Health Care Greening

1. Explain how the environment is prepared, maintained and cleaned to ensure it is ready for the healthcare activity

Hospital waste is one of the world’s growing problems. Hospitals on average produce 29 pounds of waste per staffed bed in just one day (2016). One of the reasons for medical waste is that a large amount disposable products used for sanitary reasons such as drapes, basins, and sponges (Conrardy J et al, 2009). However, new methods using reusable products in operating rooms have provided a means to decrease the regulated medical waste generated by an average of 65% (Conrardy J et al, 2009). Even if the hospital bureaucracy is unconcerned with the environment. These changes reduce the cost of waste disposal (Conrardy J et al, 2009). On the social side of progress, nonprofits like Practice Greenhealth provide sources for environmental solutions for the health care sector. At the hospital’s request, they can send information packets to help inform hospital staff on more environmental purchases such as the “Less Waste member-only toolkit”

The health care industry is a very powerful industry that most people rely heavily on throughout their lives. Chapter thirty in our text book covers both income and poverty along with healthcare. Healthcare is related to both income and poverty because sometimes people become poor due to not having adequate health insurance and use much of their income on medical bills. Some people will also apply for jobs just because of the employer’s heath care package for their employees. Health care/insurance is important part of life.

Rising health care costs and population aging has fuelled the debate about the financial sustainability of Canada’s healthcare system. This demographic change in the Canadian society will deeply impact on all aspects of social, economic, and political factors. The extensive use of health care by the seniors has put a heavy burden on the universal health care system. This paper will closely analyze the sustainability of the Canadian healthcare system and the challenges our government has to face as our population ages and uses more of the healthcare expenditure. By examining the issue of health care sustainability, this paper will also propose recommendations and explore the implications of those recommendations.

Decreasing healthcare “cost” has been repeatedly debated for decades now. Despite tremendous efforts to reduce cost, the US Healthcare System is still struggling to deliver an effective and affordable level of care. Not only the cost of healthcare is higher in the U.S., there is also much waste due to unnecessary laboratory, radiology & other investigations, unwanted hospitalizations, procedures, longer hospital stay, preventable emergency room visits, and a lot of medications waste, that costs the U.S. $750 billion annually according to IOM in 2012 (Glicksman E. , 2015).

There are many challenges that are defining the future strategic direction of health care such as information technology advancements, access to health care, maintaining a skilled workforce, proposed health care reform and legislation, and rising costs. I will look at these challenges and how an organization may adapt its direction and strategies in accordance with these challenges.

A newest way to finance health care now days is the health care reform which it is also called Obama Care. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010. The main objective behind the Affordable Care Act was to ensure that affordable health care insurance was available to every U.S citizen. This law is an extensive document that contains many regulations and laws that relate not only to health care but also to the regulation of insurance companies. One of the best known regulations is that group health plans can no longer put limitations or deny benefits to individuals under the age of 19 due to pre-existing conditions and individuals under the age of 26, are now eligible to be covered under their parents’

The US pays twice as much yet lags other wealthy nations in such measures as infant mortality and life expectancy, which are among the most widely collected, hence easily compared, international statistics. Many people are underinsured, for example, in Colorado "of those with insurance for a full year, 36.3% were underinsured."[6][7] About 10.7 million insured Americans spend more than a quarter of their annual paychecks on health care because of the high deductible polices.[8]

One of the greatest changes in healthcare in the past ten years has been the rise of managed care, much to the displeasure of many patients and physicians alike. Managed care arose out of concern about spiraling healthcare costs and was designed to encourage physicians to give patients treatments that were cost-effective out of their own financial interests. "The consumer strategy was directed at imposing some barriers to use by levying various forms of co-insurance. The most common approaches used either deductibles (where the consumer paid the first portion of the bill a technique familiar in other types of insurance) or co-payments (where the consumer paid a portion of the bill and the insurance company the rest) or a combination of both' (Kane et al 1994). Managed care has given health insurance companies an increasingly significant voice in how treatment is administered and allocated. Managed care has proliferated in the past decade despite considerable criticism of the practice of 'nickel and diming' patients as well as the considerable bureaucratic red tape it is has generated. Also, research indicates that healthy, well-insured patients tend to over-consume care without meaningful co-pays but poorer, sicker patients can be deterred even by moderate co-payments and suffer negative health consequences (Kane et al 1994). However, managed care has not gone away and is a reality that all healthcare

I am pleased to present to you my final research paper on Health Care Reform: Moving Closer To A Solution, the topic for which was approved by you on November 8, 2007.

As healthcare reform initiatives progress organizations have focused on balancing the triple aim of access, cost, and quality to improve outcomes for patients while decreasing the overall cost of care. This focus has resulted in increased technology innovation as well as the development of new care delivery models. Population health management programs (PHM) supported by patient engagement innovations such as wearable's, remote monitoring and telehealth are facilitating the shift from episodic care to the comprehensive management of patient healthcare. The population health market is expected to grow from about 12 billion in 2013 to 40 billion by 2018 representing a compound average growth rate of 26%1. Along with population health management

Due to the passing of Obamacare, also known as The Affordable Care Act, American’s today are provided more access to healthcare than ever before. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2010 and signifies universal healthcare reform. This legislation includes provision in healthcare to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. The ACA reform bill contains many other important changes as well, including, implemented measures to lower healthcare costs, improve system efficiency, eliminate coverage denial for pre-existing conditions, and increase coverage for children or dependents to age 26. What effect will this new law for healthcare reform have on hospitals, individuals, nurses, other healthcare providers, and on America? Throughout this paper the author will explore the changes and how our economy, political, and healthcare delivery system is affected.

Health is increasingly becoming a key consideration for sustainability as it becomes more integrated into the concept. A sustainable lifestyle can enhance your physical and mental well-being through a range of different activities. The NHS supports this link between sustainability and health, which is why they hold an annual NHS Sustainability Day of Action, to engage staff, patients and the public on sustainable living. This day of action was supported in our region by The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This section outlines the proposed amendments to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Section 2713-2714. First and foremost, to achieve the goals outlined in by the current policy is difficult, when the vast majority of Americans with chronic illness are unable to afford the health care services needed to manage their conditions. Therefore, this proposal stipulates expanding the bronze package to ensure that low income individuals have access to the services needed to manage their conditions. An alternative to the expansion of the bronze plan is re-evaluating the federally established poverty guideline. The poverty guideline should be re-evaluated to reduce the disparities that exist as a result of the current guideline.

According to the case study both companies are in the merger process. During the process there are significant changers applied to the both companies. In this report pre and post-merger processes ware analyzed mainly using following change management theories and models,