VA Medical Center Quality Improvement at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center The Philadelphia Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center is in the process of improving their quality of care for patients. The VA Medical Center provides care to veterans of the United States military and their families. The Philadelphia VA Medical Center has a list for quality improvements; of which one of the main objectives for improvement is customer service. In this paper

Patient Satisfaction in Quality of Managed Care Aspect to be compared Gender and Patient Satisfaction in Managed Care, etc. Stakeholder Perceptions of Quality in Managed Care Plans Two Steps to Enhance Managed Care Quality Author(s)/Date Emily Weisman, MS Martha Romans Jacobs Institute of Women's Health Washington, DC Carolyn M. Clancy, MD Paul L. Grimaldi, Ph.D. To determine what the differences are and what variables might affect women patients' perceptions of the quality of managed care To find out what attributes three different health care

components of value-based purchasing (VBP) that are most pertinent to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) based on its vital mission to provide high-quality health care services to the nation's veterans while identifying opportunities to reduce costs and improve efficiencies in ways that promote improved clinical outcomes in measurable ways. The study also describes the three departments of a VA medical center that will be most important in

VA Ambulatory Care When it comes to the job and duty of the Veteran Affairs (VA) Administration, there are many forms and types of care that commonly come up and that are discussed or debated. Just one of those, and perhaps one of the less commonly mentioned ones, is that of ambulatory care. However, it is a very important topic and it is an integrated and vital part of the healthcare

Health Care in the U.S. And Singapore Healthcare in the U.S. And Singapore This paper compares the U.S. healthcare system with the Singapore healthcare system. It starts with a brief description of both healthcare systems and then explains and compares the issues in both the systems. The number of underinsured in both systems are also compared in the paper. The paper also gives the pros and cons of both the system. It

Hospice Care and Catholic Ethics Is Hospice care consistent with Catholic bioethics? Chapple, in her discussion of the topic "Hospice care" in Catholic health care ethics, argues that ultimately the answer is yes, but she acknowledges that there are levels of difficulty in answering the question (Chapple 2009). The ethics of Hospice care present us with a complicated question, insofar as Catholic teachings on end-of-life care have at times provoked public