Healthcare Reform: Cost, Quality and Access Healthcare reforms are polices set by the government that describes future ideas and changes based on economic and social advances to create an improved healthcare system that benefits the society as a whole. The topics of cost, quality, and access have become a concern to many as the issues continue to grow. In the United States these issues are the top priorities that have been discussed for decades to enhance the system already in place. The central idea of the first article focused on universal access of primary care. It states that because the costs of healthcare continue to increase so does the number of uninsured which in return increases the costs even more.
As the relative size of the overhead cost pools increase, the Apple Valley group would need to switch to the double apportionment method in order to accurately allocate all overhead costs. Also, the double apportionment method is a more fair and equal allocation method to the patient services departments. As allocation rates increase and become more concentrated in only the patient services departments, the sensitivity improves as costs are directly attributed to profit generating cost centers. These allocations are based on estimates, and absolute patient volume provides the most accurate assessments for profitability. Regardless of the allocation method, Adult Medicine is the most profitable department, and Obstetrics is the next most profitable department.
Risk Management and Quality Management Teshiya Camacho HCS/451 December 5, 2012 Mike Anderson Risk Management and Quality Management Questions | Risk Management | Quality Management | How does the leadership and governance of a health care organization influence the development and implementation of risk-management and quality-management policies? | By protecting the company’s assets, this is important for planning and organizing it also helps with preventing any sort of risks that may come about to patients. Also it will emphasize cost effective ways of going about the business. | Ensuring that desired level of quality is brought out and makes sure that all the participants are conducting themselves within the required procedures. This will generate profits due to its cost effective nature.This will also ensures that the public health care organization grows by showing its viability.
They also commit to providing great value as opposed to being the least experience provider of any particular services that are affordable. California Sutter has also made significant strides by holding their annual overall average price increases for health plans to single digits in the past several years. Sutter Health also continues to implement more efficient ways to deliver their services, conserve their limited resources and spend wisely. The integrated approach has increased the quality of care provided by our physicians and hospitals and will continue to help make their services more affordable. From personal experience I am glad to see Sutter have record levels of care and services for the poor and underserved and other benefits for the broader community.
The hospital is currently making enough to cover the debts, which equals to no profit. The hospital’s Revenue needs to increase to avoid the debts of the hospital from increasing. As a team, we feel that providing quality service will in turn increase the amount of patients seen ultimately increasing revenue. Ratios Unaudited 2009 1. Current Ratio: 128,867/23,807 = 5.41to 1 2.
Executive Summary – Middlefield is facing the high employee turnover, workforce shortage - especially of Nurses and low employee morale problems. Some of the findings about the causes of the problems are opening of the new hospital with better facilities and advanced technology for patient treatment and care, unavailability of quality instructors for nursing degree programs at universities. To tackle the problems, efficient use of existing Nursing workforce should be done in the short term. Whereas aggressive retention policies and increase in production of quality Nursing workforce should be long term strategies. Also Middlefield must ensure to increase the employee morale.
Abstract This paper explores how to receive an education and advance within the health informatics career. A variety of sources are combined to show the nature of the job, duties, and the salary you could expect based upon the type and location of the position. The healthcare informatics degree has been specialized over the years because of the increasing demand for credentialed applicants, but research also shows that receiving a degree in information systems and healthcare administration will cover the basic topics needed to start at entry level. Locally, the jobs available are mostly listed separately within information systems and healthcare, but there are a few exceptions where clinics want the truly educated and knowledgeable individual.
227). Over the years health care expenditure has increased greatly. Studies have shown that health care expenditure has almost surpassed $2 trillion dollars in 2008 or to put it in perspective $7,681/person (http://www.ama-assn.org/resources /doc/health-care-costs/strategies-rising-costs.pdf). Some of the major factors to this increase in expenditure include technological advances, population growth of older adults, increased focus on specialty physicians, uninsured and the underinsured, and prescription medicine. (Sultz & Young pg.
After weighing the pro's and cons, the only logical conclusion is that a BSN is worth the time and effort. The benefit to the patient is substantial and based on the Human Capital Theory there is a long term financial benefit to obtaining the degree. Patient Benefit Nurses at the ADN have the skills and knowledge to care for patients. Critical thinking is part of the job. Most of the upper division classes in a BSN program consist of Nursing Theory.
Introduction With quality, being a big factor in healthcare, patient safety has proven to be one of most pressing health care challenges for hospitals and providers. The Affordable Care Act, which includes policies to help physicians, hospitals, and other caregivers improve safety and quality of patient care, is also intended to make health care more affordable. According to healthcare.gov, Medicare will begin to reward hospitals that provide high quality care for their patients through the new Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. This means that Medicare will pay hospitals for inpatient acute care services based on care quality, not just the quantity of the services they provide. Changing how payments are made to hospitals for services, there is an expectation that there will be higher quality care for all hospital patients.