Health Care Access in Arizona Heidi Haugen Grand Canyon University: HCA 255 February 1‚ 2015 Health Care Access in Arizona Recently the Untied States top priority has been to provide accessible and affordable health care to every American. Those that lack access to coverage find it much more difficult to seek proper treatment and when they do they maybe left with astronomical medical bills. The CommanWealth Fund found that one-third or thirty three percent of Americans forgo health care because
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strengthening health care is important‚ but access alone is a major one. Individuals and families having access to quality health and health services is important to maintain good health‚ treating disease‚ and taking measures towards preventing different tragedies from happening. Also‚ having access to health care impacts a patients overall social‚ mental and physical wellbeing. There are barriers in health care that lead to no insurance coverage‚ high cost of care‚ inadequate care‚ lack of culturally
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Health Care Access Options Amber Findley HCS/490 06/08/2015 Jennifer Johnson Health Care Access Options Today there are numerous health care access options available to people whether the option is a web-based resource‚ walk-in clinic‚ or retail clinic. Having different ways people can receive health care is important. There are some people that will not use a web-based resource but prefer a walk-in clinic and vice versa. This paper will be covering MedExpress‚ a walk-in clinic. MedExpress ’ target
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Health Care Access Options Sherri Olubode HCS/490 - Health Care Consumer - Trends and Marketing June 7‚ 2015 Jennifer Johnson Health Care Access Options With today ’s world of healthcare options‚ it is near impossible to know just what your community offers in the way of access to health care. This paper will assist in narrowing down three options: 1. A walk in clinic 2. A retail clinic 3. A web-based resource for health care The community that we will look at is a city in the county of Riverside
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timely access to health care is a major policy concern many countries. Delayed access has led to the elevation in the use of emergency rooms for non -urgent conditions (Shesser et al. 1991; Cunningham et al. 1995) and to the decline of patient satisfaction (United States Government Accounting Office [U.S. GAO] 1993; VanDeusen Lukas et al. 2004). Most importantly‚ delayed access to health care is presumed to undesirably affect health outcomes due to delays in diagnosis and management of health related
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ability to access and utilize appropriate healthcare resources. According to Bodenheimer and Grumbach‚ (2012) access to health care is affected by many factors such as the ability to pay for services‚ availability of medical members‚ the location of the facility‚ and the availability of transportation to reach these services (p. 17). All of these factors can have a significant impact a family’s ability to meet their health care needs. These factors do not only affect a patient and family’s health status
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Health Care Access Options University of Phoenix HCS 490 Minute Clinic is a health clinic affiliated with CVS Pharmacy. The clinic is open seven days a week‚ 24 hours a day. Scheduling appointments prior to the visit are not necessary. The plus side to this clinic is that it is popularly known nationwide. The clinic is also known to take most insurance coverage’s‚ thus attracting more customers. Minute Clinic offers a broad range of services to keep customers healthy. The clinic also
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understanding of health care cost‚ access to care‚ and quality of care is vital for health care professionals‚ as is the ability to articulate these issues. For this assignment‚ students will examine the effects of cost and the issues associated with accessing quality care‚ both in a historical context as well as the future impact on health care. For this assignment‚ address the following in 750-1‚000 word paper: 1. Identify the factors contributing to the rising cost of health care. When did rising
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The Rising Cost of Health Care: Effects on Access to Care The rising cost of health care is a trend that is negatively influencing access to health care. According to our course textbook‚ Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care‚ over 46 million Americans did not have health coverage in 2008‚ and 25 million American adults were underinsured (p. 124-125). For most people‚ this can be attributed to the high cost of premiums‚ co-pays‚ and deductibles. The purpose of this paper is to discuss
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Health Care Cost There are many reasons to why the costs in health care continue to increase. This cost increased started in the early 1990’s‚ health care expenditure increasing at a faster rate than the inflation‚ gross domestic product (GDP)‚ or the population. In 2014‚ national health expenditures reach $5.4 trillion‚ or $18‚709 per person. Some of the issues that contribute to expenditure increase were changes in population demographics‚ supply and demand; cost inflation
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