Health Care Case Study

In early 2013, an employee of UnityPoint Health-Trinity Wellness departmnet developed a program titled HEART- Helping Everyone Access heaRt Treatment in an effort to combat the above average mortality rates from cardiovascular disease in Rock Island County in Illinois. Deaths from cardiovascular disease were 21% higher in this county compared to the national average at that point in time. After the Trinity employee developed the program, Trinity applied for funding from the AstraZeneca Healthcare Foundation (AZHF) to support the implementation of this program. In October of 2013, AZHF announced that they were awarding Trinity a one year grant for $187,270 to support the implementation of HEART. After Trinity received the grant, the

It has been a foreseeable goal of healthcare organizations to solve integration and interoperability problems across systems with disparate EMRs since the introduction of health information exchanges, with the emphasis on improving clinical outcomes and containing costs. The Vermont HIE did just that in 2015 when they successfully interfaced all 14 Vermont hospitals to their HIE through the initiatives of the Vermont Information Technology Leaders or VITL (Raths, 2016). VITL was able to accomplish this by developing a clinical data warehouse that allowed them to create data marts for Accountable Care Organizations or ACOs. Realizing head on that for ACOs to integrate processes and improve care coordination, VITL stressed the need for data

The healthcare financial executives encounter numerous challenges for their day-to-day operations. Consequently, the health care industry is a highly competitive market and the access to capital is limited, which increases the stakes and the importance of strategic planning (Sussman, Grube, & Samaris, 2009). In addition, there was a variety of financial conditions for the health care industry in 2007 and 2012. Overall, the health care costs tend to consume a significant amount of society 's resources and the ability to control health care costs is a significant issue for health care executives (Coss, 2009). As a result, there has been a variety of changes to the health care industry 's financial management sector. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the financial management changes.

All new health insurance plans are required to cover recommended preventive services and immunization without cost sharing. The preventive services fall into four categories.

Pennsylvania is a large state that consists of 67 counties. These counties vary in size, demographics, terrain, setting, population, and employment opportunities. These factors generate challenges in providing consistent healthcare across the state. Further complicating the matter is the fact that Pennsylvania has the third largest number of rural counties in the United States. The following proposal will review the current status of the health care system in Pennsylvania and identify areas in which it can be improved.

Having an increase in medication errors is evidence that change is needed. Patient safety takes priority in the care of a patient. Safety is part of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. If safety of a patient isn’t met first, the patient can have poor outcomes during their recovery. Patients experiencing adverse reactions from medication errors not only affects their safety, but can become a financial burden on them. If a patient has an adverse reaction that affects their health/illness, they may need to stay hospitalized longer, increasing their hospitalization cost. Increase in medication errors is never a good situation, but in order to decrease the errors, Sarah must implement change. Change will help improve

We all know that the health care industry is primarily a service related business. Yet, even though it is a service related business it still is the hope that the business will either break even or turn a profit. In health care one can still accomplish this by doing financial planning ahead of time, develop a purchase strategy, maximized time by using the FTE process, get the most out of every dollar spent by staying within a budget, and most of all management needs to watch the financial numbers. The numbers themselves do not lie, and tell the true story how the organization is doing at a specific period of time. If the numbers show that the organization is running in the red management must analyze why this is occurring. One thing that is difficult about healthcare is that you are never really sure what your patient count will be from month to month. In order to compensate for a low patient count hospital's need to set themselves up to provide outpatient services such as rehabilitation services, Cat scan and MRI services, Kidney dialysis services, are just a few of the services that can be provided within the hospital setting that will provide additional revenue for the

Being told that your cholesterol is high is not the greatest news you can receive from your doctor. You think that you are healthy and in otherwise great shape and then you realize your not. High cholesterol, specifically low-density lipoproteins (LDLs), is linked to an increased risk for heart attack, heart disease and stroke. The cholesterol builds up in the arteries and narrows the pathway making it harder for the blood to flow through. It is important for people with elevated cholesterol to make lifestyle changes. Increasing physical activity and eating a more nutritious diet are just two ways to lower cholesterol levels and can maintain that healthy level too.

What is your opinion of a single-payer health system? Would it work (or does it work) in your country? Why or why not?

The term quality in the healthcare setting is well studied (Sheps, 1955; Donabedian 1966, 1988, 1990, Campbell et al., 2000) just as the need to increase the level of it (IOM, 2001; Kelley & Hurst, 2006). In a similar manner, Participants associated eHealth with increased level of care quality due to many factors. A commonly emerging theme related to this was the online access or access to information from distance, which was previously noted by Fernández-Luque, (2015) or Chang & Chang (2008). This finding contained two additional interesting dimensions, which are a bit in contradiction. Participant 4. and Participant 8. mentioned the experience of accessing patient information out-of-office hours (e.g. from home). On the contrary Participant

The basic operating activity of hospitals is providing patient care. Thus, “…successful management of the patient revenue cycle plays an important role in not-for-profit hospitals ' efforts to boost profitability, build equity capital, and thus remain financially viable over the long term” (Singh and Wheeler, 2012, p. 333). Hospitals are becoming more aggressive in pricing structures and implementing strategies to generate income and secure high profit margins. Total profit margin is positively impacted by increased patient revenue. This paper will discuss the link between effective management of patient revenue cycle systems and profitability at American nonprofit hospitals.

Paul is a sixty-four-year-old Caucasian male. He was an exceptional athlete in high school and college where he participated in football, baseball, and track. Paul is socioeconomically middle-class which allows his wife to work part-time. He has been married for forty years, raised four children, and is now enjoying the ability to participate in raising his six grandchildren. Paul recently retired and spends his free time with leisure activities, but primarily he loves to bicycle long distances. He said that he took up bicycling about twenty-five years ago, because it was less stress on the joints than the running he used to do. He knew of the toll taken on his knees from the days of sports involving running, and he has history of

loss of income of the patients and their caregivers due to an inability to work due to the TB. However, the authors did not specify clearly whether their cost estimation covered the pre-designated hospital/TB dispensary treatment expenditure, although their discussion seemed to indicate so.

continuous focus remains on the restructuring of the delivery system. According to Si and Singh

In today’s highly competitive, value driven, reimbursement challenged healthcare environment, achieving financial targets and conforming to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) can prove to be extremely challenging for a hospital. Not-For-Profit (NFP) hospitals face the additional challenge of supporting and defending their tax exempt status. In order to qualify for tax-exempt status, NFP hospitals must comply with the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) criteria for tax-exemption which includes (Nowicki, 2015):