Free clinic Shavanda Wilkinson Lindsay Ludvigsen English 115 May 15, 2015 I have come to provide information about a free clinic for the uninsured that will open in your neighborhood. This clinic will provide services such as primary, urgent and acute care. These services include STD treatment, mental health treatment, pregnancy services, dental services, vaccines and many more. While conducting a survey of the area, it has been decided that this clinic would serve this community and the surrounding
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All of the universities clinics are linked together through their records. Responses to the questionnaires had been collected during Jan 2004 to assess the patient’s mood, as well as their behavioral patterns. Patients were included in the study if they were able to complete the survey during the second or third trimester. It was difficult to gather sufficient information from some of the urban obstetrics clinics where only a small percentage of data was collected. Baseline
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Health Care Interview HCS/235 December 10, 2013 Health Care Interview An LPN is useful in a primary care setting; LPNs' have a larger scope then Medical Assistants. A university of phoenix student conducted an interview with an LPN named Melissa Apadoca. Melissa works at Kaiser Permanente in the Family practice and Primary care facility. Just a brief background on Melissa, she has been an LPN for 7 years. Did her LPN training at Denver School of Nursing. Melissa is currently enrolled
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time include, influenza season, inadequate staffing, inpatient boarding due to inadequate hospital beds and patient population larger than hospital capacity (Hoot and Aronsky, 2008). The length of stay in the ED has a correlation with the quality of care a patient receives. Many EDs struggle with patient overcrowding and there appears to be no silver bullet to adequately address this challenge. It will be in the best interest of all involved to effectively address this issue. Different institutions
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colleges starting the San Francisco AIDS foundation (Kaposki Sarcoma Clinic) at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Conant focused on addressing the epidemic socially and medically by seeking out non-government funding sources. Dr. Bazar (2007) reported that Dr. Volbeding described the first AIDS ward at San Francisco General Hospital, where infected patients were placed in large rooms to centralize and improve patient care because on other units patients were being neglected because of fear
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and a multidiscipline team to educate patients to prevent disease and promote optimal health. Nurses advocate to assist patients, families and communities to receive the most from the health care system and promote patients to advocate for themselves, this further allowing for high quality, cost effective care (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). Ill-health prevention and health promotion is a challenge in the medical field, this covers a wide variety of activities including holistic strategies that encompass
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Bureau of Primary Health Care and The HIV/AIDS Bureau Health Resources and Services Administration by John Song, M.D., M.P.H., M.A.T. November 1999 Financial and other support for the development and distribution of this paper were provided by the Bureau of Primary Health Care and the HIV/AIDS Bureau, Health Resources Services Administration, United States Department of Health and Human Services, to the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, Inc., and its subsidiary, the Health Care for the
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Health Care Reform and Heart Failure John Jones Heart Failure is the inability of the heart to pump enough blood to support all organs because the muscle of the heart wall is weakened and enlarged. The most common cause of heart failure (HF) is coronary artery disease (CAD); however, some common risk factors that lead to heart failure include heart defects present since birth, high blood pressure, heart valve disease, infection of the heart, abnormal heart rhythm and being overweight .
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Electrophysiology Practice To Impact Timeliness of Care Studies of the U.S. healthcare system have indicated that timely access to appropriate providers improves the delivery, quality, and outcomes of care. Conversely, delayed or limited access contributes to patient/provider frustration, poorly coordinated care, unnecessary emergency room visits, and potential increases in the burden and cost of disease. A recent high-profile crisis in health care focused on prolonged and unfair wait times at Veterans
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live shorter and less healthy lives than others, etc. It is well known that wealthier people are on average healthier than poorer people. Why then is that a wealthy country like the United States is not healthier than some poorer countries? Access to care is the answer, equality to that access, regardless of ethnicity, geography, economic status, or educational level. Powers and Faden’s (2008) view is that social justice, while developed for the specific contexts of public health and health policy
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