Health Care Facilities: Purpose, Roles and Functions

Health Care Facilities: Purpose, Roles and Functions

About the Organization

I work in DDEAMC which is a US Army Medical Center. In this center, special care is taken that the patients get the services that they require and are treated in an appropriate manner. This paper will discuss how the organization works to reduce cost and what the areas of improvement for the organization are.

Cutting Cost

1. Crack Down On Fraud and Abuse

The organization has appropriate electronic systems in place to reduce fraud and abuse. This system ensures that the transactions in the organization are recorded so that no cases of fraud are reported.

2. Develop a Healthy Workforce

Hiring in the organization is done in a very unique manner. It is ensured that the workforce plays a major role in bringing a change in the operations of the organization.

3. Coordinate Care through Family Doctors

In this organization, every patient is associated with a doctor with whom he contacts prior to getting admitted in the hospital. With this, the patient knows what disease he is suffering from and the organization will also benefit because they will not have to spend resources in diagnosing the disease.

4. Make Health a Community Effort

The organization focuses on the fact that the community should work to ensure that there the patients are provided healthcare as soon as they think that they are suffering from a disease.

5. Stop Infections in Hospitals

The organizations ensured that no infections exist in the hospital. for making this possible, there are quality checks that help in ensuring that the environment is appropriate and also that the patients are not adversely impacted.

6. Get Patients to Take Their Medicine

The organization emphasizes on the fact that patients take their medicines on time. If the patient does, he fails to ensure a healthy life and visits ...