Do healthcare managers adopt professionalism to in the healthcare settings for the benefit of patient?

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SECTION 1: LEARNER AND PROGRAM INFORMATION (TO BE COMPLETED BY LEARNER)

Learner Name

Learner Email

Mentor Name

Mentor Email

Specialization (Delete all specializations except for your own)

Area of SpecializationProgram Chair

General Human ServicesDr. Charles Lorbeer

Health Care AdministrationDr. Lonnie Wederski

Management of NonprofitsDr. Yvonne Kochanowski

Social and Community ServicesDr. Charles Lorbeer

Criminal JusticeDr. Steven Barthelmeus

Emergency ManagementDr. Michael Kemp

Public Safety LeadershipDr. Steven Barthelmeus

Program Chair Email

SECTION 2: RESEARCH PROBLEM & CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESEARCH THEORY

Research Problem

Describe the scientific problem. This paragraph goes beyond the social problem. E.g. We know X from the literature, we also know Y, but we don't know Z and that is why this study's research question is important.

Health care in the United States remains different as compared to other developed nations. The United States Health and Human Services department takes a different direction by providing Medicare and Medicaid, a medical welfare system for the poor and the elderly and leaving the rest of the Health care system to supporting themselves. The United States Health and Human Services department spends approximately $35 billion per annum to provide medical care for uninsured residents (HFMA, 2009). Another important fact is that around 51 million residents of United States, who lack health insurance or are underinsured, cost $130 billion per annum in lost productivity. This is causing a huge problem in the United States and changes need to be made but it is up to the Federal Government to make these changes (HFMA, 2009).

Health care economics and the healthcare delivery system present many challenges for the consumer and practitioner alike, despite the availability of exceptional medical care in the U.S.

The U.S. has an inefficient and expensive health care system, compared with other industrialized nations, with poor outcomes and many citizens who are denied access. Inefficiency is increased by the lack of an integrated healthcare system that could promote an optimal mix of personal medical care and population health measures. The provision and future of healthcare in the United States is a contested economic, political, and moral topic that needs to be addressed.

Healthcare delivery in the U.S. has steadily moved towards a highly bureaucratized and consolidated but unevenly developed and inequitable "managed care" system. This profit-driven system, ruled primarily by markets rather than by substantive concerns about improving the health of Americans, poses significant challenges to healthcare practitioners: to their autonomy, their professional beliefs, and to their ability to deliver high-quality services that conform to their professional standards.

In hospitals, clinics, and medical offices, decision making is increasingly bureaucratized, practitioners have experienced a speedup in their interactions with patients, health providers are encouraged to think of themselves as revenue producers, and work routines are ever-more rationalized. Combined, these forces profoundly shape health professionals' everyday relationships with patients and members of other occupational groups, not to mention their status and their ideologies. This historical context-in which the work of medical practitioners is under considerable structural pressure-provides a rich opportunity to contribute to sociological theories of the professions, particularly ...