Create awareness in consumers regarding the types of services provided in the facilities and let the consumers themselves judge the quality of the services.
REGULATIONS IN LONG-TERM CARE
To support your work, use scholarly sources and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Regulations in Long-Term Care
There are many federal and state regulations when it comes to long-term care. Using scholarly sources and the Internet research any four specific regulations related to long-term care and summarize them.
Based on the regulations you identified, respond to the following questions:
• What are the benefits and shortcomings of your identified regulations? Which of these shortcomings have an effect on the quality and the cost of health care services? How?
• Do you believe there is a link between regulations and better care? Why or why not?
• Why do you think long-term care services are subjected to so much external control by government agencies? Provide a rationale for your responses.
• How is quality measured in long-term care? Is there only one, or are there several approaches to measure quality? What are they? Who should be given the responsibility to measure quality?
Notes from class
The increasing need for long-term care has caused several public and private agencies to participate in its managing process. These public and private agencies are increasingly attempting to control costs, providing protection to consumers considered unable to protect themselves. Public controls are nonvoluntary and are imposed by government agencies through the implementation of laws and regulations. Private controls are provided by nongovernment agencies and organizations, and compliance is voluntary.
Public Control
Public control on long-term care is imposed by federal, state, or local (including county and municipal) government units. These units set laws, regulations, and standards to be followed by long-term facilities in order to:
• Give better care facilities to the poor, who are unable to take care of themselves, by making them formal or informal wards of the state.
• Provide quality health care facilities to consumers.
• Create awareness in consumers regarding the types of services provided in the facilities and let the consumers themselves judge the quality of the services.
• Set the minimum level of staffing, cleanliness, and safety, ensuring consumers needing long-term care are treated properly and receive the necessary services.
• Follow all long-term care regulations to provide quality care.
Private Control
Besides government agencies, several private organizations are involved in managing long-term care. Both public and private control focus on long-term care organizations as well as the individuals in those organizations. The only difference is public control can maintain both the cost and the quality of care, while private care can focus only on measuring, evaluating, and ensuring the quality of care.
Private control agencies focusing on the quality of care of long-term organizations are known as accreditation bodies, while those focusing on the quality of care provided by individual health care professionals or practitioners are known as certification bodies.
Let’s discuss some of the most common private control agencies.
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