American Community Health Care Outcomes is the Medical Mistrust

American Community Health Care Outcomes is the Medical Mistrust
Introduction
One of the primary issues impacting American community health care outcomes is the medical mistrust and lack of access assurance within most healthcare facilities. Historically, the healthcare services access in the U.S. have been deplorable for people of color, minorities, and other challenged groups. The issues range from low reassurance and insurance of treatment where patients express mistrust and anger. In this vein, the INOVA Fairfax facility was linked to several health differences based on race, gender, ethnicity, education, ZIP code, and income. The minorities lacked reassurance in medication and insurance since they hardly participated in the community-level decision-making. Accordingly, it is well-established that life expectancy varied from one neighborhood to another. This is because where people reside is affected by their educational opportunities, status, economic background, and overall quality of life and health. INOVA’s primary goal is to offer equal care to a large community in Fairfax County, but some residents feel the existence of healthcare access gaps. Medical reforms have been championed, but the the structurally marginalized communities feel surrounded by a lack of progress and reassurance. Many claim they should get opportunities to explore the ‘top-notch’ services offered by the facility in the area without barriers.
Strategic Plan
Organization Name and Title of Strategic Plan
Organization: INOVA Healthcare System in Northern Virginia Fairfax Hospital
Topic: The topic is to minimize health care services access gaps and mistrust among the minority neighborhoods to increase reassurance and trust among the Fairfax County community.

Strategic Vision
As a non-profit facility, the INOVA healthcare system aims to meet the community’s overall needs and improve their health outcomes irrespective of creed, race, income, or neighborhood. To increase service delivery to the Fairfax County community, the facility focuses on reassuring trustful service delivery by making the community aware of treatment options and ultimate results and increasing current wellness while focusing on the community’s future needs.

Strategic Mission
To offer world-class healthcare at every touch and time to all community members they are privileged to serve. In this line, the facility is focused on reducing mistrust and anger after treatment and medication. This will include increasing reassurance to minorities and especially the trauma-infected neighborhoods.

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Goal

Objectives

Action Plan

Measurement

1

Protect and foster equitable access to affordable and accessible community care. The overall goal of the INOVA healthcare system is to offer affordable and high-quality servicing by enhancing community choices, enrolling equal and high-quality care coverage, ensuring access to safe drugs, and reducing treatment costs. In this context, the facility should work based on community-based innovation and offer culturally-appropriate care while concerned with social determinants of healthcare access. In the recent past, the facility has been focusing on behavioral health integration to enhance neighborhood access to trauma and mental disorders in minor neighborhoods in Fairfax County.

For goal one, the strategic objectives include enhancing affordability, high-quality enrollment, choice in community health care coverage, and integrating behavioral health to reach minor families with mental and trauma issues.

To effectively implement an action plan that caters to the needs of the overall community, Harrison (2016a) proposes that the healthcare facility needs to stabilize community insurance marketplaces and adopt ACA (Affordable Care Act) reforms. In order to override the existing conditions, INOVA should discourage the sale of healthcare insurance to specific groups. In addition, this effort is critical to reducing health care disparities within the community and the nation at large.

The priority in measuring these goals is identifying the key personnel from the facility and community to minimize resistance to the change model. The community is vital to ensure that the action plan is patient-driven, realistic, and specific (Harrison, 2016b). Another measurement is to improve factors that impact individuals’ access to health care services, including their behavioral inclinations and choice, community-related issues such as unemployment, poverty, inadequate housing, poor educational outcomes, poor means of transportation, and interpersonal violence. Other factors measuring access to health care facilities include decaying neighborhoods and ongoing or historical interplay of structures, norms, and policies, shaping individuals’ lives.

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Safeguard and enhance county and global health outcomes and circumstances. INOVA’s healthcare system should focus on improvin...