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The Joint Commission is scheduled to visit Nightingale Community Hospital for its triennial accreditation survey within the next 13 months. The purpose of this document is to provide senior leadership with an outline of the hospital’s current compliance status in the Priority Focus Area of Communication. Recommendations for corrective action are included in this document which are designed to bring the organization into full compliance in the areas where deficits have been identified.

There is a move from a noncompetitive insurance environment to a competitive one because the competition was not by hospitals to provide the best and cheapest care, but rather among the insurers to get the healthiest patients. Consumer driven plans are central to the process because they are ideal for risk selecting the young and fit who have been driven to new plans. Healthy people could watch their account balances grow which leaves the truly sick behind in traditional plans. This particular type of competition is being used to attract the healthy and in turn lead to price increases because insurers have little incentive to control the prices medical providers are charged. It is the responsibility of the patients to worry about the cost and the patient does not have the same power as the insurance competitors do. According to a key South African regulator, Alex van den Heever of the Council for Medical Schemes, “Competition based on the shifting of risk

In order for a health care organization to qualify for an accreditation, they must certain requirements. The requirements that health care facilities must meet before

I chose the monopolistically structured JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations). They are the only organization that determines whether hospitals or medical facilities are up to their standards enough to receive reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid. “The Joint Commission is a monopoly because it has unique statutory protection in the USA and collects $113 million in annual revenue; it is the only organization in the USA of this nature” (Joint Commission Requirements, 2009). This revenue is mainly from the fees it charges US hospitals for evaluating their compliance with federal regulations.

Health insurance is important as it allows people to receive health care. However, health insurance providers are not equal, which result in an unequal quality of care. Private health insurance leads to an increase quality of health care. This is show in the article “A National and State Profile of Leading Health Problems and Health Care Quality for US

However, the organizations achieve regulatory and accreditation compliance of each organization will help each organization by making sure that they are in compliance with up to date information and laws to better serve the patients and staff. For instance it will offer different services like Awareness, Education and Organization, which helps to create the awareness, obtain executive management commitments. It will also offer Assessment and Risk Analysis, Training, documentation and ongoing monitoring. By making sure each employee receive the necessary classes and training they will be successful in achieving the organizational performance in which is set by the organizational team. By improving the overall organizational performance different things can be done from appraising and rewarding the necessary employees that do go over and beyond for the organization. Also, by making sure everyone is doing the necessary jobs in which need to be done by following the plan in which is set regarding the organizations.

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations or JCAHO was founded in 1951 as a private nonprofit organization that established guidelines for the running and management of hospitals and health care facilities in the United States. According to its website (n.d.), JCAHO’s primary mission is, “To continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest

The Joint Commission is a nonprofit organization that certifies more than 18,000 health care organization and programs throughout the world. Founded in 1951, the Joint Commission provides a national symbol of quality for health care as well as analyzes each organization’s commitment to meeting high quality performance standards. The Joint commission focuses on accrediting Acute Care Hospitals, ambulatory, behavior health, long term care, health care facilities, clinical laboratories, health care networks and hospice. Numerous of accreditation organization is also taking place within the United States, but the Joint commission remains the largest The Joint commission accredits 20,000 organization” which” one third are Hospitals.

State oversight of managed care generally focuses on two aspects: the techniques and processes used by a payer, and in particular an HMO, to deliver or arrange for the delivery of health care services to enrollees, and the organizational structure of the payer. (Kongstvedt 596)

There are external and internal reasons that drive healthcare organizations to improve their quality of healthcare. External reasons for quality improvements come from governments, insurers, and consumers requiring that healthcare organizations provide and continue to improve on high-quality and safer health care. The internal reasons for quality improvements come from staff who work within these healthcare organizations. The quality of healthcare differs from city to city and even from country to country. In order for healthcare organizations to meet the quality of care expectations demanded and set themselves apart from other healthcare organizations, they pursue becoming accredited. One must understand what accreditation is, the history of accreditation and what the future holds for accreditation, in order to understand how being accredited can improve the quality in healthcare.

The Government is a very important body as a stake in the health-care sector. Policies, Acts, and reforms are enacted and passed by the Government for adequate and better healthcare to meet the needs of its people. Insurance policies are one of the many ways that most States use to provide affordable and quality health care to every citizen. Although some of the laws may not have had a great impact towards the health-care, many have improved the services offered to the health-care consumer (Schmeer, 2016). Moreover, the government is also responsible for developing up policies which help in regulating the health

The healthcare system of USA has continuously evolved and matured over the years. With time, the healthcare system of USA has strengthened. Still, this system has certain weak points that have to be overcome in order to deliver excellent healthcare services. Providing, best of the healthcare services, should be the combined responsibility of public and private players (Robert, 2009). People would also have a role to play in order to ensure that healthcare services and delivered in an excellent way. In the postindustrial period, USA has

It is important to do accountability because it is an only way of enhancing task incentive. This makes the organization's policies responsive and also effective. That is why different mechanisms of accountability have come up including hospital boards, public campaigns, and village health committees. These are being used to bring awareness publicly and also globally in implementation of health services and programs (Herzlinger 2006). They support a wide range of activities which include

Improving the quality of health care system is the main goal of this organization. In this case study we will be talking about the strategic plans being made by the organization for the next decade to deal with the problems of resource management, network growth, patient satisfaction as well as nurse staffing. The readiness of the organization towards catering the citizens' needs for health care will also be discussed in this case study (Goetsch and Davis, 2010).

XYZ Healthcare Organization plays a very crucial role in preventing illness, relieving pain, and promotion wellness and wellbeing of individual through all stages of life. To realize its aims and objectives, the organization needs funding to continue with very sensitive and important services. There are several approaches that can be adopted to ensure funding of healthcare services. These approaches include the use of insurance medical covers by the patients, funding from the government, private sectors and other nongovernmental organization. The burden of healthcare funding should not just be