Health Care Paper

Current Health Care Situation Paper

HCS/545

October 22. 2011

Introduction

Know for its reputation in the field of research and medical technology, the United States give the impression that its health care system has some gold standards or status on the international scale. While thousand of Americans are medical issues that affects the health care arena. These issues have results in a gap in quality of care, allegations of fraud, cultural issues, patient abuse, or neglect. A recent research has show the number of patients victims in the health care arena is considerable such kinds of new laws should be contemplated. Heath system in many countries is influenced by social and economic structure that determines the quality of care provided to each individual. According to Lambert, almost every poll showed that a majority of American are insured and appear to be happy with their health insurance to a large extent, “The bill still passed”. This paper analyzes how quality of care is affected by organizational, culture, structure, governance, and social responsibility.

Health news situation

Brook Dale hospital, a hospital located in Brooklyn, New York, has been the subject of media scandal in November 2007. The scandal began when a hold man, black, 70 years old came to the emergency room alone for a pathology dominated by: dull pain near the navel or the upper abdomen (right ileac fossa), loss of appetite, vomiting, abdominal swelling, fever 102 degree. 24 hours after his arrival in the emergency room no physician neither medical staff did help out the patient. His color, age, and his loneliness do not play in his favor. A report of House Select Committee on Aging has suggested between one million and two million older Americans experience mistreatment each year. The department of Public Health considers these types of cases as an “abuse by failure to act”. This abuse includes neglect to render assistance to a patient...