Canadian health providers are well aware of the consequences they face if they harm a patient, practise beyond the scope of their knowledge, or are negligent. They are accountable to both their College of Physicians and Surgeons and their hospital board, and possibly even the courts. As a result, Canadian doctors are strongly motivated to practise sound, evidenced-based medicine, and patients can be compensated for any type of malpractice-related injuries.
Doctors, medical staff, and hospitals in other countries are certainly subject to regulations and legal accountability; however, navigating a foreign health care or legal system can be difficult and costly for non-citizens. Without an intimate knowledge of the culture, it is difficult to
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Although hospital standards will vary greatly from one country to the next, it is important to note that your experience may be very different from what you are used to here in Canada.
Provincial legislation and various non-governmental associations hold Canadian hospitals to high standards of organization, cleanliness, infection control, and safety. And while they are certainly not perfect, hospitals in Canada enjoy a strong reputation for quality around the world. Canadian hospitals are also required to accurately and regularly report on the health outcomes they achieve.
In certain countries, care facilities may not be accountable for their health outcomes, and in some cases reporting practices for these outcomes may not be readily accessible or available at all. The Joint Commission is an American accreditation agency that has partnered with the World Health Organization (WHO) to establish standards of patient safety in hospitals internationally. It is critical that you check any overseas hospital for accreditation by The Joint Commission if you are considering health care
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In addition, you will be relying on the foreign medical staff or the medical tourism company to provide your Canadian doctor with the medical records from your overseas treatment as well as any recommendations for post-operative care. Your doctor at home may come across translation issues or missing information that you will need to retrieve in order to ensure the follow-up care you receive is appropriate. Also, if you do require further care from a domestic surgeon, there is an increased possibility that medical data and/or health recommendations could be missed because you have not received continual care throughout the course of your treatment. If your doctor is unfamiliar with the treatment you received or does not obtain any follow-up documentation, it can affect their ability to properly monitor your recovery in Canada, which, in turn, can have an impact on your future
Some of these aspects include long wait times, uneven distribution of care, and most importantly, the various costs. Canada's system is certainly not the worst, but it is not the best either. The provision of care for Canadians is not flawless, however it is significantly better than some of the forms of care in other parts of the world. In contrast to the United States, Canada's healthcare system is thought of as a shining example of what they wish to achieve, but there are a few holes that need to be filled before any country can look up to Canadian healthcare. One of the issues that need to be address in Canada's healthcare system is about delivery, as there can be some bias as to who is eligible for things like proper treatments and surgeries. Another example could be being referred to a specialist that is not covered under a patient's insurance, resulting in possibly high costs. Lest Canadians be forgetful of no hospital bills or be ungrateful for the quality of the care and facilities, many still need to be educated on why the healthcare system is not entirely perfect. Therefore, this paper will outline why Canada's healthcare system has
The health care system in Canada today is a combination of sources which depends on the services and the person being treated. 97% of Canadians are covered by Medicare which covers hospital and physician services. Medicare is funded at a governmental and provincial level. People of First Nation and Inuit descent are covered by the federal government. Members of the armed forces, veterans, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are also covered by the federal government. Several services such as dental care, residential care, and pharmaceutical are not covered. The 13 provinces have different approaches to health care; therefore, it is often said that Canada has 13 healthcare systems (Johnson & Stoskopf, 2010). The access to advanced medical technology and treatment, the cost of healthcare, and the overall health of Canadians fares well in comparison with other countries such as the United States.
Being a Canadian citizen, it is hard for me to think of life without any health insurance. I have had public health insurance all my life growing up and have been free to go to any hospital at any time and get some form of health care. Residing in the United States off and for the last 7 years I have experienced health care from both sides. I feel that private health care has huge advantages over public health care. In the following essay I will explain in three points why I feel strongly about private health care as opposed to public. What is better is always subjective, and I will not try to argue the point of health for all, but instead for the individual who is seeking the best health care possible, and is willing to put the resources into obtaining that. I will be addressing efficiency and quality, not inclusion of everyone (free health care), I will be addressing the root of this and not just that one argument, which would detract from my focus. I will not be getting into the political debate of socialism vs. capitalism, as that is a separate argument in itself, and this country is currently running under capitalism. Again coming from living in both a socialist and then a capitalist society, I feel I can do so in an unbiased manner.
Canada’s Health Care system is gradually growing to be a major concern in today’s society with providing Canadians with the standard of care they deserve. Health care has become an issue because of the shortage of doctors in Canada; many of them are either going to the U.S.A. or going to other countries to practice in hospitals and clinics. The earning cap imposed by the government has forced doctors to work fewer hours than are necessary to serve the public. Many Canadians are without a doctor to help them with their needs and emergency rooms are filled to capacity with no available beds for those who have to be admitted to the hospital. Waiting time for specialist and specialty tests have become so long that someone diagnosed with a major illness may die before they can be properly treated. Nurses and others in the medical field are overworked and understaffed because the government has made cut-backs to the Health Care System. We live in a country where our health care is a privilege to have, but getting ill is becoming a problem if there is not adequate facilities and professionals to care for the sick. Today’s society is aging longer than ever and will need health care longer than before; patients recovering from hospital stays are being sent home more quickly than ever before, and terminal patients are being sent home for their last days.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is an agency within the federal government that administers Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Programs (CHIP), and the state and federal health insurance marketplace. The Joint Commission is one of several organizations approved by CMS to certify hospitals. It is a non-profit organization that accredits healthcare organizations and programs. The major goal of these organizations is to ensure quality care and patient safety in healthcare institutions. By complying with the standards set by the organizations, there is greater consistency of care, better processes for patient and staff safety, and thus higher quality of care.
The Joint commission, is a private agency with considerable power over healthcare institutions in that it performs certain responsibilities yet it is outside of the government. One of the Joint commission’s roles is monitoring quality in hospital services. This includes monitoring that standards are met in hospital laboratories. It is also responsible for auditing logs and confirming that instrumentation calibration is keep to standards. JCAHO is also well known for announcing their arrival for inspection in a few days to surprise inspections. In many cases this
Primary health care is the essential step to the Canadian health system. It is often associated with other specialized health care sectors, and community services. Many patients visit various services under primary health care such as family doctors' offices, mental health facilities, nurse practitioners' offices; they make phone calls to health information lines, for example, Tele-health; and receive suggestions from physicians and pharmacists (First Ministers; meeting on healthcare, n.d.). This service can prevent patients from visiting the emergency department, when all that is required is some guidance and advice. Having primary care services can reduce the consumption of acute beds, where only seriously ill patients can use the acute beds when it is available. Primary care not only deals with sickness care, but it helps patients receive preventable measures; it promotes healthy choices (Primary health care, n.d.). The focus on appropriate health care services, when and where they are needed, enhanced the ability of individuals to access primary care in various settings: at home, in a hospital or any number of family health care venues, such as Family Health Teams (FHTs), Community Health Centres (CHCs), or Nurse Practitioner- led clinics. This paper will look at the litigious heated argument in the Romanow Report concerning primary care. It will begin with a discussion of the outcome of the Accord on Health Care Renewal (2003) and The First Ministers' Meeting on the Future of Health in Canada (2004), both referring to primary care, which will then be followed with an assessment and analysis of the different ways in which the accords have been addressed in support of primary care. Followed by a discussion about the changes on ...
The standards stipulated by the Joint Commission function as the basic for all healthcare organizations to weigh themselves and improve their performance. These outlined standards by the commission focus exclusively on patient safety and quality care. The Commission utilizes customer feedbacks and interactions with them, government agencies and professionals in the healthcare to formulate standard criteria. The standards must first go through a detailed and thorough process of development that includes dialogue with advisors in the healthcare field, preparations of standard’s drafts and external experts’ drafts. Forthcoming standards are then published on the websites
It is essential to conduct continuous evaluation of the health care systems with regards to the quality of care. Health care is a very sensitive sector as it is mandated to provide quality care as well as ensuring patient safety. For these reasons, it is essential to have an organized body that will ensure the standards of quality are the same throughout all health care facilities. This crucial service is provided by the Joint Commission (JCAHO). The body provides standards that are then used to accredit health care facilities.
Accreditation Canada is important in improving patient safety in the Canadian health care system (Accreditation Canada, 2009, p. 3). This is accomplished through the Qmentum accreditation program, which began in 2008 (Accreditation Canada, 2009, p. 3). The components of the program include quality dimensions, national standards of excellence, required organizational practices, and performance measures (Accreditation Canada, 2009, p. 3). For example, through accreditation of required organizational practices (ROP), Accreditation Canada is able to pinpoint which ROPs organizations are compliant with and which ones are unmet (Accreditation Canada, 2009, p. 6). According to Accreditation Canada (2009), ROPs are “evidence based practices that mitigate
In conclusion, this case study shows that regulatory and accreditation standards exist. There are strategies that help in meeting these standards. However, the strategies do not function adequately to ensure that the standards are met because of several gaps that exist in practice. Therefore, regulatory and accreditation agencies should work closely with hospitals and other healthcare agencies, to close those gaps and develop a cost effective and appropriate way of meeting regulatory and accreditation standards. This will help healthcare agencies to provide adequate safety and care, for patients (Folland, Goodman, & Stano, 2007).
The public health achievement discussed in this report is categorized under safer and healthier foods, but specifically healthier foods. This report will focus on Canada’s Food Guide as a public health achievement. The main topics to be discussed will be ways this public health achievement is related to various health issues, the history and success of the achievement and lastly a critical analysis about the achievement. As mentioned previously the public health achievement focused on in this report is Canada’s Food Guide.
The Public Health Agency of Canada has been created to deliver on the Government of Canada's commitment to help protect the health and safety of all Canadians. Such as preventing chronic diseases, like cancer and heart disease, preventing injuries and responding to public health emergencies and infectious disease outbreaks. Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control – Goal: Prevent or reduce the burden of infectious diseases of public health importance. Societal Outcomes: Reduced incidence of infectious diseases of public health importance. There is reduced morbidity and mortality associated with infectious diseases of public health importance.
In such a high-pressure living environment, people in Canada care more about how they can live than how good the quality they have of living. So the healthcare is one of the big problems that people pay a lot attention to. Getting ill is what we wish never happen to us. But once it comes, the ability of having no pressures to afford the high therapeutic fees and expensive medicines is what the good healthcare system should provide to citizens. But in fact, this is the level of the situation that the healthcare system we have now can’t reach to.
Should Medical Tourism Be Allowed in Canada? Precise Marion Zych, director of communications for the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO), released the press statement titled “Nurses launch freedom of information request to get to the bottom of medical tourism” (September 30, 2014), which claims the Ontario government is responsible for the “attack on Medicare” from hospitals allowing medical tourism (see Appendix A). Zych supports her claim by informing readers that the government is aware hospitals are currently allowing foreign patients to buy non-emergent healthcare services, allowing hospitals to gain profit, and directing resources away from the public who need them. The author’s purpose is to inform Canadians of the formal