International healthcare accreditation

Credence Works – The developer of CredencePlus, a suite of services for the home healthcare industry. Public Profile CredencePlus – Trusted, Intelligent, Easy As our population ages, the need for home healthcare workers increases. However, patients and families don’t want just anyone coming into their homes. They want qualified, vetted, and credentialed workers. Only then can they have peace of mind. While home healthcare agencies are required to perform background and license checks on their…

Although healthcare organizations often indicate that it is a simple request to have healthcare professionals such as family physicians, midwives, obstetricians and nurses, work together, it cannot be assumed that these professionals have been prepared with the competencies (knowledge, skills and judgement) to collaborate and the necessary attributes to effectively work together (Pfaff, Baxter, Jack & Ploeg, 2014). The identification of healthcare providers who will work effectively in an…

1. Settings 1.1. Healthcare 1.1.1. Description A pilot study at Kaiser Permanente’s (KP) healthcare facilities will initiate the project effort by inviting, introducing, and training the health care professionals about the telehealth videophone public health consultant services. A presentation via Skye teleconference calls or in person will be presented by the public health consultant using PowerPoint presentation to address how the program will reduce the barriers exist for the Deaf and…

keywords used indicated that the results must be based on the use of interpreters within health care. This limitation omits the chance of studies being used that were not based on interpreters, but discussed other aspects of language barriers within healthcare. In addition, since the research was based on the reactions of patients and providers within health care, a limitation that could be associated with such research includes the issue of people within the study altering their behavior. For…

influence by numerous events today. Healthcare has adapted and change the overall look of healthcare while improving constant grey areas making healthcare adaptable to fit the needs of any populated area. Health care not only effects society but many cultures along with politics and religion. Heath basically serves as a Signiant cause to any and everybody. My paper will discuss how important healthcare and how it changes personal values and beliefs. How healthcare impacts everyone is through…

Identifying the Problem After working in both Nursing Home and the Acute Care Settings, I personally have noticed the big difference in the care of the Alzheimer’s disease patients and the elderly without AD. Caring for Alzheimer`s disease patients is more challenging for both the caregivers and health care providers. It is as stressful for both the patients and caregivers as they try to maintain their cognitive intact and as caregivers strive to make the patients feel as normal as…

The New Zealand (NZ) health system is being confronted with emerging patterns of health needs, which differ from those, they have responded to in the past. These differences can be attributed to changes in our demographics (an aging population), and people suffering form long-term and concurrent conditions due to societal impact on lifestyle and diet. A traditional health system model focusing on secondary care is no longer sustainable or appropriate, due to the increase in non-communicable…

the year’s healthcare organizations have increasingly used the Lean Six Sigma principles to improve operating efficiency in their organization to better deliver care to the patients (Poksinska, Fialkowska-Filipek & Engström, 2017). The Lean Six Sigma was originally used in manufacturing businesses as a strategy for improvement by increasing performance that inheres to better customer satisfaction and improved results of the bottom-line (Laureani, Brady & Antony, 2013). In healthcare, Lean Six…

Ethical Experience Essay Xuefeng Bi DH 46: Legal and Ethical Responsibilities Lygia Jolley, RDH, BA January 2, 2018 INTRODUCTION Dental hygienist as a health care provider is granted special rights and responsibilities to the patient by education and skills. As we are providing educational, preventive and therapeutic services to the public, patients are seeking the best care from a professional and ethical practitioner. Ethical dilemmas will be part of the dental hygienist’s daily…

I can still remember those words, ‘When you are a clinician, you are saving a life, but when you are a public health personnel, you are saving thousands of life at a time’, delivered by my professor at the orientation class of undergraduate community medicine course. That introductory speech was so motivating that I thought for a while, should I be in the ‘thousands life saver’ group? But that speech alone was not sufficient to grow my interest in public health. Day by day I was feeling the…