Health Policy Implications for coordination and continuum of Care Capella 4050 Assessment 4

Development of an official institution or organization to supervise the application of the care plan based upon the regulations should be done. In such an operational body, international organizations such as the US Department of Health Sciences should be constituted by representing legislative power regarding patients. This should facilitate keeping record of care coordination plans. The care coordination plan should be in correspondence  with the quality indicators that are based on the treatment  conducted , that are approved by scientific research data.

Capella 4050 Assessment 4

This care coordination plan should also provide validated quality indicators measured and monitor health care facilities and services delivered in all kinds of healthcare organizations. This care coordination plan is controlled by several government powers. Ever since it was launched, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has gathered diverse assessments. Americans need to submit applications in order to get health insurance according to these laws, which promote  healthcare access. Additionally, Enhanced care coordination efforts were the consequence of  greater patient requests for this service (Shannon et al., 2022).

Medicaid is the government policy commanding care provision . The purpose of this policy is to facilitate people with poor financial status. and to grant them health insurance. Medicaid covers a high prevalence of COPD among low-income adults. Adults with respiratory diseases such as COPD have higher spending and utilization rates than enrollees without respiratory diseases.

Medicaid adults with respiratory disease were more likely than low-income uninsured adults with these ailments to have access to and utilize services; they also had lower out-of-pocket costs despite higher overall spending for their care. These findings show the crucial role Medicaid plays in supporting the health and well-being of these individuals by providing access to critical health care services with very little financial burden (Admon et al., 2019).

Care Coordinator’s Priorities while Discussing the Plan

Care coordinator should highlight all the essential parameters to alleviate the risk of COPD progression while discussing the care plan with the patient and his family members. Proactive maintenance of COPD demands protected resources like multidisciplinary care teams allowing a division of labor between acute and chronic care and scheduling well-care visits along with pre-visit planning and providing enough time for chronic treatment. All these priorities should be patient centered so the patient and healthcare professional both benefit, as the final decision will be made in the light of the care plan’s discussion.

Each chronic care visit should have a specified plan, e.g., spirometry and disease staging, pharmacotherapy initiation, inhaler training, patient education, the establishment of a smoking cessation program, and physical activity planning (Albitar & lyer, 2020).

It is crucial to discuss the plan with the family members along with the patient and should guide about the treatment procedures and rehabilitation centers for smoking cessation programs, care coordinator should ensure that all the information is conveyed in a manner that the patient and his family members get convinced for the patient’s best health. Involving the family is more important when the patient is elderly and cannot make decisions on his own. Care coordinators should prefer discussing the patient’s consent and patient autonomy for making sure the treatment plan is patient centered (Elaine et al., 2019).

Comparison of Learning Session content and Best Practices in line with Healthy People 2030

Healthy People 2030 provides multiple evidence-based resources on COPD. one of which is highlighting the awareness of COPD in following groups: people with COPD and their families, people with COPD risk factors, health professionals (especially primary care providers) by collaborating with appropriate partners to develop educational resources or by collaborating with health organizations to communicate current standards of diagnosis, including spirometry use and treatment options for COPD. 

Healthy People 2030 also deems it important to work on smoking cessation to improve COPD patients’ health and decrease the progression of disease. Hence, the best practices in providing care for COPD patients involve educating them and providing them with a variety of techniques to deal with the issue. In place of this, the NIH’s National Action Plan for COPD comes in with a holistic view on how to educate and come up with the best practices to cure or alleviate the disease and provide a healthy lifestyle to patients with COPD. 

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