the lack of electricity‚ gas‚ and water made it uninhabitable. Without basic utilities‚ we slept and "lived" in our car for nine days while guarding our home from looters. The damage was everywhere. A personal landmark‚ the Granada Hills Kaiser Permanente Medical Center‚ collapsed. The site where I had volunteered as a teen advisor — lobbying for and improving the quality of the teen health clinic while working one-on-one with underprivileged‚ problem teenagers — no longer existed. Only an empty
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Executive Summary Spectrum Wellness will serve San Francisco Bay Area businesses‚ helping them to become more productive‚ while lowering their overall healthcare costs. Our business is based on two simple facts: 1. Healthy employees are more productive than chronically ill employees. 2. It costs less to prevent injuries or illnesses than to treat them after they occur. At Spectrum Wellness‚ we tie worker productivity directly to the healthcare issue. We believe that traditional approaches
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In today’s world it is no question that the best form of service that an individual or a group of volunteers can perform is community service. Generally community service is the thoughtful practices of people in order to better their environment and society. Actions such as helping the homeless‚ cleaning up after vandalized walls‚ providing food for the less fortunate‚ educating children with learning disabilities‚ recycling‚ and helping the aged are all forms of performing community service. A successful
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One of the issues that is widely discussed and debated concerning the United States economy is healthcare system. Why is healthcare so expensive in the United States? Unlike in the majority of developed and developing countries‚ the healthcare system in the United States is not public‚ meaning that the state does not provide free or cheap healthcare services. In this essay‚ I will point out 5 main reasons why our health is so expensive. Administrative Costs The number one reason our healthcare
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will grow to be unsociable adults. This entire process is known as Erik Erikson’s first stage of psychosocial behavior‚ Basic Trust- which can directly help or harm someone’s mental maturity as they grow older. The ACE study was conducted at Kaiser Permanente and shows how Adverse Childhood Experiences can affect both physical and mental health across a lifetime. These occurrences will ultimately destruct the mindset and functioning of a child. An ACE can be described as: Emotional and physical neglect
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Week five Power Point Presentation University of Phoenix Delivery of Health Care in the United States HCS 235 January 30‚ 2013 Week five Power Point Presentation Health Care in the United States is a vast industry that has many different types of people involved in the delivery of care. There are stakeholders that affect the daily operations of health care and they are not necessarily in a hospital setting. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality‚ AHRQ‚ defines a “stakeholder”
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current coverage‚ control health care costs by making them more affordable to everyone‚ and improve on current health care delivery systems. The Health Care Reform Act of 2010 is one of the most highly discussed topics in the media today. (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation‚ 2010) Over the past 30 years‚ Health Care Reforms have undergone dramatic changes. The most highly argued debate of how health care should be managed through careful budgeting. Today‚ the Health Care Reform Bill will cost us
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following hospitals began to implement the system beginning with generating bills and patients’ admissions and discharges. These hospitals were “Latter-Day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake City‚ Utah‚ Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston‚ and Kaiser Permanente in Oakland‚ California (Chiedozine‚
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“The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.” – Henry Boyle Holidays are very special times‚ shared with those dearest to our heart. In the military‚ these occasions can be bittersweet. When duty permits‚ service members maybe allowed to take time off to celebrate. But what happens when everyone want the same time off? Do they draw straws‚ or is it chosen for them? Military service carries with it an obligation to sacrifice these moments to defend America. Setting
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Cultural Competence: Is it necessary? What is Cultural Competence? Many different definitions of cultural competence are out there‚ but probably the most widely accepted is the following: “Cultural and linguistic competence is a set of congruent behaviors‚ knowledge‚ attitudes‚ and policies that come together in a system‚ organization‚ or among professionals that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations. “Culture” refers to integrated patterns of human behavior that include the
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