Changes in Healthcare Industry

This article discusses the changes in the healthcare industry, particularly the shift towards preventive care and the importance of community healthcare centers. It highlights the role of nurses in these centers and their impact on patient outcomes. The article also emphasizes the need for health literacy development and holistic care in community healthcare settings.

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Student A.
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Informal summary:
The average life expectancy of people in America is found to be higher in the present
time than any other period in history. Data from the United Nations report has shown that
number of people who are 65 years and older had risen from 8% to that of 12% of the total
population between 1950 and that of 2000. This figure is suspected to increase by about 20% by
the year 2050 and would continue to rise steadily thereafter (United Nations, 2017). One of the
most important causes of the increase in life expectancy of the people is the advancement of
medical science and innovation in technologies in the healthcare industry. Although, more
people are living longer nowadays but the quality of lives of such people are found to be quite
poor. A high number of people are suffering from chronic ailments with unmanaged conditions
that are making them suffer terribly. More than 133 million Americans or about 45% of the
population are living with one chronic condition (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2015). These conditions
mainly include asthma, arthritis, heart disorders, depression, diabetes, obesity and others. In such
situations, unmanaged health conditions might make people admit to hospitals with intense
deterioration of health resulting in higher suffering and resulting in more financial flow of
healthcare resources. Hence, healthcare industry in United States is relying in introducing
systems of healthcare centers which would focus more on preventive measures rather than
curative measures. Community healthcare clinics are thereby believed to be the new systems
where more and more nursing professionals would be allocated.
Community healthcare centers mainly focus on preventive measures of treatment. Here,
healthcare professionals would be mainly focusing on spreading awareness among people and
helping people to manage their disorders in different ways. This would ensure that deterioration
of health does not take place to an extent where acute care is needed. Community healthcare

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professionals would maintain the responsibility of caring for older cohorts who suffer from
multi-morbid chronic conditions. This would be done in ways by which they learn to self manage
them and become educated to maintain their symptoms and manage their disorders successfully
(Fraher et al., 2015). Studies are of the opinion that community healthcare services provide a
wide range of care from supporting patients in learning to manage long term conditions to even
treating those who are ill with complex conditions (Salmond et al., 2017). Community based
primary healthcare services are seen to cover broad range of primary prevention as well as
primary care services within the community. This would include health promotion, diseases
prevention, diagnosis, treatment as well as management of chronic conditions and episodic
illness, rehabilitation support and even end of life care.
Hence, more and more nurses are now required in the community based healthcare
centers in comparison to that of the acute care hospitals. Accountable care organizations are
explained as the groups of doctors, healthcare centers as well as healthcare providers who work
voluntarily together for giving coordinated high-quality care to their Medicare patients. Nursing
professionals need to work in such sectors with the goal of providing care to patients to ensure
that they get the right care at the right treatment while avoiding unnecessary treatments or
duplication of the services and preventing medical errors (Ginter et al., 2018). Medical homes
are other segments of community based healthcare centers where nurses need to be allocated.
Such community healthcare centers ensures patient –centered, comprehensive as well as team-
based, coordinated, accessible and focused on quality and safety. It mainly focuses on providing
primary healthcare services to patients making care more accessible to patients, guiding them
through development of better health behaviors, developing health literacy and controls their
own disorders successfully through self management (Mason et al., 2015). Nurse led health

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clinics also have the same principle and target people of the communities for leading better
quality lives. The government is focusing on development and increase of such community
healthcare sectors and hence more nurses would be allocated to this segment of healthcare
industry.
Formal summary:
Feedback provided by nurse B:
Nurse A has been supportive of the presentation and has accepted the importance of
community healthcare centers in the present day healthcare industry. Preventive services have
many benefits like it prevents the occurrences of situation where the health of individuals are
deteriorated to an extent from which high quality health can never be achieved back. Moreover,
it also helps in developing health literacy of patients ensuring them to adopt proper healthcare
behaviors and lifestyle conditions that prevent the occurrence of disorders (Kadu et al., 2015). It
also prevents the huge outflow of healthcare resources on avoidable chronic health conditions
that can be expended on acute disorders of other patients. Therefore, the nurse was found to be
supportable of the fact that community healthcare centers focusing on primary healthcare
services need to allocate more nurses to develop a healthy nation.
Feedback provided by nurse B:
Nurse B has been of the opinion that community healthcare centers need to be developed
in order to provide holistic care to all people. The nurses should not only care for the biological
determinants but also ensures psychological and social well-being for people. Present day
researchers are of the opinion that bio-psycho-logical model of care is required to ensure that
patients live quality life with better health. Acute care hospitals help in treating and caring for

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patients with acute disorders following which the patients are discharged with a care plan
(Hudon et al., 2015). However, community healthcare centers act as the segments which focus
on lifelong caring of the patients by helping in development of health literacy of the patients.
They ensure development of motivation by which patients self manage their symptoms
successfully. Nursing professionals of the community health care centers are advised to focus on
the considering the biological, psychological as well as social needs of the patients. Researchers
are of the opinion that acute care hospitals can only successfully handle the biological
determinants of health but their way of providing services cannot ensure caring for the
psychological as well as social needs of the patients. Such gaps are very well filled up by the
nursing professionals working in the community healthcare centers (Smolowitz et al., 2015).
Their treatment procedures ensure a patient-centered and holistic care for the patents where they
are able to meet up the social and psychological needs of patients. She supports the fact that
nurses of community healthcare centers can thereby provide comprehensive care services that
meet up the physical needs and also include care plans that address psychological needs and
social determinants of their health as well. The nurses advocate for the social needs of the
patients and refer them to service by which they can lead better quality life like financial aid
services, good shelter systems and many others. Therefore, in this case as well, I saw my
opinions were supported by nurse B as well.
Feedback provided by nurse C:
Nurse C was supportive of the decision of the government to increase more community
healthcare centers with allocation of more nurses. She mainly focused on long term services
provided by the centers and also health literacy development of the patients within the
community. Often it has been seen that people with multi-morbid chronic disorders often fail to

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take care of themselves in effective ways due to loss of strength and self-management ability. In
such instances, such people get huge support from long term care facilities coming under
community healthcare sectors (Mossialos et al. 2015). She was seen to believe that these
segments provide supportive and curative services to older cohorts who require assistance for
activities of daily lives. Therefore, it helps such individuals to ensure better quality lives. By
these methods, community healthcare centers are able to provide care to the huge number of
patients suffering from burden of chronic ailments allowing them to live satisfactory lives.
Therefore, I noticed that her beliefs were quite similar to mine. Another important aspect that
nurses working in nurse led health clinics should focus on is development of health literacy.
Present day researchers are of the opinion that development of health literacy can help people to
make correct healthcare choices and also adopt lifestyle modifications and effective health
behaviors that prevent them from suffering from chronic ailments (Davy et al. 2015). Nurses
working in the community healthcare sectors can also develop health education sessions and
health promotion programs through which they educate patients making the nation a healthier
place for the future.

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