Long Term Care Hospitals and Long-Term Care Facilities Ali Gooseberry Professor Sandra Di Pietro HCS – 235 December 15th‚ 2014 Abstract Hospitals can be set up as nonprofit or for-profit facilities. The differences between the nonprofit and for profit hospitals will be discussed. Hospitals have experienced different trends in the last thirty years. This paper will identify at least three major trends that have occurred within the hospital sector. Three examples that describe and differentiate
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I. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Longevity Healthcare Systems‚ Inc is an institution that provides services such as basic (nursing home) health care‚ rehabilitation therapy‚ Alzheimer’s care‚ institutional pharmacy services‚ sub-acute care and home health care. Longevity has four health care areas; Nursing Care‚ Subacute care‚ Rehabilitation services and Institutional pharmacy. The business emerged when Kathryn Hamilton‚ in 1972‚ was searching for a nursing home for her mother. Kathryn together with
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Following Safety and Medicare Requirements in Home Care Jennifer Wilson Chamberlain School of Nursing Professor Amanda Denno NR 447 Collaborative Health Care Following Safety and Medicare Requirements in Home Care Introduction The first SMART goal is regarding the elevated re-hospitalization rates‚ and how as a team we can reduce these numbers by 10% within the next six months. I chose this goal because the Medicare requirements are changing for reimbursement rates and we are a non-for profit organization
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While health insurance covers items like the treatments and prevention of health problems‚ coverage is often lacking when it comes to long-term care needs. Long term care insurance helps make up the difference where health insurance coverage lacks when facing the high costs of items like personal or custodial care. This includes services that are performed in a home setting or in a facility like a nursing home. Overview Long term care insurance reimburses the owner of the policy for daily care
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This paper will describe the Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) which is affiliated with Carson Tahoe Hospital (CTH). Long Term Acute Care hospitals were essentially non-existent in 1979. Now‚ there are over 450 facilities nationwide that are licensed as LTACS (McDaniel‚ n.d.). The discharge plan I will be describing is for a 66-yr-old female who was admitted to (CTH) for revision of a chronic enterocutaneous fistula which was draining from her abdomen through a very large open wound. This fistula
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Assessing Needs Many older patients are prescribed multiple drugs‚ take over-the-counter medications‚ and are often prescribed additional drugs to treat the side effects of the medications that they are already taking. The increase in the number of medications often leads to polypharmacy‚ which is defined as the prescription‚ administration‚ or use of more medications than are clinically indicated in a given patient. One widely used ADL tool is the Barthel Index : measure functional levels of self-care
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health care system is fragmented‚ failing to consistently deliver high quality care‚ particularly to certain vulnerable people‚ such as: those with multiple chronic conditions‚ the frail elderly‚ people who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid‚ and members of a racial or ethnic minority. These populations tend to see more physicians‚ have more office visits and take more medications. Too often‚ there is no one to coordinate this care. This failure to coordinate leads to poor care‚ such
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have taken on initiatives to improve quality of care for Medicare patients since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. In 2012 CMS implemented a program called The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRR)‚ this program is intended to improve health care for patients with Medicare to improve the quality of care that is provided versus the quantity of care. This program provides incentives to hospitals‚ which is intended to reduce costly and
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value scale used in Medicare’s physician fee schedule so that the relative values more accurately reflect relative costs. Medicaid is a federal and state program that is funded by taxpayers’ income tax payments to the government’s general revenue. Medicaid is one of the largest items in the federal budget‚ and its cost
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EMC/330 March 19‚ 2013 Robert E. Wynne Funding for Emergency Operations Government funding for emergency medical services (EMS) operations and training comes from many different resources. Government also oversees contract options for funding Medicaid‚ Medicare‚ insurance‚ and private providers. The Taylor Ambulance Company in the University of Phoenix scenario has its own contract with the City of Kelsey. This contract should meet some meet some general contract principles. Emergency managers
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