to improve Medicare reimbursement for small rural hospitals so that local residents would continue to have access to acute hospital care. There are two primary requirements for CAH status: a) a rural location; and b) 25 beds or less. Today‚ more than 60% of rural hospitals in the U.S. are designated as Critical Access Hospitals – roughly 1‚200 facilities. The states with the most CAHs are in the nation’s heartland: Texas‚ Kansas‚ Iowa‚ and others. Lessons from Successful Critical Access Hospital
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Maintaining the privacy of health patient records is extremely important in the health care industry. Every healthcare provider in different areas of the health care field obtain prerequisite training in maintaining patient privacy and have an obligation to ensure patient information is kept private. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ensure health insurance is portable and protection for privacy of patient medical information (Henderson‚ 2009). A requirement of the healthcare
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Responsibility and Current Health Care Issues Paper - Health Care Fraud Roberta Roelofs HCS / 545 November 17‚ 2014 Michael Grossman Health care fraud is a current health care issue throughout the health care industry from hospitals to home care services. “The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) estimates that health care fraud accounts for at least three‚ but as much as ten percent of total health care expenditures”(Hubbell‚ 2006). Health care organizations that work with
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People often take the glories of modern medicine for granted‚ particularly those in the United States privileged enough to have health insurance. But though we have the technology and proper medicines‚ there are still large groups of people who do not benefit from them. A health disparity is “a statistically significant difference in health indicators that persists over time” (Holtz‚ 2013‚ p.10). While humankind has achieved many scientific advances‚ adequately sharing them with the whole population
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Prostitution is often referred to as the world’s oldest profession. The harsher the laws get the more people need to do to avoid getting caught. A growing number of experts in health and law argue for removing all criminal prohibitions for consenting adults. What needs to be done instead is focusing on protecting‚ not persecuting‚ sex workers. Legalization would allow sex workers access to government and international resources so they could better respond to threats of violence. Reasons for legalization
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sanitation. Many organizations have developed ways to help diminished hunger around the world. In reality‚ the battle against hunger could become impossible. We don’t even need to look outside our country. There are some people who live here in the United States of America are in need of food. The USAD does not compare the lack of food security among low-income family
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Health Care History Keisha Williams-Young HCS/440 November 07‚ 2011 Over the course of the past 50 years‚ health care benefits costs and coverage have become a dominant force in almost everyone ’s life. By 1990‚ 186 million Americans were covered by health insurance (Kinner & Pellegrini‚ 2009). Even with that extremely high number‚ many people are still left out not possessing any insurance coverage because either they can’t afford it or they just don’t have it. With health care expenditures
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HLT-310V Spirituality in Health Care Grand Canyon University March 10‚ 2013 Combating Compassion Fatigue Introduction Compassion is a complex feeling that allows health care workers to hold and maintain themselves in emotional balance while balancing between patient’s suffering and own hopefulness. Compassion needs an internal assurance and obsession of personal beliefs. Compassion is the spirit of nursing care‚ it is the most essential value of nursing care. Joinson(1992) described
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Abstract Strong economies compete on the basis of high value‚ not solely low cost. Yet in the United States‚ growing economic disparity hinders the nation’s ability to provide the high-value-added products and services necessary to compete in a global marketplace. The economic problems associated with unequal growth – stagnant wage growth and depressed market demand – in turn exacerbate social problems‚ such as crime‚ drug abuse‚ gangs‚ reliance on transfer payments‚ and family break-ups. The most
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* Qual Health Care 2001;10:40-48 doi:10.1136/qhc.10.1.40 * Viewpoint Management matters: the link between hospital organisation and quality of patient care 1. Elizabeth West‚ senior research fellow + Author Affiliations 1. Royal College of Nursing‚ Radcliffe Infirmary‚ Woodstock Road‚ Oxford OX1 6HE‚ UK 1. Dr E West elizabeth.west@rcn.org.uk * Accepted 21 December 2000 Next Section Abstract Some hospital trusts and health authorities consistently outperform others
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