Evaluation Of The Cleveland Clinic

Highly Reliable Organization are guided by five principles based on quality. The first three are anticipatory principles Preoccupation with Failure, Sensitivity to Operations and, Reluctance to Simplify. The remaining two are containment principles Commitment to Resilience and Deference to Expertise. The Cleveland Clinic and ThedaCare both have elements of being a Highly Reliable Organization. The Cleveland Clinic formed an entire Institute dedicated to Quality and Patient Safety. Cosgrove’s message was the everything matters, including housekeeping. Both organizations were highly focused on operations. ThedaCare in particular took time to train staff organization staff when a new unit opened so they would better understand their new roles

Today we are in great need of a solution to solve the problem of the shortage of human organs available for transplant. The website for Donate Life America estimates that in the United States over 100 people per day are added to the current list of over 100,000 men, women, and children that are waiting for life-saving transplants. Sadly enough, approximately 18 people a day on that list die just because they cannot outlive the wait for the organ that they so desperately need to survive. James Burdick, director of the Division of Transplantation for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services confirms, “The need for organ transplants continues to grow and this demand continues to outpace the supply of transplantable organs”. The

Imagine you are laying in a hospital bed connected to multiple machines, IV’s and monitors. The only thing keeping you alive is the heart and lung machine, the team of doctors, nurses and specialist. Even with the help of modern medicine you will only remain alive as long as you stay in that hospital bed; attached to those lifesaving machines. Even with the help of those machines your life is not guaranteed. Now imagine knowing that the only thing that can save your life is a heart transplant, and having to wait your turn on a very long list to get one.

For the last five years of my life I have worked in the healthcare industry. One of the biggest issues plaguing our nation today has been the ever rising cost of health care. If we don't get costs under control, we risk losing the entire system, as well as potentially crippling our economy. For the sake of our future, we must find a way to lower the cost of health care in this nation.

Cherry, B., & Jacob, S.(1997). Chapter 7 Paying for Health Care in America: Rising Costs and

President Obama’s pledge to pay for the program by taxing the rich, who is anyone that makes more than $1 million a year (which would include President Obama) and will make for “a marketplace that provides choice and competition” (Conniff, 2009). He also proposes that reform is about every American who has ever feared losing their coverage if they become too sick, lose their jobs or even change their jobs. It’s realizing that the biggest force behind our deficit is the growing costs for Medicare and Medicaid programs.”

In the past what has hindered health care reform plans from being enacted were the issues surrounding how they were to be funded. When comparing the attempts of the Clinton administration, the current legislation developed by both the House and the Senate, and Britain’s National Health Service, it is in my opinion that my optimal health care reform plan be funded through taxes, cost-sharing, and fees. In order for this plan to be successful it must be economically feasible and be able to reduce overall health care costs.

Close (2016) confirms the cost of healthcare to our government is far exceeding what was originally estimated. The costs over the next decade are expected to be close to $1.34 trillion which is about $136 billion over budget. Barillas (2016) finds government agencies are predicting healthcare insurance premiums for employer based coverage will increase up to 60% by the year 2025. It seems the Affordable Care Act and the expectation of assisting with the healthcare crisis has only added more challenges to the rising costs of healthcare. Someone will have to pay for those increased costs through additional taxations or some other regulations which can directly impact the reduction of funds needed to control healthcare costs. Many Americans do understand there are other things contributing to increasing healthcare costs such as unheard of prescription drug prices and high rates of medical inflation. One point is clear, as discussed by Hilgemann (2015); President Obama wasn’t right when he told the American people the Affordable Care Act would lower their premiums up to $2500 per year. People are often blaming healthcare insurance companies for these higher premiums when they may not really understand that these insurers are losing money also. Hilgemann (2015) indicates only about 23% of insurers in the Affordable Care Act exchange

One of this health care’s programs objective is to limit the number of uninsured (Shi & Singh, 2015). This controversial healthcare plan incorporates a privately funded insurance which is paid for through employment and solely by the patient and a publicly funded insurance by the government. Medicare is provided for senior citizens 65 and older, and Medicaid is provided for low income citizens. The federal government and state government both partake in the funding of Medicaid. Although insurance is provided to the low income through Medicaid, the United States continues to suffer from cost escalation spending 17.1 percent of GDP on healthcare in 2013, a 50 percent more than the second nation (Commonwealth, n.d.) The high cost and limited coverage continues to spark up the conversation for a

Recent medical advances have greatly enhanced the ability to successfully transplant organs and tissue. Forty-five years ago the first successful kidney transplant was performed in the United States, followed twenty years later by the first heart transplant. Statistics from the United Network for Organ Sharing (ONOS) indicate that in 1998 a total of 20,961 transplants were performed in the United States. Although the number of transplants has risen sharply in recent years, the demand for organs far outweighs the supply. To date, more than 65,000 people are on the national organ transplant waiting list and about 4,000 of them will die this year- about 11 every day- while waiting for a chance to extend their life through organ donation

U.S. health care reform is currently one of the most heavily discussed topics in health discourse and politics. After former President Clinton’s failed attempt at health care reform in the mid-1990s, the Bush administration showed no serious efforts at achieving universal health coverage for the millions of uninsured Americans. With Barack Obama as the current U.S. President, health care reform is once again a top priority. President Obama has made a promise to “provide affordable, comprehensive, and portable health coverage for all Americans…” by the end of his first term (Barackobama.com). The heated debate between the two major political parties over health care reform revolves around how to pay for it and more importantly, whether it

Few politicians on either side wanted to come out against giving health insurance to elderly parents. And conservatives were uncomfortable differentiating between seniors who needed coverage and those who didn't. Medicare's proponents thus designed a program that proved difficult to resist over time. Obama could do something similar, says Theodore Marmor of Yale University, who served as special assistant to Medicare architect Wilbur Cohen in the '60s. He could extend Medicare backward to cover early retirees above 55, for instance, or promise to cover every child below the age of 6. That way, he would get opponents to accept the logic of universal health care thus making further reforms easier without forcing them to accept a complete overhaul(beam). Healthcare seems to be taking a lot of money out of the government and obama seems to being making it worse. 8.2 million seniors have saved more than $11.5 billion on their prescription drugs since 2010 an average of $1,407 per beneficiary(ObamaCare Facts: Facts on the Affordable Care Act).At an annual cost of $260 billion, Medicare is one of the largest health insurance programs in the world(Nesvisky). We are spending a lot on medicare. The fact that we spend so much on medicare we could have used some of that money to get us out of debt. Obama care is suppose to be affordable for the average person. 7 out of 10 returning Marketplace customers can

“We will pass reform that lowers cost, promotes choice, and provides coverage that every American can count on. And we will do it this year.” The preceding is a powerful statement from the newly elected President Barak Obama. One of the main aspects of both political campaigns was health care reform. The above quote shows passion and encouragement, but the quotes about health care do not end there. Georgian republican gubernatorial candidate and health care policy maker John Oxendine expressed: “Their proposal would virtually devastate the private healthcare sector in this country along with competition and patient choice, by replacing it with bureaucratic planning and government control. The result of this plan and its one trillion

Cleveland Clinic 's overall strategy for improving value for patients is to live by it 's message of "patients first", developed by the Clinic 's CEO, Dr Cosgrove. The overall strategy for improving value for patients was on by putting patients first and giving them the best that they could offer. They aimed their strategy at not only patients, but to providers as well to ensure that they would improve the value of service or experience that they would provide to patients. This was done in 6 components that will be described below.

National health care spending is a heated issue; however there is a single entity that all agree upon and that is there needs to be cut backs or the maintaining of current expenses. The current reform will help decrease the percentage of Americans who are without coverage. An vigilant observation on healthcare spending is needed, at the rate its going now thing don’t look too good financially for anyone when it comes to healthcare.