Locate a job description in a local, regional, or national job search engine that advertises a human services-related position working with either victims of sexual offenses or violent crime or working with the offenders of one or both of these crimes. Reflecting on your personality, life experiences, and skill sets, which would you be more […]
PART 1- Submitting your manuscript – Research procedures for submitting a manuscript for a specific journal. Assignment help – Discuss your findings with your team. PART2- OBEDIENCE AND ETHICS- The Culture of Shock See Article In Resources Milgram’s and Zimbardo’s studies have gained a resurgence of interest. Can you think of recent events that might […]
At some point in your professional career, you may work within or alongside inpatient and outpatient settings. Working in these settings can be similar to working in two completely different “health care worlds.” What exactly are the differences between outpatient and inpatient medicine? Fundamentally, inpatient means checking into the hospital or care facility, while […]
Common ancillary services, provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (n.d.), are listed below: Audiology (hearing) Blind and Vision Rehabilitation Chiropractic Services Dental Diagnostic Laboratory Nutrition and Food Service Nuclear Medicine (imaging) Occupational Therapy Pharmacy Physical Therapy Prosthetics (artificial limbs, equipment, devices) Radiology (x-rays and imaging) Radiation Oncology (cancer care) Recreation and Creative […]
4-Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is a problem-solving approach to clinical decision-making within a health care organization. It integrates the best available scientific evidence with the best available experiential (patient and practitioner) evidence. EBP considers internal and external influences on practice and encourages critical thinking in the judicious application of such evidence to the care […]
Evaluative Essay Instructions Purpose o To evaluate an historical theme using assigned sources for support. o To compose a properly formatted, scholarly paper, using the most recent edition of Turabian, Notes-Bibliography. General Directions: For this assignment, students will choose 1 historical theme from the list below to research throughout the course: Religion/Philosophy Literature Law Science/Medicine/Technology […]
Assignment 1: Biology Article Due Week 5 and worth 120 points Use the Internet and / or the Strayer Learning Resource Center to research aspects of biology. Select an article from a magazine or newspaper that has something in it that pertains to biology. This will serve as the “target article” for […]
SUPPLEMENTAL CASE Controlling Employee Benefit Costs John DeCarlo is President and CEO of Quality Auto Parts, an automotive parts equipment manufacturer and supplier in the Southwest. The company was started by DeCarlo and his father in 1968 and now employs 812 people at four different sites. Revenues and profits increased steadily from 1968 until 1992. Both were down in 1992 and 1993. During the remainder of the 1990s, both were erratic as a result of the increased foreign competition in both the auto parts industry and the auto industry itself. From 20002003, revenues have been increasing, but profitability is decreasing for a number of reasons. DeCarlo recently met with his Vice President for Finance (David Schramm) and his Vice President for Human Resources (Harriet Poster) to determine how costs could be cut so the company could price its products more competitively, relative to foreign competitors. At this meeting, he learned that employee benefit costs had increased at approximately twice the rate of increase for wages alone (12 percent versus 6 percent yearly) from 1988 to 1998. In particular, the employee health insurance costs increased from $2,184 per employee per year in 1988 to $8,316 in 2003. DeCarlo expressed frustration at these increases and asked what could be done. Foster and Schramm invited DeCarlo to a meeting of health care providers, insurers, and employers scheduled for the following week. At this meeting, they learned that their problem was quite common and being experienced by most other corporations in the area. One consultant surveyed the chief human resources executives at Fortune 500 and Fortune Service 500 corporations and found “controlling employee benefit program costs” to be the most critical issue facing these executives. Another national survey found that health benefit costs amounted to a whopping 26 percent of corporate earnings. Moreover, health care costs have grown faster than overall inflation and faster than any other segment of the economy since 1990. They also learned more about the nature and causes of this problem. Many of the speakers at the conference cited large catastrophicillness claims, increased use of mental health and substance abuse services, increased use of medical services, hightechnology medicine, costshifting from government programs (Medicare and Medicaid) to private insurance, high physician fees, the AIDS crisis, the demographics of employees in the auto industry (i.e., a higher percentage of older employees), and recent premium increases by both traditional and managedcare plans attempting to recoup recent losses. One speaker noted: “If businesses in the private sector don’t make a profit, they are not going to exist. The continuing escalation of health care costs is threatening the very survival of some companies, particularly small companies. Smaller businesses increasingly bear the brunt of the spiraling costs because they have no one else to whom they can shift their costs.” Several possible solutions were discussed, although there was no consensus regarding their effectiveness or applicability to particular situations. Among the cost containment suggestions were self insurance, utilization review, managed care (i.e., health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations), wellness programs, flexible benefits, cost sharing (i.e., higher deductibles and co insurance), and insuring ambulatory alternatives to hospitalization. Many speakers emphasized that employers should not wait passively for the government to solve the problem because that was unlikely to happen any time soon. In addition, health care reform raises fundamental questions about societal priorities, and there is currently no consensus regarding these questions. Health care reform is not currently a top priority of the public, and there is a strong antitax sentiment. Consequently, there is little political will to take on such reform, particularly since the failure of the Clinton health reform proposals in 1994. When Congress has intervened, it has usually made the problem worse by mandates which raise costs for insurance companies and employers.The ChallengeDeCarlo came away from the conference with a greater appreciation of the complexity of the problem and a greater determination to do something about it. However, he wasn’t sure what to do. He viewed his company as a “preferred employer” because it had always paid above the market wage rates, and its benefits were always more liberal than those of other U.S. companies and particularly those of foreign competitors. DeCarlo did not want to do anything to jeopardize his company’s advantage in attracting and retaining highquality personnel. At the same time, he realized that if no changes were made, his health insurance premiums would be greater than his total projected earnings by the year 2008. Quality Auto Parts’s present health insurance plan (Blue CrossBlue Shield) is a traditional indemnity insurance plan. All employees have one plan which makes no effort to control the health care services provided. Employees select their own physicians and the insurance company pays reimbursement for whatever services are provided at whatever price the particular provider charges. Neither physicians […]
DUE IN 24 HOURS – 3 PAGES Assignment: Aversive Racism and Inequality in Health Care Aversive racism is a subtle and indirect type of racism that can contribute to unequal treatment in a variety of settings and situations including, but not limited to, health care access for minority racial and ethnic groups. Individuals who […]
Colon cancer is something that two people in my life have had and have also died from. They were completely different in every way. One of the people was a 24-year-old female that worked as a firefighter for two years at the time of her diagnosis. She had no family history of colon cancer and […]
