...Indian Health Services Program Erika Western Governors University * * * * The Indian Health Service (IHS) was established in 1955 as a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Service. IHS primary responsibilities include providing health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives. The goal of IHS is to raise the health status of the Indian population to the highest possible level while providing health services to Indians from 566 Tribes across the United States. The mission of IHS is to raise the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska Natives to the highest level. (“Agency Overview,” n.d.) * In order to support their mission in raising the health status to the highest possible level and to improve and protect the health of every community, the IHS facilities have chosen to participate in accreditation through the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). Accreditation through JCAHO provides many positive benefits and outcomes for the IHS. By seeking accreditation through JCAHO, the community and patients in the IHS system are able to recognize that IHS is committed to clinical quality. JCAHO accreditation sets standards on levels of quality assessment and quality improvement activities. JCAHO monitors programs that are in place within the organization and reviews policies and procedures to ensure life-safety standards are being met. The benefits to...
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...Accrediting bodies in public health Discuss the importance of accrediting bodies within the field of public health. * There are about 300 institutions that offer a degree selected public health fields (CDC2011). ASPH represents the CEPH-accredited schools of public health. The Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) is the nationally recognized accrediting body for both schools of public health and public health programs. The importance of having accrediting bodies within the field of public health can vary in reasoning. Accreditation is a rigorous peer-review process; attending a CEPH-accredited school of public health means assurance for students that each schools’ educational programs have been found to be satisfactory by other accredited schools of public health. Assurance of receiving a well-rounded graduate education. Accredited schools of public health must provide degree programs in each of the five core public health areas: Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Environmental Health, Behavioral Sciences/Health Education, and Health Services Administration. Eligibility to sit for the Certified in Public Health exam, administered by the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE); Assurance that the degree earned will qualify the graduate for many jobs which specify graduation from an accredited school as a condition of employment; and eligibility for public health internships and fellowships sponsored by various federal agencies, as well as student assistance resources...
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...governs health care. Particular agency governs health care. The following agency has a place in governing the health care industry and the people of the world. The paper shall begin with the agency role and structure and follow with the impact it effects within the health care industry. The agency that will be discussed in the paper is center for disease control. (CDC). After the completion of the effect the discussion will transfer into what the duties are of this agency along with the regulations that are governed by the other agencies involved with the CDC. Along with the final part which, will be the accreditation of the agency and how they affect the public. To begin first point or item expressed her is the agency’s role. Level one - the agency’s role or structure. The agencies’ role or information given by The Cdc - Laws and Regulations (2012) It is your single source for accurate, timely, consistent, and science-based information on a wide variety of disease prevention and health promotion topics. The subsidiary to this agency is the department of health and human services when asked or told by the CDC has the responsibility for preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable diseases in the United States along with other countries and allies. This agency has many other agencies’ attached or associated to them and what they do with the main agency which is to help in the operation of quarantine service to the health and well...
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...Week 1 Health Care Terms Worksheet Understanding health care terms is a prerequisite for both academic and professional success. This assignment is intended to ensure you understand some of the basic terms used in this course. Complete the worksheet according to the following guidelines: In the space provided, write each term’s definition. You must define the term in your own words. In the space provided after each term’s definition, use the term in a sentence as it applies to the health care industry. You may wish to consider the following: o How has it influenced heath care? o What role has the term played as health care developed over the years? Save the completed worksheet as a Microsoft® Word document with your name in the file name. Submit the file to your facilitator. Submitted by: [Type your name here.] |Term |Definition |Use the term in a sentence as it applies to the health care | | | |industry. | |Example: Electronic |Electronic health records are digital forms of |My doctor entered the diagnosis into his laptop and told me that | |health records |entering and storing patient information. |the information would go into my electronic health record. | |HIPAA |HIPPA stands for the Health Insurance...
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...University of Phoenix Material Health Services and Systems Matrix Choose at least seven services or systems from the following list: • Hospice care • World Health Organization (WHO) • Public health • Rehabilitation center • Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) • Medicare • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) • Center for Disease Control (CDC) • Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) • Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) • Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) In the following table, describe each of your choices and explain their functions and roles within the health care field. Your responses should total at least 50–75 words for each choice. |Service or System |Description |Function |Role | |Hospice Care |To care for a person who is in |To manage the pain and symptoms of |To make the patient as comfortable | | |their final stages of an incurable |the patient when other methods are |as possible who is facing the end | | |disease. |no longer working. |of life. | |Public Health |A science, which deals with |To monitor environmental and health|To educate people about the daily | | ...
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...Prevention Current Compliance Status for Joint Commission Accreditation Nightingale Community Hospital is committed to providing healthcare excellence, a healing environment and to be the choice for patient care. In order to continue to provide quality healthcare services in accordance with our values of safety, community, teamwork, and accountability Joint Commission Accreditation provides guidelines and standards for the Priority Focus Areas (PFA) for the welfare and quality of patient care. Infection control and prevention extends beyond treating the patient. It encompasses all who work and visit the facility including medical staff, administrative staff, volunteers, vendors, and visitors. Implementing activities and programs to control, treat, prevent and identify sources of infection will help ensure the overall satisfaction and quality of patient care. Based on previous fiscal year data Joint Commission has identified Infection Control as one of the PFAs. In order to be in compliance with the standards and guidelines of Joint Commission Accreditation five areas of Infection Control and Prevention have been identified: 1. The hospital implements its infection prevention and control activities, including surveillance, to minimize, reduce, or eliminate the risk of infection. 2. Comply with either the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hand hygiene guidelines or the current World Health Organization (WHO) hand hygiene guidelines. 3. Implement...
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...Role and Impact of Health Insurance in the Health Delivery System Health insurance is one of the types of insurance coverage that covers the cost of an insured individual's medical and surgical expenses or bills. Depending on the type of health insurance coverage, either the insured pays costs out-of-pocket and is then reimbursed, or the insurer makes payments directly to the provider. In health insurance terminology, the "provider" is a clinic, hospital, doctor, laboratory, health care practitioner, nurse (midwife) or pharmacy. The "insured" is the owner of the health insurance policy; the person with the health insurance coverage. In countries without universal health care coverage, such as the USA, health insurance is commonly included in employer benefit packages and seen as an employment perk (Nordqvist, 2012). In the midst of increased cost of health care both at the macro and micro levels, health insurance becomes a viable alternative for financing health care in Ghana. It is also a way of mobilizing private funds for improving health care delivery at the macro level. A number of countries are currently experimenting with different approaches. Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was passed into law in 2003 but fully implemented from late 2005. It has already reached impressive coverage levels (Witter & Garshong, 2009). The health system in Ghana before the introduction of NHIS was being financed by what was known at the time as the “cash and carry system”...
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...University of Phoenix Material Health Services and Systems Matrix Choose at least seven services or systems from the following list: • Hospice care • World Health Organization (WHO) • Public health • Rehabilitation center • Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) • Medicare • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) • Center for Disease Control (CDC) • Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) • Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) • Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) In the following table, describe each of your choices and explain their functions and roles within the health care field. Your responses should total at least 50–75 words for each choice. |Service or System |Description |Function |Role | |Hospice Care |For people who are on the last end |Help the patient and family |Giving personal care for the | | |to die. Can go from a couple of |transition life stage. |patient. Making the hospice patient| | |hours to leave up to months. | |feel as comfortable as possible. | | | | |Giving prn medication for pain to | | ...
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...Standards and Conditions of Participation Within the 10th amendment it is expressed that the states, not the federal government, have the primary responsibility for public health. Each state, therefore, has a division or agency that promotes patient safety and high quality healthcare which is carried out by conducting on-site surveys. In addition to the state requirements, there are also federal licensing and certification programs which require that performance standards be met in both providing healthcare and in the physical structure and maintenance of the healthcare facility (LaTour, Eichenwald & Oachs, 2013). Widespread application of healthcare standards however, did not occur until 1946 when Congress passed the Hill-Burton Hospital Survey and Construction Act (Healthlawyers.org, 2015). For example, one criteria to receive federal grants and loans from the Hill-Burton fund is that states were required to license entities to ensure that hospital facilities adhered to a set of minimum quality and service requirements. By setting these standards for licensing, healthcare started its journey towards improving and standardizing the health and safety of individuals receiving services. Medicare, a federal health insurance program that pays for many types of health care expenses, is an entitlement program in which U.S. citizens earn the right to enroll by working and paying their taxes for a minimum required time period. Enacted in 1965, Congress decided that minimum standards...
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...healthcare moves from the hospice-focused, in-patient management to extra initial and precautionary cure all through the society, the system of health care calls for registered nurses who are not merely capable of doing practice within numerous care settings- equally inside and further than the hospices- but are competent to work out with extra self-determination in clinical decision making, management of the cases, administration of un-licensed equipments and supplementary supporting staff, supply of direct bed-side healing, educating the sufferers by means of the labyrinth of the resources of health care, and guiding them on the procedures of treatment and implementation of hale and hearty styles of living. Above all, the grounding of the opening level qualified nurse calls for a superior direction to the community-centered initial care for health, and an impact on the promotion and preservation of health, and lucrative synchronized management. Role of RN with a BSN Degree Contrasting the graduate students of programs of associate degree nursing or diplomas, the nurses having BSN degree are ready to conduct their responsibilities in every setting of health care, such as the out-patient services, intensive care, mental and public health care settings. Therefore, the BSN nurse is highly qualified to provide the services of health care in out-patients centers, regional clinics and private care homes where the need is rapidly mounting as the hospices...
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...Public Health Layers NUR 408 April 23, 2012 Deborah Nallo Public Health Layers The focus of Public Health continues to shift with time because of various social, economic, and political forces. Exploring the public health layers of history in the Los Angeles County, State of California, and the United States, and a comparison between public and community health nursing is the beginning to increasing our knowledge toward resources available. The history of public health in the county of Los Angeles, California, was established in 1903 when the Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance for the provision of a county health department (Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, 2012). It became a freestanding department in 2006 when it separated from the Department of Health Services. They provide 39 programs, 14 public health centers, and four area health offices in the county of Los Angeles only. Types of services provided are grading restaurants and food markets, inspecting hospitals and nursing homes, monitoring ocean water and providing services through public health centers (Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, 2012). Public health nurses help with preparing residents of Los Angeles for emergencies, providing laboratory services to identify disease, and the collection and analysis of data on the health of the community. Los Angeles County Department of Public health updates the residents regarding the changes with the environment after the recent damage...
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...Kim Clayton HLT-205 April 17, 2016 Instructor: Deborah Conway Government Agencies and Health Policy The United States Health Care system has evolved from the home visit by the town doctor concept, to a more complex system of regulatory agencies, policies, rules and regulations that govern the practice and art of medicine. It is a system in which billions of dollars have been budgeted and dedicated to ensuring the country is delivering affordable, quality care. The ultimate goal of the U.S. system is making sure quality care is accessible to its consumers and is value added care that will result in clinical outcomes aimed at reducing the nation’s mortality rate and increasing or extending the average life expectancy. In order to achieve that goal the system is divided into different segments, with each segment responsible for a specific function. For example, there are agencies that are responsible for the safety of prescriptions drugs; credentialing and accreditation; payments and reimbursements; and infectious diseases just to name a few. In addition to the agency’s specific function, the agency’s goals and objectives are driven by a specific mission and operate within their assigned scope; one such agency is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (commonly referred to as the CDC). This essay will examine: the mission of the CDC; issues that are addressed by the CDC; the impact and influence the CDC has on policy and delivery and current initiatives of...
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...Health Insurance in the United States Posted Mon, 2010-02-01 18:21 by Anonymous Melissa Thomasson, Miami University This article describes the development of the U.S. health insurance system and its growth in the twentieth century. It examines the roles of important factors including medical technology, hospitals and physicians, and government policy culminating in the development of Medicare and Medicaid. 1900-1920: Sickness Insurance versus Health Insurance Prior to 1920, the state of medical technology generally meant that very little could be done for many patients, and that most patients were treated in their homes. Table 1 provides a list of pioneering early advances in medicine. Hospitals did not assume their modern form until after the turn of the century when antiseptic methods were well established. Even then, surgery was often performed in private homes until the 1920s. Table 1: Milestones in Medical Technology 1850-1870: Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister and others develop understanding of bacteriology, antisepsis, and immunology. 1870-1910: Identification of various infectious agents including spirochaeta pallida (syphilis), typhus, pneumococcus, and malaria. Diphtheria antitoxin developed. Surgery fatality rates fall. 1887: S.S.K. von Basch invents instrument to measure blood pressure. 1895: Wilhelm Roentgen develops X-rays. 1910: Salvarsan (for syphilis) proves to be first drug treatment that destroys disease without injuring patient. 1920-1946: Insulin...
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...Benedictine University MPH 610 – D1B4 Health Policy Developing New Policies: Policy Proposal Suicide Prevention Week Eight N. De Shields Instructor Dr. Yasmin Dada-Jones ABSTRACT This policy proposal attempts to abate the increasing number of suicides in the United States, a survey from 2001 to 2009 list fatal self-injuries span world-wide demographics, male and female, age, ethnic disparity and economic disposition. From 1999 to 2007 the number of suicides in the United States increased from 10.46 to 11.26 per 100,000 people, between ages 10 to 24 it is the 3rd leading cause of death, 2nd leading cause in 24 to 35 year olds and the 10th from all age groups. Globally one in every 40 seconds, 800,000 a year, suicide is absolutely preventable, these are not accidents and 90% sought treatment for mental health prior. Thoughts and ideation are higher among young adults’ ages 18 to 25 years where the greatest attempts are made; among 18 and older 8.3 million report having suicidal thoughts, 2.2 million made plans, 1 in every 25 succeed in committing suicide. Between the ages 15 to 24 years old 100 to 200 attempts are made, 500,000 in the United States seek help in emergency rooms; an estimated 6.5 billion in non-fata, self-inflicted medical cost. The initiative seeks to apply ecological approaches normally dedicated to specialized populations; the approach will intrinsically identify suicide victims through venues and or genres. Public suicide prevention efforts could encompass...
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...and reporting for a variety of areas and reason. One main reason is statistics for several department/areas. This information is used to increase quality of care, to determine if there is an increase in a specific health diagnosis, as well as hospital census, which will help to determine the level of staff needed to provide that quality of care. The government also needs to maintain statistics on the population in order to provide services. HIM professionals compute most of the data collected for healthcare facilities. They will often be asked to produce an almost limitless number of rates from data collection. All organizations concerned with healthcare collect and use statistics. • Hospitals – use data information for staffing issues and to determine the types of services provided with regards to bed counts. • Cancer Registries – use data information to calculate diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of cancer patients. • Nursing Facilities – use data information to determine type of payers their patients have. • Home Health Organizations – use data information to determine the types of services used by their patients. • Hospices- use data information to determine the type of illness being treated to pare up with the appropriate caregiver. • Mental Health Facilities – use data information to determine if they are providing the proper services for the community. • Drug and Alcohol Facilities – use data information to show the success rates of these facilities • Outpatient...
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