Accountable Care Organization There is a growing need in our current healthcare society for controlling costs and quality of healthcare services. Clearly this need for "middle-ground" options or payment reforms are desired in order to provide greater flexibility and accountability for the costs and quality of care than typical pay-for-performance‚ shared savings‚ and medical home programs‚ but which avoid forcing providers‚ particularly small physician practices‚ to take on more financial risk
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Eating Fish and Eye Disease Sandra Hall HCS/438 March 21‚ 2011 Curtis Ramsey Eating Fish and Eye Disease The New York Times has reported that eating fish in a regular diet has more benefits. The article explains that the Harvard Women’s Health study says people that eat fish once a week had a 42 percent less likelihood to develop macular degeneration that was age related than people that ate fish less than once a month. Macular degeneration is an inflammatory disease and fish has
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Person Centred Care The overall concept of person-centred care is more than just compassionate care; it’s about providing care and treatment that responds to individual preferences‚ and treating the patient as a person (Vikki A. Entwistle & Watt‚ 2013). Person centred-care is aimed to understand the individuals needs‚ perceptions and motivation in life. This is to provide care adequate to the individuals stage of development and adjust to the daily traumas and stress faced by the individual (Brown
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One of the major purchases a health care organization would need to make would be information technology such as medical equipment. One examples of a piece of medical equipment that would be resourceful in a health care organization would a hemofiltration. This piece of equipment helps with the care of CHF patients. A few ways the health care organization could save money to afford this purchase is by thinking and researching ways to increase their incoming profits. One way would be by putting on
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Network Development in the Managed Care Organization To guarantee that its members receive appropriate‚ high level quality care in a cost-effective manner‚ each managed care organization (MCO) tailors its networks according to the characteristics of the providers‚ consumers‚ and competitors in a specific market. Other considerations for creating the network are the managed care organization’s own goals for quality‚ accessibility‚ cost savings‚ and member satisfaction. Strategic planning for networks
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of managed care. Medicare instituted PPS for reimbursing hospitals in the mid 1980s. PPS repayment based on DRGs gives fixed case-based payment to hospitals. Therefore‚ hospitals have a strong reason to decrease the inpatient length of stay and continue in an outpatient setting. Outpatient area has fewer payment restrictions. Managed care adopted a cost-containment strategy‚ which also stresses lower inpatient utilization‚
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| Course Project | Nightingale Home Health Services | | | 2/19/2011 | | HSM 430 February 15‚ 2011 Final research Paper-Week 8 Executive Summary Nightingale Home Health Care Services is a new home health care agency that will offer a unique combination of premier home health care and community-based social services to the Bryn Mawr area in Philadelphia. Our office will be located will be established in quality office space on Main Street in Bryn Mawr‚ Pennsylvania and
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Terminating medical care can be a difficult decision for anyone to make. This decision can come from many different people‚ including the physician‚ the family‚ or the patient themselves. The reasoning for this can be a number of factors‚ including the pain associated with treatment and costs of treatment and medicine. Patients would rather die with dignity and preserve their quality of life with good memories and not deteriorate into someone unrecognizable. It is often a decision that is not taken
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What does quality of health care mean to you and your family as consumers of health care? What are your feelings about the recent focus on medical errors in health care? The concept of being a consumer of health care is as foreign to my family and I as being a consumer of family relationships. Mothers are the mother‚ brothers are a brother and health care is as expected to be given to the same degree a parent is expected to feed their children. That being said‚ guide lines and agreements provide
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Palliative care is an area of health care that provides care for patients who are ill and caused their health to deteriorate progressively‚ and rapidly at times toward the end of life‚ the purpose of palliative care is to relief pain‚ yet maintaining best quality of life and supporting the patient’s family before and after the patient has come to eternal sleep and when the illness has come to attempts at cure are impossible (Clevelandclinicmeded.com‚ 2015). Home palliative care are for patients
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