...Everyday, millions of people either go to a gossip website, or pick up a copy of a People magazine to catch up on what their favorite celebrity is wearing, doing, and saying. For some reason we all just need to know what kind of scandals these people are involved in and what their babies look like. Why is it that we are so obsessed with gossip? The entertainment media industry is booming and shows no sign of ever slowing down. We look up to these people and want to follow the same trends that they start, but the same things they buy and eat at the same places they eat. According to society, celebrities live perfect lives, they’re rich and famous and looking at their lives is an escape from our “mediocre” lives that apparently aren’t good enough for us. Our society is shaped by the changes that the entertainment world inflicts on all of us. Entertainment media is everywhere. We see it on our televisions, hear it on our radios and read it in the magazines. We love to look at the lives of the rich and famous. Television shows like “The Fabulous Life of…” which shows all the extravagant things that the fabulously rich can do with their money. Vacations to exotic islands, fifteen-hundred dollar pairs of shoes, and diamonds galore, all things that normal class citizens can only dream of having, are displayed on this show. These kinds of shows make all of us wish we had more. You may find yourself saying your life isn’t good enough and that if you had more money you would...
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...Can Harvard Pilgrim Health Care help you pay for rehab? The answer to that question is yes! Thanks in large part to the guidelines set forth by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), your Harvard Pilgrim Health Care rehab insurance is required to cover addiction rehab services as though they were like any other injury, illness or disease. About Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is a regionally based healthcare provider in the Northeast. The company's headquarters is located in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where they serve more than 1.3 million members in the New England area. Additionally, the company serves another 1.4 million members through a subsidiary named Health Plans Inc., which provides services throughout the United States. Most of the company's plans are employer-based group insurance plans for the...
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...keep a bottle of salt at his or her bedside does not harm anyone and it demonstrates cultural accommodation by the nurse. Cultural Repatterning: In this approach, the nurse works with a patient to help him or her change cultural practices that are considered harmful, while still respecting cultural customs (Huber, 2009). Example-An Amish pregnant women is experiencing problems with her pregnancy and has not received and prenatal care until now. The nurse is recommending she have frequent prenatal visits to monitor her problems. She refuses to have any more prenatal care and wants to have a midwife deliver her baby at home. The nurse needs to provide education and work out a care plan that would be acceptable with the patient to maintain the safety of the patient and her unborn child. Cultural Brokering in health care: Is defined as "a health care intervention through which the professional increasingly uses cultural and health science knowledge and skills to negotiate with the client and the health care system for an effective, beneficial health care plan" (National Center for Cultural Competence, 2006). Example- An elder Vietnamese was admitted into a...
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...Promotions Vanessa Pickens Grand Canyon University: Family Centered Health Promotion 10/05/2014 Health Promotion Health promotion can be defined in many ways. According to World Health Organization, “health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wider range of social and environmental interventions,” (WHO, 2014). The main goal of health promotion is to improve health, reduce health risk factors, and to promote healthy lifestyles. Health promotion is more than just providing education to patients, but it requires providers and individuals to be assertive in making decisions. First, factors affecting the health care system must be recognized, then strategies for resolutions must be identified, finally individuals and communities must be active and take proper actions for solutions. Regardless of health conditions, health promotion is essential for acquiring and maintaining a better quality of life. Levels of Health Promotion The promotion of health includes preventing any discrepancies in healthy living. There are three levels of prevention involved in health promotion which include primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention. Each level of prevention has goals for promoting healthy lifestyles. Nurses will encounter many different implementation methods depending upon the level of health promotion. To begin with, “primary...
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...Westlake hospital is a small community hospital serving a primarily underserved population in a suburb of Chicago, IL. The hospital consists of an emergency room, rehab center, obstetrics unit, an intensive care unit, medical floors, as well as an extensive psychiatric ward. Westlake Hospital has been through many ownership changes in the past ten years. Each time a new owner comes in it shakes up the place and changes the culture. It has shaken the staff since they cannot identify with the organization. Currently the organization is owned by a national for-profit company. This company bought Westlake hospital four years ago as it’s prior owner was trying to close the doors to various units. Now being owned by a for-profit company, Westlake...
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...Existing Resources—facilities and resources to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer are already stressed. Interviews with medical and radiation oncologists confirm that physician practices are at capacity and that recruitment of additional physicians is underway. State planning data confirms the need. Facilities and equipment to diagnose and treat cancer patients are not keeping pace with growth in patient volume. The community already needs additional linear accelerators, chemo units, operating suites, and advanced imaging equipment. Physicians, nurses, social workers, and patients indicate that services available are fragmented and poorly coordinated. Delays in scheduling services are common. Of the two hospitals currently providing cancer care, neither of them offers patient navigator programs to facilitate timely scheduling of tests, treatments, and other services. There is little emphasis on cancer prevention and control. Widespread screening for the top...
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...Cupcake Brown Obstacles allow people to learn a lot during their journeys about their own Identity. Her childhood is what sparked the bad events that would come in the future. Many horrible things went on during her time in foster care. Her years as a teenager wasn’t any better than her childhood. She started to realize what was important to her in her adulthood. Cupcake Brown’s life is shaped by her experiences she had along the way. Her birth name was La’Vette Brown. When her mother was pregnant with her she always ate cupcakes. After La’Vette was born the nurse asked what she wanted to name her and she said cupcake and then passed out. The nurse interpreted what her mother said as La’Vette’s name. Her birth father changed her name to La’Vette, but her mother always called her cup. She has one brother but she hates him. Her mother got married, but not to Cupcake’s real father she always thought that he was her real father since she didn’t remember her real father When Cupcake was just eleven years old, her mother had died of an epileptic seizure. She called up her dad and told him that her mom was dead, he told her to call the cops and she did. After her mother died, La’Vette, her brother, her father, and he uncle Jr. had to go to the Judge to decide who the kids would stay with. The judge said that since her father wasn't her real father, he doesn't have the right to keep the kids since their birth father was still alive, the judge sent the kids to live with him...
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...NON VA CARE COORDINATION (NVCC) FEE BASIS OBJECTIVES 2 BASICS DEFINITION PROGRAMS APPEALS AUTHORITY & REGULATIONS Last update: January 22, 2008 2 HEIRARCHY OF CARE First here! VA Health Care Facilities DoD Sharing Agreements next here! Sharing Agreements/ Contracts Fee 3 next here! then here! 3 HEIRARCHY OF CARE VA Health Care Facilities 4 4 HEIRARCHY OF CARE DoD/ Sharing Agreements 5 5 HEIRARCHY OF CARE Contracts 6 6 HEIRARCHY OF CARE Fee 7 7 How does NVCC work? Scenario 1: Veteran comes in for appointment and primary care provider (PCP) requests consult (authorized). Consult is received and authorized by Non VA Care Coordination team. Scenario 2: Veteran goes to ED. Required to notify the VA within 72 hours (unauthorized). Claim is received and processed by Non VA Care Coordination team. Requirements: Claim needs to be clinically AND administratively meet criteria. 8 PROGRAMS 9 Outpatient Medical Non-VA Hospital Unauthorized Claims Mill Bill Last update: January 22, 2008 9 PREAUTHORIZED OUTPATIENT When VA facilities are not capable of furnishing care we may authorize care for: – – – – 10 A service-connected disability A disability for which a veteran was discharged from active duty Any disability of a veteran rated Permanently and Totally ( P&T) An adjunct condition PREAUTHORIZED ...
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...and responsibilities of nurses in health promotion, as well as, comparing the three different levels of health promotion and prevention. Health care has undergone many changes over the last hundred years, one of them being how health promoting and prevention is looked at. Historically, health promotion was looked at as the illness and a cure, where now health promotion is focusing on health promotion and prevention (Fain & Lewis, 2002). With this new focus, it will decrease the cost of medical care, decrease hospital stays, increase individuals as well as communities’ knowledge and awareness on health related issues and overall, increase the quality of the individual’s life. Not only will it benefit just a single individual but they will also be able to teach their child, who will in turn teach theirs. Historically a nurse’s role in health care was very minimal and they were only to do what the doctor told them to do and when they were told to do it. They weren’t allowed to question the doctor or even make recommendations for the patients care, but this has all changed now. Today, nurses are more independent and have a greater role in health promotion and prevention and are very involved with the patient, their family and the community. Some of the roles nurses have in health promotion and prevention today are as advocates, care managers, consultants, deliverer of services, educators, healer and researcher (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). Over time nurses went from...
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...As I have mentioned previously, provide a new file name for the assignment you are working on using the Northcentral naming convention: Learner’s last name, first initial, course code, dash, and assignment number (DoeJXXX0000-1) EXAMPLE: John Doe, PSY300, Assignment 1 = DoeJPSY300-1. BUSINESS ETHICS OKECHUKWU AKANNO Sr. NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT#8 MGT7019-8 Dr. JENNIFFER SCOTT September 16, 2012 Learner: OKECHUKWU AKANNO || MGT7019-8| Dr. JENNIFFER SCOTT| || BUSINESS ETHICS | #8| || Faculty Use Only TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Abstract --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 & 6 The role of Auditors at HealthSouth ---------------------------------------- 7 & 8 SEC Investigation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------9&10 Impact on Stakeholders ---------------------------------------11, 12, 13 & 14 Outcome and Fairness In Punishment ---------------------------------------- 15, 16 & 17 Conclusion -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------18 References-------------------------------------------------------------------------------19...
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...educational programs focused on healthy living is a risk factor. Once people learn better they tend to do better. Knowledge is power. There are also some risks associated with current condition of Orthopedic Services. The main risk is the lack of physicians. With orthopedic cases expecting to increase by 46% and outpatient joint and spine procedures increasing by 350%, recruitment is top priority. The timely development of additional space could propose a risk if not available in time to handle the growth of the service line. Another risk is not scheduling test in a timely matter. For example, a moderate break could lead to a severe break yet causing the patient more pain and a longer recovery if not diagnosis timely. Therefore patient care coordinators are needed. Also not...
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...services in the area is expected to increase by 46% in the next five years. Inpatient joint and spine procedure are projected to increase by 30% and outpatient joint and spine procedures are expected to increase by 350%. Trinity Hospital’s fact sheet does state that there is no formal orthopedic service at the hospital but there is strong interest by local orthopedic groups in joining the hospital’s team. There are plans to build a new 15,000 square foot physical therapy/rehab center on or close to campus to support the new orthopedic service line. This is important as appropriate follow up can be offered to orthopedic patients. Trinity Hospital must rise to meet their competition. Tertiary Medical Center boasts a strong orthopedic program and a trauma center, while Regional Hospital also boasts strong orthopedic services. The hospitals five year plan calls for distinctive clinical programs and services in the areas of spine, total joint and hand services. Also, the plan calls for comprehensive rehab services and support programs. The hospital plans to emphasize prevention of injury and disease by providing community education, screening and risk assessment and outreach services to underserved communities. The targeted growth and profitability for the orthopedic center is expected to be 2100 surgical cases, 6500 physical therapy visits and a profit margin...
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...mission to promote better health in the community. The community consist of the consumers in the immediate area as well as from outlying communities within a 50 mile radius of the main campus. The vision is to create a health care system that can provide care throughout the continuum. Capital investments the system has acquired include primary care physician providers as well as three smaller hospitals to provide acute care to their immediate communities. The main campus houses a tertiary care hospital, a rehab hospital, a children’s hospital, a psychiatric hospital, and a long-term acute care hospital. Values of the hospital system include visibility in the community as a leader in health care providing innovative services. The hospital system also has an ambulance service, home health service, and a medical equipment provider. The main campus includes a 500-bed acute care hospital with 22 adult nursing units, a high risk labor and delivery unit, and an outpatient surgery unit. The children’s hospital has 250 beds with a neonatal intensive unit, and a pediatric intensive care unit. The long-term acute care hospital has an intensive care unit and a medical-surgical unit. Each ancillary hospital has medical-surgical units and an intensive care unit. The ambulance services provides transports for patients transferred to other hospitals, discharged to skilled nursing facilities, and discharged home for patients who cannot be...
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...to incorporate his values to provide a unique healthcare center with a vital mission ("John Hopkins Medicine", n.d.). According to "John Hopkins Medicine" (n.d.), “The Johns Hopkins Hospital's mission is to provide the highest quality of care and to support teaching and research. In fulfilling its mission, the Hospital is committed to policies, procedures and professional behavior that express the Hospital's core values, including respect and excellence” (Our Code of Ethics). Upon the decision to provide the care needed the organization wanted to develop the true nature of commitment to their clients. To provide the quality of care they felt the community deserved, the organization wanted to incorporate changes to help the cultural diversity within the company. Diversity is a welcoming of differences, to understand that each person is different. To become welcoming to differences to manage the care of the patient’s diversity needed to be integrated among employees. According to "John Hopkins Medicine" (n.d.), “In spring 2006, Johns Hopkins Medicine launched an ambitious endeavor to recruit and retain the most talented people, to foster a culture in which everyone feels that their contributions are valued, and to provide better medical care through respect for patients’ backgrounds and beliefs” (Diversity and Inclusions at John Hopkins). This change will hopefully make a better organization for the future. According to "John Hopkins Medicine" (n.d.), “To help coordinate our efforts...
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...hospital that is around today can trace their origins to one event, and that would be the beginning of poor houses (National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems). These houses were started because of the need to get the poor, the very ill, the deprived and the ones who were disabled off the streets and into homes that would be able to take custody of and care for them. One of these places was a 6 bed home that was started in 1736, in New York City called Bellevue, over the next 100 years or so it became known as Bellevue Hospital and it is still around today. During this time frame there were a few more charity hospitals that opened their doors, one was in New Orleans, and the other is in Tennessee which is still around today (National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems). Public hospital as we know them today came into being from 1860-1930, before that time people would get any medical treatment that was needed at home, this included giving birth, surgery, or treatments for any illness. Starting around the time of the civil war hospitals had physicians, and nurses who would treat and care for the sick and injured. When a hospital was established and had trained staff it became a key component in the expanding medical culture (National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems). All hospitals before the 1920’s worked without much money, doctors would donate their time and the cost for nursing staff, was low. But for the first time hospitals...
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