Hope House, Inc.: A Case Study

Ms. Christina Earp entered the Hope Now Program on 07/23/2015. She was recently transferred to a new therapist as of 09/21/2015. She entered on my caseload with a behavioral contract; this was a result of multiple negative write ups on 09/18/2015 disregard to staff’s directive, verbal intimidation towards staff, utilizing profanity and smoking. Ms. Earp expressed that the behaviors were a result of not having her prescribed medication. The contract ended on 10/22/2015. She is on level two of the program. Since then no negative behaviors have been exhibited. Ms. Earp is engaging in the group dynamics and fully discloses background history to comprehend her patterns of substance addiction. She is attending individual and group therapy session

Team B chose to cover Emeritus at Harbour of Pointe Shores, a senior community located in Ocean Shores, Washington. The team was interested in learning more about an assisted living and rehabilitation facility. It is also an opportunity to uncover the differences from an assisted living community and a skilled nursing facility. Emeritus at Harbour of Pointe Shores provides retirement and assisted living, respite services, and on-site rehabilitation. Similar to other long-term care facilities, the facility and staff are required to follow specific guidelines and regulations to maintain licensing and accreditation. However, these

The information contained in this report was gathered in a private nursing home over 2 weeks that for the sake of this essay, be called “facility x”

Within the world today there are different types of health care facilities to serve the different types of individuals and health care conditions. Temple Living Center East is a long-term care facility that serves the individuals who requires prevention, healing, and rehabilitative nursing care services for non-acute, long-term environment for the elderly. Temple Living Center East will be working on updating the secure unit for the individuals who require special care because of the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. There will be several tasks that should be completed before the

Assisted living is a fairly new and unique part of the long term care continuum of services. The goal of assisted living is to maximize the independence of older adults while living in a homelike environment. This paper will provide an overview of assisted living facilities including the number of facilities and residents, costs, services, and growth expectations. Challenges with oversight and regulations will be discussed as well as solutions to the problem. Challenges and solutions for staffing and training issues will also be discussed. The paper will also highlight “In Loving Hands Assisted Living” which is a local assisted living facility that I called and visited to aid in my research. I will give an overview of the

* Evaluate the effectiveness of a care home for the elderely organizational policy (safe guarding vulnerable individual policy) in supporting elderly people and

The federal government needs to evaluate different types of long-term facilities to determine which one is the most effective and can provide assistance to the majority of older individuals in need of long term care. Once the optimal long-term care facility is determine, the government can invest to help the industry grow to satisfy the need of the aging population. Medicare’s future coverage of long-term services will help the economy by recovering those lost wages from the informal care and will create more health care jobs, all while providing support to older

The challenge America now faces is the number of people reaching retirement will double in number by 2030, and the U.S. population will increase almost 20 percent ("Our Aging Nation," 2015). The goal is for the elderly to maintain and live with independence and dignity, as well as, provide a wide range of professional health and social service expertise, home care, and residential support and services that will be needed ("Our Aging Nation," 2015). Since the number of caregivers needed for this population will not be able to meet the demands other resolutions are considered necessary.

Taking care of the individuals that are getting older takes many different needs. Most of these needs cannot be given from the help of a family. This causes the need of having to put your love one into a home and causing for the worry of how they will be treated. It is important for the family and also the soon to be client to feel at home in their new environment. This has been an issue with the care being provided for each individual, which has lead to the need of making sure individuals have their own health care plan.

In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth Shakespeare indirectly characterizes Lady Macbeth through incorporating her heartless actions. For example, after Macbeth completes the unspeakable deed of murdering Duncan he becomes fearful and unwilling to transfer the blame of the murder to Duncan's servants. Lady Macbeth claims he is weak of purpose and childish because he is afraid. Additionally, Lady Macbeth demands he hand her the daggers as she will now hold the responsibility of smearing the blood on the servants so they seem guilty. After the deed is complete, Lady Macbeth acts as if she is unknown to King Duncan’s death. Through Lady Macbeth’s actions, before the murder and after, it is clearly evident that she is characterized as

Current numbers show substantial growth from the eighties, and estimates suggest that the demand for long term care among the elderly will more than double in the next thirty years. (Feder, Komisar, and Niefeld) This growth will exacerbate concerns about balancing institutional and noninstitutional care, assuring quality of care, and most importantly adopting and sustaining financing mechanisms that equitably and adequately protect the elderly who need long-term care.

Quality is one of the most essential elements of healthcare. As stated by the Agency of Health Research and Quality, “Everyday, millions of Americans receive high-quality health care that helps to maintain or restore their health and ability to function” (Agency of Health Research and Quality, 2014). Improvements have become vital to the success of health care organizations and in the Healthcare Quality Book, it is explained that quality in the U.S. healthcare system is not at the standard that it should be (Ransom, Joshi, Nash & Ransom, 2008). Although this has been a reoccurring issue, attempts to fix the insufficiency have been less successful than expected.

Storytellers are the God of their universe. Seeking atonement for them is nearly impossible without belief in a higher being. In Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement, Briony, a 13 year old fanciful storyteller, misjudges a series of events that have repercussions on the lives of others. Consequently, she spends a lifetime attempting atonement through storytelling. Brian Finney explains that Briony “attempts to use fiction to correct the errors that fiction caused her to commit” (69).

World War 1 was one of the the worst conflict around countries many people died to protect their country. A modern war they had machine guns, tanks, planes, gas and more many people died. People were forced to fight in the war if only you were the age of 18. The war started in August, 1914 it lasted over 4 years and 3 months. Its was one of the most tragic event in history many people died and which lead to another war.

By 2001 it was brutally apparent that the U.S. Health Care system was in dire need of a reform in regards to quality and patient safety. Following two separate reports issued by The Institute of Medicine (IOM), To Err is Human (1999) and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health Care System for the 21st Century(2001) the U.S. Congress requested the IOM review quality processes across multiple government funded health care programs. And understandably, “these reports described America’s healthcare system as a tangled, highly fragmented web that often wastes resources by duplicating efforts, leaving unaccountable gaps in coverage, and failing to build on the strengths of all health professionals” (Brown J., p. I – 15, 2013). Thus, the Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America released 6 aims to address key dimensions that require improvement in our health care system. These aims propose that our system needs to strive to be more Safe, Effective, Patient-Centered, Timely, Efficient, and Equitable (STEEEP). All of which were created to help overhaul our current health care system and, more importantly, narrow the quality chasm.