of Nursing and Patient Care Delivery Models The Speech Hello, my fello nurses. Thank you for being here at the Summit of Nursing Evolution. My name is Chhay Yann-Ly and I am a nurse. We are living in an era where the United States (US) health care system is going through tremendous changes and challenges, with sky-rocketing health care costs, fragmented and poor quality of care, high volume of aging population, and passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010.
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POLICY: It is the policy of Mercy Clinic Family Medicine and Obstetrics to define the designation of Primary Care Physician for the patients that they serve. PURPOSE: The policy will define designation of Primary Care Physician. The policy will also define when and how it may be appropriate to change or delete the designation of a Primary Care Physician from a patient’s chart. Definition of Primary Care Physician (PCP): • A PCP may be designated either by a patient’s insurance
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URGENT CARE Paul Padilla Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Abstract Little things, like a skinned knee, can be treated at home. Life-threatening conditions, like chest pains, require a trip to the ER. For everything in between, there's urgent care. Urgent care offers treatment to patients of all ages for injury and illness, like the flu, asthma attacks, broken bones, cuts requiring stitches and more, providing you a one-stop option for unscheduled, time-sensitive care. Urgent care centers
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emergence of urgent care clinics, consumers have begun to have more choice in medicine. But with this additional choice has come some confusion as to the differences between urgent care and emergency medicine. This distinction is very important to consumers, especially families who tend to have multiple urgent care needs each year and are concerned about being able to afford that care. This article will break down the main differences between emergency rooms and urgent care, including what can be
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Columbia Memorial Hospital is an acute care hospital with 300 beds and 160 staff physicians, and is one of 75 hospitals owned and operated by Health Services of America, a for profit, publicly owned company. In addition, Columbia Memorial operates an emergency room and stand-alone walk-in clinics. Currently, 8,000 of these walk-in clinics exist around the country. Because of Columbia’s profitability, the other three hospitals in the area opened walk-in clinics as well, thereby increasing Columbia Memorial’s
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January 26, 2015 Benjamin Ovando Comparative Summary In the United States, health care is delivered by a complex mixture of government, not-for-profit, and for-profit financial structures. These three financial structures coexist and compete with one another. The financial environment of an organization consists of three major components the financial managers, investors and financial markets. Health care services are provided in a regulatory environment that is both different and more comprehensive
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Cleveland Clinic JACQUELYN SLOMKA, PhD, RN Department of Bioethics, The Cleveland Clinic CAROL E. BLIXEN, PhD, RN Department of General Internal Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Cultural and clinical issues in the care of Asian patients s A B S T R AC T Special problems of Asian patients have considerable impact on diagnosis and treatment, and the number of persons of Asian ancestry seen in primary care in the United States is increasing. Knowledge of how to provide optimal care despite
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Within any organization change occurs on a daily basis. Staff understanding the need for these changes is essential to the success of the change. Changing from paper to paperless patient check-in has become necessary at the Northwest Primary Care Clinic. Patient satisfaction has promoted this change. Having patients checked in and ready to see their providers at their scheduled appointment time has become high priority. Discussed here will be the need for the change, individual and organizational
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Becoming a Physician: Good Idea or Not? By Marcus Gulley Economics 545 Aug. 1st, 2015 My niece, Jenny wants to know if becoming a doctor in the near future is something worth considering. On the surface becoming a physician was always a great and lucrative job, but is that still the case? The numbers from this particular article would say that might not be the case as physicians aren’t moving around as they once did. The people in the profession are scared to death so they are sticking
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Patient-Centered Health Care Home Many people in the United States do not have access to high quality primary care. There is substantial evidence indicating that sufficient access to high quality primary care results in lower overall health care costs and lower use of higher cost services, such as specialists, emergency rooms, and inpatient care. A large amount of the nation’s dollars are spent on health care. This large budget affects providers, patients, employers, and payers such as Medicaid
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