When patients only seek healthcare from an emergency provider their care is more expensive and may be disjointed because emergency providers do not have access to a patient’s complete medical chart. In this situation, duplicate testing is done and medications may be prescribed that are not safe for the patient. The use of the emergency room as a primary care provider and the disjointed care of patients in the emergency room are two of the many challenges that healthcare providers and governments face when a patient with chronic health problems loses their healthcare coverage. One step that may assist governments in providing safe and effective care for patients who do have chronic health issues but do not have health insurance is to provide a healthcare insurance program where the premium cost for the
You would have to plan out where you will need main disabled access such as automatic lifts and ramps in the health and social care setting. You would need to make room for the access as it is important that it is provided for the service users that need it. Also disabled access is expensive to provide so again you would have to have a budget and make sure you only have it where it is most importantly needed in an area of the health and social care setting. However you would need to make sure the disabled access does not become faulty at any point enabling people that need to use it to access it as this would cause a big problem, to overcome this you would need to make sure the health and social care setting had reliable technicians around all the time in case a problem occurs. For example a lift may break down or stop working this will not allow service users to use it therefore they will not be able to get around the building.
Task 1 1.A. As we all know that older people have a lot of medical problems and because of that the service delivered has to be professional and handled with respect, so I think the key principals are be considerate of older people's well-being and show respect and manner. Some older people want to stay home and unlike the elderly that are receiving health care services in elder homes, they are receiving health care at home, which is more expensive and harder to monitor, however they are surrounded by their families. 1.B. Ageing has a big impact on the entire world population and because of the modern medicine people live longer which means more elderly people.
The reason being that, money is required to preserve a LTC facility that is accommodative and properly managed. Thus, additional funding will enable the appropriate maintenance of supplies and equipment, in conjunction with upgrading the diverse machines and utilities used in the facilities. Supplementary funding will go a long way in facilitating the provision of adequate food supplies and other resources to the patients and will help fill the financial gaps brought about by most elderly patients’ inability to pay for LTC services, compounded by the fact that the federal government is not willing to cover the expected gap in the healthcare
There is an increasing number of managed care organizations’ that are now emphasizing the physicians’ responsibility to oversee and control the patients access to further outside or special care needs. The reason for this is because the managed care organizations feel that hospital care and/or specialty care is too costly, and that only those who absolutely need further care should be the ones who receive it. Some feel that this method of care improves quality by necessity. They just may be right, especially when considering the skyrocketing healthcare costs along with the severe lack of healthcare coverage that is evident in the United States. The term "managed care" is used to describe a variety of techniques intended to reduce the cost of providing health benefits and improve the quality of care (Wikipedia, 2008).
In addition to identifying and following advanced directives, practitioners are also faced with the legal and ethical implications in end of life treatment and care. Palliative care and comfort care measures are another area that significantly impacts the health care provider also today. As we have made so many advances in medical care, we must also look at the quality of life that remains when we have prolonged someone’s life. As terminal conditions continue to progress, health care providers continue to have an ethical and legal obligation to promote the best possible care for the patient. Sometimes this means not aggressively treating a terminal illness and allowing the patient to choose to die with dignity and as comfortable as possible.
There are many stakeholders in long term care. The patient is a stakeholder because they are the ones receiving the care so they want to be sure they are getting quality care. Patients need to have a voice in their health care because they have the right to say what care they want to receive or not to receive. Then there are Insurance companies they are stakeholders because they are paying a portion of the long term care so they want to be sure the patient is getting quality care to that the patient stays well and keeps the cost down for them. They want to insure that the patient gets what they need at lower cost to them but they also want to be sure that test and other things that are not really needed are being done just because.
Frontline Caregivers: An Analysis of Turnover and Retention Frontline Caregivers: An Analysis of Turnover and Retention Introduction The turnover of employees in an organization is an inevitable event. However, the rate at which it occurs is a very critical trend that management should monitor closely. In the case of healthcare providers, the stability of their frontline caregivers contributes tremendously to the success or failure of the organization. For some time now, the rate of attrition has been high amongst nurses and certified nurses’ assistants. The high cost of replacing qualified nurses and certified nursing assistants should be a wakeup call for healthcare organizations to implement effective retention strategies.
Essentially under new legislation those afflicted with untreated chronic conditions or return for care with repeated issues are considered ineffectively treated and the providing healthcare organization is subject to non-payment (ACA, 2015). Despite all the signs of success such as growing patient loads and the demand for more skilled laborers, the measure of an organizations financial success will be best determined in the quality treatment of its patients. Organizational acceptance of a mutually shared goal is essential to fostering teamwork and a culture of excellence. These are the founding principals of an effective quality improvement program (Sollecito & Johnson,
By applying the strengths perspective, which uses human strength and resiliency as a guide for helping individuals overcome personal obstacles and challenges, conservatives would rationalize that older adults should plan for their retirement many years earlier, preparing a way to provide their own medical care. Health care should be an individual responsibility. In addition, some Conservatives surmise Medicare in its present form is a government entitlement and like all big government programs, it’s inefficient and disempowers individuals. The fiscally responsible thing to do, in their opinion, is go back to the privatization of Medicare in order to avoid large government