Why do we have such costly health care, and is this commensurate with the value received?

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1-Why do we have such costly health care, and is this commensurate with the value received? What drives our health care costs and how can we control or reduce them while maintaining or increasing value?
2-What are the advantages and the disadvantages of comparative effectiveness research (CER)? Should the US implement a CE effort? How is the US doing as far as major recent developments affecting quality care, and providing incentive for quality care?

Specify four main features in health care organizations that can be used to design a successful quality improvement plan

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Imagine that you are a hospital administrator at the Sunlight Hospital in California. The main complaint among the patients is the quality of care. Your job is to understand the state of the hospital, create value, increase efficiency, and turn the facility into a local hospital of choice. Whenever you are making visits in various wards to meet the employees and the patients, you hear how the patients love the hospital, but they would like to see certain improvements in care. The employees seem to be very busy executing their duties and not interacting much with the patients. The hospital board has asked you to compile a report of your findings and suggested strategy for achieving the hospital’s current goals.
Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:
1. Classify five (5) measurements of quality of care in a hospital, and justify the major reasons why you believe these measurements matter to patients in their process of choosing a hospital for emergency or inpatient care.
2. Specify four (4) main features in health care organizations that can be used to design a successful quality improvement plan. Articulate the significant manner in which the specified features can lead to failure or success of quality of care in Sunlight Hospital.
3. Suggest the salient reasons why quality of care would add value to and create a competitive advantage for the Sunlight Hospital. Justify your response.

Define intraprofessional collaboration and communication.

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Select and discuss a leadership theory and/or change model that the master’s prepared nurse can apply to the selected healthcare delivery situation.
Develop a proposed plan for change the master’s prepared nurse could initiate to address the selected healthcare delivery situation, provide rationale.
Discuss strategies the master’s prepared nurse can utilize to initiate change and improve outcomes related to the selected healthcare delivery situation.
Discuss the essential elements needed by a master’s prepared nurse leader to be an effective change agent.
Discuss why the leadership role is an integral component for the mastered prepared nurse.
Define intraprofessional collaboration and communication.
Discuss the impact intraprofessional collaboration and communication has on the change process.
Discuss how the master’s prepared nurse leader can facilitate intraprofessional communication and collaboration during the change process.
Discuss barriers to and drivers of effective collaboration communication between interdisciplinary healthcare members

Describe the healthcare financing from the perspective of the consumer

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Discuss examples of ways in which healthcare services are financed in your area:
1. Describe the healthcare financing from the perspective of the consumer,
2. Explain financing from perspective of the healthcare administration, and
3. Identify how the lack of financing for healthcare for underserved populations in the community may affect the local economy.