After reading the Department of Health Human Services Strategic Plans for 2010-2015, I was excited to see that they have many quality improvement initiatives scheduled as well as plans to extend the health care workforce. Then Tuesday’s election came and gave me a reality check, which is more budget cuts are coming to States around the country, and health care will not be spared.
States budget cuts will negatively affect patient care, an area that needs improvement and service providers’ income and jobs. In hopes of balancing their budget New York state has propose more cuts that I can infer will not benefit anyone, it will instead end put a strain on other areas of the state’s budget such as unemployment.
Health care is not a demand business it is a needs business, and we need a health care system that is capable of addressing medical issues when they arise, not three months later due to back order of supply. When funding is cut, it will lead to cuts in programs, and services for patients, training programs for staff, quality and process improvement programs and jobs.
To keep health care spending from rising astronomically, lawmakers must encourage and help health care entity to be more efficient and to seek out process improvement initiatives that will save cost and improve care in the future, cutting funds must be the last straw. I have first of experience from working as a health care service provider that cuts to the budget will not help anyone and quality improvement initiatives will.
Source:
http://www.hanys.org/communications/
http://www.helpyourhospital.org/
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