Choose two long-term care
facilities—one from nursing facilities, assisted living, or subacute care and
another from adult day care, home health care, or hospice care, prepare a 8
page report in a Microsoft Word document including the following:
·
Describe the roles and
responsibilities of the administration in each department of your chosen
facilities.
·
Identify and list the sources
of financing available to consumers for the various programs provided by your
chosen facilities. Identify the key public and private sources of reimbursement
available. Also discuss the role played by managed care and its impact on
long-term care reimbursement.
·
Describe the various
government and private resources available that assist in developing and
maintaining quality improvement programs in your chosen facilities. Describe
the ways in which quality and cost are controlled in your chosen facilities.
Also discuss the ethical aspect of access to care in the facilities, including
rationing.
Based on your observations and
learning from the two facilities, discuss the changes brought in the long-term
care system to make it reach full status as a competition-driven system. You
may include the following points in your discussion:
·
Discuss the changes made in
the control mechanisms (external and internal) in order to control the
management, financing, and quality in the long-term care systems.
·
Discuss the changes taking
place in long-term care reimbursement system in order to provide better
reimbursement options both to consumers and providers.
·
Discuss the changes made in
the efforts of providers to accommodate changing magnitude of the day-to-day
needs of long-term care consumers.
Support your responses with
examples.
Cite any sources in APA
format.
