Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act

received waivers from federal to reimbursed expenses that were spent to the uninsured patients without criteria. However, with the new healthcare reform, ACA the reimbursement will be based on the patient outcome and quality of care. “The Medi-Cal 2020 waiver opens the door to innovative changes in the way Medi-Cal provides services to its members, all with the goals of improving efficiency, access and quality of care.”(Williams, 2015). This reimbursement also helps primary care physicians to…

Healthcare is an ever changing and evolving entity. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 has forced Healthcare to revaluate and focus on new ideas and trends in order to adhere to the rules and regulations set by the ACA. The laboratory is an integral component of the healthcare industry. The laboratory is part of the “front-line” in patient diagnosis and treatment. It is essential for the laboratory and other healthcare disciplines to evolve in…

Quality Caring in Nursing Practice Tameco Martin University of West Georgia Role of the Caring Health Professional Nursing 6102 “Give me a new nurse! I don’t want her back in my room!” As a charge nurse on my unit I occasionally hear these statements from patients. They are usually followed by “she has an attitude”, or “she doesn’t care”. Working in a community hospital where most of the patients are underprivileged, or homeless, is a challenge to say the least. By the time a…

jeopardizes patient safety is patient falls, or for documentation purpose, patient found on the floor. The most common preventable adverse event that jeopardizes the nurse accountability is patient falls. In my four years of nursing, I have had to complete one patient fall incident report, but I have assisted in the documentation of at least four, which was five too many patients fall. Morse fall scale is the fall risk assessment commonly used in the hospital setting. My plan is to educate the…

Delivery Systems: Cost-Containment and Staffing Models The Affordable Care Act (ACA), implemented in 2010 by the Obama administration is healthcare coverage that allows access to affordable quality healthcare to the citizens of United States of America (USA). Nurses, as leaders and educators can find ways to reduce costs of healthcare without reducing safe, efficient and quality care. Good patient outcomes, patient safety and satisfaction need to be considered when dealing with staffing and…

privacy, health and safety and human rights risk when dealing with suppliers. These were roughly translated into the following CSR objectives in the area of ethics. The company developed a toolkit to enable the different affiliates working in different parts of the world to act on Sanofi’s global CSR objectives. This acts as a reference when designing all future action plans and strategies. The systems in place to ensure continuous improvement are mentioned below. System Purpose Quality Ensure…

keeping. They sought to make to improvements to ensure patients charts were kept accurate, completed and managed in an accessible manner. The healthcare industry realized the importance and benefit of documenting patient care as it was not only a way to take better care of patients, but the health record became crucial in the safety and quality of the patient experience. With the advancement of computers in the 1960’s , along with the change of the Social Security Act introducing Medicare and…

to a complex evolving health care system (Foundation, 2015).It emphasizes on the registered nurse using the full extent of their education, training, competencies, and collaboration with other medical staff to provide higher quality care, decrease errors, and increase safety. (Institution of medicine, 2010). While reviewing the report, I was focusing on how the report would impact my nursing care. In the first chapter I conquered, Transforming Practice, I noticed strong points…

Throughput is the rate at which the system achieves its purpose. The purpose of the hospital is to deliver quality care of the patients efficiently. The fragmentation of the activities also leads to waste thus compromises the throughput. The assertion is that hospital won’t be able to manage its throughput until it becomes an interconnected activities of a system. Hospital functions as collections of various departments or other units. The competition for scarce resources among the components as…

Health Act, also known as the HITECH Act was signed into law on February 17, 2009. It was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as ARRA. This Act was passed to encourage the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology (HHS, par 1) and to add changes to HIPAAs original provisions. The HITECH Act significantly modifies the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as HIPAA. HIPAA was originally enacted to protect patient…