According to Kozol, one of the main causes of homelessness in the 1980s was the vast reduction in affordable housing. Kozol explains that “gentrification,” the transformation of a low-rent neighborhood to a more prestigious one, raised rents and pushed the poor into homelessness (433). He states, “Half a million units of low-income housing are lost each year to condominium conversion as well as to arson, demolition, or abandonment” and that rent for lower-income individuals increased more than 30 percent since 1980 (433). Additionally, Kozol claims that almost half of low-income “SRO (single-room occupancy) units” were “replaced by luxury apartments and office buildings between 1970 and 1980” (435). In addition to the reduction in low-income housing, Kozol also argues that there was a severe shortage of employment positions that paid a living wage.
Sutter Health’s Retooling of Accounts Receivable October 18, 2010 An increasing issue within healthcare is the inability to collect debt from the rising levels of uninsured or underinsured and patient payment obligations which have put increased pressure on hospitals to maximize up-front cash collections. Today in the United States there are nearly 47 million Americans uninsured and 80 percent of those come from working families. Hospitals incur over $60 billion dollars in bad debt annually because they typically collect only ten to twenty percent of a total uninsured patient balance after service. This is due to a number of reasons, including poor accounting practices, a lack of correct patient information and a lack of generated reports. This paper will discuss how one company, California’s Sutter Health,
The initial Wheel of Wellness sought to identify the correlation between health, the quality of life, and longetivity. However, the final Wheel model depicts spirituality as its center, which determines that it is the most important characteristic of well-being. Spirituality being at the core of the wheel was interesting to me, but not surprising. To me, spirituality provides a concept for us to
United health Care Case Study United health care prevents patients by using advanced and analytical techniques. The company offers consumer oriented benefits that effectively measures and improves customer satisfaction. It also improves the level of performance. (Uhc.com, 2013) It is the most leading US health care that offers variety of health care plans to the patients in not less than 70 countries worldwide. It also shows the important bases of the customers for continuous service improvement and dedicated customer efforts.
17, Issue 31). There is a direct correlation between poverty and rising health care costs that make it hard to afford the health care that is need for a family. This author wants to explore the affects this is having on our children, marriage and domestically. Review of literature Over the past 30 years researchers have demonstrated that the number of Americans without health insurance- mostly lower class has steadily risen. Economists estimate about 2 trillion will be spent on medical care in 2007.
Diabetes-related death rates are steadily decreasing In 2007, nearly 7,500 Australians died from diabetes and causes related to diabetes. This is 5.4% of all deaths in that year. Between 1997 and 2007, deaths from diabetes-related causes dropped by 16%, from 39 to 32 deaths per 100,000 population, taking into account differences in age structure over time (Figure 1). Figure 1: Diabetes-related deaths, 1997–2007 Notes 1. Directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population.
Then, Countless number of individuals lost their life savings along with the Depression. After 3 years, the value of stock on the New York Stock Exchange was worthless. Also, millions of Americans were out of work at the same time. Banks, individual businesses, and factories were failing everywhere. Even, income of farmers fell about 50 percent (Gene, 2008).
We have one of the worst adolescent suicide rates in the world. On average 294 youths die from suicide in a year. These rates have tripled since 1970. For every completed suicide there are an estimated 30 – 50 attempts. Suicide affects 1 in 13 Canadians.
The Importance of Patient Satisfaction Angela Foppe Central Methodist University The Importance of Patient Satisfaction Patient satisfaction is important to all healthcare agencies, because patients are consumers, and hospitals are providing a service and bidding for their dollars. The level of patient’s satisfaction with nursing care is an important indicator of the quality of care provided in hospitals. Most patients perceive patient satisfaction with the nursing care received as the degree of convergence between the expectations that patients have of ideal care and their perception of the care they actually receive. The measurement of patient satisfaction with nursing care is important to determine and meet patients’ needs in terms of care and to evaluate the quality of the care provided. Press Ganey Associates Inc., is an in-based patient satisfaction and quality firm that over 75% of hospitals use today to measure patient satisfaction ratings (Convery, 2008).
Florence Nightingale and her theory of Environment has had a profound effect on been one of the most the single most influential contribution to effect on nursing knowledge and research. A name that is synonymous with nursing, Nightingale began to develop the Theory of Environment during her work with wounded soldiers at the time of the Crimean War. Through observation, data collection, and systematic analysis she was able to quantifiably support the relationship between a sanitary environment and improved patient health outcomes. Florence Nightingale's contribution of researching the importance of providing for cleanliness, water purity, diet, and fresh air in order to improve the outcomes of client recovery was the beginning of nursing research (Burns & Grove, 2003, p. 9). This research provided knowledge that influenced clinical nursing practice.