A decade ago‚ the debate over conscience protractions for health care professionals centered on abortions and birth control. Over the past few years new cases have emerged that drew the debate and raised questions about the tension between individual’s rights of conscience and the need to protect homosexuals against discrimination. These cases involve healthcare workers – one case in Michigan where a graduate student studying to become a counselor refused to treat gay and lesbian patients because
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a hospital payment classification that came to be termed the “Critical Access Hospital (CAH).” The bill’s intent was to improve Medicare reimbursement for small rural hospitals so that local residents would continue to have access to acute hospital care. There are two primary requirements for CAH status: a) a rural location; and b) 25 beds or less. Today‚ more than 60% of rural hospitals in the U.S. are designated as Critical Access Hospitals – roughly 1‚200 facilities. The states with the most CAHs
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Health Care Budget Effective financial management is the basis of thriving health care organizations. Organizations must make good investment decisions based on objective analysis (Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]‚ 2005). Integration of financial management principles provides decision makers with guidance to make capital decisions maximize mission-based benefits at effective costs (HFMA‚ 2005). An operating budget is the statement of profit and loss for the entire organization
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Healthcare organization (HCO) | A formal legal entity creates‚ supports‚ and coordinates professional teams(caregiving teams clinical support team‚logistic support team and strategic support team) that deliver care to its community. | Any real HCO is highly dynamic in three senses: The HCO constantly responds to the changing array of patients and their changing needs. This makes most HCOs a 24/7/365 operation. The HCO evolves as medicine and management change‚ reflecting both the
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Affordable Care Act has its good meaning in providing access to health care system‚ prohibiting insurance companies in denying healthcare coverage to ill people and increasing the healthcare cost‚ and promoting Medicaid expansion to people with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level. However‚ there are many flaws‚ such as personal mandate and penalty and social injustice‚ in passing this law. Many people may believe that the Congress has a power to declare personal mandate to have health insurance
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2010 earthquake‚ struggles even more then before to maintain the health and wellbeing of its citizens. An overwhelmingly large percent of Haiti’s population lives below the poverty line and suffers form malnutrition‚ anemia and other diseases. Haiti has about 25 physicians and 11 nurses per 100‚000 population. (Wikipedia.org) This is a very sad situation for the citizens of Haiti because the incident of disease is so high and medical care so low‚ one could imagine the mortality rate for disease that
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HSC 024 : Principles of safeguarding and protection in Health and Social Care 1.1 Define the following types of abuse: Physical abuse: is an act of another party involving contact intended to cause feelings of physical pain‚ injury‚ or other physical suffering or bodily harm Sexual abuse: consists of a sexual act that is forced on one person by another. Sexual abuse can occur between two or more people of any age‚ but it particularly affects children‚ as children can never legally
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CU1516 | Introduction to Personal Development in Health‚ Social Care | Task link to learning outcome 1‚ assessment 1.1‚ 1.2 1.3 Assessment Criteria | Answers | 1.1 Describe the duties and responsibilities of own role | My duties and responsibilities is to meet the needs of the clients following policy and procedures which includes: personal care‚ assisting with meal preparation and planning‚ support emotional and decision‚ is my duty to report to my manager any changes
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have just taken command of the Sunny Grove police department. The department is riddled with various organizational issues ranging from theft to poor records management. I am responsible for leading a vigorous turn-around within the organizational culture and transforming the department from its currently underperforming state of operations to a respected department within the state in minimum time. OVERVIEW There is a list of issues the Sunny Grove Police Department (SGPD) has suffered
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President Obama’s Health Care Plan As a new health plan should‚ President Obama’s new healthcare reform is based upon the right and value of choices. In Obama’s health plan‚ the people have the right to choose if they would rather private insurance or national healthcare insurance‚ healthcare should be available to every American citizen‚ stating that no federal dollar would be spent on those labeled alien‚ and plans to create easier access to coverage. As a part of Obama’s plan‚ employers who
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