Understanding Continuum of Care Services Laura M Stephany HCA/210 Introduction to Health Care October 26‚ 2012 Long-term care is defined when an individual requires assistance with physical or emotional needs over a longer period of time. One may need long-term care due to a terminal condition‚ disability‚ illness‚ injury or the frailness of old age (National Care Planning Council‚ 2012). Continuum of care is an incorporated system of care that will direct patients ultimately through a complete
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Understanding Continuum of Care Services HCA210 Introduction to Health Care Martha Schlagel 02/09/2012 Understanding Continuum of Care Services Long Term Care is a variety of services that includes medical and non-medical care to people who have a chronic illness or disability. Long-term care helps meet health or personal needs. Most long-term care is to assist people with support services such as activities of daily living like dressing‚ bathing‚ and using the bathroom. Long-term care can
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Understanding Continuum of Care Services Long-term care provides a certain level of medical care that requires the experience of a skilled physician to diagnose and treat multiple chronic conditions that are generally associated with elderly patients. Long-term care provides a variety of services to individuals who suffer from chronic illness or terminal condition‚ including people who live with a disability and are not adequately capable of taking care of themselves over the course of an extended
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Continuum of Care: Home Health Care This paper will explain the components of the Home Health Care delivery system of continuum. The reader will be able to understand some of the services provided by the home health care system and how they fit into the continuum of care. It will give details on how the entity does or does not contribute to the overall management of healthcare resources. In conclusion‚ it will examine the future trends of health care and discuss how the home health services will
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Approaches to Decision Making Johanna Ruiz HCA/250 March 29‚ 2013 Robbie Johnson Decision Making Managers are faced with many different types of decision every day on the job and off the job as well. We do make decisions everyday that come naturally to ourselves‚ but when you are placed on a managers position you are not only making a decision that will affect yourself but your employees as well. Employees count on the managers to look out for them and make sure that their best
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States health care system can be somewhat complicated and often have some barriers or limitations to care. The continuum of care is one of the concepts that is applied to prevent the limitations within the system. Continuum of care is defined as: A range of services developed and organized to address the variety of needs individuals have as they age. This concept recognizes and considers the availability and extent of short-term and long-term care systems and services in the community
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Associate Level Material Appendix A: U.S Health Care Timeline Use the following timeline or create a timeline of your own with eight major events‚ including the four provided below‚ from the last 50 years. You may change the dates in the box to match the dates of your events. Include the following in your timeline: Medicare and Medicaid HIPPA of 1996 State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Prospective Payment System (PPS) 1906 1906 pure food and drug act- The pure food and drug act establishes
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able to take care of ourselves there is a service that can help. This paper will give a general background behind long term care; provide a brief description of the services provided by long term care; and give the future trends of long term care. What is Long Term Care? In most cases when people become too old or sick to take care of themselves they require assistance from other people. Many times a family member is not able to care for their loved one so this is where long term care comes into
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Interview with a Health Care Professional The following summary is based on the information that was obtained from an interview of Ms. Rodriguez a Nurse Practitioner. Ms. Rodriguez has been a Nurse Practitioner for 12 years and enjoys everything about the job. To become a Nurse Practitioner one must attain a high school diploma‚ and have completed and passed a nursing program with an Associates or Bachelors degree. Once the degree is obtained the student must apply to the state licensing department
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Managed health care plans are often described as continuum models. Continuum models are used to describe gradual transition with sudden changes such as managed health care plans. These plans are involved in models consisting of cost and quality. There are four main healthcare plans that emphasize on continuum of managed care including service plans‚ POS‚ HMO‚ PPO and CDHP plans. Each of these health plans are consisted of different features‚ structures and guidelines that make them unique and effective
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