Health Care Access Options Lawanda Collins HCS/490 Health Care Consumer-Trends and Marketing July 14, 2014 Instructor: Lance Danko Med Now is a walk in urgent care facility in Evans Ga. They offer an array of services to the public from immunizations to non-trauma emergency care. Their target audience in their marketing campaign is geared toward everyday care and issues. Their marketing techniques are geared toward a patient centered, family first, professional approach. Although their
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The Impact of Micro-Health Insurance on the Access to Health Care Service among the Informal Sector Employee in Nigeria. Saheed O. Olayiwola, Crescent University, Abeokuta. E-Mali: saheedolayiwola@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Health care insurance was formally launched in Nigeria in 2005 as a mechanism of catering of funding health care. The scheme which was designed along three streams of programmes vis: Formal Sector Programme (FSP), Informal Sector
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Health Care Access Options Kayla Moore HCS/490 Health Care Consumer – Trends and Marketing February 15, 2016 Danny Crawley Health Care Access Options In today’s society people want everything done right away, never wanting to wait and this includes their health care. Since people are wanting and needing care right away there is a need for more urgent care clinics. An urgent care clinic is a walk in clinic that is focused on the delivery of ambulatory care that is in a medical facility outside
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Health Care Utilization Paper Wendy Witt HCS/235 8/13/2012 Delores Usea Healthcare Utilization Paper For many individuals acquiring and using a regular source of medical care is often influenced by many factors. Perceived and evaluated need, and potential access are connected with both predisposing (immutable) and enabling (mutable) factors. Predisposing factors determining the use of health services include demographics, age, gender, race, ethnicity, education, occupation, location, health
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Health Care Utilization Paper I have chosen to conduct my assignment on Option A. Obama’s Health Care Reform, commonly called ObamaCare but officially called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or Affordable Care Act (ACA) for short, was signed into law on March 23, 2010 (ObamaCare Facts, n.d.). According to “HHS.gov/HealthCare” (2015), “the Affordable Care Act puts consumers back in charge of their health care…under the law, a new “Patient’s Bill of Rights”
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Health Law and Regulations Overview This paper discusses the design of regulation agencies and the roles that they play in health care. There will also be a discussion on the current laws that health care face today, and an analysis on how these laws affect the hospital, clinic or insurer. This paper also includes how the population has little access to health care and an understanding of how HIPPA works and the role that it plays in the health care field. Healthcare The purpose of regulations
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Access to health care refers to the ease with which an individual can obtain needed medical services. Access to comprehensive, quality health care services is important for the achievement of health equity and for increasing the quality of a healthy life for everyone. Individuals who have difficulty gaining access to health care may delay seeking and obtaining treatment, underutilize preventive health care services, and may have a high prevalence of chronic disease risks. Access and Usage
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Perspective on Health Care - New to Health Care Your Name Here HCS/212 Date Here Instructor Name Here Perspective on Health Care - New to Health Care The history of health care in the United States has always had one constant: low income households have never had quality access to health care. In looking back through the history of health care in our country, it’s always been reserved to those who can afford it and not to the general public. Going back further in our history you can
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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
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anti-discrimination practice; As a qualified nurse I am personally accountable for my practice, and when caring for my patients I must; 1.1 Respect the patient as an individual 1.2 Protect and support the health needs of individuals 1.4 I have a duty of care to patients, who are entitled to receive safe and competent care. 2.3 As a registered nurse I am personally accountable for ensuring that I promote and protect the interests and dignity of patients and clients, irrespective of gender, age, race, ability,
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