Health Care Objectives

For each patient, equality means something different as they have different need and requirement based on their health condition. Diversity is accepting a variety of culture and

We must not allow any personal views that you hold about service user to prejudice our assessment of their needs, delay or restrict their access to care. This includes our view about a patient's age, color, culture, disability, ethnic or national origin, gender, lifestyle, marital or parental status, race, religion or beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, or social or economic status.

Triple Aim, as defined by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, consists of improving patient experience of care, improving health populations, and reducing per capita health care costs simultaneously (IHI, 2009). Triple Aim is not focused on patient satisfaction or on reducing the growth of healthcare; rather it is based on the six Institute of Medicine (IOM) dimensions (safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable), reducing per capita healthcare costs, and improving health populations (Relman, 2001). Key to the Triple Aim model is understanding each element works in tandem with each other and sacrificing population health at the expense of reducing per capita expense, for example, does not comply with the Triple Aim

The Triple Aim provides guidance for the creation of strategies to address the suitable delivery of health care services such as, improving patient care coordination and chronic disease management, preventative health, and eliminate the misuse of healthcare services. The fundamental idea with initiating the triple aim is to simultaneously work at all three goals to achieve better patient health and health care systems. According to Bucher & O 'Day (2014), Triple Aim is the answer to optimize health system performance and patient outcomes. An analysis of Triple Aim reveals several difficulties with implementation, the importance of population health, attempts to “bend the cost curve”,

Triple Aim, as defined by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, consists of improving patient experience of care, improving health populations, and reducing per capita health care costs simultaneously (IHI, 2009). Triple Aim is not focused on patient satisfaction or on reducing the growth of healthcare; rather it is based on the six Institute of Medicine (IOM) dimensions (safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable), reducing per capita healthcare costs, and improving health populations (Relman, 2001). Key to the Triple Aim model is understanding each element works in tandem with each other and sacrificing population health at the expense of reducing per capita expense, for example, does not comply with the Triple

According to the AHRQ: National Healthcare Quality Report (2009), the goal of quality of health is to help people stay healthy, learn to live with a disability or chronic disease, recuperate from an illness, and deal with dying and death. However, instead of delivering health care services that are safe, patient centered, equitable, and timely. Many patients do not receive needed care. When care is received many times it is unsafe or too late

Within the health care system the objective is to provide quality care to the patient is the primary goal, however, over time due to such a strong concentration on this objective expenses have been forgotten. Medical care has now grown to a ridiculous expense. Congress, medical professionals, administrators, and many others are now devising various plans and models to attempt to conquer and eliminate such expenses. The patient centered medical home, managed care plans, and accountable care organizations are just some of the ideas devised.

Any individual in a health care setting has a responsibility to provide their patients with the care and attention they without considering their religion, culture, colour or gender. People often mistake equality and diversity as all people being treated the same, without their differences being taken into consideration. However in a health care setting this is not the case, it is the case of making sure everyone’s needs and requirements are met. Examples of this are: vegetarians not being given meat, Muslim woman seeing a female doctor and foreign people being offered a

The changes in healthcare over the last several years have been dramatic. All parties, providers, insurers, and the Federal Government are looking for ways to reduce cost and increase quality. The report by the Institute for Medicine in 1999, “To Err is Human” spurred increasing scrutiny in medical care to improve quality at same and looking for ways to reduce risk to patients and increase safety. Discussion of solutions

Continual growing access to healthcare expands the diversity of patients seeking treatment. Physicians need to be respectful and culturally aware of each individual in order to provide a high quality of care for every single patient.

The nurse should educate the patient about the diagnosis, how to acknowledge signs/symptoms of the disease, who to contact if they have any questions, and most importantly, the understanding of the medication they are given and why it is important to take it. The nurse also answers any questions the patient may have, and encourage and support the patient throughout the process. It is also very important for the nurse to educate the patient on a commonly made error with people taking medications; the patient should never take a double dose at one time if a prior dosage is missed or forgotten.

Quality and safety initiatives are driving important changes in the U.S. health care delivery system. Quality in health care is defined as the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes are consistent with current professional knowledge (Nash & Goldfarb, 2006, p. 6). The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, To Err is Human, states that most of the medical errors are resulted from system error and processes. Medical Errors account for 98,000 deaths per year in the US. They increase disability, costs, and decrease confidence in the US health care system (Pham, Aswani, Rosen, Lee, Huddle, Weeks, & Pronovost, 2012). And because of this, the IOM established six aims for improvement. These are safety (care should be as safe for patients in health care facilities as in their homes); effectiveness (the science and evidence behind health care should be applied and serve as the standard in the delivery of care); efficiency (care and service should be cost effective, and waste should be removed from the system); timeliness (patients should experience no waits or delays in receiving care and service); patient-centeredness (the system of care should revolve around the patient, respect patient preferences, and put the patient in control); and equity (unequal treatment should be a fact of the past; disparities in care should be eradicated). These six aims should be measured in order to assess whether the health care

The Healthcare delivery system is made up of many qualify professionals to deliver the best care to patients that are in need of their services. Some of the needed and qualify healthcare professionals are physicians, Physician’s assistant and Nurse Practitioner. They all work hand in hand and they each play their role in the healthcare process to attend to patient. Physician’s roles is to “Diagnose, treat and prevent illnesses and injuries, prevent more injury, offer advice and support to the patients, and provide appropriate factual medical information to the patient, the employer and the benefits payer.” (acoem.org) the physician’s roles are more than the listed above it is ensuring along with their assistant, nurse practitioner and other hospital staff a patient get their life back to be functional as close as they should and to stay active participant in their family’s lives and society.

Our mission statement currently at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee is through better health peace of mind this was recently changed from a lengthy one so could remember it (CITE HERE). When I first heard about our new mission statement I thought it was too simple but it does make a good point. My department lives this mission everyday by contacting members to make sure they have their preventive care such as their annual Pap smear and prostate exams up to date. Our members have told me many times when I call to do a health screening with them that preventive screenings have saved their lives. If their doctor had not ordered these tests and diagnosed their illness earlier for example cancer they would not have had all the options for care.

After completing the MBA program at St. John Fisher, I hope to be working in the administrative field in the Rochester area hospitals or a privately-owned healthcare company. One of my main goals as an individual in the healthcare field includes making the best possible environment for the patients and for the employees while continuing to bring diversity within. Poverty is defined as the state of being extremely poor. Unfortunately, this is something that continues to be a large issue across the country and is very prominent in our own neighborhood. Among individuals who are living in poverty and those who are considered middle class, they all hold something in common; the need for healthcare. My goal as a healthcare provider will be to offer