...Arroyo Fresco Arroyo Fresco Community Health Center (AF) is a community health center serving western Arizona from 11 clinics and 4 mobile service vans. Community health centers have been established over the past 40 years in underserved areas in all 50 states, and they are nonprofit, community-owned health care organizations that offer patients high-quality primary care and preventive services regardless of their ability to pay. They also provide enabling services, such as transportation, translation, case management, health education, and home visitation, which increase access to care. AF serves three counties – Yuma, Mohave, and La Paz – with diverse populations and needs. The service area of over 23,000 square miles has fewer than 400,000 people – about one-third of the state’s overall population. AF provides ambulatory medical (i.e. obstetric/gynecologic, family medicine, pediatric) and dental services, which are supported by routine laboratory and X-ray services, vision and hearing screening, behavioral health and substance abuse screening, and pharmacy services. AF also ensures that its patients can access all services required across the continuum of care through partnerships or contractual relationships with hospitals, physicians, and agencies throughout the tricounty area and these arrangements are spelled out in the annual plan required by the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC). Arroyo Fresco’s mission is to provide residents of Yuma, La Paz, and Mohave counties...
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...Arroyo Fresco Community Health Center Case Study Analysis Abstract Arroyo Fresco (AF) currently provides services through eleven clinics and four mobile service vans across western Arizona. The three counties that are served through AF provide high quality primary care and preventative services to demographic areas with diverse geography, culture, income, and other varying factors (“Arroyo Fresco,” 2006). The facility guides its decision making process for organizational strategies with the combination of FOCUS and SWOT analysis. This allows for a well-rounded check and balance system to manage and prepare for current and future strategies for short term and long term processes. The increase in financial demands, consumer expectations, partnerships and mergers, quality of care given, and health care reform restructuring have placed a lot of expectations on health care facilities (“Creating an ethical culture,” 2011). The organizational strategy proves to be an important structure in order to provide a clear definition on how AF can change over time in order to successfully deliver a strategy and action plan that will benefit the short term and long term projections within the company (“Executive Insight,” 2008). AF has an found areas to improve the job descriptions, relationships, and management processes (Miles, Snow, Meyer, and Coleman, 2013). The organization strives to establish a strategic set of goals that will monitor, advance, and demonstrate health care results...
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...Discussion of new Strategy The new strategy is aligned with the mission of AF • Reduction of overall cost to serve, indirect patient cost and to increase net income. The question is whether it would be financially viable especially when a large number of patients have to be served ( Arroyo Fresco, 2004-2013). • The new strategy is also addressing workforce gaps in order to provide clinical and technical staff. Would this be viable in the light that employee training costs, as well as staff with technical skills are high? • Thirdly increase prevention care and avoidance of chronic and communicable diseases at the different sites. This will require internal and external resources to address the unmet health care needs in the various service areas and this can create the need for further financial resources. • The fourth objective is to provide uninsured patients with health care needs. When the organization and state collaborate they can provide increase insurance for patients. But the drawback to this system is that it increases financial cost and does not seem financially viable. • The fifth strategy is to increase satisfaction among volunteers, employees, and patients. This will however call for an increase compensation for staff and this may not be financially viable. Analysis of chapter 7 and research completed Patients with % BMI had consistently reduced in all three counties better than the State-Average CHC between 2003-2005 .Percentage of patients...
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...Team 5 Bernadette Freeman Kelly Krider Leah Saaka •1. How will you determine how the work/tasks will be distributed/shared among the group? All team members will determine the specific tasks to be completed. Each Team member will then pick a task based on his or her strengths and experiences. If a team member is uncomfortable with his or her task, we will offer some guidelines to make him/her comfortable •2. How will you match individual strengths/weaknesses to the tasks? The team will first determine each member’s strengths and weaknesses as related to the tasks. Each person will choose to focus on his or her strengths. Team members will supplement the weaknesses of other if need be to ensure a balance. • 3. How will you select a leader for the group? Any person can volunteer to be a team leader. The team will however agree whether to let the person be a leader or not. • 4. What authority is vested in the leader and the group? The team leader will ensure that the team is on track. As a team, other team members will also check on each other to ensure that the work is been done. • 5. How will you handle nonperformance or non-participation of a group member should it occur? A non-performance team member will be encouraged be team members by assisting him/her with any difficulties. We will encourage the person to seek our help anytime she/he needs it. If after all the support the team member just proves stubborn, we shall let the team member know and report to the...
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...Rebecca Kestenbaum 4/1/11 Italian Renaissance research paper Professor Schlitt The cleaning of the Sistine Chapel ceiling was one of the most significant art restorations of the 20th century. The restoration changed the way modern viewers perceive 16th Century artist, Michelangelo, and refutes theories developed over the centuries. Before the restoration, the color and lighting of the Sistine chapel was misleadingly interpreted. Two years after the start of the restoration, Patricia Corbett published “After Centuries of Grime”, an article that revealed new developments about Michelangelo’s masterpiece that were before unknown. Corbett describes Michelangelo as a “brilliant and daring colorist whose bold brushwork is surprisingly impressionistic.” The Sistine ceiling had, for many years, been viewed under a “murky veneer” with false shadows and colors that the artist himself had not intended. As Gianluigi Colalucci, the chief conservator of paintings at the Vatican, and his small team meticulously worked to remove layers of dirt and encrustations, they discovered new developments on his style, technique and use of color. The response of critiques such as Pope John Paul II, a contemporary of Michelangelo of the 16th Century, who viewed the work as the artist intended was allegedly “fantastic, fantastic, absolutely marvelous”. The Pope’s reaction to the newly painted work was likely a response to the vibrant colors and energy radiating from the ceiling. After centuries...
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...Brianna Green Professor Tim Cruise Introduction to Art 15 April 2014 Seeing The Liberation of Peon by Diego Rivera The Liberation of Peon, by artist Diego Rivera is portrayed through a Fresco media with dimensions of 73'' x 94 ¼ ". It was painted in 1931 and is on display in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Looking at this artwork brings a mood of sadness. Five men, four horses, burning villages, and sandy hills occupy the scene. The focal point of the painting appears to be a slave being cut down and freed form a wooden post. The directions of the staring men’s eyes all point me to the direction of the slave being freed. Looking at this artwork I feel that even though the scene seems hostile and dangerous there is positivity because someone is being helped. VISUAL ELEMENTS 1. Line- The lines used in this painting vary. Overall the lines appear smooth, but they are a little more jagged in other places. The fire and smoke created in the village of this art is made of curvy lines. The curvy lines are not only to show a fire, but they are also used to show direction. The curvy lines rise to the air changing from red to black as if the fire is spreading and will not be stopping in the near future. Lines are also used to set boundaries and outline object, like the outlining of the blanket used to cover the slave and the outline of the villages. The lines set boundaries for the hills and some spaces surrounding the villages. Lines are apparent throughout this whole painting...
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...I decided to walk over to The Norton Museum because it was close by and I was curious to see the kind of art they had. I walked in and paid the entrance fee, luckily discounted because I am an FAU student. I walked around a bit, saw a few creepy statues that were heads of people I didn’t recognize, and even saw some old portraits from centuries ago. I eventually stumbled on the more modern part of the museum and found a piece I really liked. The painting was called “New York Mural” by Stuart Davis. It was an oil painting on canvas and was around 64 inches by 17 inches. This piece was by far my favorite piece in the museum because of its abstract look and the proximity it had. All the shapes and iconic parts that showed what New York is all about were placed closely together and also had a very modern feel to it. It’s vertical placement made it even better at eye level because the painting was truly impressive to stand in front of. It’s one of those pieces that you have to look at for a while to appreciate every aspect of it, whether you are close or farther away from it. The “New York Mural” painting is definitely an aggressive one with every hue there is on the color wheel! There weren’t many tones, shades, or tints. Every color was in full and rich to the hue it showed. This made it more of a flat painting and very two dimensional, which is what added to the abstract look but also the simplicity of the figures on it. I wouldn’t say it is minimalistic at all though so don’t...
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...1. FOUR FUNCTIONS OF ART A. CULTURAL FUNCTION- Through the printed matter, art transmits and preserves skills and knowledge from one generation to another. It broader’s one’s cultural background and makes more civilize and his life more enduring and satisfying. B. PRACTICAL FUNCTION- C. AESTHETIC FUNCTION- Through art, man becomes conscious of the beauty of nature. He benefits from his own work and from those done by his fellowmen’s. He learns to use, love, and preserve them for his enjoyment and appreciation. D. SOCIAL FUNCTION- Through civic and graphic arts, man learns to love and help each other. International understanding and cooperation are fostered and nation becomes more unified, friendly, cooperative, helpful kind sympathetic. 2. FIVE IMPORTANCE OF ART * Participating in art activities helps us to gain the tools necessary for understanding human experience, adapting to and respecting others' ways of working and thinking, developing creative problem-solving skills, and communicating thoughts and ideas in a variety of ways. * Art nurtures inventiveness as it engages children in a process that aids in the development of self-esteem, self-discipline, cooperation, and self-motivation. * The beauty of art is that people can interpret the art work differently. Art is more diverse than language because it gives everyone the authority to feel the work in their unique way. * Art can put people at peace and help them relax. * Art can inspire and allow...
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...Title: Mu Nu (Mother and Daughter) Artist: Hung Lui Medium: Oil on Canvas Description I chose to write about Hung Liu, Mu Nu (Mother and Daughter). The painting by Hung Lui in 1997; Liu used oil on canvas as her medium. The result is a timeless 80 x 140 inch by inch painting that is currently housed in Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum. The roughly 7 by 11 foot painting shows two women hunched over, ropes tied around their waist, strain on hands and knees to pull a heavy load. The point of this searing image, which calls to mind slavery and extreme poverty, is that they’re performing the labor of oxen or machines. The lack of shoes, tools, and simple cloths reinforce the depiction of poverty. The negative space is filled with a large, ghostly looking, shallow body of water and a crowd of earthy colored rocks. Analysis From experiences in China, starting at the age of five, Hung Liu used memories, sketches, and photos to create this figurative oil painting. Painted from a photo, the two women are depicted in washed-out grays; she uses shades of gray for the mother and darker more predominant colors for the clothing and skin of the daughter. While the background landscape contains more vibrant colors. She uses horizontal lines to create a pattern of continuation or beginning to end of a rock path. Rocks, water, as well as the mother to daughter stretching left to right on the canvas. There is also a rhythm of moving forward created by the raise...
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...Fresco painting is one of the oldest art techniques that was used in the world. The word fresco came from the Greek word: fresko meaning “fresh”. Moreover, this fresco painting is a technique wherein the artist uses fresh plaster as a medium to paint; This painting technique has three types , these are : Mezzo-fresco , fresco secco and Buon fresco. The main technique that I’ll be focusing on is the Buon Fresco. Buon Fresco or sometimes referred as true fresco is the most common method of fresco painting technique in which the artist uses a wet plaster and paints on it while it’s freshly laid on the wall. Buon Fresco consists of the following basic process: first, the artist prepares the illustration that he/she wanted to do which would be transferred through the course of painting. Next, the artist will prepare the plaster by mixing it and then he/she will place or put the wet plaster into the wall. Lastly, while the plaster is still fresh and wet, this is the time where the artist needs to begin his/her painting. The challenge and the disadvantage of this technique is that one must have the speed to complete the artwork before the plaster...
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...Shabria Rahming Professor Soifer Art History Paper November 23, 2011 The painting I chose to write about was “The Last Judgement” which is a masterpiece by Michelangelo. This painting covers the whole entire wall behind the alter of the Sistine chapel. This is an illustration of the second coming of Christ. In the painting you can tell that Michelangelo was inspired by the Bible, but he also uses his own visual ideas and imagination in this painting. This painting is huge, and its measurements are 48X44 feet. This painting was created between the years of 1536 and1541. This painting was made out of fresco, so Michelangelo had to work fast on this painting so he would be done before it dried. It’s obvious that Michelangelo not only got ideas from the Bible, but he also added some theories from mythology in his painting. For instance, the boatman at the bottom of the painting is the boatman from Roman and Greek mythology that ferried the unsaved to hell, and that’s exactly what he’s doing in this painting. The emotion and frightening looks on the people faces helps show that they’re going to hell. This painting has some other unique features about it. For example, the men and women have very voluptuous body figures. This is how most of the people are painted in Michelangelo’s paintings. I believe this is how people were perceived in his era. This is totally different then how things are in our times. Now women have to be skinny or even anorexic to be perceived as beautiful...
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...Introduction This piece of art I chose to identify in my critical paper is Fig. 11-7 Fra Andrea Pozza, The Glorification of Saint Ignatius, 1691-94 Ceiling fresco, Nave of Sant’ Ignazio, Rome. The Artist of this painting is Andrea Pozzo born 30 November 1642 Trento, County of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empire and known for Architecture, painting and decorator work. The work the media used in chosen work as the book used is The Apotheosis of St Ignatius (1691-4) San Ignazio, Rome. The Dimensions of the work is 56 X 115 Ft. and the date the work was completed in 1694. Formal Analysis The Element of Design used in his painting was colors are used to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a flat ceiling above the viewer, his acknowledged masterpiece of Christian art is the ceiling fresco painting Allegory of the Missionary Work of the Jesuits (c.1685-94) in the Church of S.Ignazio in Rome, a work which combined architecture and painting to an almost unbelievable degree, and became a textbook example of 17th century Catholic Counter-Reformation Art. The principles of the Design that Pozzo use I would say variety of building ceiling that were on the ceiling of building. But the Style he uses is abstract from my opinion because Pozzo uses it as a “Catholic Counter-Reformation art” that describes more stringent, doctrinal style of Christian art which was developed during the period c.1560-1700. Interpretive Analysis This painting that Pozzo painting uses various of symbols...
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...Oil Painting Intro Terminology: For each term or phrase below answer both what it is and why it would be used. -Direct Painting A style of painting where layers of wet paint are applied to more layers of wet paint (wet on wet painting) -Indirect Painting Indirect painting involves procedures in which the final effects in a picture are built up gradually by placing several layers of paint, one over the other. -Toning a Canvas Toning your canvas before beginning to paint can help make a more dynamic and cohesive finished work. It involves chooses a tone for your piece and creating an under layer of paint -Blocking (or color blocking) Color blocking means blocks of solid colors worn together -Alla prima or Wet on Wet Wet-on-wet, or alla prima is a painting technique, used mostly in oil painting where layers of wet paint are applied to previous layers of wet paint. -Fat over Lean (also, what makes a paint “fat” or “lean”) 'Fat' oil paint is paint straight from the tube. 'Lean' oil paint is paint mixed with more turpentine than oil. Brush types: -Filbert A brush with bristles forming a flattened oval head, used in oil painting. -Flat A flat brush has bristles that are arranged so the brush is quite wide but not very thick. -Bright Flat ferrule, short-length hairs, usually set in a long handle. Width and length of brush head is about equal. Useful for short, controlled strokes, and with thick or heavy color. -Round A round...
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...Judith Baca uses acrylic paint on the Great Wall of Los Angeles over other paints because of the murals size and how she wanted the paintings to look. Fresco painting is a technique that is used on freshly applied plaster. This technique was used to decorate the inside of Egyptian tombs, and was greatly used in Roman culture to decorate interiors and was restored during the Renaissance. The paint is created by mixing the pigment with water and is then applied to a lime-plastered surface. Once the chemical reaction of the pigment absorbing into the plaster occurs it is very durable, making the fresco permanent (Thomas and Hudson 217). Oil paintings were first used during the Middle Ages. Because the oil paint is flexible it attaches quickly...
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...considering the time and the subject matter of his fresco. I will begin by providing a detailed description and analysis of the fresco in its entirety and an examination of Ambrogio’s artistic style used in the fresco. The Allegory of Good Government is located in Palazzo Pubblica in Siena and is one piece of a series frescoes depicting the good and bad government in the city and country of Siena. The foreground of the painting depicts the citizens of Siena and above them on a stage you can see figures that each represent aspects of good government. This fresco in particular is strategically placed on the wall that catches the most light in the Palazzo Pubblica personifying the concept of good government. It consists of three panels depicting modern Siena under good government in both urban and rural settings. I will elaborate on specific characters in the painting, as well as heavy symbolism that reflect justice, power, wisdom and features of good government. Ambrogio employs a very naturalistic style to his work. The Allegory of Good Government is obviously set in Ambrogio’s modern Siena, portraying things as they were at the time conveying naturalism. Ambrogio had worked in Florence and was also a part of the Siena School of painters. Therefore, I will describe his influences from some of his fellow painters in the school, especially his brother Pietro. There is an overwhelming sense of space and movement throughout the fresco. The movement is evident throughout the...
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