Challenges Associated With Health Care Regulations And The Need For Greater Value

For this discussion, I have chosen to explain how Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, La. promotes ethical behavior during everyday patient care. There are many key expectations required by Ochsner in order to promote ethical behavior. Ochsner Health System believes the most valuable asset is their employees and they understand that positive ethical behavior will reflect on patient care. Ochsner also takes time daily to recognize any work that is well done of employees. Ochsner offers an achieved leadership team that come from a range of backgrounds and is appreciated throughout the healthcare market and community. As an organization, Ochsner has always been committed to learning and advancing within the healthcare. Their leaders are encouraged

A philosophy of an organization helps differentiate themselves from their competitors and set a foundation for future success. It also helps shape an organization by presenting the goals they want to accomplish with specific activities. To improve this, many organizations understand the important of sharing values and goals and realize employee recognition. This helps staff from moving forward toward success of the organizations. Chapter 4 introduces “Codes of Ethics in Health Services.” Code of ethics is a guideline for healthcare professionals to accomplish and serve as a member of a society. Similar to other professions, managers have their own code of ethics in maintaining their duties and responsibilities. They also use the codes for ethical decision-making in dealing with ethical issues. Chapter 5 deals with “Organizational Responses to Ethical Issues.” It provides assistance for managers and organizations in their decision making. It is manager’s duty to figure out the problem and resolve it (Darr, 2011,

Health care leadership begins with creating an honest environment. The core principles of ethics are beneficence (do good), nonmaleficence (do not harm), autonomy (control by the individual), and justice (fairness) (Flite and Harman 2013). Health care professionals has the responsibility of dealing with complex patient and healthcare system issues. According to, Limentani (1998), a code of ethics can assists with facilitating

This article discusses about the impact of Medicare coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In 2011, the Medicare coverage was expanded to fully cover preventive care visits; the annual wellness visit for the Medicare beneficiaries (Chung et al., 2015). The wide range of preventive services such as a review of the patient’s medical and family history; the measurement and recording of biometrics such as blood pressure and body-mass index; screening for cognitive impairment, depression, functional ability, and level of safety; planning end-of-life care; and education, counseling, and referrals for other personalized preventive services are covered under the annual wellness visit. Chung and colleagues conducted a study to determine the use of preventive care visits among older adults, who live in the Northern California. They looked at the data from 2007 through 2013, to assess the utilization of preventive services before and after the expansion among the Medicare fee-for service; also known as Medicare Part B enrollees. In addition, the usage among Medicare Part B enrollees were compared with the Medicare health maintenance organization (HMO) plan; also known as Medicare Advantage and private insurance.

In this report I am going to be evaluating the regulation of care provision for looked after children. I am going to be talking about four and evaluating what the benefits and barriers are with each one. The four I am going to be discussing are CRB/DBS checks, OFSTED, General Teaching Council and the General Social Care Council. CRB/DBS Checks

Healthcare organizations have a moral and social responsibility to ensure that their communications are conducted using an outlined code of ethics. Whether the communication is an internal message to employees or mission outreach in the community, it must reflect the values and beliefs of the organization. Therefore, in order to establish and maintain the standard of ethical behavior and social responsibility, our organization requires all employees to complete new employee orientation sessions that define the policies and expectations. This orientation introduces our mission and values and it develops the foundation for our success as an organization. Our focus on encouraging and communicating ethical practices helps to reinforce our values to employees and the community. Furthermore, there should be a process in place that monitors and enforces the policies to safeguard against potential errors that would reflect poorly on the organization’s mission.

Leaders in healthcare organizations are often faced with a variety of ethical issues. Ethical considerations will be discussed from a leadership perspective. The ethical considerations related to this case are the responsibility to patients, responsibility to employees, and responsibility to the organization. Responsibilities to patients includes providing quality care that meets established standards, ensuring there are mechanisms in place to monitor and evaluate the performance of healthcare personnel, hiring and retaining competent professional staff that meet licensing and accreditation standards, and consistently reviewing, researching, and implementing evidence-based practices. This case fails to demonstrate ethical conduct in terms of responsibilities to patients specifically in regard to staffing, which, in turn affects quality of care. Responsibilities to employees include providing an adequate and safe work environment, ensuring that employees are equipped with equipment, facilities, and sufficient staff to perform their duties within the established standards of care, promoting the appropriate use of employee’s knowledge and skills, and providing a mechanism for employees to voice ethical concerns. This case fails to meet this ethical standard as evidenced by not providing sufficient

Health care regulations have developed in a lagging fashion throughout the history of the United States health care system. The regulations governing health care are a set of prescriptive rules that have cause the health care system to adjust and improve the quality of care provided to patients. Brennan and Berwick state, “functions for regulation aims at increasing equality in society. In health care, this sort of regulation typically involves efforts to increase access to health care.”2 These regulations have a had far-reaching effect on the safety, efficacy, cost, information, availability of medications. If a society does not have access to unadulterated medications, correctly labeled medications, and truthful information then there

The Health Information Profession as we know it today is already in a state of expansion. There are many changes already being implemented and others that are getting ready to go into effect very soon. Two of the biggest changes are the electronic health record and ICD-10.

The new affordable healthcare reform has been delayed until 2015/2016. This mandate requires employers with 50 or more full time employees to provide health insurance or pay a per month "Employer Shared Responsibility Payment" on their federal tax return (Pyne, 2013). This has employers concerned about continued increases in healthcare cost. This cost increase provides an incentive to create new innovative solutions toward healthcare services. One solution that has been gaining traction is the use of preventive care. Preventive care involves a healthy lifestyle from nutrition, exercise and frequent visit to healthcare facilities for health monitoring. Monitoring provides the means to identify issues early so that less costly health services will be required to resolve.

It's very imperative for all members of the medical team to know the different types of laws and the consequences, so that all practices and treatments are precise and professional. No one would want a doctor to work quickly and inefficient, so these laws regulate the health care. If these laws are broken the medical team could lose their licensure and practices. Patients will also want to keep their health records confidential. The laws that govern the medical field help protect patients confidentially and rights. The laws also protect medical teams from getting sued when helping in an emergency situation, such as CPR on a victim in a serious accident.

Healthcare organizations around the world face significant challenges associated with the limited resource allocation against the competing opportunities. The demand for health care exceeds the available resources, thus necessitating proper planning and prioritization to optimize performance. Moreover, there are inevitable changes that healthcare organizations witness daily. First, there are critical ethical issues facing patient care, which require practitioners and agencies to uphold moral virtues, duties, and principles that are central to patient care (Ulrich et al., 2010). Secondly, there is an increasing difficulty in meeting the needs of the progressively informed, demanding, and non-loyal

The purpose or goal described in the Penn-Mart memo is a program engineered to lower employee benefit costs paid by the company. The method of attaining this outcome would be to implement a mandatory “Get Well” employee health screening and monitoring program. The author’s conclusion to the problem of a costly employee health benefit program is to institute a multi-prong monitoring program would include biometric screening described as “finger stick blood tests for cholesterol and glucose; weight, height, and waist measurement; and a blood pressure reading” as well as required health questionnaire and annual physical examinations.

Offer financial incentives for people to adopt healthier behaviors and to obtain recommended clinical preventive services. Individuals and families may be more motivated to give up unhealthy behaviors and to obtain recommended tests and immunizations if there are financial incentives. These can include lower premiums for health insurance and other insurance products and cash rewards when appropriate. For example, offer families between $100 and $200 per member for obtaining preventive health screenings. A growing number of employers and health plans offer members lower premiums or other financial incentives if they are non-smokers or maintain healthy body weights. Universal health care coverage, access to basic medical services, particularly

As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, it requires people who attain great leadership qualities. The success of an organization depends on employees that can inspire people around them to achieve greatness and deliver quality care to the patients. Being in the healthcare industry, we have seen many changes recently. Therefore, by having a person with leadership qualities to guide others through these changes, while maintaining an organization that can deliver quality care is indispensable.