Urgent care

The health care industry is steadily evolving to try to meet the variety of services that the health care patient is requiring. For instance, a hospital can offer a patient an outpatient status on variety of health services instead of having to be hospitalized. They offer such services, so the patient can save time and money on their insurances costs, but at the same time, it increases the profit for the hospital, thus making it a mutually beneficial benefit. These services can be grouped into…

medical reasons of the high utilization. Methods I reviewed 11 articles and literatures relating to high health care expenditures and the utilization of emergency departments among homeless individuals. This review included the characteristics, limitations, trends, strengths, agreements and disagreements of the literature review. Results There were different causes of high health care expenditure relating to the use of the emergency department. There was a correlation between housing status…

being a huge focus in that career and also a career that isn't predictable and simple, I want a career that I can enjoy doing and know that my hard work is what led me to have the future career that I wanted in the medical field, specializing in urgent care. My future career plans relate to this major because to get into any medical school or to become a doctor a person must understand the biology of the human body and the ways to treat it. My career plans related to my biology major are to use…

Abstract Background Thirty-day urgent and elective all cause readmission rates were indicated as one of the quality indicators…

In American health care, resources are distributed by various social mechanisms, marketing process, or by different perception of medical need. The results of this inequality structures have been often the limited access to care for many of people, which provides many occasions for conflicts of interest and other unfair manipulation (Jonsen, Siegler, &Winslalde, 2010). The conceptions of justice and fairness are greatly significant to the health policy and health care improvement. The concept of…

According to the study (2015), facilities that spent more on patient care and facilities that spent less on patient care were corollary with mortality rates. Patients who accessed high spending facilities, for emergency care, had lower, overall, annual mortality rates. In stark contrast, patients who accessed lower spending facilities, for emergency care, had higher, overall, mortality rates. Research pinpointed that time to medical intervention influenced patient outcomes. Higher spending…

In addition, an article journal on American Medical Association illuminates the failure of the United States medical system in offering appropriate medical care for Americans. According to World Health Prosperity, several people accredit poor health to American’s terrible habits, and Starfield (2000) argues unhealthy lifestyles is not a cause compared to their counterparts. He gives an example of smokers whereby…

services are companies that have paid employees who are contracted out by the government. These companies mainly provide just transportation for patients that are non-urgent. Private ambulance services also provide a second response to the city EMS and fire departments; when the 24-hour ambulance crews are busy and there is a non-urgent call, these private ambulance companies will go to the home calls to transport or provide any type of first aide as needed ("What is EMS? Department of Health).…

The death of Savita Halappanavar in University Hospital Galway in 2012 highlighted sepsis as a patient safety issue in urgent need of addressing. In 2014, Minister for health , Leo Varadkar published 3 sets of clinical guidelines dealing with patient safety issues, one being sepsis (Cullen, P.2014). The sepsis management clinical guidelines provide health care professionals with a diagnosis and treatment framework to be followed. It outlines the diagnostic criteria, a diagnostic tool (EWS),…

The U.S Healthcare System is a very unique but complicated network of various health care providers. It includes profit and non-profit private owned hospitals, government hospitals, urgent care centers, primary care practices, specialty treatment centers, hospice services, and pharmacies. Majority of Americans pay for medical services through private insurance provided by theirs, their spouse or parent’s employer, which they have to pay a partial monthly premium cost. Individuals with low…