Starting from 1970, Community General Hospital recorded losses and bad debts. Operationally, patients of the hospital declined due to existence of another better-equipped traditional white hospital. In the end of 1983, the hospital has accumulated $402,000 budget deficit. Some plans proposed for the hospital to revive such as issuance of $15 million bond and $1.5 million from community pledges. These steps were also proven unsuccessful.
Indigent Care in Georgia Mountains Health Clinic Amy Creek University of North Georgia Indigent Care in Georgia Mountains Health Clinic The Georgia Mountains Health Clinic is an indigent care, sliding scale, primary healthcare agency that provides services to those with little or no health insurance. The rural Georgia mountain region is one that has been plagued with less-than-satisfactory health for many years due to lack of resources according to the Georgia Department of Community Health (GADHC, 2007). Because of the lack of resources, poor health in a community effects more than just those suffering with chronic diseases, injuries, and/or illnesses. This is why the Georgia Mountains Health Service was founded in 1984 (Georgia Mountains
Rush will continue to treat uninsured patients, and eventually the accumulation of unreimbursed costs for health care services will be shifted to taxpayers. Not an attractive alternative in my opinion. There is also concern as to whether the rest of the PPACA can take effect even if the individual mandate is held unconstitutional. There is a chance that the whole law could fall apart if the individual mandate falls. If this happens, well, we will be right back at square one – a health care delivery
In the Physical Therapy (PT) arena of medicine, some insurance companies have now been requiring all PT be performed by a Physical Therapist only and not by a Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA). Whether these companies are putting the actual terminology of ‘PT only, no PTA’ into the contracts or just simply not paying a submitted bill because the notes said a PTA performed some of the work. In the article, “Educating Payers about the Value of PTAs” in the November 2013 issue of PT in Motion, spot lights the very issue of the insurance companies scrutiny of who actual performs the billable work in a Physical Therapy clinic. New Hampshire, Kentucky, Indiana and Colorado were just a handful of states represented in this article, but insurance being a nationwide necessity; it is safely assumed that the “PT-Only” trend is everywhere. Insurance companies and other health insurance providers are simply uneducated about the field of PT and the need for the PTAs.
In the article by Garrett, Baillie, McGeehan, and Garrett (2010), the health care professional’s obligation is to “provide the health care information and leadership to ensure that this distribution is accomplished in ways that allow the goals of health care to be achieved” (p. 71). Although the physician informed Ms. Selbstmord of the lifestyle changes she needed in order to improve her condition, he failed to inform her of other important treatment options. The physician decided against prescribing Ms. Selbstmord a medication for asthma because of the side effects that would result. However, the principle of double effect of nonmaleficence would suggest that improvement of her asthma by the medication would create more good than the harm of the side effects so it should have been given as an option for the patient to decide. If the health care professional would have provided Ms. Selbstmord of all of the options for treatment and their consequences, it would become Ms. Selbstmord’s responsibility if whether or not her condition improved or worsened.
The “Forgotten Country” of Djibouti The small country of Djibouti, that is often referred to as the “forgotten country” is plagued by social, economic and environmental factors. With a drug addiction that is accepted as a social norm to an opiate based drug called khat, the population has stifled itself. The poverty caused partly by a Civil War has left a devastating mark on the economy. The high mortality rate can be attributed to disease, lack of sanitation and readily available medicine. It is important to look at how a population’s addiction to drugs, poverty and high mortality rate can affect the overall success of a nation.
Many scholars around the world are of the same opinion that to fully understand and adequately address health problems it is no longer enough to focus only on the biomedical model. Instead, more attention needs to be devoted to behavioural, social and environmental factors. Traditionally the biomedical model only focused on biological factors such as pathogens to diagnose a person’s illness or disorder. It suggested that being ‘healthy’ was to be free of disease, pain or defect and did not include any psychological or behavioural factors. With the emergence of the biopsychosocial perspective in the 1970’s, numerous health providers worldwide shifted their attention to investigating how biological, psychological and social processes (which includes thoughts, emotions and behaviours) operate simultaneously to affect physical health outcomes.
I was not aware that several individuals were not obtaining the care they require for the reason they could not pay for it and couldn’t find insurance. The biggest influence is the health care price, health care entrance, and the consequences from it (Wood, R., 2009, p. 1). I’ve knowledge that breaking the HIPAA policies can result in punishment along with the government laws. Role of Technology Technology will perform a big position in the medical business from security, new services ideas and diagnosing patients, contacting patients and keeping touch. It will assist to make sure the obedience in the legal condition of health care and it will assist to decreased the costs and provide a superior care than before (Finnegan, 2012) Technology will assist with more communication services, electronic medical records, and more computers doctors order entry solutions and many more things than before (Finnegan, 2012).
Biomedical model makes a cure the priority within health care services. Health is determined by the “absence of disease”. The reason for national health services are to find cures for already existing diseases and or an illness. After researching the illness enough to find out how to cure it, they then give out medication to cure the illness. Sociologists find that doing all the research needed to find a cure is a limitation of the model.
Failing hospitals at the brink of closure, requiring urgent assistance, will not have enough time to manage any unfavourable development due to bureaucracy within the communication channels of the new structure of the NHS (Nadeem Walayat 2010). The new structure of the NHS organisation provides power at the local councils with legal responsibilities for managing certain percentage of NHS budget. This gives local councils some role in influencing the health and social care services at their geographical areas. Local Authorities now have to work closely with other health and social care providers, community groups and agencies using their knowledge of local communities to tackle challenges such as smoking, alcohol, drug misuse and obesity. Private sectors will focus on profitable aspects of care and ignore non-profitable aspects of care, whereas the government wants to reduce the