...SEARCH PAPER Article/Case Law Research Paper Wendy Williams HCS 430 Legal Issues in Healthcare: Regulation and Compliance June 30, 2001 Abstract The writer has chosen an article found in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, dated June 28, 2009. For the purpose of this paper, the writer will provide sufficient background on the article and discuss the major points. Next, the writer will discuss the legal issues involved in the article. In conclusion the writer will identify and discuss any recommendations that could be made. Article/Case Law Search Facilitating patient choice has always been fundamental to palliative care. However, the choice agenda challenges us to question what this truly means for palliative care now and in the future (Kite and Tate, 2005). With this in mind, the writer has chosen an article found in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 28, 2009, entitled, System was deaf to pleas; mother died. For the purpose of this paper, the writer will provide sufficient background on the article and discuss the major points. Next, the writer will discuss the legal issues involved in the article. In conclusion the writer will identify and discuss any recommendations that could be made. The article was about a case involving the Georgia Regional Hospital/Atlanta. In January of this year, a patient, Na Young, with a history of psychotic behavior was released. The patient requested not to be released and refused to sign the release forms. The patients bother...
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...Case Law Search Facilitating patient choice has always been elementary to palliative care. However, the choice agenda challenges us to inquiry what this truly means for sedative care now and in the future (Kite and Tate, 2005). With this in mind, the writer has chosen an article found in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 28, 2009, entitled, System was deaf to pleas; Mother died. For the purpose of this paper, the writer will provide sufficient background on the article and discuss the major points. Next, the writer will discuss the legal issues involved in the article. In conclusion, the writer will identify and discuss any recommendations that could be made. The article was about a case involving the Georgia Regional Hospital/Atlanta. In January of this year; a patient, Na Young, with a history of psychotic behavior was released. The patient requested not to be released and refused to sign the release forms. The patients brother also pleaded with the hospital to reconsider releasing her and even delayed picking her up for almost a week. Prior to Na Young being admitted to the facility, she had physically abused her mother several times. She had even told physicians and nurses, if released she would kill her mother. With this in the mind the doctor still released the patient. 12 days later, on February 10. 2009, the patient doused her mother with gasoline and set her on fire. This is not the first case where a patient was released from the mental...
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...A Look at John Q HCS/235 History of Health Care Utilization in the US November 20, 2013 Brett Robinson A look at John Q Too poor to afford private health care insurance coverage, but lucky enough to qualify for Medicaid John Q faces yet another challenge. John’s father recently suffered a heart attack which brought into question his own mortality. John like many Americans is a working class man who works full time but still under the poverty level and into a substandard and overworked Medicaid system. He like many others has high blood pressure and with his father recent heart attack he would like to be checked out. Due to John’s low income he qualifies for Medicaid coverage, but also has work within his restraints. John lives in a rural community where there are local doctors however none accept Medicaid. The closest primary care physician who takes his insurance is a forty minute drive away. John also is without a car, he relies on a friend or public transportation. There are many mutable and un-mutable factors in this case. John could get a better job, which could result in better insurance coverage. “The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services states that one-quarter of America’s population lives in rural areas”(Jones, 2013). John Q lives in a rural area where his son has heart condition and is in need of a heart transplant and the closest primary care physicians is 40 miles away. John usually gets a ride to work from a friend or relies on public transportation...
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...In today’s health care, there are laws set in place to protect the well-being and best interest of the patient. These laws range from tort laws, criminal laws, and contract laws. Although each of these laws are set in place to protect the patient to a certain degree of wrongdoing on the physicians and medical facilities part, they can be distinguished by which one affects health care professionals directly compared to indirectly. In this paper, I will discuss the Tort Law, the law that most directly influences Health Care Professionals. Tort Law Defined Tort Law can be defined as the civil wrongdoing against a person. Tort warrants claimants to seek restitution for their alleged disservice for bodily harm, effects, or character. In order to file a tort claim, the claim has to be factual or true by the party that suffered the disservice. Medical personnel and facilities can receive jail time and/or malpractice claims if found guilty of such negligence as described in the tort claim. According the Congressional Budget Office (2006), “The system has twin objectives: deterring negligent behavior on the part of providers and compensating claimants for losses (including medical costs, lost wages, and pain and suffering) they incur as the result of an injury that occurs because of negligence” (http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/71xx/doc7174/04-28-MedicalMalpractice.pdf ). Torts can be divided into categories, such as negligence and intentional torts. Negligence is the most common tort...
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...Technology and Health Care Raising the ordinary to extraordinary, PrimeConnect is one of the top EMR (electronic medical record) software solution companies within the industry. Using various platforms, EMRs enable providers, hospitals, physician offices and patients to connect anytime and anywhere. PrimeConnect allows physician offices, hospitals and providers to comply with Meaningful Use requirements while increasing productivity and enhancing cash flow and revenue. PrimeConnect offers a full suite of services including: PrimePen, a digital pen that can easily transfer data directly to the EMR; PrimeConnect Mobile, a cellular phone app allowing access to records anytime and anywhere; PrimeConnect E-prescribing, a unique way to capture patient allergies, drug interaction and the capability of easily prescribing and refilling patient prescriptions electronically; and finally, PrimeConnect ProHealth, “an integrated, protocol-based communications, patient engagement, and measurement solution that empowers providers to succeed in every aspect of collaborative care” (NextGen, 2013). Quality of Care “When health care providers have access to complete and accurate information, patients receive better medical care. Electronic health records (EHRs) can improve the ability to diagnose diseases and reduce—even prevent—medical errors, improving patient outcomes” (HealthIT.gov, 2013, para. 1). PrimeConnect ensures that providers have reliable access to patient records anytime and anywhere...
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...health related services. As a result, many of the poor in the U.S. went without routine health care or treatment for known illnesses. In response to this growing issue, the Federal government, under the direction of President Lyndon B. Johnson and in conjunction with state governments, established the Medicare program on July 30, 1965 through Title XIX of the Social Security Act (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2010). Along with passage of the Medicare Bill in 1965, Congress also passed an insurance program known as Medicaid that would provide health care insurance for various groups of disenfranchised U.S. citizens. This paper will briefly discuss the evolution of the Medicaid program and examine how Medicaid has influenced the current health care system in the United States. The ever-rising cost of health insurance has prohibited many businesses from providing health insurance to their workers, effectively leaving millions of Americans uninsured or underinsured. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2007), “The number of people without health insurance coverage [in the U.S.] rose from 44.8 million (15.3 percent) in 2005 to 47 million (15.8 percent) in 2006.” Medicaid is a program designed to assist the poor by paying for health care and long-term services. Administered by individual states, Medicaid does not pay funds to individual people; instead, it reimburses health care providers in a way similar to traditional health insurance. The rules for Medicaid eligibility...
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...Professional Regulation and Criminal Liability HCS/430 January 6, 2015 Professional Regulation and Criminal Liability The trust and care of patients to health care providers has been on the decline for several decades (David A. Thom, 2004) Crimes committed by health care professionals, occur at all levels. Patients are more involved with their care, due to more accessible resources on the internet. Patients can research their physician criminal charges. The internet allows the patients to obtain health care information. In addition, the burden is on the health care providers. Although health care providers are aware they can review the criminal history, negligence still occurs. Despite the awareness of patient and health care providers, health care crimes, such as narcotics, are ongoing. This paper will discuss health care professional regulation and criminal liability. Health Care Professional Neurologist A Neurologist is a medical doctor who specializes in the treatment of the nervous systems, the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves (Educational Requirements for being a Neurologist, 2014). Dr. Lambry, a neurologist from Kaiser Permanente, stated “It takes approximately 12 years to complete your education, pre-med and internship.” The first step for potential neurologist is get a science degree, which averages three to four years (Educational Requirements for being a Neurologist, 2014). In their junior year, neurologist must take and pass the Medical...
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...Cheap and readily available pain reliever paracetamol is one of such ingredients, for example, and might temporarily soothe some symptoms but will not fight the underlying disease. Occasionally researchers find harmful or much unexpected chemicals. Nobody knows how much fraudulent or substandard medicine is sold around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) evaluates that as many as 1 in 4 pharmaceutical drugs sold in the developing world is counterfeit. Half of the medicines that are supposed to treat deadly diseases are fakes that...
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...The Miller Family Angel F. Cuble SOC313: Social Implications of Medical Issues Professor Scott Baxter March 10, 2014 The Miller Family In this paper I will be discussing the how Ella Miller should spend her final days. Ella was diagnosed with breast cancer and has been in remission for some time. She went to the doctor and she was told that her cancer has returned. Ella was treating herself through a variety of natural means and her husband John who is of the American Indian origin has been using tradition methods to banish the bad spirits. Mrs. Miller would like to die at home than to die in a hospital. In this paper I will be discussing what will be best for Ella. Ella and her husband John are not into “modern medicine” and they would like to use their methods of natural healing to help her to be comfortable in her final days. First I would explain to them the difference between natural healing vs. modern medicine. In an article by author Thomas Sullivan entitled Modern Medicine vs. Alternative Medicine: Different Levels of Evidence; he mentioned that about 40 percent of Americans have tried some form of alternative medicine at some point but studies clearly show alternative medicine simply does not (Sullivan; 2011). Studies have shown that patients who use alternative treatments have a poorer survival time. Modern medicine was or is made to fight off infectious diseases like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, etc. Ella and John have three children...
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...Lateral violence in the workplace Lona A Smeltzer Southern New Hampshire University Lateral violence in the workplace Abstract This paper explores five published articles as they relate to the concept of Lateral violence (LV) within the nursing profession and how it directly affects the work environment. The concept of LV is also known as abusive behavior, horizontal violence, bullying, aggression, horizontal hostility, verbal abuse or “nurses eating their young”. There are four main themes that appear throughout the five articles. The negative effects that LV has on nurses’ health, moral and sense of worth. The negative impact that LV has on patient care and outcome. The negative impact that LV has on the recruitment and retention of nurses by health care organizations. And who should be responsible for eliminating the phenomenon. Within the articles there is a shared belief that strong leadership is needed to create codes of conduct and enforce zero-tolerance policies. Employees should be provided education and training on effective communication skills as well as conflict resolution. Furthermore nurses should hold themselves accountable through adopting and modeling professional ethical behaviors so that LV can be eradicated from the professional workplace. Keywords: abusive behavior, lateral violence, horizontal violence, bullying, aggression, horizontal hostility, verbal abuse, nurse eating their young. Thesis Even though nursing is known as a caring...
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...physiologists and anthropologists to provide answers to nursing problems. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze a clinical-related practical concern that will impact the nursing professional environment. The United States is lagging behind other nations of the world in fully integrating midwifery into its health care system. “While midwives deliver only 6% of the approximately 220,000 babies in the United States each year, midwives in other countries attend up to 80% of their countries births.” (Bowers, 2000). In our ever-changing fast paced health care system, many woman feel that they receive little personnel attention during pregnancy and childbirth from their healthcare provider. Despite the high quality of care that midwives provide to expectant mothers, American women have few opportunities to use the service of midwives. Barriers to Midwifery care in the United States include physician opposition, public perception as substandard care, state and federal regulations, lacking of training programs, lack of acceptance among third-party payers and our political and economic environment However, midwifery has gained a foothold in the nursing profession. Their acceptance has coincided with the rise of nursing professionalism as it develops a scientific foundation for clinical practice. The middle range nursing theory known as health promotion provides a sound basis for midwifery care during the puerperium. Developed by Dr. Nola J. Pender in the 1970’s, is rooted in the...
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...Wesley D. Pointjour Final Research Paper: Telehealth In Nursing Homes Health Quality Management April 02, 2015 Introduction In many nursing home facilities, patient safety is little to non-existent and if they are, there displayed on a need be and not obliged basis. They are displayed case by case rather than nursing home protocol. Even with changes in regulations, reporting systems, and documentation over the past couple of years, the nursing home industry still has its share of problems. Patient safety is meant to provide patients freedom from healthcare associated preventable harm, meaning when things go right, nothing bad happens. Nursing home organizations have been constantly trying to improve their reputation and the way people view them, but how? Don’t patients make up a nursing home? What about their safety? Shouldn’t we start there? How do we make improvements? Telehealth, a new approach to improving patient safety in nursing homes, will use telecommunication technologies to deliver health related services and information that support patient care, administrative activities, and health education (Dixon, Hook, McGowan, 2008). In this paper I will explore the major benefits of Telehealth and how its implications can improve patient safety in nursing home care. What is Telehealth and why is it important? Telehealth is the means and methods to improving access to care and reducing healthcare associated costs. It is also a system that can be used for education...
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...Medicaid And The Problems The Program Faces Research Paper Introduction Medicaid is the largest health insurer in the nation, providing care to more than 50 million Americans with an annual cost around $250 billion. With Medicaid being the largest insurer in the United States, they face many problems and concerns, including limited access, low quality of care, financing and reimbursement concerns, and increased costs. Medicaid Reform is in the near future and with Medicaid’s spiraling costs, mandated managed care ought to be. The Medicaid program, created by the Social Security Amendments Act of 1965, is a partnership between the federal and state governments to provide healthcare to low income and vulnerable populations. The Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) monitors the Medicaid program and establishes broad guidelines for program eligibility, services covered, the delivery of services, and the quality. Each state administers their own program with specific eligibility standards including the type, amount, duration, the scope of services covered, and the payment levels for services provided, (Perlino, 2010). Medicaid operates as an entitlement program making the federal government, under federal law and the budget process, obligated to pay their share of each state’s Medicaid program. The federal government matches the states spending services, varying from 50 to 77 percent depending on the state. Currently the federal government finances...
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...Promotion NRS-429V Dana McKay May 3, 2015 Health Promotion Among Diverse Populations The United States has seen much transformation within its healthcare advances and delivery system over the last century. It has also demographically transformed from a nation of a predominantly white population to an ever growing culturally diverse population. Many of these cultural groups are documented minority groups, which face many problems with accessing and receiving adequate health care. Looking at the 2010 U.S. Census, close to 36 percent of the population was a part of an ethnic or racial minority group. These minority groups include American Native Indian, African American, American Asian, Pacific Islander, and Latino or Hispanic. Some minority groups have increased risk factors and experience a greater and disproportionate burden of disease, preventable illnesses and disability and morbidity rates compared with non-minority groups ("Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," 2014). In this paper, the author will compare and contrast the health status for the minority group of Hispanic/ Latinos to the national average, describe how health promotion is defined and what barriers and disparities exist for this minority population, and will describe three levels of health promotion prevention and which would be optimal for teaching the Hispanic/Latino people. The Current Health Status of Hispanics The Hispanic /Latino minority group is our nation’s...
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...Quality health care means doing the right thing at the right time in the right way, for the right person and having the best results possible. There is a perception among many Americans that despite coverage, cost and other problems in the health care system, the quality of health care in the United States is better than it is anywhere else in the world and might be threatened by health reform. In fact, 55 percent of Americans surveyed last year said U.S. patients receive better quality of care than do those in other nations, even though only 45percent said they thought the United States had the world’s best health care system. The U.S. has the most expensive healthcare system in the entire world, and it’s just about twice as expensive as other countries. The administrative costs which are at 19-25% of the cost also 34% added for profit hospitals are the very reason why it’s so expensive. I will also add that South Africa as well as America is the only countries that will not provide healthcare for its citizens. “Despite ludicrous right-wing anecdotal claims of high dissatisfaction among those who live in countries with universal healthcare, the reality is that, with the exception of Italy, Americans are more dissatisfied with their healthcare than are the citizens of every other developed nation, including England, France, Germany, and Canada.”(Peter Hussey, 2004). Moreover, the quality of medical care will allow countries to do a comparison of performance to that of such with...
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