Health care regulatory agencies supervise professional of the health care profession such as physicians‚ hospitals‚ and labs. Providing information in regards to changes in health care along with ensuring the safety and legal compliance and the quality of services provided to the public is the duty assigned to the agency. These agencies can range from the federal‚ all the way to the local level with the task of establishing rules and regulations for the health care industry to follow
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Regulatory Agency Paper Christy Dockery HCS/430 April 20‚ 2011 Reginald Bernard Regulatory Agency Paper Every healthcare organization should provide proof of accreditation. Accreditation assures any healthcare organization that the standards have been met and maintained. Joint Commission on The Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) provides accreditation. JCAHO evaluates healthcare organizations that voluntary seek accreditation. JCAHO is made of individuals from the private
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Regulatory Agency Paper HCS/430 September 24‚ 2012 Jeanette Fetter Regulatory Agency Paper Health care agencies and governmental agencies all share the role and the responsibility to health the public to evolve‚ and update information regarding that specific organization responsibility to help the public to face health care challenges. In this paper we will review one of the governmental agencies that has the responsibility to manage a range of public health crisis‚ play that plays a
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Regulatory Agency Paper Michelle Baker HCS 437 February 14‚ 2011 Kelly Carroll Regulatory Agency Paper Vulnerable individuals need to have opportunities to be included in the communities where they live. That includes the choice to direct their own personal outcomes and become integrated in the community with supports tailored to their unique needs. In an effort to achieve equal footing‚ families need to increase the basic understanding in the community of the complexity of living with
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Regulatory Agencies Paper HCS/437 August 18‚ 2014 Joyce Wooten Instructor / Nicolas Gross Regulatory Agencies Paper The concept of regulatory agencies has many boundaries and their responsibility is to license long-term care facilities to ensure compliance of laws and regulations. It is stated that in the United States the long-term care (LTC) marketplace is normally recognized as one of the most strongly regulated sectors in the economy‚ although there are differences
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Regulatory agencies play a very important role in the healthcare industry. They make sure that hospitals and healthcare practitioners follow the appropriate regulations and policies. Regulatory agencies work in federal‚ state and local level. Majority of the regulatory agencies are government agencies‚ but they are a few private regulatory agencies for example the joint commission. Regulatory agencies work and collaborate to enhance the outcome of the United States healthcare. Their number one priority
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Governmental Agency on Prison Health Care Phyllis M. Williams HCS/430 November 26‚ 2012 Christie Artuso‚ EdD‚ RN‚ CNRN Governmental Agency on Prison Health Care Within this paper‚ there will be an explanation of the role and impact of a governmental agency that regulates prison health care. In order to understand the full velocity of prison health care‚ one must first understand the definition of health care regulatory agencies. Health care regulatory agencies were established to monitor
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Regulatory Agency Paper The government agency selected for this article is The Federal Bureau of Prisons also known as (BOP). The federal bureau of prisons role include confining federal offenders in prisons who are humane‚ safe‚ cost-efficient‚ and secure. The Bureau is responsible for helping inmates reduce future criminal activity by encouraging them to join a range of programs that are proven to reduce recidivism. The Federal Bureau of prisons employees assists inmates with programs
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Regulatory Agency Regulatory agencies are put in place to ensure that health care organizations and the providers within them promote safety‚ legal compliance‚ and quality care for patients. Regulating health care is vital because if health care organizations were not required to be accredited patients would not feel safe when seeking health care services. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations otherwise known as JCAHO is a regulatory agency. The JCAHO “conducts periodic
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Regulatory Agency Paper HCS/430 April 20‚ 2015‚ 2015 Katrina Sullivan Regulatory Agency Paper Option 1: Health Care Segment When people think of health care‚ they often think up images from their own experiences in doctors’ offices‚ clinics‚ and hospitals. Then there are the images of intense drama and hustling and bustling in hospitals and emergency rooms such as those presented
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