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Health care is something that should be available to everyone. At the same time, it isnt logical to expect to...

technology. It stands to reason then, that an embrace of 21st century technology should be a key starting point in moving towards ...

and Abecassis, 2010). Available treatments for ESRD and economics of treatment from an organizational perspective: The only trea...

managed care, hospitals have found that there is a higher margin of profit in specialized services, such as cardiology, pediatrics...

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

As stated, the pet food industry already generates more than $53 billion in sales; accessories and nonessential services (i.e., ex...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...

quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ways to reduce costs. It has also been noted that socialized health ca...

diversion stoma (urostomy) allows urine to be passed through the stoma rather than the urethra (Kirkwood 20). Sometime stomas are ...

hospitals to reevaluate the way in which patient care is delivered and quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ...

does. Literature Search By November 2008, there were more than 10.3 million people unemployed in the United States (Families USA...

it actually created more problems than it solved? An Overview of Fragmentation Once upon a time, medicine was a fairly str...

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

that gives patients more options while maintaining fewer requirements (McKelvey, 2004). It is something that should strengthen the...

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

there were no caregiver present to assist the elderly individual during the day and evening, the frail older person frequently fou...