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    Long Term Care Challenges

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    Healthcare has been a major issue for many years related to an individual’s economical status. We ask ourselves the questions, how can we make healthcare available for all, make it affordable for individuals to obtain, and most importantly not sacrifice quality of care? Long term care (LTC) facilities must meet the vision and mission statements presented by an organization, along with quality of care given to be successful. A major force affecting todays healthcare is insurance, the…

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    Gleneagles Case Study

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    reference to its external environment. SRTENGTHS • Gleneagles is a brand name that is synonymous with quality patient and medical care. It has excellent customer service in Asia. It provides such quality services at affordable rates keeping in mind public welfare and interest. • Its brilliant reputation and excellent international patient service which is provided with keeping international quality standards as a benchmark. Due to this it has attracted many patients from abroad, including…

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    The Veteran Administration Healthcare Directional strategies provide a framework that focuses on the business efforts of health care organizations. Quality of care is an important part of that business when it comes to any healthcare organization, the Veteran Administration Healthcare has been plagued with scandals that puts this theory to the test. This is a support in guiding the various business decisions and the activities of the health care organization, can adversely affect the public…

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    Medicine (IOM) published Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century that identified deficiencies and trends in the United States healthcare system. In this report, the IOM outlined the essence of quality health care as safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable, paving the way to today’s health care quality programs in an effort to produce optimal care and outcomes (IOM, 2001). Kelly (2014) states that “health quality policy may be thought of as…

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    The US healthcare system has been structured by many health policies, which over decades of policy development have brought critical changes to the way US residents received healthcare. Health policies are develop for public interest, however public interest groups can be diverse from political stand point of view to complex lobbyists groups with divided opinions, (Shi, L.,& Singh, D. (2012). Healthcare policy can be defined as the distribution of resources, services, and political influences…

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    iii. By striving to comprehend and appreciate the cultural differences of patients, healthcare institutions and professionals indicate the significance of non-discrimination, dignity, self-determination, and respect for the patients, which boosts patient’s satisfaction. iv. Some issues such as child neglect and abuse are not unique to certain communities. When healthcare institutions and workforce become willing to understand the needs of patients separately, the latter becomes more willing to…

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    inexpensive, quality healthcare has been an unobtainable dream for many Americans. When compared to other industrialized counties, The United States’ healthcare is more expensive, less efficient and more difficult to obtain (Mahon & Fox, 2014). Americans pay nearly twice as much for their healthcare, however the quality of care they obtain is only average. It is these troubling statistics that has lead for a push to monitor health care quality and make changes to the American healthcare system…

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    Introduction Over the years, the healthcare in the U.S. has struggled with how to maintain patient health information and how to keep it safe and private. The HIM (Health Information Management) industry can be traced back to the 1920s, when healthcare professionals realized that patient caring would be more effective for both the provider and the patient. Documentation became popular and was used throughout the U.S. after healthcare providers realized that it was impossible to treat the…

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    care delivery. These standards are access, cost, quality, and continuity. Standards of evaluation refer to guidelines that form a basis for evaluating a particular subject matter. Healthcare delivery system is the setup of the whole system that avails healthcare services to members of the public in a particular country. It comprises of several bodies including the governmental, non-governmental bodies, and medical personnel as well as healthcare facilities. In addition, Health care delivery…

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    positive impact on the care that we provide our patients and will continue to advance our healthcare system. There have been various quality improvement initiatives that have been adopted to advance patient care and safety. In these articles, a major goal that has been identified in the hospital setting is effective preventive management of venous thromboembolism (VTE). In 2005, a healthcare research and quality improvement program recognized that assessing and identifying patients that are at…

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