The Axios Foundation

I was nine years old when my family made the stannous decision to come to America; with only a few clothes and barely any money, the pursuit of the American dream seemed more like a fantasy than anything else. Ever since I was young, I was drawn to the medical field. Looking back, it all appears as a nightmare now: a cold room, no electricity, and my parents imploring for the nurses help. Yet this nightmare was my firsthand experience at the detrimental effects of a limited healthcare. Growing up in a poor town of Albania, I faced minor health concerns, but it wasn’t until I got sick with a common cold that my life almost ended. The unsanitary hospital condition and the lack of medications were part of the sad reality I could not escape from. Thus today, it is my goal to make a significant contribution to the health of the future generations. My passion for the medical field combined with my determination on building and perpetuating an outstanding healthcare service, has lead me to pursue a master’s degree in Health Administration

“The Angels Network” started in 1998, is a charity founded by Oprah. This network is aimed at encouraging people around the world to make a difference in the lives of underprivileged families. They work in the area to help make society better and work towards a better life for all. Since the days they had started they’ve changed many lives and made a big impact on the world of today.

The health care system must change to improve our nation’s health and takes strong steps to address the unsustainable growth of health care costs in America. We still have a long way to go before our health system become effective. We still have population that do not have insurance, have difficulties accessing their health care, or their needs are not met within the healthcare system. It is an investment in prevention and wellness and increasing access to primary care physician.

If a health clinic providing basic services to the world’s most vulnerable people is withheld the large amount of foreign assistance that currently comes from the United States government, all diseases will flourish, including epidemics such as Zika and Ebola (Barry-Jester, 2016). We contribute to more unstable political environments (Crimm, 2007, p.615) and more refugees that we increasingly refuse to help when we take away aid that would countries meet the needs of their citizens.

Centura Health is their region’s largest hospital system that is faith based and not-for-profit, located in Colorado and Western Kansas. This system includes 15 hospitals plus more affiliated hospitals, over 100 physician practices, senior living communities, Flight for Life, Centura Health at Home, and laboratory services (Centura, 2014). The power, size, and large scale of this system causes it to be a god system to analyze during states of change. Currently, there are a lot of changes that are occurring throughout the healthcare system due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act that was signed into law by President Barak Obama. This act has called for a change to increase accessibility to healthcare, reduce the costs that are associated with healthcare, reduce the amount of duplication, and reduce the amount or errors (Herrington, 2010). Centura has created a strategic plan to address these changes and many other changes. Centura Health’s strategic plan is known as the Centura Health 2020 strategic plan. This strategic plan outlines long and short term goals. These goals, as well as previous goal, will be analyzed to understand how they plan on creating the need for change to ensure the successful implementation, as well as, understanding their historical approach to strategic change. Many organizations will look at past successes and failures to understand what went right and wrong to recreate, or avoid, those successes

To ensure the company's goal of becoming a lasting legacy for The Bayada Way, Mark Baiada believes that the best way to expand his company is by selling it to a non-profit foundation that he established. As of now, the company has 312 agencies in twenty-two states with affiliates in three countries and Baiada plans to further the company's international expansion. Baiada does not want his company to end with him, he wants it to become a lasting legacy and have the company survive at least one-hundred years in the vastly changing world of health care. Not only is it important for his company to expand, but it is just as vital for the company and it's employees to maintain the philosophy and culture of the company that Baiada has worked hard

With the focus on these five areas, Governments in each country are creating health systems that aim to provide services that are affordable, equitable and accessible. To achieve a sustainable health system, cooperation and participation of all health care providers is vital. This will work towards WHO’s goal of achieving “better health for all”

“Since 1983, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals has raised more than $5 billion—most of it $1 at a time—for 170 children’s hospitals across the United States and Canada, which, in turn, use the money where it’s needed the most. These donations have gone to support research and training, purchase equipment, and pay for uncompensated care, all to save and improve the lives of as many children as possible, the Children’s Miracle Network mission statement is we increase funds and awareness for local children’s hospitals and there vision statement is together we save kids’ lives. ” (http://childrensmiraclenetworkhospitals.org). Strategic planning plays an important role with the Children’s Miracle Network because it determines where the Children’s Miracle Network is going in the 10 years or longer also what better goals they want to accomplish such as raising more money to help sick children, building more buildings on to the hospital, purchasing better medical equipment and coming up with medications that can save these children lives. With the Children’s Miracle Network they are there to help save lives and to help children enjoy their lives as children.

The third episode of the video series “Rx for Survival,” focused on the hindrances in conveying the 21st century’s global health tools worldwide and was titled “Delivering the Goods.” The episode expressed the difficulty in delivering public health interventions to many of the world’s people; as a large challenge, and declared the fact that 10 million children die yearly from preventable causes “a great paradox of public health” (Rx for Survival, 2005). The video relayed some of the larger obstacles to providing care for the needy as being: geographical, information delivery, and political (Rx for Survival, 2005).

Setting up the ‘Heal the World’ Foundation which aims at providing medicine for children and fighting world hunger, drug and alcohol abuse, and child abuse

The first international charity, American Foundation for Children with Aids, is a non-profit organization that helps HIV positive children and their

we see an organization that is looking to bring about change (and in particular growth). The

This article discusses a specific company, Nomad Health, that has utilized the gig economy in their healthcare, which is crucial to understanding how they accomplished this feat for future research. It highlights its usage of insurance paperwork as well as expanding nationally to receive more skilled professionals. Additionally, it gave insight to the physician shortage, which will be a key source to our research and findings. The Association of American Medical Colleges projects a physician shortage of 40,800-104,900, which is a dramatic segmentation that could lead to utilization of gig economies to a greater extent.

Imagine an entire community of individuals, from doctors to massage therapists, that does not answer to any political entity or religion, yet still manages to collectively provide free healthcare services to millions of individuals in need every year. Medecins Sans Frontiers, or popularly known in the US as Doctors Without Borders, is an international NGO that does just that. The organization began in 1971 when a group of French doctors and journalists recognized the dire need for assistance in healthcare during times of war, famine, and flood in Nigeria and Pakistan. Since then, it has expanded and provides aid to over 60 countries in underserved regions across Central America, South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia as

ASHA’s program or initiatives were undertaken by ASHA work by making slum dwellers realise their potential. ASHA actively engages community members and transforms them into capable healthcare workers regardless of their background. Currently, ASHA has successfully engaged approximately 500,000 individuals from more than 60 slum colonies in Delhi and other surrounding areas. Key resources that form an integral part of resources of the organisation include Polyclinics and Mobile Health Vans.