Emergency Rooms vs Urgent Care Centers People everyday deal with sudden illnesses and emergencies‚ and it always seems these unfortunate situations happen when your physician’s office is closed. If your emergency is bad enough‚ most people will go to their local emergency department‚ but that may not always be the best choice. This is where it would benefit people to know the many differences between emergency rooms and urgent care centers. Emergency rooms and urgent care centers differ in
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Economics of an Urgent Care Center in a Market of Emergency Departments One of the contributors to the rising cost of Healthcare can be attributed to the over use of emergency departments (EDs) for non-emergency needs. In the greater Capitol/First/Beacon Hill area there are three major hospitals (Virginia Mason‚ Harborview‚ and Swedish) with emergency rooms and no urgent care centers with the exception of Group Health which is restricted to Group Health insurance members. The question I asked
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Supplies/Equipment Pediatric Urgent Care Clinic Business Plan I. BUSINESS/EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With long waits at the emergency room‚ pediatric urgent care centers have become an alternative to after-hours care for children. It takes great patience‚ and a big caring and compassionate heart to take care of sick or ill patients. It takes a greater patience to take care of greatly ill or sick children after the hours of your normal pediatrician hours. This is a growing need and urgent request to fulfill as
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considered an outstanding medical center specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric problems. This facility is linked academically to the Harvard University Medical School. Conduct a brief SWOT analysis for Children’s Hospital in light of the present health care environment. A SWOT analysis is vital for any organization because it’s a way of breaking down the organizations strengths and weaknesses including both internal and external environmental factors. A potential internal environmental
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z Managed care plans for the uninsured Aisha Jones Managed Care and Health Insurance-HEA 205 Professor: Dr. Christine Connolly January 19‚ 2013 Abstract This paper is about an article I read about how managed care plans were created for uninsured patients of New Mexico back in 1997. The University of New Mexico Health science center felt that if they created this managed care plan that it would reduce the use of the emergency room and cost of care for the patients. By utilizing preventive
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Health Care Access Options Amber Findley HCS/490 06/08/2015 Jennifer Johnson Health Care Access Options Today there are numerous health care access options available to people whether the option is a web-based resource‚ walk-in clinic‚ or retail clinic. Having different ways people can receive health care is important. There are some people that will not use a web-based resource but prefer a walk-in clinic and vice versa. This paper will be covering MedExpress‚ a walk-in clinic. MedExpress ’ target
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Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center Kimbrough ambulatory care center is an Army base medical care center for most health needs. It is a facility in which all ambulatory care may be performed. This means it excludes emergency care and long term or overnight care. The facility houses Primary care such as Internal medicine which helps those with long term problems such as diabetes‚ cancer‚ and chrones disease to manage and monitor treatments. There is a practice for routine care‚ minor acute illnesses
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Point of Care testing (POCT) may be defined as the rapid specific testing of body fluids‚ used at the patient bedside. POCT is very useful in situations where production of results quickly is of prime clinical importance. Multiple POCT-guides have been developed for various devices and when used correctly may decrease inappropriate transfusion and product wastage‚ making these tests cost-effective. The use of POCT in coagulation testing in particular has been a huge breakthrough for patients in
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Room as a Primary Care Provider There are Emergency rooms all over the United States that are being utilized as primary care provider.‚ by patients covered by private insurance‚ Medicaid‚ Medicare as well as the uninsured.(Baker‚ August 13‚ 2008) Some patients call their primary care provider and are told‚ they cannot be worked in for several days or weeks. The option given is to go to the Emergency room for treatment. Other reasons are people who do not have a primary care provider or insurance
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emergency health care workers of hospitals faced lots communication challenges during encountered the patient. Emergency Department (ED) is the most sensitive area‚ where critical patient arriving to take the immediate care. Hence‚ the emergency health care workers have no more time to know the every patients culture‚ behavior‚ values and beliefs. They have to provide immediate medical care. So‚ here‚ communication between provider and patient is vital.
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