The Primary Care Clinic Dana E. Wilson Prof. Terese Cole HSA 300 Health Service Organization Management October 29‚ 2013 Our healthcare facility provides primary and comprehensive care for patients that include women‚ men and young adults in a metro area that has a population of over 200‚000 people. We also have expanded our practice to offer specialized care in Obstetrics and Gynecological services. We have multiple locations in the area in order to provide services
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A gatekeeper is a primary care provider who acts as an agent for patients. They coordinate medical care so that patient receives appropriate services and also provide referrals to specialists. Typically‚ primary care physicians include family practitioner‚ generalist physician and pediatrician. Ideally‚ gatekeepers are much like family doctors‚ they focus on the health of the person as a whole instead of a single organ. They help emphasize prevention care and establish appropriate health screening
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environment” (Position Statement‚ n.a.‚ 2003‚ p. 19a)‚ reinforcing the impact of the NP in the primary care setting. At some point in care‚ approximately 95% of children from birth to three years of age are seen in the primary care setting for healthcare needs (Williams et al.‚ 2015). The Canadian Pediatric Society produced a position statement outlining the importance
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Running Head: Evolution of Genetic Testing Genetics in Health Care The article discusses the evolution of genetics in primary health care. It emphasizes on the importance of genetic testing in present times‚ and how it has developed and grown from the past. There has been a tremendous progress in health care in using genetics as the diagnostic procedure for not just people with abnormalities‚ but also genetics testing during pregnancy to avoid the bad outcomes when the fetus is born. It is
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Expedite and Advance Expanding Primary Care Access and Workforce Act (S.2229) Dear Congressman Meadows: My name is Misty Sneed and I am a Registered Nurse currently working in the state of North Carolina. I am writing to express my support for the Expanding Primary Care Access and Workforce Act This act was introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman “Bernie” Sanders (I/Vermont) on 4-9-2014 as S. 2229 Expanding Primary Care Access and Workforce Act. The primary purpose of this act is to
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of medical care in the 1920’s were the start of Americans needing health care insurance. The first type of Health Management Organization (HMO) insurance was a prepaid insurance for the lumber mill workers in Tacoma Washington (Difference and Comparison‚ n.d.). It consisted of the lumber mill and the employees paying each month for insurance in the event they may need health care in the future. This was successful that in 1929 Ross-Loos Medical group provided and prepaid medical care to the Las
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The federal government initiated Medicaid Managed Care programs to offer better healthcare delivery‚ adequately compensate providers and reduce healthcare costs. Has Medicaid Managed Care addressed the issues and solved the problem? The answer is ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. Throughout the early 1980’s and 1990’s the Federal Medicaid program was challenged by rapidly rising Medicaid program costs and an increasing number of uninsured population. One of the primary reasons for the overall increase in healthcare
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Assignment 1-The Primary Care Clinic Tasha Hornsby Dr. Kevin Williams HSA 300-0001030 Health Service Organization Management January 26‚ 2011 Discuss the key political‚ economic‚ and social forces that may have influenced the development of the clinic. Economic and social conditions that affect people’s lives determine their health. People who are poor are less likely to seek proper medical care‚ as opposed to people who are of middle-class status and above. Citizens with more social
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announced that it would purchase Prudential Health Care from Prudential Insurance Company for $1 billion in cash and debt. The merger created the biggest healthcare company in the United States with 22.4 million customers (Freudenheim). In July of the same year‚ Aetna had just purchased NYLCare from New York Life Insurance to become the fourth largest managed-care company‚ and it was still in the process of integrating (3-99 CV 398-H). The Prudential Health Care merger was the second big merger for Aetna
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the nonpartisan‚ nonprofit National Institute for Health Care Reform (NIHCR). The study examined emergency and primary care physicians ’ ability-and willingness-to communicate found that haphazard communication and poor coordination can undermine effective care. It was found that little attention has been paid to the patients care coordination that had been treated in hospital emergency departments (EDs). Follow-up care by the primary doctor after a patient leaves the ER is also spotty. "Sometimes
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