1. American Healthcare System

2. United States Department of Health and Human Services - HHS
The Unites States Department of Health and Human Services, also known as the Health Department, is a cabinet-level department of US federal government.
Site: agencies-and-offices/index.html
Secretary of HHS – Sylvia Mathews Burwell
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3. State level
DSHS - Department of Social and Health Services WA State branch of federal HHS reassures the quality of care for aging, pediatrics, and disable patient.
DOH – Department of Health WA state department – licensing, statistics, family planning, promoting health. WA State Secretary of health – John Wiesman, reports directly to the governor Jay Inslee. One of the branches - Quality Assurance Commission, which accepts patients complains

4. Local Chain of Command
Physicians in a clinic or hospital supervised by medical director of the facility
Nurses – by director of nursing
Ancillary services (lab, radiology, physical therapy, pharmacy, etc.) – department heads, and they report to an ancillary services director
Business side of any facility is under supervision of CEO (medical business administration)

5. Healthcare systems Healthcare systems – four basic models
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10. Healthcare system in Switzerland
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11. How the United States healthcare system ranks in the world?
12 years ago, the World Health Organization released the World Health Report Inside the report there was an ambitious task — to rank the world's best healthcare systems.
The results became notorious — the US healthcare system came in 37th.

12. World Health Organization ranking of health systems
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13. These are 36 countries that have better healthcare system than United States
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Traditionally ranking is done by newborn and maternal mortality.
The results have long been debated, with critics arguing that the data was out-of-date, incomplete, and that factors such as literacy and life expectancy were over-weighted.

14. 2010 ranking 7th out of 7
So controversial were the results that the WHO declined to rank countries in their World Health Report 2010, but the debate has raged on. In that same year, a report from the Commonwealth Fund ranked seven developed countries on their health care performance — the US came dead last.
NOTE: The rankings were based on an index of five factors — health, health equality, responsiveness, responsiveness equality, and fair financial contribution.

15. So, what can we learn from the report?