Target Population Many health care leaders and practitioners recognize the challenges of utilization of acute care resources in areas of rapid growth. Per Potter and Hoque’s publication Texas Population Projection 2010 to 2025, completed for the Office of the State Demographer; “Much of the population growth is projected to come from the large urban counties of Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, and Travis” (2013, p. 4). “Homeless male veterans have greater medical and mental health needs compared to…

Introduction: The reason I chose this topic is because in my country Ethiopia the rapid growth of population alarmed me, just around the 1965 our population was very low however in the past few years it has tripled form 20 million to over 100 million. This was when my interest in my countries population developed. Population is one of the conversational topics when talking about a countries profile, in view of the fact that it plays a huge role, in a countries work force, consumption and economy…

Managed Care Brooke McMichael University of Scranton Abstract This paper examines the benefits and issues with managed care. The benefits include patients receiving preventative care, lower premiums, lower costs of prescriptions, fewer, unnecessary procedures, and less paper work. Some issues with managed care include limitation on doctors that patients can choose from, restricted coverage, the possibility of under treatment, and compromised privacy. Managed care effects nursing by causing significantly…

Running head, MANAGED CARE Cynthia Norris Ashford University Tricia Devin MHA 614: Policy Formation & Leadership in Health Care Organizations Sunday, July 28, 2013 The focus on this paper is to show how analyzed research on managed care and, the issues of rising exposure to health care costs is threating the…

investigate the rapid growth of word of mouth (WoM) and Electronic word of mouth (EWom). The report will focus primarily on the hotel industry and the brand Club Med and how word of mouth and electronic word of mouth has transformed the way customers perceive what they hear from friends and families. The report will conclude by providing a strategic in depth recommendation and ways to tailor the growth of WoM and Ewom into the hotels ' current operation successfully. Background Research The growth of technology…

Recent studies shows that the growth rate of population has somewhat steadied from the prior projections due to various things such as increased education, along with higher death rates due to the spread of numerous diseases. Despite these recent projections, the overall trend of rapid population growth remains, creating numerous challenges for engineers. The main concern for engineers is that this rapid increase in population, along with fast paced industrial growth, places a tremendous strain on…

States of America, and they all need effective, affordable and accessible health care coverage and services. Within decades, the scope and cost of health care has changed dramatically with increased complexity and significance to the healthcare market. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the managed care industry and examine how organizations try to control costs. Managed Care Organizations is a partnership of health care providers whose purpose is to contract with an institution (Crosson & Tollen…

Managed Care Payment System: A Critique Richard Schulz HCS 521 Health Care Infrastructure University of Phoenix Professor Jay Littleton December 9, 2006 Introduction Individual payments for health care services received have undergone many changes over the past one hundred and fifty years in this country. For many years a fee for service system was in place. This was acceptable at the time because costs were low. However, as costs began to rise, changes in the system occurred as well…

Evolution of Managed Care HCS/235 Evolution of Managed Care Managed care is a type of system that was formed to help control the costs and quality to health care services; this will give access to services to specific groups of covered patients. The system was created to help the patients (customers) to receive services without having the full financial burden (University of Washington, 1998). The managed care services’ goal is to be able to help individuals and their families by providing…

U.S. Health Care Delivery System Term Paper Margarita Blanco March.29th, 2010 Managed care was started as early as the 1900’s, the cited pioneer of the structured system of care that is known today as “Managed Care” is Dr. Michael Shadid. His goal was to help meet the health care needs of a certain groups of people. Such as: rural residents, workers and families in the lumber, mining and railroad industries; the…