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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"healthcare reform"”.
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Healthcare Reform in Two States: A Comparative Analysis of Georgia and Massachusetts
Healthcare has been an ongoing conversation throughout the formation of America's sense of values and rights based on its Constitution. The role that the state plays in ensuring access to care based on legislation passed by the United States Congress is crucial for the public administrator to …
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U.S. Newspapers Coverage of The 2009/10 Healthcare Reform Debate: A Content Analysis.
… covered the chatter surrounding the 2009/10 healthcare reform debate at the expense of the substance. Also of importance was how the political leanings of newspapers influenced the coverage they gave the issue in terms of tone and page or story prominence. Newspaper endorsement data from …
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Interest groups, public opinion, and path dependence: how Canada and the U.S diverged on healthcare policy
… States repeatedly failed to achieve universal healthcare reform and infamously maintains its hybrid public-private system to this day. Scholars of comparative politics have produced numerous competing accounts of the conditions under which health care policy change occurs and explanations for …
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Are We Forgetting Someone? Undocumented Immigrants and Healthcare
The future of healthcare for undocumented immigrants (UIs) in the United States is bleak. Almost completely left out of healthcare reform, UIs are likely to comprise an increasingly greater portion of the U.S. uninsured population, with only limited options to meet their healthcare needs. Now more …
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Three Essays on residential mobility, housing, and health
… I evaluate the effect of a localized change in healthcare access--the 2006 Massachusetts Healthcare Reform--on housing prices and interstate migration along the state border.
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Beyond 'justice vs care': Can the ethic of care coordinate with the ethic of justice to support palliative care?
… of palliative care under the current climate of healthcare reform; Recommendations will be made pertaining to reform of the healthcare system, the education of healthcare professionals and safeguards against using palliative care for the sole purpose of cost-savings. Finally, there will be …
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Improving Value Based Purchasing Through the Implementation of the Clinical Nurse Leader Role: The Chief Nursing Officer’s Case for Change
<p>The healthcare industry is focused on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the payment reform package from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the development of Accountable Care Organizations. The decisions, behaviors, and practices of medical and clinical staff directly …
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Improvement of Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) Documentation in Home Care to Boost Medicare Star Rating
… this projects’ efforts. As an application in healthcare reform the OASIS is still relatively new. Research on its overall impact on the delivery of care is limited. CMS representatives state the implications star rating may have for future reimbursement and encourage OASIS training, however no …
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Inside The Lines: Essays on the Performance of Whole Organizational Networks
… level) incentives. As such, I use the context of healthcare reform in the United States to examine how analyzing the complex patterns of interorganizational patient care may help us better understand the determinants of emergent outcomes at the whole network level. Specifically, the Affordable …
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Evaluating Integrated Care in Primary Care Clinics in Rural and Frontier Colorado by Uncovering Barriers to Behavioral Health Referrals: A Mixed Methods Investigation
Healthcare reform is happening nationally at a rapid pace. A part of this rapid reform is the implementation of integrated care delivery systems. This mixed-methods study identified those clinical and practice barriers that affect referrals from primary care to behavioral health services. A …
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Improving surgical patient flow in a congested recovery area
The recent movement in healthcare reform requires hospitals to care for more patients while simultaneously reducing costs. Medical institutions can no longer afford to simply add beds and hire staff to increase capacity. They must use existing resources more effectively and develop innovative …
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Clinical Nurse Leader as Outcomes Manager in the Emergency Department: Redesigning the Triage Process to Reduce the Left Without Being Seen (LWBS) Rate
<p>Emergency departments pose a challenge to healthcare reform due to many factors including overcrowding, increased wait times, and lack of access. This makes it difficult to triage efficiently and to provide cost effective care. When patients leave the emergency department (ED) without being seen …
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Role Expectation of Chief Nurse Executive Officers in Integrated Healthcare Systems Located in Highly Managed Care Markets
The healthcare industry is undergoing radical transformation. Healthcare's transformation is characterized by new patterns of organization, alliance, management, administration, and governance. Traditional fee-for-service reimbursement strategies are rapidly dissolving and managed health care is …
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Millennial Male Associate Degree Of Nursing Students: Perceived Motivators, Benefits And Barriers
… the United States which affects the delivery of healthcare. The reasons for the nursing shortage are many and complex including the national movement toward healthcare reform, an aging population making greater demands on an already stressed healthcare system, and stereotypical attitudes about …
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Party identification: The covert influence on media's construction and portrayal of women's political identities
… discussed in relation to the specific issues of Healthcare Reform, Prescriptions/Medicine, and Immigration, whereas the Democratic women are more often connected to the issues of Medicaid/Medicare and Crime/Gun Rights. Additionally, the Democratic women officeholders are more often discussed in …
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Predictors of Health Promoting Lifestyles in Baccalaureate Nursing Students
… Nurses comprise the largest segment of healthcare professionals. As nursing students become health professionals, they will have a significant role in modeling health promoting lifestyles and educating patients regarding healthy lifestyle choices.</p><p> Purpose: The purpose of this …
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The Impact of Nursing Skill Mix on the Outcomes of Hospitalized Adult Surgical Patients
… a 5% increase in the odds of FTR (P<0.05). As healthcare reform continues to place pressure on hospital administrators to increase quality and decrease costs, maintaining a nursing skill mix with a high proportion of RNs may be one strategy to improve surgical patient mortality and FTR.
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Development of a Clinical Pathway for Patients with Chronic Rotator Cuff Tears
… care, improve quality of care, and reduce healthcare costs. Quality improvements in healthcare, however, cannot be achieved through the development of a clinical care pathway alone. In conjunction with the development of a clinical care pathway (i.e., the ideal pathway), the current pathway …
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Examining the effects of the Medicaid expansion on: Social welfare, healthcare utilization, and uncompensated care
… topic of implementation and how it can lead to reformulation of policies, to other outcomes not expected, or even to outright failure. I then apply the theory of implementation to three topics the Medicaid expansion is affecting. The first paper explorers how the enhanced matching rates affect …
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Informing BPM practice in Emergency Units of South African hospitals for improved patient flow
Globally, higher healthcare demand strains existing systems, already overburdened by a lack of resources and funding while longer life expectancy and increased disease burden force higher patient loads. A majority of the South African population is medically uninsured and therefore depend on …
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