Discuss within the paper how this is similar to any Saint Leo University Core Value. and reference the core value.

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Health Policy Issue – Term Paper

The final term paper is to be approximately 8–9 pages in length (excluding the list of references cited at the end); apply and cite at least (10) ten high-quality references, at least (5) five must be peer reviewed journal articles, (at least (3) three resources must be recent)

Address the following (10) ten elements:

1) Overview and Significance of the Health Policy Issue

2) History of the Health Policy Issue (Including Legislative Processes and Partisan Politics)

3) Current Challenges Associated with the Health Policy Issue

4) Stakeholder Analysis

5) Policy Options and Analysis of Trade-Offs

6) Policy Recommendations

7) Recommended Roles for Federal Government, State Government, and Markets

8) Implications of the Policy Recommendations
a) Analysis of Population Health Implications
b) Analysis of Economic Implications
c) Analysis of Political Implications
d) Analysis of Implications for Health Care Organizations
e) Application of Two Saint Leo University Core Values

9) Conclusion

10) References Cited

11. Discuss within the paper how this is similar to any Saint Leo University Core Value. and reference the core value.

Why is this issue critical for aging Americans? What are the attitudes of practitioners toward this issue? What principles of ethics relate to this issue?

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Aging

Write an essay at least 1 3/4 pages in length but no more than 2 pages (APA format), not including reference page, responding to this Critical Thinking (CT) Question. NO COVER PAGE NEEDED. GROUP PROJECT.

Aging is not for the faint of heart. There are many issues related to care needs and options, access, and the view of the patient or resident versus that of the practitioner. Given what you learned in Chapter Five (Morrison, E. & Furlong, E. (2019). Health care ethics: Critical issues for the 21st century (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. ISBN: 9781284124910),

ON THE TOPIC OF LONG TERM PATIENT CARE being one of the most important to patients or residents as they age and answer the following.
1. Why is this issue critical for aging Americans?

2. What are the attitudes of practitioners toward this issue?

3. What principles of ethics relate to this issue?

Respond to your classmate, saying whether you agree with their assertion about which method of classifying costs would be most effective and why you agree or disagree.

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Response 1

Respond to your classmate, saying whether you agree with their assertion about which method of classifying costs would be most effective and why you agree or disagree.

Financial managers are able to utilize an organizations financial data, such as assets or liabilities, to create ratios to compare a current period to the next. By doing so, a financial manager can recognize if a company is improving or lacking financially. Additionally, managers can implement changes if needed in order to improve financial standing for the future (Nowicki, 2022).

Cost accounting is a critical aspect of financial manager’s work. The process of cost accounting includes analyzing costs, such as utilizing specific procedures for categorizing costs and determining costs for products. By having an understanding of costs of services provided, organizations are better able to calculate their profitability. There are multiple ways to classify costs. Classifications include accounting function, management function (ie. Operating vs. nonoperating costs), traceability (ie. Direct and indirect costs), behavior (ie. Variable or fixed costs), significance to decision making (ie. Controllable costs, true costs, uncontrollable costs) (Nowicki, 2022). An example of an indirect cost, or overhead cost, would be the cost of heating. Indirect costs “cannot be traced directly to a department” (Nowicki, 2022). Opposite of indirect costs are direct costs, which can be traced to a department. Direct costs include costs of services or products (Nowicki, 2022). As an example for direct costs, at my current place of work, there is a system which we order patient specific items through an online portal, which they are then charged. The same goes for services, such as specialty consults, labs, or imaging.

Cost allocation, also known as cost analysis, is the act of assigning indirect, in addition to a portion of direct costs, to specific departments. The process of cost allocation is done in order to confirm that patients are being charged accordingly for the products and services they receive from an organization. There are multiple methods on how to go about allocating costs. One way is direct apportionment, which is one of the simpler methods. Direct apportionment takes “a one-time allocation of all costs from departments that have costs but do not generate revenue (NR), such as the housekeeping department, to cost centers of departments that do generate revenue” (Nowicki, 2022). Other options include step-down apportionment, double apportionment, and multiple apportionment (Nowicki, 2022).

Managers also take utilization rates into consideration, which is directly related to volume and produced revenue. Variable costs can change (ie. Cost of supplies based on the volume) while fixed costs remain the same (ie. Heating a hospital will cost the same regardless of the census). When associating costs with revenue and volumes, managers are able to conclude whether there is loss or profit (Nowicki, 2022). A prime example of utilization rates related to volume and revenue is the decreased revenues many hospital’s faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, there was a decrease in volume of patients coming into the ED, which can be attributed to a decrease in revenue (Bednar, 2020).

Research an article pertaining to a current topic in healthcare, briefly review the article, and explain your viewpoint on managing the topic.

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Writers choice

Research an article pertaining to a current topic in healthcare, briefly review the article, and explain your viewpoint on managing the topic. Your response should be 1-2 pages.

Using the SWOT simulation results from assignment 1.4, describe how the results may be applied to your healthcare organization. What are the implications for a healthcare administrator? Provide detailed examples and anecdotal evidence supporting your recommendations.

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SWOT analysis

Using the SWOT simulation results from assignment 1.4, describe how the results may be applied to your healthcare organization. What are the implications for a healthcare administrator? Provide detailed examples and anecdotal evidence supporting your recommendations.

Select another cohort segmentation category. From a management perspective, what recommendations could you make to the marketing department to broaden the marketing efforts to include another cohort segmentation not currently being targeted.

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Social networking cohort Segmentation

Cohort segmentation is a method used to segment the market for the greatest strategic implications. Find a healthcare related service, product, or organization on one of a multitude of social networking sites. Review the seven categories. Which cohort segmentation section is the service, product, or organization geared for on the site? Why would this type of marketing be successful?
Select another cohort segmentation category. From a management perspective, what recommendations could you make to the marketing department to broaden the marketing efforts to include another cohort segmentation not currently being targeted.

Weekly readings:
youtube.com/watch?v=9m45nVsvvEY

What connections can we make to support promoting and/or participation in responding to global health? What can we apply in contributing to global health as a DNP-prepared nurse leader?

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Responding to Global Crises: Community, Policy, and Decision-Making

1. Assess: What connections can we make to support promoting and/or participation in responding to global health?

2. Analyze: What are the implications relative to the global topic(s) this week? (Responding to Global Crises: Community, Policy, and Decision-Making)

3. New action: What can we apply in contributing to global health as a DNP-prepared nurse leader? use one or two the DNP essentials to explain

How are public health and global health organized? Interdisciplinary teams play a key role in maintaining public health and responding to health crises all over the world, as do bilateral and multilateral agencies, and non-governmental organizations. Who’s involved? What are their roles? What challenges do they face in the complex landscape of global health?

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Global Health Governance and Policy: An Introduction. Authors: Eduardo Missoni, Guglielmo Pacileo, Fabrizio Tediosi

Target: Evaluate the history of public health and its current condition, issues, and challenges.

Review information presented in the Content for week 1.

-Discuss the differences in historic development of the Public Health and Global Health (minimum 2). Offer reasoning as to why these differences exist, if any.

-Pick one leading national Public Health issue and one leading Global Health issue. Explain why they are same or different. (Hint: COVID-19, regardless of Pandemic status, it might not be ranked similarly nationally and in Global community in terms of a leading Public Health issues today.)

-Offer 1-2 public health efforts targeting each of the issues and explain the funding sources for each. How are they similar or different? Why?

Make sure to support your reasoning and conclusions with evidence from credible sources (no less than 2).

Format citations and references in APA 7 – NO more than 500 words

Communicable diseases have always influenced human history, but today human health is more interconnected than ever. People and other disease carriers can travel the globe quickly, and advancements in health can be shared between countries more easily than ever. By comparing the Ebola outbreak in 1976 to the later outbreaks, we can see the specific impacts of globalization on public health. And Pandemic of COVID-19 makes us look at and understand Globalization from a different, more dangerous and touching every human on this Earthside.

How are public health and global health organized? Interdisciplinary teams play a key role in maintaining public health and responding to health crises all over the world, as do bilateral and multilateral agencies, and non-governmental organizations. Who’s involved? What are their roles? What challenges do they face in the complex landscape of global health?

What is the difference between Medicare-Medicaid?

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Fragmentation of the US Healthcare System

Commonwealth Fund (2015). U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective. Retrieved from http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2015/oct/us-health-care-from-a-global-perspective
What is the difference between Medicare-Medicaid?

https://www.hhs.gov/answers/medicare-and-medicaid/what-is-the-difference-between-medicare-medicaid/index.html

Watch:

The Science Of You (2012). The Modern Healthcare System in the United States. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9zRjKgv9Qo. (5:59)

CMS (2013). Lower Costs, Better Care: Reforming Our Health Care Delivery System. Retrieved from https://www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Fact-sheets/2013-Fact-sheets-items/2013-02-28.html

Shi. L. (2012). The Impact of Primary Care: A Focused Review. Scientifica. Volume 2012, Article ID 432892. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.6064/2012/432892

Select and discuss a change theory that you would utilize to help facilitate the quality improvement initiative and to sustain the change. Does the organizational structure within the organization foster or hinder this change?

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Opportunity for Improvment

Instructions

Identify and analyze an opportunity for improvement for a healthcare process that would be related to patients in a hospital (i.e. falls, pain, patient satisfaction, education, ).

Introduce the issue in the introductory paragraph of your paper. Include how addressing this issue fits the mission and vision of the organization.

Analyze internal and external data to support the opportunities for change- what data is driving your decision? What is your goal?

Use 5 scholarly articles to support the scope and importance of the issue.
Select and discuss a quality improvement model of your choice, and describe how you would use this framework to implement an evidence-based solution to the issue.

Describe the following:

  • QI framework
  • EB solution- what evidence exists to support this intervention?
  • Key stakeholders (in both the microsystem and macrosystem)
  • Method of evaluation (short and long term)
  • Plan for sustainability

Select and discuss a change theory that you would utilize to help facilitate the quality improvement initiative and to sustain the change. Does the organizational structure within the organization foster or hinder this change?