b. A more aggressive marketing campaign would be an investment in DHC's future because it would establish the company's brand as the number one downtown ambulatory services center. The threat of competition from companies other than MedCenter would be less likely too.
Con a. DHC would be unable to invest in much-needed upgrades to its medical services and would be less likely to offer the extended hours clients are calling for. Thus, the plan could backfire and cause DHC to lose clients.
b. DHC risks losing its reputation, which Worth built as a medical center that did not resort to what she called "crass commercialism," (p. 200).
3. DHC can address both the needs to improve medical services and the need to aggressively market to potential and existing clients.
Pro-a. The middle ground engenders trust among existing clients b. The extension of hours and services is likely to attract new clients before MedCenter lures…...
Affordable Care
School-Based Health Clinics and Adolescents under the Affordable Care Act
School-based health clinics can have many advantages over traditional health care delivery methods. The primary advantage is that school-based health clinics can specialize in the individual needs of the adolescents while a primary care physician may have relatively little expertise in many of the conditions that might affect this demographic group. However, with the school-based clinics, the staff can be well versed in the specific challenges that these adolescents face and provide effective avenues to address these challenges.
Given the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the entire health care environment will be altered. Although adolescents will have increased access to more traditional challenges of health care delivery, there may be a trend in which adolescents are disadvantage in some manner because they will be less exposure to the school-clinics who specialize in many of the age specific challenges that affect…...
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Works Cited
Brindis, C., & Sanghvi, R. (1997). SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CLINICS: Remaining Viable in a Changing Heatlh System. Annual Review of Public Health, 567-587.
Crosby, R., & Lawrence, J. (2000). Adolescents' Use of School-Based Health Clinics for Reproductive Health Services. The Journal of School Health, 22-28.
HRSA Press Office. (2011, December 8). Affordable Care Act support for school-based health centers will create jobs, increase access to care for thousands of children.
Rickert, V., Davis, S., Riley, A., & Ryan, S. (1997). Rural School-Based Clinics: Are Adolescents Willing to Use Them and What Services Do They Want? The Journal of School Health, 144-149.
Business Plan for a Health Clinic in Mayfield, Kentucky
Business Idea and Location
Mayfield Nursing Home is an upcoming health clinic that will be established in Mayfield, Kentucky, U.S.A. Mayfield is one of the vibrant cities in Kentucky, with a considerable population. The clinic will provide a variety of health care services for children and adults, including primary care, physical examinations, drug screening, as well as diagnosis and treatment. The clinic will be robustly committed to providing quality, safe, effective, timely, patient-centered, and affordable care. This is informed by the need to build, maintain, and enhance patient satisfaction, which will be our top priority. Commitment to patient satisfaction will be crucial for attracting and retaining customers. Services will be offered 7 days a week for 12 hours a day (8 am to 8 pm). The clinic will specifically be located along 100 South 6th Street in Mayfield. This location offers convenient access,…...
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References
Andre, K., & Heartfield, M. (2011). Nursing and midwifery portfolios: evidence of continuing competence. 2nd ed. Australia: Elsevier.
Finch, B. (2013). How to write a business plan. 4th ed. London: Kogan Page.
Graham, J., & Kaye, D. (2015). A risk management approach to business continuity. U.S.: Rothstein Publishing.
Health Clinic Chaos: Case Study
The busy Blessed Heart health clinic is located in Seattle, Washington. The clinic is a Federally Qualified Public Health Clinic that has been serving different patients within the area. The population served by Blessed Heart includes Medicaid and SCHIP population as well as other underinsured self-pay patients. The clinic has 30 physicians who are charged with different roles based on their qualifications. Blessed Heart has just hired a new administrator, Ms. Johnson, in order to handle the hospital operations and address the issues constantly raised by the physicians. Ms. Johnson has worked for other clinics within the area and has been credited with transforming the clinics. Her last role was based within Seattle for Mexi Health Clinic. While she was there, she managed to transform the clinic and eliminate the manual processes by implementing an HMIS. The system assisted the clinic to improve on its record…...
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References
Buchbinder Sharon B. (2011). Health Clinic Chaos. Unpublished.
Prosser, R. (2014). An Exploratory Investigation of Employee Motivation in the Private Sector: A Study of Dow Corling. Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Zalcman, S. (2014). How to Keep Employee Motivation Sky High.
Healthcare -- Floor Plan
Renovation of an existing facility into a walk-in health clinic would be a complex, expensive task. It would involve careful planning, numerous stakeholders, land, building, renovations, driveway and parking, contracts, furnishings, equipment and supplies. Budget planning would be critical. Having completed this task, I would change several key aspects of my plan.
If this is a new facility or a renovation
I selected renovation of an existing facility, which is a walk-in health clinic. The floorplan follows:
(Smartdraw, LLC, 2016)
Reason you selected the facility
I chose this facility because it is an increasingly common and modern structure for providing outpatient medical care in a community
ho are your stakeholders for this project
The stakeholders for this project are: providers; patients; payers; and in certain circumstances, the patients' employers (Duke University School of Medicine - Department of Community and Family Medicine, 2016). In addition, due to my need for significant financing, other stakeholders may…...
Clinic Analysis
Managing Complaints: Improving Service in a 15-Bed Emergency Room
As chief operating officer, you are responsible for a 15-bed Emergency Room (ER), which has received many complaints within the last year regarding inadequate patient care, poor ER management, long wait times, and patients being sent away due to lack of space, staff or physicians to provide appropriate care.
Diagnoses: Root Causes of Clinic Complaints
The complaints at hand in viewing the lack of success in the ER at hand can be largely traced back to poor internal management within the ER. Employees operating within the ER have long been confused about the standards and protocols that the hospital has implemented which poorly effects the running of the ER from the time a new patient enters the facility. Many of the complaints lodged toward the ER make mention of an incompetent and insensitive ER staff who have led patients to leave the ER…...
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Works Cited
Carrus, B., Corbett, S., and Khandelwal, D. (2010). "A hospital-wide strategy for fixing emergency department overcrowding." McKinsey Quarterly. Web. Retrieved
Healthcare management (Strategic operations plan)
Several studies, including Kelly arnes, show that healthcare generally moves from "costly settings" such as hospitals into cheaper and more flexible options, such as retail clinics and mobile health
What this actually shows as a future trend is that the global recession has played an important role in defining the customer profile. Clients are no longer interested solely in the best available services, but in low-cost services. For this, they look at flexible options and, in the same context of flexibility, they look more and more towards customization. Customization includes customized treatments and customized location (home, hospital, clinics, mobile)
At the same time, the demand for innovation remains key. The Harvard usiness Review points to the demand for innovation in emerging markets, such as China and India, but this is also true, to a different degree, for the U.S. market
. Innovation can take different forms, but it aims…...
Also, as care is prioritized, those individuals deemed to be in a less urgent need of care are given a lower priority, which results in a wait list. Finally, as physicians are compensated on the same level of salary, fewer people may be attracted to the profession for its financial rewards. In a public system, patients shop around less for providers because most providers charge the same fees. ithin a public system there is less 'siphoning' of middle-income people to higher-cost physicians with short waiting lists.
Visit: http://www.csc-surgery.com/contact.php.hatexactly is this hospital? hat would your policy response be?
According to its website, the Cambie Surgery Centre is a private healthcare clinic. The site notes that the "BC provincial government looks to private health care facilities like the Cambie Surgery Centre to help ease the long public wait lists." The hospital is a paying hospital that uses sophisticated technology to perform its services.…...
Health Care Communication
Background- Within the modern nursing paradigm, there must be a clear link between a health outcome and the process that helps ensure those outcomes. Typically, outcomes are classified in terms of preventability, impact, severity and an overall holistic view of the client's safety issues. Positive behaviors that impact individuals either rescue or protect patients from potential or actual events. This is also part of the issue with modern communication and dissemination of information to patients, stakeholders, and the community (Burns and Grove, 2005).
At the heart of healthcare as an institution is, of course, the need to care for the sick and the injured. However, in the contemporary model of healthcare, effective communication during a crisis is not only important, but also vital. Communication by healthcare professionals takes the concern and worry out of the situation; offers a quicker resolution, makes better control of information possible, earns the trust…...
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REFERENCES
Alligood, et.al. (2002). Nursing Theorists and their Work. Philadelphia: Mosby.
Burns, N. And Grove, S. (2004). The Practice of Nursing Research. St. Louis:
Elsevier.
D'Antonio, P., et al., eds., (2007). Nurses Work: Issues Across Time and Place. New York:
Health Care Access Ethical Dilemma
Access to health care services is not equitable in the United States. The 15% of Americans without health insurance coverage find it extremely difficult to access health care services (Trotochaud, 2006). This is an injustice that should be addressed. Patients going to rural health care facilities face myriad challenges that are occasioned by stigmatization. Stigmatization of illnesses that patients grapple with occasions ethical conflicts. In the process, patients' right to privacy and confidentiality are often violated. There are practical guidelines that can be used to minimize ethical conflicts. It is imperative that confidentiality and trust be made paramount under circumstances where healthcare professionals deal with patients with stigmatizing illnesses.
A typical example of confidentiality, overlapping relationships and lack of willingness to seek care can be attested to in a situation where a woman working at a local store finds out that her partner is HIV-positive and also…...
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References
Trotochaud, K. (2006). Ethical Issues and Access to Healthcare. Journal of Infusion Nursing,
29(3), 165-170.
Tummala, A. & Roberts, L.W., (2009). Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: Stigma and Illness. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Healthcare in Marketing (Lasik)
Lasik's Methods in Other Health Care Organizations
Customer profiling is a vastly unexplored marketing method in the health industry. While it has been used to target very specific markets, such as potential consumers of elective surgery, other markets have been largely neglected (arber 2001). The reasons for this are many, but mostly they include difficulties with medical data gathering, and legal issues regarding potential customer profiling.
Despite the above-mentioned difficulties, there are several organizations that can and do benefit from customer profiling. One such entity is the pharmaceutical industry (Winterhalter 2002). Here the customer being profiled is normally the health care professional, rather than the patient. y gathering geo-demographic data as well as customer loyalty information from a group of health professionals, pharmaceutical companies can significantly enhance the effectiveness of their marketing practices. This will further benefit not only the professionals, but also the healthcare consumer, in that pharmaceutical…...
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Bibliography
Barber, F.A., R.K. Thomas, M. Huang. "Developing a profile of LASIK surgery customers." Marketing Health Services, Iss. 2, Vol 21. Chicago: Summer 2001.
Business Wire. "New Customer Wins Position Lawson as Dominant Enterprise E-business Solution Provider to Healthcare Industry." New Orleans, 2001.
Health Care Situation: Medical Error Due to Doctors' Bad Handwriting
Identify a health care news situation that affects a health care organization such as a hospital, clinic or insurance company.
I have identified the following health care news situation as the topic of my paper: "Poor Handwriting of Doctors and its implied risks for the Patient, Hospital and Medical Malpractice Insurance." Poor handwriting of physicians resulting in poor legibility of entries into patients' medical records carries very dramatic risks for all above-mentioned interest bearers. It can result in severe health danger for the patient and - in extreme situations - even cause a patient's death. Doctors' bad penmanship has long been seen a problem within organized medicine and the patient safety movement. Three American Medical Association (AMA) policies dating back to 1992, urge doctors to "improve the legibility of handwritten orders for medications" and review all orders for accuracy and legibility after…...
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References
Berwick, Donald M. & Winickoff, David E. (1996). The truth about doctors' handwriting: a prospective study. BMJ Vol. 313 (21-28 December 1996). 1657-1658. www.bmj.com/content/313/7072/1657.full, accessed 21 August 2011.
Bruner, Anne & Kasdan, Morton.L. Handwriting Errors: Harmful, Wasteful and Preventable.
1-4. www.kyma.org/uploads/file/.../Harmful_wasteful_and_preventable.pdfSimilar, accessed 22 August 2011.
Gallant, Al. (22 November 2009). For a secure electronic health record implementation, user authentication is key. 1-2). searchhealthit.techtarget.com/.../User-authentication-is-critical-for-pl.., accessed 24 August 2011.
In fact Congress should pass a bill that gives that prescription drug benefit to Medicare patients.
QUESTION NINE: In the United States, healthcare is so expensive that over 45 million people are without health insurance. It is a broken system, leaving out many people, especially children. Recently the executive branch vetoed a bill that would have provided health insurance to millions of middle and low-income children, indicating a lack of government concern for the well being of the population. Bush said it was too expensive, yet it's not too expensive to continue spending billions on an unpopular war in Iraq. Meanwhile, for the past 45 years, Canada has had a "government-funded, national healthcare system..." based on these five principles, according to www.medhunters.com.One, it is universally available to permanent residents; two, it is comprehensive; three, it is available regardless of income; four, it is "portable within and outside" Canada; and five,…...
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Works Cited
American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2007). Fact Sheet: Nursing Shortages.
Duke, Elizabeth. (2004). Report to Congress. The Critical Care Workforce: A Study of the Supply and Demand for Critical Care Physicians. U.S. Department of Health & Human
Healthcare Legislative Bill
The expanded and improved Medicare for all Acts
The Expanded and mproved Medicare for All Act was introduced to the House of Representatives in 2009 and seeks to lobby for the implementation of a common single-payer health care system throughout the United States o0f America. The bill if enacted would require that all medical care costs be paid for automatically by the government instead of private insurances for the same. The move will significantly alter the role of private insurance companies as merely offering supplemental coverage especially when the kind of medical care sought is not all that essential (McCormick, 2009).
With the Expanded and mproved Medicare for All Bill, the country's national system will be paid for through taxes and the monies that will replace the regular insurance premiums. Proponents of the bill argue that by eliminating the need for private insurance companies in the national medical care system,…...
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Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, (2010), Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations
The American Journal of Medical Practices, (2011), The Impact of single-payer Medicare
Health Promotion Lesson Plan
The concept of health promotion is thought of as "the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health" (Dunphy et al., 2011, p 25). Serious heart conditions can be prevented, which is why it is so important to utilize community education techniques in order to help try to warn community members of the complications before they occur. This current lesson plan works to create three separate community lesson plans, based on specific age ranges. The age 18-29 focuses primarily on the use of social media and health advocacy efforts in association with the American Heart Association. For ages 30-49, there is also a focus on these two, combined with more community oriented issues, and for 50-60, there is much more of a focus on financial training along with community organized workshops.
Prevention has become a major issue in healthcare…...
I. Introduction: A. Define Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its relevance in healthcare. B. Provide a brief overview of the history of AI in healthcare. C. Thesis statement: The impact of AI on healthcare and its potential to revolutionize the industry.
II. AI in Healthcare Today: A. Diagnosis and Medical Imaging: 1. Explain AI's role in analyzing medical images and assisting healthcare professionals in diagnosing various diseases and conditions. 2. Discuss specific examples of AI systems used in medical imaging, such as deep learning algorithms for cancer detection and image-based diagnosis tools.
B. Clinical Decision Support Systems: 1. Describe how AI-powered clinical....
Misconception 1: Counselors Only Help with Serious Mental Health Issues
Reality: While counselors are trained to address mental health concerns, they also assist individuals with a wide range of issues, including life transitions, relationship difficulties, work-life balance, and personal growth.
Misconception 2: Counselors Are All Psychoanalysts
Reality: Psychoanalysis is only one approach to counseling. There are many different therapeutic models, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, solution-focused therapy, and humanistic therapy, which counselors use to meet the specific needs of their clients.
Misconception 3: Counselors Tell Clients What to Do
Reality: Counselors empower clients by helping them identify their strengths, explore different perspectives, and....
1. Personal struggles with mental health issues: The counselor may have struggled with their own mental health issues in the past, leading them to seek help from a counselor and ultimately inspiring them to pursue a career in counseling to help others facing similar challenges.
2. Experience volunteering or working in a mental health setting: The counselor may have had previous experiences working or volunteering in a mental health setting, such as a crisis hotline, mental health clinic, or support group, which sparked their interest in pursuing a career in counseling.
3. Personal or family experiences with trauma or adversity: The counselor....
1. Increase funding for Indigenous healthcare programs: The Canadian government should allocate more funding to improve healthcare infrastructure and services in Indigenous communities. This could include building new health clinics, hiring more healthcare providers, and expanding access to services like mental health and addiction treatment.
2. Enhance culturally safe care: Healthcare providers working in Indigenous communities should receive cultural competency training to better understand and respect the unique needs and preferences of First Nations patients. This will help create a more welcoming and inclusive healthcare environment.
3. Improve access to primary care: Many Indigenous communities lack access to basic healthcare services, which....
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