Eric Pulier Biography

Dr. Charles Warren “C. W.” Williams had a passion and a desire to be of medical service to “those less fortunate” (Swayne, p. 742) in the Charlotte/Mecklenburg, NC community. He enlisted the help of other medical professionals to assist with the creation of a health facility that would serve “the unserved and underserved population of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.” (Swayne, p. 742) Unfortunately, Dr. Williams died shortly after the opening of the facility and it was eventually named in his honor.

For the last five weeks research has been done on Kaiser Permanente, an organization that contains Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Permanente Medical Groups in eight regions. Since its inception in 1945, Kaiser Permanente has become the largest not-for-profit, integrated health care delivery system in the United States, serving 8.6 million members in eight regions: Northern and Southern California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, the Mid-Atlantic States, Ohio, and the Northwest. About three quarters of the members are in California, the organization’s birthplace. It is the largest nonprofit integrated health care delivery system in the United States. Its mission is to provide affordable, high-quality health care services to improve the health of their members and the communities they serve. For the purpose of this research, focus will be on Northern California in a randomly selected hospital.

"In the past two decades or so, health care has been commercialized as never before, and professionalism in medicine seems to be giving way to entrepreneurialism," commented Arnold S. Relman, professor of medicine and social medicine at Harvard Medical School (Wekesser 66). This statement may have a great deal of bearing on reality. The tangled knot of insurers, physicians, drug companies, and hospitals that we call our health system are not as unselfish and focused on the patients' needs as people would like to think. Pharmaceutical companies are particularly ruthless, many of them spending millions of dollars per year to convince doctors to prescribe their drugs and to convince consumers that their specific brand of drug is needed in

To ensure the company's goal of becoming a lasting legacy for The Bayada Way, Mark Baiada believes that the best way to expand his company is by selling it to a non-profit foundation that he established. As of now, the company has 312 agencies in twenty-two states with affiliates in three countries and Baiada plans to further the company's international expansion. Baiada does not want his company to end with him, he wants it to become a lasting legacy and have the company survive at least one-hundred years in the vastly changing world of health care. Not only is it important for his company to expand, but it is just as vital for the company and it's employees to maintain the philosophy and culture of the company that Baiada has worked hard

HealthSouth got rapid growth through acquisitions in the early 1990s. In early 1990s HealthSouth has been financing over a hundred and eighty one million dollars over 50 states in United States. By the mid-1990s, HealthSouth has operated 14 inpatient and 31 freestanding outpatient rehabilitation centers in 21 states. And it continued to add new

Founded in 1946, Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative was created by doctors and community members who believed that there needed to be a health care program that was affordable, member centered, and held principles of social justice. This cooperative was one that had been successful for many years, but just recently was acquired by the not for profit Kaiser Permanente health-care company on February 1, 2017 for 1.8 billion dollars. Although Group Health is a cooperative and Kaiser Permanente is a nonprofit healthcare company, they have similar views on how they run their companies because both have missions to put their members and employees first. This is something that the articles stressed because this merge is going to affect thousands of members and employees. I plan on focusing on the process Kaiser Permanente had when wanting to take over Group Health Cooperative, the pros and cons of the final decision to merge the two healthcare programs, and ultimately how Group Health’s marketing and management strategies will be implemented in the merge. (12)

One possible solution for the state and/or local government to consider would be to offer state funding for patients with chronic illnesses to be covered by a state funded insurance plan based on the patient’s income. This would allow for Mr. Davis to be seen for routine care, in an attempt to keep him healthy and reduce emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Another possible solution would be for local and state governments to fund healthcare facilities and/or clinics designated to care for patients with chronic health conditions; providing public health nurses who are available to visit the patients in the home in order to educate him or her on disease and disease processes.

Abduallahi Abdi is the CEO and Healthcare Manager of Compassion Home Health Care, LLC. The company has been operating for 5 years and employs 6 people. Abduallahi holds a Bachelor’s degree from his native country in Medical Sciences. He has worked several jobs over the years. His previous ten years of experience working in the medical field and with the elderly has led him in opening his own home health care agency in Columbus, OH. His previous employment working in the medical field gave him

There are several issues that Lawler as the CEO must address in the above case. At first, Lawler is expected to address the issue of Jeremy Spring, a patient who had just been brought to the emergency department. His case is complicated because he is found to be above the federal poverty level, which is mainly used as the basis for granting charity care at sunrise. However, it is also eminent that despite his level, he cannot foot his medical bills and from the medical services that he had received, he could end up in a financial burden. Despite all this, Spring had no home where he could be referred to for medical care despite his health. This became a serious issue that called for Lawler attention as the CEO. The issue of the hospital charity care policy was also another issue that called for Lawler attention.

We inspected seven groups where Ascension Health teamed up with other wellbeing net suppliers and associations to accomplish better medicinal services comes about for patients. Taking after a five-stage show, every group set up framework to track the utilization of administrations, grow their limits, coordinate care, and energize the financially savvy utilization of suppliers. These endeavors have accomplished prominent additions, for example, in Austin, Texas, where an expected $5.50 is returned for each dollar spent on asthma care. Challenges remain, including supplier rivalry, insufficient support by clinicians, troubles showing effect, and absence of maintainable financing. Lessons gathered from these group coordinated efforts can be profitable as the country executes wellbeing change, and security net human services frameworks home in on outstanding access

Virginia Garcia’s mission statement to help those in need with an emphasis on being culturally competent aligns strongly with my goals to be a pharmacist. Growing up in East Los Angeles I came to know how much help my family needed as well as the community there. East Los Angeles is known for its world-class boxers as well as a lot of lower-income individuals primarily immigrants. When my mom, an immigrant, was pregnant with me she had to go to several clinics for help because we did not have health insurance but the quality of those clinics were not the highest. Virginia Garcia’s missions aims to curb this kind of care and focuses on individuals like my mom of low socioeconomic status and more importantly strives to provide high quality care.

According to Gawande’s investigation, McAllen is an outlier in terms of U.S. health care data; this city has the highest spending of health care in the country. Its neighboring city, El Paso, shares similar demographics and provides a similar level of care but oddly enough, the average cost of receiving health care in McAllen was double of that in El Paso. Gawande later finds that the high cost of health care in McAllen provided more of everything: diagnostic testing, hospital treatment, surgery, and home care (Gawande, 5). Indeed, we cannot point fingers at the doctors if the procedures were deemed necessary. However, there are some doctors who saw their practice primarily as a stream of revenue. Gawande held Hospital Renaissance largely responsible for the high cost of health care in McAllen. This particular hospital has a reputation for aggressively recruiting high-volume physicians to become investors and send the patients there. In return, they would receive their fee for service and a

The story of Ezeziel Dukes III is just one small example of a defunct American healthcare system and it’s inability to provide hard-working citizens with the care they deserve. Since the beginning of organized medicine, the institution has grown unwieldy with the passage of time, and the ones suffering the consequences have been the men and women at the bottom, the ones struggling to make ends meet in the day to day grind.

The United States healthcare delivery system is a uniquely developed system that involves various features, components, and services. The US delivery system is massive, with total employment in various healthcare settings of qualified medical professionals that provide key functions to delivering quality healthcare. The market-oriented economy in the United States attracts a variety of private entrepreneurs driven by the pursuit of profits obtained by carrying out the key functions of healthcare delivery (Shi et al. 2015).

The success the company now enjoys is credited to Martinez’s leadership, motivation, caring, and attention to detail. Delivering the medical care to a patient, in the comfort of their own home, by professional, caring medical staff is a much needed service in rural northeast Colorado.