Download or read book Summary of Grants and Contracts Active on written by National Center for Health Services Research and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation of the Lovell Federal Health Care Center Merger written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2010 opening of the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) created a joint entity between the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that replaced two separate centers in North Chicago. VA and DoD leaders envisioned a state-of-the-art facility that would deliver health care to both DoD and VA beneficiaries from northern Illinois to southern Wisconsin, providing service members and veterans seamless access to an expanded array of medical services. Unprecedented for the military and the VA, the Lovell FHCC would integrate clinical and administrative services under a single line of authority. The DoD asked the IOM to evaluate whether the Lovell FHCC has improved health care access, quality, and cost for the DoD and the VA, compared with operating separate facilities, and to examine whether patients and health care providers are satisfied with joint VA/DoD delivery of health care. Evaluation of the Lovell Federal Health Care Center Merger: Findings, conclusions, and Recommendations finds that initial implementation of the Lovell FHCC has provided important lessons about how to integrate VA and DoD health care services and has identified remaining obstacles that the departments could overcome to make such mergers more effective and less costly to implement. The IOM recommends that the VA and the DoD develop a comprehensive evaluation plan to objectively judge its success or failure, with measurable criteria, that would provide essential knowledge for both the Lovell FHCC and future endeavors.
Download or read book Active Health Care Centers written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a collection of links on chiropractic and sports injuries, presented by Active Health Care Centers. Includes information on nutrition and injuries and chiropractic treatment of sports injuries. injury, nutrition and injury, and chiropractic treatment of sport injury,
Download or read book Care Without Coverage written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.
Download or read book The Future of Public Health written by Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Download or read book The Future of the Public s Health in the 21st Century written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.
Download or read book Making It Right written by Paul Alexander Clark and published by HC Pro, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HCPro and Press Ganey are proud to introduce "Making it Right: Healthcare Service Recovery Tools, Techniques, and Best Practices." It is a unique and authoritative resource and training tool to increase patient satisfaction . . . and improve your bottom line.What do you do when healthcare service fails? How should you react when a patient complains or expresses concern? It's one thing to make a mistake. It's another to add insult to injury by neglecting to address the problem, or by responding inappropriately. In fact, the way your organization reacts when something goes wrong profoundly affects your patients' overall healthcare experience, and ultimately their satisfaction with your facility.The success of any healthcare facility depends on an effective service recovery system. Failure to resolve a patient's problem--whether real or perceived--or to make amends will result in an unhappy patient--and a possible lawsuit. Fortunately, it is possible to mitigate the impact of flawed healthcare service. By exceeding expectations in the way you address the situation, you can re-capture the loyalty of a wronged patient, and send your patient satisfaction scores through the roof.The definitive service recovery guide Introducing "Making it Right: Healthcare Service Recovery Tools, Techniques, and Best Practices," an indispensable service recovery guide made possible by a unique partnership between HCPro and Press Ganey. Rely on this dependable, authoritative resource to create, implement and maintain a service recovery program that achieves: high patient satisfaction profitable financial returns regulatory compliance measurable results This must-have guide uses valuable real-life, world-class case studies to illustrate essential service recovery principles. Readers will benefit from these compelling examples of how other healthcare organizations have created successful programs to enhance their service recovery and improve patient satisfaction.From Press Ganey--the thought leaders in patient satisfaction "Making it Right"draws on the expertise and experiences of Press Ganey Consultants and clients. Press Ganey, the premier vendor of performance measurement and improvement in healthcare, has compiled a mountain of industry best practices and analyzed the best service recovery programs in the country. You'll benefit from this insider information, as Press Ganey Consultants take you step-by-step through the process of creating an effective service recovery program. With "Making it Right," you'll have the tools and information you need to transform your organization from one that avoids complaints, to an organization that is empowered, patient-centered, and ready to handle service failures.Innovative multimedia makes staff training a pleasure Along with your informative guide, you'll also receive a DVD full of training clips for your staff. These clips depict realistic scenarios of typical patient complaints, as well as effective staff responses and solutions to these problems. You'll also find interactive evaluations, planning documents, do-it-yourself databases, and other important tools-of-the-trade conveniently located on the accompanying CD-ROM.Order your copy today With "Making it Right" you'll not only increase your patient satisfaction scores and encourage positive word of mouth, you'll also improve your organization's bottom line.About Press Ganey: Press Ganey is the healthcare industry's largest independent vendor of satisfaction measurement and improvement services. They specialize in producing tested and reliable satisfaction surveys, comprehensive management reports, and national comparative databases to monitor customer (patient, resident and employee) satisfaction in healthcare delivery systems. Press Ganey--founded in 1985 and headquartered in South Bend, Indiana--serves approximately 6,000 health care facilities, which includes 1,454 hospitals or more
Download or read book Career Opportunities in Health Care Management written by Sharon B. Buchbinder and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career Opportunities in Healthcare Management is a concise, reader-friendly, introductory healthcare management book that covers a wide variety of career opportunities in a broad range of direct healthcare settings--such as hospitals, physician practices, nursing homes, and clinics--and non-direct health care settings, such as associations, managed care and health insurance companies, consulting firms, and medical supplier firms. Filled with first person accounts from health care managers working in the field, these profiles will engage the reader’s imagination, inform them of key issues associated with these important roles, as well as what makes these health care managers happy and eager to go to work in the morning. Beginning with an individualized 'Health Care Management Talent Quotient Quiz' and ending with a guide to finding a job in healthcare management, this hands on student-friendly and teacher-friendly text is the perfect resource for students of healthcare management, nursing, allied health, business administration, pharmacy, occupational therapy, public administration, and public health. Features: • The experienced authors use an active voice to grab the reader’s attention. • An individualized Health Care Management Talent Quotient Quiz to assess each student’s baseline aptitude and identify skills gaps that need to be addressed. • Over forty lively, first person profiles of health care managers working in the field covering everything from educational background and how they first became aware of health care management, through advice to future health care managers. • Detailed appendices that include: resources for learning more about health care management; sample programs of study; job hunting advice; frequently used terms in advertisements, sample position descriptions, do’s and don’ts of interviewing, and a sample cover letter and resume.
Download or read book Implementing Strategies to Enhance Public Health Surveillance of Physical Activity in the United States written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical activity has far-reaching benefits for physical, mental, emotional, and social health and well-being for all segments of the population. Despite these documented health benefits and previous efforts to promote physical activity in the U.S. population, most Americans do not meet current public health guidelines for physical activity. Surveillance in public health is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome-specific data, which can then be used for planning, implementation and evaluation of public health practice. Surveillance of physical activity is a core public health function that is necessary for monitoring population engagement in physical activity, including participation in physical activity initiatives. Surveillance activities are guided by standard protocols and are used to establish baseline data and to track implementation and evaluation of interventions, programs, and policies that aim to increase physical activity. However, physical activity is challenging to assess because it is a complex and multidimensional behavior that varies by type, intensity, setting, motives, and environmental and social influences. The lack of surveillance systems to assess both physical activity behaviors (including walking) and physical activity environments (such as the walkability of communities) is a critical gap. Implementing Strategies to Enhance Public Health Surveillance of Physical Activity in the United States develops strategies that support the implementation of recommended actions to improve national physical activity surveillance. This report also examines and builds upon existing recommended actions.
Download or read book Community Oriented Primary Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wholistic Health written by Donald A. Tubesing and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After examining problems in contemporary health care, the author describes the wholistic health care center concept and its importance as an alternative to inefficient and outdated medical care delivery.
Download or read book Schools and Health written by Committee on Comprehensive School Health Programs in Grades K-12 and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-12-09 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools and Health is a readable and well-organized book on comprehensive school health programs (CSHPs) for children in grades K-12. The book explores the needs of today's students and how those needs can be met through CSHP design and development. The committee provides broad recommendations for CSHPs, with suggestions and guidelines for national, state, and local actions. The volume examines how communities can become involved, explores models for CSHPs, and identifies elements of successful programs. Topics include: The history of and precedents for health programs in schools. The state of the art in physical education, health education, health services, mental health and pupil services, and nutrition and food services. Policies, finances, and other elements of CSHP infrastructure. Research and evaluation challenges. Schools and Health will be important to policymakers in health and education, school administrators, school physicians and nurses, health educators, social scientists, child advocates, teachers, and parents.
Download or read book Homelessness Health and Human Needs written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.
Download or read book Summary of Health Services Research and Development Activities Active in Fiscal Year 1970 in the Department of Health Education and Welfare written by United States. Health Services and Mental Health Administration and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This report analyzes health care utilizations as they relate to impairment severity and SSA's definition of disability. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity, regardless of age, education, or work experience.
Download or read book Physically Active Centered Medical Home written by Eric R. Manuel and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Under the provision of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the patient centered medical home is a model of primary care transformation that seeks to meet the variety of healthcare needs of patients and to improve patient and staff experiences, outcomes, safety, and system efficiency. Serving the medically underserved and primary care clinic shortage area of Long Beach, California, the Physically Active Centered Medical Home (PAC MH) will be a safe haven for healthy and physically active individuals who are required to avail of health insurance coverage as mandated by the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA). PAC MH will offer comprehensive and integrated services that will keep its members healthy and away from the burden of repeated clinical visits. PAC MH understands that medical coverage is the least of the priorities for healthy adults. Hence, PAC MH's payment system is made simple. The value-based care provided at PAC MH will reward the healthcare team for achieving and exceeding the pre-established benchmarks for quality care.
Download or read book Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act written by American Dental Association and published by American Dental Association. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Section 1557 is the nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This brief guide explains Section 1557 in more detail and what your practice needs to do to meet the requirements of this federal law. Includes sample notices of nondiscrimination, as well as taglines translated for the top 15 languages by state.
