The Evolution of Private Health Insurance and Why the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the Future of Health Care One of the most hotly debated topics in the past two years has been health care reform. An effort by President Obama was successful and in March 2010‚ the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or PPACA was signed into law. This law aims to reform the entire U.S. health care delivery and financing system. In this paper‚ I will discuss how health insurance has evolved
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Statins and Other Lipid-lowering Medicines | Health Print | Patient.co.uk Page 1 of 3 Statins and Other Lipid-lowering Medicines Statin medicines reduce the blood cholesterol level. This helps to prevent heart disease‚ stroke and related diseases in people at increased risk. Most people are not troubled by side-effects. However‚ if you take a statin‚ tell a doctor if you develop unexplained muscle pain‚ tenderness or weakness (which may be due to a rare‚ but serious‚ side-effect). What
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Patient Centred Approach. DOCTORS AND SOCIETY Patient empowerment—a patient-centred approach to improve care Introduction Health care managers in different parts of the world are facing similar challenges of increasing demand for health services‚ pressure to improve the quality of service for patients‚ to create more responsive organisations‚ and to contain costs. This paper examines the patient empowerment concept and how this important concept can be translated to improve the delivery of
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nurses‚ the paragon and paramount of healthcare‚ the helping hand and the leading constant through ailment and illness‚ the men and women who care for those in need‚ and yet we push them to their limits and ask everything of them for the impossible. The amount of patients a nurse receives needs to be reduced to better improve level of care and safety for a patient. The need and or necessity for such action come from the very stressful environment that is nursing. Nurses become overworked and pushed
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Ways to assess the care of loved ones According to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)‚ the growing shortage of nurses in America ’s hospitals is putting patient lives in danger and requires immediate attention. "The current nursing shortage threatens to heavily impact our citizens ’ health and our nations ’ security preparedness". (Person‚ 2003) The nursing shortage that is sweeping across the United States has been upgraded from a health crisis to a national
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Patient satisfaction is interesting to me‚ and I chose the Press Ganey Associates as my selected organization. Press Ganey’s most common formats used to gain information regarding patient satisfaction are surveys utilizing email‚ paper or phone. The information received from these surveys is organized by Press Ganey in easy to understand charts‚ performance scorecards‚ and progress evaluating side-by-side comparisons. This prepared data can be utilized by all levels of the organization to empower
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H.R. 3590 Patient Protection Act and Affordable Care Act 2010 H.R. 3590 is intended to expand access to health insurance‚ reform the health insurance market to provide additional consumer protections‚ and improve the health care delivery system to reduce costs and produce better outcomes. The bill would expand insurance coverage to 94% yet leaving 24 million Americans without insurance coverage‚ at the same time suppose to improve the functioning of the individual and small group insurance markets
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determines patient benefits eligibility would come from the patients’ information form and their insurance card. The medical insurance specialists would then contact the payer to confirm eligibility‚ any copayment that the patients are required to pay before care is rendered and whether the care they are seeking is a covered service under their plan. These steps are required before care is provided to the patient except in a medical emergency. If there is an emergency the patient is taken care of and
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Surgical Essay. Care of a patient undergoing TURP. Mr. Paul Fenech a 65 year old pensioner has been diagnosed with Prostatic Hypertrophy that requires surgery. a. Describe the Anatomy and Physiology of the prostate gland including its functions. b. Mention the disorders that could affect the prostate gland. c. Describe the clinical manifestations of prostate hypertrophy. d. Mention the investigations that are done to diagnose this condition. e. Describe the possible surgical approaches
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informing‚ educating‚ and involving patients According to Coulter and Ellins (2006)‚ patients want healthcare with a high level of quality. Through patient engagement‚ the quality can be accomplished‚ and the services will be actively securing appropriate‚ effective‚ safe‚ and responsive. Coulter and Ellins wrote an articles entitled "Effectiveness of strategies for informing‚ educating‚ and involving patients". In the article‚ the light was sheded on patient engagement in their own or their relatives’
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