1List and define five major challenges facing the healthcare

1.List and define five major challenges facing the healthcare delivery systems today

A) What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? B) Why was it passed? C) What are the potential benefits to healthcare organizations to be gained as ACA futures become implemented

Solution

1. Five major challenges facing the healthcare delivery systems today:

Financial challenges and hospital productivity in addition to aging world population and increasing energy costs are putting pressure on health care organizations. They have to do more with less without compromising quality of care.

Every year an estimated 20,000 people die from an infection they received while in the hospital. Reducing the risk of infection as well as other potential risks such as power failures, is very crucial in ensuring a high quality of care.

Non-compliance with regulatory standards can lead to a disruption in operations, poor quality of care, and substantial fines. Many healthcare facilities are required to reduce carbon output and meet mandates for energy reductions.

Healthcare facilities are often under a great deal of stress when life and health are at stake for security reasons. Violence, patients wandering, theft of drugs etc. are major concerns.

Patient satisfaction is a key to reducing length of stay and preventing readmissions. If the systems are operating poorly, quality metrics can be adversely affected.

A). the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or, colloquially, Obamacare, is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

B). This complex piece of legislation attempts to reform the health care system by providing more Americans with affordable quality health insurance, and by curbing the growth in healthcare spending in the U.S.

C). The new law guarantees the right to health insurance regardless of an individual’s medical status. In doing so, it minimizes the moral obligation employers may feel to cover the sickest employees, who would otherwise be denied coverage in today’s individual health insurance market. Reform preserves the corporate tax advantages associated with offering health benefits.

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