Assignment 4 432 APA
Designing Your Own Health Care Organization
Alissa Marchei
Athabasca University
Submitted to:
Joanne DeForest
July 29th, 2012
As a Canadian nurse who has worked at several hospitals in Canada, it is apparent that our government funded hospitals leave much to be desired. The wait times in the emergency department stagger over several hours for illnesses that can be treated within minutes. Our emergency rooms are over loaded and we simply do not have the nursing or doctor staff to keep up with this demand. The issue is not only related to the growing and aging population; rather the core of the issue remains that most Canadians are without any family physicians covered by Medicare. Canada is facing a crisis. Timely access to health care services is getting progressively worse for Canadians. The single biggest reason for this is a severe shortage of health professionals. High on the list of those in short supply are family doctors. More than 4 million Canadians cannot find family physicians to care for them; compared to people with family physicians, those that have no family doctors are more vulnerable to prolonged wait times throughout the system and are less satisfied with the performance of all other health professionals, institutions, and governments (The College of Family Physicians of Canada, 2004, p.3). In response to this shortage of publicly funded physicians, I have decided to integrate a privately funded family medicine clinic. This clinic will allow patients quick and easy access to a family physician that can treat their minor emergencies as well as provide continued health care as needed. This organization is a growing trend. Today the discussion is not whether private health care should have a role in the system, but rather what role private health care will have (Mason, 2008, p.130). By integrating a privately funded family medicine clinic into Canadian society, it will not only decrease wait times in public hospitals and
Alissa Marchei
Athabasca University
Submitted to:
Joanne DeForest
July 29th, 2012
As a Canadian nurse who has worked at several hospitals in Canada, it is apparent that our government funded hospitals leave much to be desired. The wait times in the emergency department stagger over several hours for illnesses that can be treated within minutes. Our emergency rooms are over loaded and we simply do not have the nursing or doctor staff to keep up with this demand. The issue is not only related to the growing and aging population; rather the core of the issue remains that most Canadians are without any family physicians covered by Medicare. Canada is facing a crisis. Timely access to health care services is getting progressively worse for Canadians. The single biggest reason for this is a severe shortage of health professionals. High on the list of those in short supply are family doctors. More than 4 million Canadians cannot find family physicians to care for them; compared to people with family physicians, those that have no family doctors are more vulnerable to prolonged wait times throughout the system and are less satisfied with the performance of all other health professionals, institutions, and governments (The College of Family Physicians of Canada, 2004, p.3). In response to this shortage of publicly funded physicians, I have decided to integrate a privately funded family medicine clinic. This clinic will allow patients quick and easy access to a family physician that can treat their minor emergencies as well as provide continued health care as needed. This organization is a growing trend. Today the discussion is not whether private health care should have a role in the system, but rather what role private health care will have (Mason, 2008, p.130). By integrating a privately funded family medicine clinic into Canadian society, it will not only decrease wait times in public hospitals and
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