Implications of Health Policy Provision for Care Coordination and its Continuum

Implications of Health Policy Provision for Care Coordination and its Continuum

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) comprises several policies and provisions that aim to address and mitigate the impact of domestic violence. The ACA has emphasized preventive care and services, among which domestic violence screening and counseling are also included. This enables patients covered by ACA health insurance plans to access the health benefits of free screening and counseling (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.). Furthermore, ACA has provisions that prohibit discrimination based on gender, ensuring that health insurance companies compensate people without any differential biases.

This provision is relevant as domestic violence disproportionately affects women, and the prohibition of gender-based discrimination helps ensure that survivors can access appropriate health interventions (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.). These implications can improve access to healthcare services for survivors of domestic violence and promote a more inclusive and equitable healthcare system. Moreover, these implications encourage care coordination and its continuum for survivors of domestic violence when they receive effective healthcare interventions timely and appropriate. 

Care Coordinator’s Priorities in Discussing Plan with Affected Patient

In discussing the plan for trauma-informed care and holistic management of DV, first and foremost, the care coordinator must conduct ongoing safety assessments to ensure the physical and emotional safety of domestic violence survivors (Cabilan & Johnston, 2019). Then, the care coordinator can proceed to a thorough screening for trauma and corporeal injuries to assess the impact of domestic violence on the survivor’s body and mind. The care coordinator must coordinate with an appropriate interdisciplinary team to create tailored interventions, such as emergency care, psychotherapy, and joining support groups to address the patient’s healthcare issues (Johnson & Stylianou, 2020). 

The changes the care coordinator can make are based on the limitations that occur during discussions with affected patients. For instance, a patient’s preference for acquiring home-based psychotherapy instead of clinical-site-specific counseling will require changes in the treatment plan. This will require telemental health conferences with patients where a well-educated and experienced psychologist will be in touch with the patient and unfold trauma memories and relevant concerns (Iorfino et al., 2021). Similarly, the dynamic nature of trauma recovery can require regular assessments and adjustments, such as revising the care plan to align with the survivor’s cultural and religious preferences and incorporating culturally sensitive resources (Dheensa et al., 2020).

Learning Session Alignment with Healthy People 2030: An Evaluation

The best practices tailored for a patient who is a trauma survivor of domestic violence are compared with Healthy People 2030 goals and objectives on violence prevention. Healthy People 2030 has described some goals and objectives that align with best practices devised for DV survivors. These goals are to prevent violence and related injuries and deaths, reduce intimate partner violence, reduce emergency department visits for non-fatal intentional self-harm injuries, and increase the proportion of adolescents who deem substance abuse as risky (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.).

The best practices involving community education on the harms of domestic violence and unveiling inner traumas that initiate domestic violence can prevent violence and related injuries, such as physical injuries and mental health dysfunction (Halliwell et al., 2019). This will ultimately reduce emergency department visitation frequency as the community increases in education, and survivors can also reduce suicidal attempts when they receive trauma-informed care timely, which recovers them from mental health issues of suicide and depression (Indu et al., 2020).

Educating the young population and survivors of DV on substance abuse, as best practice mentioned earlier, can result in a reduction in the use of addictive products. These best practices are adequately aligned with the Healthy People 2030 goals. However, there is a need for future revisions as the teaching sessions particularly need to highlight how to reduce intimate partner violence and what strategies and best practices will be required (Hardesty & Ogolsky, 2020).

Conclusion

This assessment covers domestic violence, for which a final care coordination plan is developed based on the particular healthcare issues raised by this subject. This called for suitable interventions and the n