Health Care : The Last 10 Years Over the last ten years health care has seen many changes with one of the biggest changes being the use of technology. Health care organizations such as hospitals and physician offices have gradually began converting patient medical records from paper to electronic, utilizing one of the many EMR software programs available. With the recent HITECH meaningful use initiatives which are giving Medicare and Medicaid incentives to health care organizations who adopt an
Finally an EMT-P is the highest level of EMT also known as a paramedic. As a paramedic one is able to do all duties of the lower level EMT and addition one can obtain IV access, fluid resuscitation, pharmaceutical administration as well as other advance procedures. There are other forms of EMT’s, an example would be Tactical Paramedics. Tactical Paramedics work on law enforcement teams and provide care for persons during raids such as the officers, suspects and bystanders involved. Additionally, paramedics are becoming increasing popular in the ER setting due to the shortage of nurses.
With only other practices within our area being either specialists or Internal medicine, we project a gradual increase in patient load over the first several years as we grow with in our community. Services for Heart’s Family Practice will provide general care for all ages from new born to geriatric, as well as providing multiple procedures to insure complete health care for the residents of this community. Heart’s Family Practice will provide procedures such as mole and wart removals, biopsies; trigger point injections, EKG’s, x-ray, lab, and much more. Costs for these services will vary depending on the physician’s time, materials used and the amount designated for each procedure which will be determined through a billing
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.
Medicaid indicated that the covered people of our intended services from such area in the past years were very high. Open-heart surgery is very profitable as well as all other surgical and related services, from the Medicaid report indicated to have covered great number of people in the past years. Due to the fact that the facility was primarily hospital I also read some business magazines and newspapers reports related to making profits for a new health care
What are the facilitating developments that have allowed health care to start globalizing? The rise of health care cost in developed countries and advancements in technology worldwide, like the internet, have contributed to health care globalization. The liberalization of the airline industry in many countries has made air travel affordable for more and more people around the world, which has led to a dramatic increase in the
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.
According to Discover Nursing, with the world population is living longer and needing more care, the healthcare field is one of the best places to get a job, and will likely stay that way for many years to come. This is a very assuring reason to pursue a job as a RN. It is almost guaranteed that there will always be jobs out there. The growth of RNs is expected to be faster than average. There is expected to be a change in the number of nurses working in hospitals.
The Emergency Department consists of a 14+ pediatric department, a 29+ bed adult pod, four trauma bays and a locked emergency mental health department. There are right around 130 nurses in this department working a variety of shifts. The emergency department is approximately the size of 2 football fields. The facility is a designated cardiac catheter center, stroke center, and trauma center. The staff care for patients of every age with complaints ranging from a laceration to an amputation and everything in between.
EMERGENCY NURSES ASSOCIATION POSITION STATEMENT CROWDING IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Crowding in our nation’s emergency departments is of increasing concern to health care professionals and health care consumers alike. Although the issue of emergency department (ED) crowding in the United States has appeared in the emergency health care literature since the early 1990s, it has received greater coverage during the last few years, capturing the attention of many Americans and policymakers.1-4 ED crowding can be described as “a situation in which the identified need for emergency services outstrips available resources in the emergency department. This situation occurs in hospital emergency departments when there are more patients than staffed ED treatment beds and wait times exceed a reasonable period.”5 When crowding occurs, patients are often placed in hallways and other non- treatment areas to be monitored until ED treatment beds or staffed hospital inpatient beds become available.6 In addition, crowding may contribute to an inability to triage and treat patients in a timely manner as well as increased rates of patients leaving the emergency department without being seen.4,6 As a result of crowding, hospitals often implement ambulance diversion measures, which means ambulances that would otherwise bring patients to the facility’s emergency department are directed to nearby emergency departments instead.4 In many cases, ambulance diversion may be an ineffective response to crowding.5-9 For example, when one hospital goes on diversion, other area hospitals may begin diverting ambulances as well, potentially resulting in ED crowding throughout the community.8,9 In response to growing national concern over ED crowding, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) conducted a study of hospital emergency departments in metropolitan