Health Care Utilization HCS/235 Health Care Utilization John is a Medicaid patient suffering from high blood pressure whose father recently had a heart attack. His recent search for a Medicaid provider within his area has left him on the outskirts of accessible healthcare and has decreased his utilization. His closest primary care provider is forty minutes away and he has to make his appointment two weeks in advance. According to the model described in the health
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Public Health and Health Care Bobbie Jean Taylor‚ II Concepts of Population Health/HCS 535 March 5‚ 2012 Beth Hale‚ PhD. Public Health and Health Care “For over 60 years‚ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been dedicated to protecting health and promoting quality of life through the prevention and control of disease‚ injury‚ and disability‚” (CDC‚ 2012‚ p. 1). The organization has a focus of decreasing the health and economic disadvantages of the principal reasons of demise and
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Running head: HEALTHCARE LEGAL CASE Health Care Legal Case Alfredo A. Garcia Jr. University of Phoenix HCS/430 Rosilyn Nolan Many current legal issues surrounding health care exist in the United States today. The most significant topic is the legalities of the Health Care Reform Act. The Health Care Reform is said to be one of the most important pieces of legislation today. The Health Reform website says that health care reform will be the answer to uninsured Americans (www. Healthreform
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Affordable Health Care Act Name of Professor Institution Affiliation Affordable Health Care Act According to the journal ‘The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing’ Sorrell attempts to ascertain how legislature‚ individual and communities struggle to enact health care reforms that are upheld constitutionally in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The health care act was first enacted in 2010. The Affordable Care Act outlines important ethical reforms of justice that provide
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Patient case: A 65 year old resident is admitted to a Skilled Long Term Care Facility for a hip fracture. The resident has a Wound Vac and open wound upon admission to the Nursing Facility. The resident is due to receive Physical therapy and rehabilitation and go home. The resident must also receive wound care once per shift from the wound nurse or floor nurse depending on the shift. The resident is an alcoholic and is married with four children. The resident comes from a low income housing area
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Obama’s Health Care Reform HLTH 5120 Abstract According to the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust The Health care reform’s existing position after more than a year of political debate and legislative banter‚ congress finally approved a comprehensive health reform package. President Obama signed both health care reform bills‚ which included the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. It ’s
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Legal Issues In Health Care Alexandra Marie Canfield HCS 430 9/8/2014 Christie Artuso Regulatory Agency Paper The agencies that are in charge of monitoring health care facilities and practitioners are known as health care regulation agencies. These agencies also provide the organizations with information about changes in the industry. At the federal‚ state‚ and local level the agencies establish rules and regulations that health care organizations have to follow mandatorily. Some agencies
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Running head: Health Care Reform Project Part 2 Health Care Reform Project Part 2 Kelly Jones HCS/440 May 25‚ 2015 Lori Geddes One solution to managed care in health care is the keeping the cost of the health care down. According to "Health Care Cost Control: Getting on the Right Track" (2002)‚ “A real solution will‚ of necessity‚ involve pain for all players in health care: employers‚ government‚ providers‚ insurers‚ pharmaceutical and medical technology companies‚ and consumers.” To
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English 101 May 7‚ 2012 Health Care Reform The health care reform legislation has been a massive debate in the past years due to its constitutionality in government requiring health insurance to all Americans (Mears). If the reform were enacted‚ then the government would help the low and middle-income families by proving subsidies to pay the insurance policies. On the other hand‚ the reform would not benefit those Americans who do not want to purchase an insurance policy and they would face fines
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The Necessity for Health Care Reform Last year my grandma had been having heart problems and her insurance company was saying that they weren’t going to cover much of the cost. She had been having problems with the medications the doctors were giving her and she really needed surgery. We brought her to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester‚ because she needed special care. She ended up getting a pacemaker put in‚ and everything turned out to be going good. The insurance company covered some of the bill
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