longterm care

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Karalyn

The Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, this was the most expansive reform in the U.S. healthcare policy. Part of this implementation is to reform the delivery of long-term services to benefit various organizations, agencies, and individuals providing care for older adults and those with disabilities (McSweeney-Feld, 2017). The ACA is essential to ongoing efforts to restructure long-term care services. Important ACA provisions affecting long-term care management and the delivery of LTSS address nursing, home transparency and improvements, workforce stability, patient safety, quality, and innovation, and rebalancing long-term care at home and for community-based options (McSweeney-Feld, 2017).

Long-term care is essential in the healthcare industry and covers the delivery of acute, subacute, rehabilitative support, and long-term services. The implications of healthcare reform in this field of LTC management are powerful and far-reaching. The ACA is the first piece of legislation to consider the role of LTSS as a part of a larger healthcare reform initiative and includes provisions that improve access to care and quality of services (McSweeney-Feld, 2017).

Unfortunately, overtime as long-term care has become essential to healthcare, it is still hard for patients to access care because there are limitations and expensive additional costs for care. However, states will have new responsibilities to implement national health reform, therefore many states are looking at opportunities to improve long-term care to control costs and make it an affordable environment for those in need of services (The Commonwealth Fund, 2022). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has contracted with quality improvement organizations to train providers to engage in culture changes for aging populations (The Commonwealth Fund, 2022). Many states are major players in financing and regulating nursing homes and long-term care services, it is important they ensure the quality of care and quality of life people receive in these settings are outstanding (The Commonwealth Fund, 2022).

In conclusion, long-term care services in the United States is expensive, and some facilities provide poor quality of care which creates a poor quality of life for patients. I have experience what this is like first hand with my great-grandparents. These facilities cost thousands of dollars a month and can be out of reach for many patients and their family members. I feel passionately around long-term care needing more funding and support from the government and other entities to improve healthcare services that are never going to go away.

References

McSweeney-Feld, M. H. (2017).  Dimensions of Long-Term Care Management: An Introduction, Second Edition (Gateway to Healthcare Management) (Second ed.). Health Administration Press.

The Commonwealth Fund. (2022).  National Health Reform and Long-Term Care.  https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/national-health-reform-and-long-term-care

Georiga

The Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, this was the most expansive reform in the U.S. healthcare policy. Part of this implementation is to reform the delivery of long-term services to benefit various organizations, agencies, and individuals providing care for older adults and those with disabilities (McSweeney-Feld, 2017). The ACA is essential to ongoing efforts to restructure long-term care services. Important ACA provisions affecting long-term care management and the delivery of LTSS address nursing, home transparency and improvements, workforce stability, patient safety, quality, and innovation, and rebalancing long-term care at home and for community-based options (McSweeney-Feld, 2017).

Long-term care is essential in the healthcare industry and covers the delivery of acute, subacute, rehabilitative support, and long-term services. The implications of healthcare reform in this field of LTC management are powerful and far-reaching. The ACA is the first piece of legislation to consider the role of LTSS as a part of a larger healthcare reform initiative and includes provisions that improve access to care and quality of services (McSweeney-Feld, 2017).

Unfortunately, overtime as long-term care has become essential to healthcare, it is still hard for patients to access care because there are limitations and expensive additional costs for care. However, states will have new responsibilities to implement national health reform, therefore many states are looking at opportunities to improve long-term care to control costs and make it an affordable environment for those in need of services (The Commonwealth Fund, 2022). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has contracted with quality improvement organizations to train providers to engage in culture changes for aging populations (The Commonwealth Fund, 2022). Many states are major players in financing and regulating nursing homes and long-term care services, it is important they ensure the quality of care and quality of life people receive in these settings are outstanding (The Commonwealth Fund, 2022).

In conclusion, long-term care services in the United States is expensive, and some facilities provide poor quality of care which creates a poor quality of life for patients. I have experience what this is like first hand with my great-grandparents. These facilities cost thousands of dollars a month and can be out of reach for many patients and their family members. I feel passionately around long-term care needing more funding and support from the government and other entities to improve healthcare services that are never going to go away.

References

McSweeney-Feld, M. H. (2017).  Dimensions of Long-Term Care Management: An Introduction, Second Edition (Gateway to Healthcare Management) (Second ed.). Health Administration Press.

The Commonwealth Fund. (2022).  National Health Reform and Long-Term Care.  https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/national-health-reform-and-long-term-care