Honors Program Theses
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Open Access Honors Program Thesis
First Advisor
Kent Sandstrom
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to examine the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act through an analysis of the bill, investigation of current publications by Iowa health care organizations, and ethnographic interviews to address the guiding research question of how the Affordable Care Act will affect Critical Access Hospitals in Iowa. Through this research, I consider: (1) the nature of a Critical Access Hospital; (2) the management structure of hospitals and health networks statewide; (3) the role Medicare and other forms of insurance play in these facilities and how the ACA will change that role; and (4) the implementation of Electronic Health Records and its effects on the financial outlook of small, rural Iowa hospitals.
Year of Submission
5-2011
Department
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
University Honors Designation
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the designation University Honors
Date Original
5-2011
Object Description
1 PDF file (63 pages)
Copyright
©2011 Brittany D. Fett
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Fett, Brittany D., "Health Reform: The Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Iowa's Critical Access Hospitals" (2011). Honors Program Theses. 863.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/hpt/863
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