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Overview of Managed Care in Massachusetts and Kentucky

In 11 pages managed care is considered in an overview of its pros and cons with the primary focus being on systems in the states o...

Massachusetts' Polices Regarding Care of Mentally Disabled Individuals

them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...

Kentucky Water Resources, Energy, and Minerals

In seventeen pages this paper examines Kentucky's natural resources. Eleven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Social Work in Managed Care

figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...

Field of Nursing and Managed Health Care

In eight pages this paper discusses managed health care and its impact upon specialized nursing in an assessment of managed care's...

Paducah, Kentucky Community Health Care Assessment

In fourteen pages Paducah, Kentucky's community health care needs are assessed in order to determine there is a great need for edu...

Managed Care Contracts

Wagner 35). It is also suggested that the practitioner should, of course, thoroughly read the contract, but also that practition...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

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

Ethics Of Managed Care

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

HMO Incentives for Doctors

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Managed Health Care and HMOs

In ten pages this paper discusses the evolution of the health care industry in an overview of cost containment and HMO and managed...

Dedam, MA in Phoenix Sun's Newspaper Headlines

In five pages this paper examines Phoenix Sun newspaper headlines pertaining to this Eastern Massachusetts town....

Health Care Policymaking

the 1990s, there was a focus keeping kids health (Mechanic et al, 2005). To accomplish this, local health care institutions initia...

McKesson (An Overview)

also helps to prevent medication errors through other methods such as bar coding and scanning ("About Us," 2008). This is a firm t...

Comparison of Various Types of Healthcare Organizations

and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...

Health Care's Future and Managed Care

of those hospitals in a managed care contract consider joint billing to be important. Only nine percent place importance on group...

Speech Patterns of Western Kentucky

In five pages this paper examines how affluence and race influences Western Kentucky's patterns of speech with William Labov's res...

Managing Managed Health Care

In a paper consisting of ten pages managed health care system's many challenges are discussed with HMOs specifically addressed in ...

Kentucky Fried Chicken and Quality Management

from the drive-through window (DTW) operation. In the DTW, it seemed as though service was hugely slow. Adding to that, t...

Brown Forman Marketing Directions

of apprenticeship when he joined the company in 1904. Prohibition and temperance forces were growing by 1910, when George Garvin ...

HMOs and Health Care in the United States

In eight pages this paper discusses America's managed health care delivery systems in an overview of HMOs and their negative perce...

New York's HMOs and Managed Health Care

In fourteen pages this paper presents an overview of managed health care and then focuses upon legal, staffing, and financial cons...

The Transformation of Attitudes about Death and Dying

11 pages and 11 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of views on death and dying in the 20th century. ...

The Use of a Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Health Care Industry

defined as the indicator of positive or negative cost effectiveness (Russell et al, 1996). The problems that stem from this proc...

Overview of Managed Health Care

In seven pages this paper is formatted as a speech that considers managed health care and addresses the system's various problems....

'Managing' Managed Care

By the early 1930s, the issue had become politically viable and in 1938 "the struggle over control of health care spilled over int...

Afghanistan Development - Review And Recommendations

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

Health Information Management

the store improving customer service quality, but it might not generate sufficient income to pay the extra costs. Coppola, Erchk...

Behavioral Health Management, Case Managers and Primary Care Physicians

to treatment; and "significant benefit restrictions for treating serious mental illnesses and addictions," have prompted advocates...