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The generic model used in the United States is the chronic care model, which holds that health care does not only involve change in the patient and that high-quality disease care counts the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems as important elements in ...
In the United States, faith community nurses typically belong to the Health Ministries Association which is the national professional membership organization for faith community nurses. They also have available the International Parish Nurse Resource Center and the American Nurses Association, among others.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) [3] [4] is a health care industry trade group.It includes nearly 5,000 hospitals and health care providers. The organization, which was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1898, with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C. [5] [6] is currently headquartered in Chicago.
American Psychiatric Nurses Association; Association of Nurses in AIDS Care; Association of periOperative Registered Nurses; Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association; Irish Association of Directors of Nursing and Midwifery [9] (IADNAM) European Nurse Directors Association [10 ...
According to the study, across a variety of healthcare settings including hospitals, long-term care facilities and ambulatory care, planned retirement was the most cited reason nurses are leaving ...
The NICHE Program provides the principles, resources and tools to stimulate a change in the culture of health care facilities and achieve patient-centered care for older adult patients. It is affordable and comprehensive, and benefits hospitals in a number of ways: Improved clinical outcomes; Positive fiscal results; Enhanced nursing competencies
By bringing comprehensive primary and preventive health care services to inner-city and rural communities that otherwise would be without them, health centers improve the health of their communities and relieve pressure on overburdened hospital emergency rooms. The agency also recruits doctors, nurses, dentists and others to work in areas with ...
The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of health centers ...