The Senate Committee On Health And Human Services

In Texas, the State recognized that medical errors are a reality and that by reporting them, they mitigate recurrence of these errors in the hospitals. The State came up with a patient safety program through developing a medical reporting program that was enacted into law on June, 20, 2003.The program mandates the reporting of medical errors (adverse events) by all the hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and mental hospitals in the State. The Texas Board of Nursing is mandated to regulate all nursing practices in the State. Section 301. 010:

The healthcare industry relies heavily on the government and legislators to pass new laws. Political issues involving moral values are difficult to resolve because they are based on opinions rather than facts. Each branch of government plays an important role in writing, discussing and voting on proposed bills. Separate branches are meant to provide checks and balances to prevent a monopoly of power within the government. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the legislative process and the end-of-life issue of active and passive euthanasia.

The National Coalition on Health Care also known NCHC is an organization that helps healthcare system to achieve their goals and to improve health care in United States. They are the nonprofit company that represents more than 80 participating organizations like, medical societies, business, union healthcare providers, funds, insurer, etc. Besides, some of their current missions to improve the health care system are to increase resources for developing the culturally competent health and social services. Also, to change public and private sector policies to solve any issue, build and spread knowledge about health status and other health related information. In addition, they working on eliminating health disparities that occur based on

Without this law many individuals were denied services, and resulted in death or more serious injury to individuals. Hospitals must have a plan in place during an emergency to triage individuals. Medical care to individuals, who lack the monetary resources, have improved because of this law. As the law states, “transfers” of clients cannot be arbitrary and based on financial loss to the hospital.

Rubesh Phaiju Professor Sherry Sharifian GOVT 2306-71003 28 November 2017 Committees Texas House of Representative consists of many committees which are working for the development of society and the people. Some of the committees which I would consider, if elected are Opioids & Substance Abuse Select Committee, Business & Industry Committee and Economic & Small Business Development Committee.

Laws like these are being implemented and changed widely across the United States to help ensure patients are receiving adequate care that they deserve.

Per the Health Care Safety Net Increased Eligibility Amendment Act of 2005, its first manifest goal proposes that individuals 18 years of age or younger whose total gross income is more than 200% but less than 250% of the federal poverty guideline will be afforded reasonably priced healthcare and medical services. In addition, the act’s second goal proposes that the Mayor will create a thorough plan within 180 days of its enactment that outlines specific eligibility criterion for the aforementioned individuals whose gross income is more than 200% but less than 250% of the federal poverty guideline (Health Care Safety Net Increased Eligibility Amendment Act of, 2005). The individual’s total gross income will represent all money received, including but not limited to cash.

The HELP committee is comprised of twenty-two senators, for which there are no vacancies on the committee at this time, to include the following:

It allows for better patient care, safety of the patient, and quality of care. Being modeled after an already approved and successful California law this bill for Florida can help to reduce healthcare cost for the patient, hospital, and state. This also help to reduce hospital acquired illnesses and accidental deaths. We all deserve the best of care when ill, and unfortunately not having a stricter nurse-patient ratio allows for mistakes and a lesser quality of care may be given.

As you are well aware of, how patient care is delivered is ever-changing in the healthcare world in which we live in. Since the passing of the Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare” in March of 2010 the world of healthcare that we know has drastically changed. In 2011 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) developed new rules under “Obamacare”, aimed at helping doctors, hospitals and other provider’s better coordinate care by implementing Accountable Care Organizations, or ACOs Leavitt Partners has been actively tracking ACOs since 2010 and the number of current ACO’s in the United States as of January 2015 is 744. According to the Leavitt Partners survey, over 23.5 million people are being covered under one of the ACO models (Health Affairs Blog, 2015). According to these statistics and growing number of hospitals participating in ACOs, where is does your hospitals potential financial performance stand if it were to become part of an Accountable Care Organization (ACO)?

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is an agency of the United States government that provides human and health services for all Americans. DHHS works closely with other state and local governments while building relationships with other partners within private sectors. HHS does realize the importance of resources and is striving to accomplish its mission that would be effective to the public. The DHHS mission consist of providing effective health services that includes the fostering effective and quality services in public health, medicine and social services. The DHHS provides health care access and helps to eliminate health disparities and continue to search for new and improved health information within technology to help improve patient care. DHHS also conducts health, public health and social science research. The DHHS provides comprehensive response, and strategist on efforts that prevents and manages the impact of infectious diseases.

United States of America is the only advanced nation that does not provide their citizens with some sort of health coverage. Americans go on with health care if they can afford it and those who are not able to afford health care have trouble dealing with health care coverage or poor treatment. In fact, thirty- two million Americans deal with no health care. This being true, President Obama followed through with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Ever since then, there has been chaos between two opposing groups, the Pro Health Care and Con Health Care.

I decided to investigate the work of the National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC). NCHC is the nation’s largest, nonpartisan, nonprofit, alliance of organizations focused on health care. The Coalition’s mission is “to bring together key stakeholders in order to achieve an affordable, high-value health care system for patients and consumers, for employers and other payers, and for taxpayers.”

Holding a patient back can not only be dangerous, but it also could leave the people working at hospitals more stressful than usual. It seems extremely unprofessional for an EMT or a Paramedic to not take care of the patient as soon as possible. Hospitals already take quite a while to assist their patients, but with this bill, paramedics and emergency medical technicians will attend the patient a bit before they make it to the hospital or help the process of helping them slowly. Every single person deserves to be assisted immediately and with respect. If a patient is not treated properly, they will not want to return to the certain medical center and look for somewhere else where they can be treated better than the last place they were treated at for future use.

Under this bill, nurses would be protected in things such as patient advocacy, refusal of assignment should it not comply with the legislation or should the nurse not be prepared educationally, properly trained, or with enough experience to provide competent, safe, and quality patient care. The hospital would not be permitted to affect the nurse’s employment or make a complaint against the nurse in any manner should they exercise their right to refuse assignment based on the mentioned reasons. The bill illuminates that should a nurse have retaliation against them, they would be permitted to state their claim to the United States district court and be granted, among other things, reinstatement of employment, loss of wages, attorney’s fees, and court costs. The nurse is also protected should they file a complaint to the Secretary against a hospital which has violated this bill. Under this bill, the Secretary would be required to provide a