Hospitals and Long-Term Facilities
Hospitals and long-term facilities
Coretta Bradley
Dr. David Tataw
Health Services Organization – HSA 500
August 7, 2011
Hospitals and long-term facilities
Hospitals can be defined as a facility that sick or injured persons are given medical treatment. Whereas long-term facilities provide rehabilitative, restorative, or continuous care to persons whom need help with day-to-day activities. Throughout this paper, the difference between non-profit and for-profit hospital will be described, as well as three major trends that have occurred within the hospital sector. Three examples that describe and differentiate the roles of hospitals and nursing homes in providing long-term care will also be evaluated. In addition, the current state of long-term care policy in the United States will be critiqued. Describe the differences between nonprofit and for profit hospitals.
Most nonprofit hospitals were developed for charity and usually through religious orders. However, with a dramatic rise in health care costs since the 1980s, hospitals have increasingly converted to for-profit enterprises (Layne). During the 1980s, the increased health care costs were due to inflation, and new technologies threatening the survival of nonprofit hospitals. Their soul mission was providing health care without regard to a patient 's ability to pay. Employers and government, which bear most of the expense for health care in the U.S., pressured medical providers to decrease costs. Hospitals shorten stays, emphasize outpatient services, and become more efficient by collaborating with other health services to provide care (Layne). Nonprofit hospitals accept everyone; they do not refuse treatment and offer many community-based health programs. For-profit hospitals represent a corporate model of health care, which seeks profit first. For-profit hospitals enjoy higher capital, which in return allows them to purchase the latest medical technologies and create state-of-the-art
Coretta Bradley
Dr. David Tataw
Health Services Organization – HSA 500
August 7, 2011
Hospitals and long-term facilities
Hospitals can be defined as a facility that sick or injured persons are given medical treatment. Whereas long-term facilities provide rehabilitative, restorative, or continuous care to persons whom need help with day-to-day activities. Throughout this paper, the difference between non-profit and for-profit hospital will be described, as well as three major trends that have occurred within the hospital sector. Three examples that describe and differentiate the roles of hospitals and nursing homes in providing long-term care will also be evaluated. In addition, the current state of long-term care policy in the United States will be critiqued. Describe the differences between nonprofit and for profit hospitals.
Most nonprofit hospitals were developed for charity and usually through religious orders. However, with a dramatic rise in health care costs since the 1980s, hospitals have increasingly converted to for-profit enterprises (Layne). During the 1980s, the increased health care costs were due to inflation, and new technologies threatening the survival of nonprofit hospitals. Their soul mission was providing health care without regard to a patient 's ability to pay. Employers and government, which bear most of the expense for health care in the U.S., pressured medical providers to decrease costs. Hospitals shorten stays, emphasize outpatient services, and become more efficient by collaborating with other health services to provide care (Layne). Nonprofit hospitals accept everyone; they do not refuse treatment and offer many community-based health programs. For-profit hospitals represent a corporate model of health care, which seeks profit first. For-profit hospitals enjoy higher capital, which in return allows them to purchase the latest medical technologies and create state-of-the-art
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