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Running Head: HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEM
THE U.S. HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEM 2
Healthcare Delivery System
Patience Nehikhare
Grand Canyon University
December 22, 2019
The U.S. Healthcare Delivery System
There is a rapid change within the healthcare system in the
United States. The

2. changes that have occurred were made for the purpose of
improving quality,
rewarding value and not volume, as well as integrating and
coordinating the care
(Seshamani & Sen, 2018). As such, this paper will seek to put
into consideration
current healthcare laws within the U.S. and the nurse’s role
within this continuously
changing environment; the manner in which quality measures
and pay for performance
affect patient outcomes. Furthermore, the emerging trends in the
healthcare system,
professional nursing leadership, and management roles will be
discussed.
The Emerging Health Care Laws and their Effects on Nursing
Practice
One of the most crucial healthcare legislat ions that has been
enacted in the United
States since the inception of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 is
the Affordable Care
Act (Obama, 2016). The ACA was enacted in 2010. Issues relat
ing to affordability,
ease of access, and the care quality within the United States
healthcare system were

3. some of the driving factors that formed the list of many t ime
spanning challenges
that compiled the init iat ion of this legislat ion. Between 2010
to 2015 there was a
decrease in the number of uninsured cit izens in the U.S. by
forty three percent as an
effect of the Affordable Care Act.
The payment systems in healthcare are undergoing some
changes and the access to
care has also improved (Obama, 2016). The ACA promotes
preventive healthcare
models that put emphasis on quality care, primary care, and the
funding of community
health init iat ives (Lathrop and Hodnicki, 2014). Millions of
previously uninsured cit izens
are also provided insurance coverage and also some healthcare
areas that need
reforms so as to meet the needs of patients’ improved healthcare
outcomes are
highly focused by the act. The act has an effect on nursing
practice in several ways.
The first effect is that the act creates a high demand for
healthcare professionals
that are sufficiently trained to provide healthcare services that

4. are up to the acts’
standards. The second effect is that Advanced Practice
Registered Nurses (APRNs)
who hold the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) are required to
be prepared so that
they can meet the increased needs through the provision of
leadership skills in
community health centers. These professionals are also held
accountable for direct ing
and advocating for future init iates as well as serving on
interdisciplinary teams.
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Pay for Performance and Quality Measures effects on the
outcome of Patients
Pay for Performance is used to describe value-based payments.
It consists of
payment models that accompany financial benefits to the
performance of the
provider. The main object ive of pay for performance is to
convert healthcare to value
based medicine. In addit ion to that, it encourages health care
providers toward care
that is value-based since it connects reimbursements to metric-
driven outcomes.
Furthermore, it helps to promote patient sat isfact ion and best
practices thus,
support ing payment with quality and value. The reason pay for
performance was
introduced was for the purpose of ensuring there is

6. improvement of the quality of
healthcare and the experience of patients. This is achieved by
ensuring the healthcare
facilit ies accept practice and enforce the outlined healthcare
best practices and
ensure the customer satisfact ion rat ings are high. Hospitals are
usually reimbursed
based of their performance on a set of standardized domains of
quality that are
reduction of cost, their efficiency, safety, clinical care, and the
experience that is
centered on the caregiver. (Catalyst.nejm.org, 2018). This
means that the expected
actions of the nurses are to ensure that they adhere to the
specified safety
measures while offering their services to patients. They should
also provide efficient
services and adequate clinical care.
Arisen Professional Nursing Leadership and Management Roles
Nursing as a service field is vibrant and challenging as it
continuously requires leaders
and role models to engage and inspire the other upcoming
nurses (Scully, 2015).

7. Therefore, there is a need to identify and develop leaders in the
nursing profession so
that they can they can provide the leadership, inspirat ion and
engagement that arise
from the emergent trends as well as be part of the frontrunners
that promote quality
patient care
Among the roles that have evolved to a higher calling are
leadership competences.
For the purpose of promoting patient safety and quality care
strong leadership skills
are required for all levels of nursing. Partnership as a nursing
leadership style is
paramount. It encourages the nurses to work with colleagues
fully as partners through
collaboration. This plays the role in improving patient
outcomes, reducing medical
errors and promoting employee retention. Addit ionally, it
discourages workplace
bullying and other disruptive behaviors that continue to disrupt
the healthcare
industry.
Healthcare Emergent Trends

8. One of the emergent trends in healthcare is that there have been
changes in roles of
the c-suit in the hospital. The adoption of machine learning in
predict ing and treating
condit ions will encourage and enable many healthcare facilit
ies to create new
posit ions such as the innovation chief, and data analyt ics
officers. These posit ions will
be crucial as organizations embrace technological init iat ives.
Innovations and
init iat ives such as these will enable the hospitals to lower their
operational and other
costs and also improve the patient’s experiences. The other
posit ion that would be
essential is the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) due
to the widespread
adoption of technology. Another emergent trend concerning the
spending on
spending. Therefore, healthcare facilit ies will focus on saving
costa spent on drugs.
This is because out of the eighteen percent of the United States
gross domestic
product (GDP) consumed by health care, seventeen percent of it
is spent on

9. prescript ion drugs. Therefore, data driven providers can reduce
costs by deploying
means to track the spending on drugs with clinical outcomes.
The nursing practice and nursing roles would metamorphosize
in the near future years
in order to respond the upcoming trends. One change that is
likely to be experienced
is the intensified demand for nurses that are highly skilled.
Nurses shortages will bring
about the need for hospitals to provide continuous sufficient
training to fresh nurses
that are joining the industry.
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