Hawaii Health Systems Corporation

Today, health care is one of the most the important subjects in United States. There are many Private and nonprofitmaking organization dedicated to health care. This paper discusses the readiness of Kaiser Permanente as a health care organization to respond the future health care needs of citizens. This paper also contains its strategic plan that addresses issues relating to network growth, nurse staffing, resource management and patient satisfaction.

Our vision is to be the hospital of choice for patients, employees, physicians, volunteers, and the community.

Patients are also entitled to receive notice on how their health information is shared by health care covered entities, and are entitled to request a report once a year, free of charge, detailing who has received copies of their health information. Another aspect of the privacy rules provides patients with the right to choose who may receive health care information. Patients should be aware, however, that the provider does not have to agree to abide by their requests. Patients may determine whether or not their private health information may be shared with family members or others. Patients may also choose where they receive their health information. They could choose to receive their information via telephone, cell phone, e-mail, or any other reasonable means of contact. HIPAA also requires that covered entities provide their policies to patients that include information on how a patient might be able to file a complaint with either the covered entity or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.).

This article reviews the changes in policies and procedures over a 40 year period, regarding state and federal changes in health care. The article describes changes in

In addition, MONAHRQ has established partnerships with different organizations to provide customers with a system that has integrated the highest-quality of care in which ensures communities their required needs. The mission, vision, and values have a big role on hospitals working together with all of their patients to identify the health and well-being of every customer. Washington State hospitals and hospital systems have also mainly focused on their customer evaluation and satisfaction values by respecting patients and their care, which helps them sustain a healthy and safe environment in a community that identifies with every individual patient.

The U.S. State Health Departments and Services function to promote public health through research and development, policy enterprises, and multiple service programs. Often, they provide community-based services. From this perspective, these organs have varied public health and social function systems, making their operations, structure, resources, and service specialization different from one state to another. This paper compares and contrasts the Arkansas Department of Health and Illinois Department of Public Health as far as their health systems are concerned.

Some of the services provided by these centers area family medicine, internal medicine, behavioral health, family planning, case management, pharmacy, x-ray, pediatrics, dentistry, and optometry. To offer adequate care to the community, Florida’s health centers strategy is to employ the best trained healthcare professionals while provided access to care in convenient locations, full compliance with electronic health records (EHR) for dental, pharmacy and medical, having convenient hours to meet the needs of the community even providing services on weekends, training their employees on understanding and adapting to the ethnic and cultural differences in the community plus having culturally diverse employees, giving affordable services regardless of patients ability to pay, and looking for stipend subsidizing to offer extraordinary help to medically under-served, uninsured and/or high risk communities.

To be the patient-centered medical home of choice and the employer of choice by becoming the premier, full-integrated health care delivery system in the communities we serve.

Healthcare changes occur rapidly, and it’s a costly venture to constantly pay staff to research trends, and assist with implementation procedures. Organizations such as OAHHS have been developed to help remove that pressure individually, and allow Oregon hospitals to utilize the information that is provided and advocated for at the state level. Hospitals that take advantage of such programs benefit from this growing organization, which continues to hire new staff, are able to tackle specific projects that are of importance to those digesting information to tailor it for specialties.

Change in any organization depends not only with its internal environment, but is also influenced by the external environment as well. One of the common road blocks that organizations has to cross through is the budget constraints. The following case study focuses on the similar issue that the Basic Health (BH) had to face in order to continue its program in providing health coverage to low-income families. BH is overseen by Health Care Authority (HCA), which is a Washington state agency that oversees seven health care programs.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in the beginning of 2007, funded Health Workforce Solutions LLC (HWS) in their project to create new innovative care models that can establish proficient and successful ways to deliver health care (Joynt & Kimball, 2008, January). In total, HWS selected 24 models of the original 60 care delivery models to conduct in-depth research. Throughout the years, many institutions have incorporated these different models, either independently or in combination. Although all models met the criteria of HWS, and are beneficial in their own way, the Unit-Based Care Manager model will be the subject of this paper. The Unit-Based Care Manager model, "is a new role created for Clinical Nurse Leaders (CNL 's), where a hospital unit 's care team and delivery is redesigned to leverage the CNL 's knowledge, experience, and functionality" (Joynt & Kimball, 2008, January). In fact, one example of the benefits of implying this model is hand hygiene compliance. Results show from CNL Role Immersions Practicum Experiences, that improvement went from 30% to over 70% with just this implementation ( Reid & Dennison, 2011, September 30).

To begin my experience of gaining access to my health record, I started off by calling my family physician office to book an appointment for June 26th, 2015 – a weekend I was going back to Parksville for a family event. As I was booking my appointment, I mentioned to the receptionist that I would like to view my record during my appointment. She was very kind in the matter and said it would be no problem and to ask my doctor during my visit. On June 26th, at the end of my appointment with my doctor I asked him to see my health record, which was already in front of him, he was more than happy to let me look at it and answer any questions I had.

One of the largest U.S. hospital management companies is Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). The Hospital Corporation of America was founded in 1968. It’s the nation’s first hospital companies and now the nation 's leading provider of healthcare services with about 165 hospitals, 115 freestanding surgery centers, and employs around 204,000 people (“Hospital”, n.d). Besides offering traditional services, HCA has been a leader in the ever growing for-profit medical-services and hospital-management industry which cause them to achieve a strong international presence. HCA is ahead on its considerable debt payments, incurred when the company went private, but still faces challenges. It is difficult for non-HCA physicians and physician office staff using non-HCA devices (e.g. personal computers, etc.) to remotely access their patients’ data on the existing HCA clinical applications. Because of this difficulty users (non-HCA physicians) are likely to send their business to an HCA competitor if that competitor provides easier access to patient information than HCA (Encyclopedia, 1982). HCA mission is to puts patients first and find ways to constantly improve the care we provide. By introducing a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), HCA will be able to meet their mission of constantly improving care we give to our patients and empower our employees (by centralizing user access) (“Hospital”, n.d). Most importantly HCA will be able to stand above our competitors

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The principles for developing the NHI are to "improve access to quality healthcare services for the whole population and to provide financial risk protection against health-related catastrophic expenditures" (Matsoso & Fryatt, 2013). Comprehensive healthcare will be provided through accredited and contracted public and private providers, with a strong focus on health promotion and prevention services at the community and household level. It is predicted that the project will be implemented over a period of 14 years. The first 5 years will focus on strengthening the public sector in preparation for new NHI systems.