system that is often overlooked is the preventable medical errors. Medical errors are defined as the preventable outcomes that result from a wrong plan or failure of a planned action to be completed. The main categories of medical errors are operative, drug-related, diagnostic, procedure related and others. What makes this more alarming is that the numbers seem to be rising over the years. In 1999, the statistics indicated that at least 44000 people and perhaps…

practicing to the fullest extent of their education and training In this dynamic healthcare climate, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) will play an instrumental role in health outcomes of diverse populations. Currently, there are more than 250,000 APRNs who hold masters and doctoral degrees and who are nationally certified (Brooten, Youngblut, Hannan, & Guido-Sanz, 2012). Due to the demand for healthcare services, the employment of APRNs is expected to increase 31% from 2012 to 2022…

In your opinion, why is the hospital emergency department sometimes used for nonurgent conditions? What might be consequences of this practice? Many people use hospitals for nonurgent conditions because of the 24-hour open- door policy, convenience, and unavailability of primary care providers. The hospital will provide highly trained care with the use of sophisticated facilities for the care of the patient. Patients do not always have access to primary care physicians because they…

Patient safety 'To Err is Human', that quote explains that humans are prone to errors. Our goal in healthcare organization is to minimize the chances of these errors. Patient safety can be defined as ' the prevention of harm to patients' or ' is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care'. Upon bringing up the topic of patient safety, then we’re talking about how hospitals and other health care organizations protect their patients from errors, injuries,…

the patient’s care, little progress in the improvement of quality and safety has been achieved (Clark, 2013). Even though there were some important initiatives in the implementation of quality and safety after the report, only in 2013 The Joint Commission made a significant contribution in order to accelerate the process and enforced quality and safety through standards such as National Patient Safety Goals and Core Measures of nursing…