Module 1 Outcomes 5-9 Flashcards
The __________ is the main source of revenue for hospitals.
Province/territory
_________ are the leading health expenditure in Canada
Hospitals
Hospitals collect a significant amount of revenue from the private sector through chargeable services, like:
Parking, food services
List problems facing hospitals.
- Cuts to services
- Reductions in hospital beds
- Closures or merging of hospitals
- Rationalization of services
- Insufficient and demoralized staff
- Long wait lists
Improving efficiency by relegating certain types of care to one facility
Rationalization of services
T or F. Hospitals are expected to act like businesses, ending the fiscal year with a balanced budget
True
What type of funding does a hospital get if they receive money to complete a designated number of hip or knee replacements
Service based funding or case mixed approach
Funding pays hospitals in accordance with the number and types of services the facility provides to each patient
Activity based funding
T or F. Every hospital must be accountable for the funds it requests.
True.
The hospital negotiates with the _________ after completing budget, assessing financial needs, and preparing documentation for appropriate funding
Minister of health
When a hospitals reports its financial status as in the black it means
They are posting a surplus
When a hospitals reports its financial status as in the red it means
They are posting a deficit
What are the costliest things for hospitals?
Staff > infrastructure > diagnostic services > therapeutic services
T or F. Medical staff like doctors residents and interns represent the highest hospital costs.
False. Most of them operate individually of the hospital. Floor inpatient doctors bill their provincial plan for services. Salaried positions or contract positions like the chief of a department, hospitalists are exceptions.
Decreasing ______ is an important way to reduce costs and make beds available to those who need them.
Length of stay
Provinces determine the cost of an insured bed to a hospital by estimating the __________ required by the person occupying the bed.
Services
T or f. A long term care bed costs the hospital more than other beds.
False. The person occupying the bed usually requires less care.
T or F. The use of semi-private and private rooms generates income for a hospital.
True.
T or F. The cost of poor health is what Canada has to pay doctors and their services to treat sick people.
F. The cost of illness, injury and premature mortality is staggering to the Canadian economy. Disease prevention, health promotion, early diagnosis and prompt intervention are effective approaches to fix this.
What are some strategies to decrease LOS?
- Same day ADMISSIONS
- TECH and DAY Surgery
- COMMUNITY services and community health centres
- Timely DISCHARGE
- POSTOP pt discharge
- PALLIATIVE CARE patients
- HOME CARE
T or F. Provinces charge hospitals for an additional 24 hour period if a patient is not discharged by a certain time.
True.
Organizations that return surplus revenue (profits) back to the facility for purposes of maintaining or improving the facility and its operations. Usually managed by a board and not private owners.
Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs)
Costs can be cut by restructuring, downsizing, merging care, etc. also known as ____________
Rationalizing hospital services
What is the purpose of rationalization
- Prevent the DUPLICATION of services
- Provide care at the necessary level within the COMMUNITY
- Better use of RESOURCES
What are the advantages of preventing duplication of services?
- Saves MONEY
- Higher level of CARE
- More sophisticated equipment can be purchased and operated by highly SKILLED professionals
What are the 2 ways hospital mergers occur?
- The horizontal model
2. The vertical model
The _________ model merges several hospitals under one administration—one board, one CEO, one budget—but maintains several sites.
Horizontal. Greys Anatomy
The _________ model merges specific programs within a single organization; however the administration of various programs may remain independent of one another, this not be under the direction of one board.
Vertical
What are the advantages of merging
Reduced duplication of services, higher level of efficiency, lower admin and management costs, more services with better results for patient care and recovery.
What are the cons to merging?
Effects on staff, disruption in a hospital’s culture, lost seniority, displacement of staff members through layoffs
Merging of ______ hospitals appear to be more successful because the resulting facility broadens its service base while retaining staff and improving care.
Smaller
Impatient care in a facility or part of a facility in which the level of care provided meets the physical, mental, and emotional needs of the patient.
Alternate levels of care (ALC)
The ________ govt controls the number of long term beds, so all beds must be approved by the government
Provincial government
The patient must pay a flat rate for basic accommodation that covers the cost of a room and board, etc, a fee called ___________
Copayment
Those unable to pay copayment will be denied accommodation and care.
False. All jurisdictions have alternate funding options for those unable to pay, and no one can be denied accommodation or care.
Next to hospital services, ____ represent the second largest health care expense, the largest portion of which are _______.
Drugs, prescription drugs.
T or F. Canada is one of only a few developed countries without a national drug plan.
True.
T or F. Once a drug has been removed from the list of prescription only drugs, insurance will no longer cover the drug.
True.
Regulates the price at which pharmaceutical companies sell their patented medicines to wholesalers, hospitals and pharmacies or the factory gate price
The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
PMPRB
T or F. PMPRB can ensure drug companies don’t charge excessive prices but has no jurisdiction over prices retailers charge.
True.
Program that provides physicians access to existing drugs not currently on the market that might prove effective for treating serious or life threading conditions when mainstream medications aren’t readily available
Health Canada’s Special Access Program
T or F. THE PMPRB regulates the prices of nonpatented drug products
False - drug products that were never patented or for which the patent has expired aren’t regulated by the PMPRB
Refers to all people work in the health care field, from doctors nurses lab techs RTs and chiropodists
Human Health Resources (HHR)
The largest of the regulated health care professions is _______ followed by ________
Nursing, medicine (physicians)
T or F. Although physician shortages in all sectors persist, a large number of specialists (orthopaedic surgeons, oncologists, etc) can’t find jobs in Canada
True
Why do a large number of specialists have trouble finding jobs in Canada?
Too many doctors in relation to resources such as operating room/hospital beds, facilities can’t afford to hire them, over abundance of physicians in some specialties, poor geographic distribution
It can take LPNs up to __ years to find a full time position and RNs and physicians up to __ years
10 years, 5 years
Provides a setting in which member governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to common issues, identify practices, and coordinate domestic and international policies
OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
T or F. Compared with other countries Canada spends significantly more on health care but has fewer physicians and nurses than other countries
True
Most physicians are paid through the _________ method
Fee for service
The oldest and most widely accepted method of physical payment in Canada.
Fee for service
Doctors charge the provincial plan for every service they perform, the amount of which relates to the COMPLEXITY and LENGTH of the patient visit
Fee for service
Some primary health care reform models blend _____ funding with _______
Capitation based funding with FFS
Pays the doctor for each rostered patient in his or her practice, usually a primarily health care group. Rostered patients are asked to sign a form to say that they will seek medical none merging care only from their family doctor.
Capitation-based or population-based funding
The doctor receives a set amount determined by the age and health status of each patient
Capitation-based funding
Whether the patient visits the doctor once or 30 times per year, the doctor receives the same amount of money for that patient per year
Capitation-based-based funding
Doctors are paid extra for achieving certain milestones like doing routine Pap smears and Pap smears for women in high risk groups, encouraging doctor to be actively involved in disease prevention and health promotion
Capitation-based funding