INTRODUCTION Mayo Clinic is well known for treating international leaders (e.g., the president of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Cateora, Gilly, and Graham 640)). Mayo clinic provided care to international patients for nearly a hundred years. It was founded one hundred years ago by a family of physicians named “Mayo.” The Mayo family created an international legacy. They traveled the world to compare notes and surgical approaches and returned with international patients. Mayo Clinic has used word-of-mouth
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underlined text has been personalized by the author of the module. Feel free to delete or modify the text if you would like to insert your own stories. Slide 1: Title Slide Thank you for joining us for Module 1: Introduction to Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC). My name is Winston Liaw, and I am an Assistant Professor in Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University and teach at the Fairfax Family Medicine Residency Program. Slide 2: Disclosures for Continuing Medical Education (CME)
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copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers here or use the "Reprints" link that appears next to any article. Visit modernhealthcare.com/reprints for additional information. Company doctoring: More employers offer on‐site clinics By David Royse | December 5, 2015 Laitram Machinery's on-site healthcare providers and fitness staff include, from left, Nina Davis, medical assistant; nurse practitioners Emily Davis and Anna Bruno; Kristin King, registered dietitian and
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service so that people want to use it. Health services are provided in several ways such as web based clinics, walk in clinics, and retail clinics. These new types of services help the industry to reach out to all types of patients. Direct dermatology is a web based clinic. Direct Dermatology is located inside a local grocery store. This type of setting allows patients to walk in to the clinic, have a photo taken of their skin condition and then their photos are uploaded into a data base where
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continuum of care, accountable care organizations (ACO), nurse-managed health clinics and medical homes (home health). What is an accountable care organization? A basic definition of an accountable care organization is a network of doctors and hospitals that have the responsibility to provide care to patients (Gold, 2011, para. 4). What makes an ACO most effective is the ability to bring different areas of the care team together such as: home health care, specialists, primary care, etc to make sure
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an all too common experience when seeking medical coverage for his kids. After waiting for three hours at an urgent care clinic for what he thought was an ear infection, the physician diagnosed in three minutes what Pontius had predicted. Additionally, only after the visit to the doctor had he figured out that his insurance company did not cover treatment at this particular clinic, so Pontius would have to pay hundreds of dollars out of his own pocket to pay for the visit with the doctor.1 Sensing
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Free Medical Clinic for those without Insurance Assignment 2.1: Informative Paper January 29, 2014 Free Medical Clinic for those without Insurance Assignment 2.1: Informative Paper In today’s world, healthcare availability is a major concern for many people. Whether it is due to income, specific health concerns or resources many people find themselves without the ability to seek treatment at a facility they can afford. To help communities with these issues, if resourced properly, a free
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Retail Minute Clinics Donna Glykas February 15, 2016 HCS/490 Yvette Thompson The health care system landscape has changed tremendously over the years. There are so many different options now, where you can get treatment for your health care needs. The one that I find the most convenient and the one that I think is growing very quickly is the minute clinics in the retail drug store chains, like CVS, Walgreens, Target, etc. There is a nurse practitioner on site and they handle all the preventative
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I. Introduction Columbia Memorial Hospital is a 300-bed acute care hospital that employs 160 staff physicians. Columbia is one of 75 hospitals owned and operated by Health Services of America, a for-profit, publicly owned company. In addition to inpatient and outpatient services, Columbia operates an emergency department within the hospital and a stand-alone walk-in (urgent care) clinic two miles from the hospital and near a major shopping mall. Due to its superior facilities, outstanding
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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. People with more social status, money, and education have a lot of choices and control over things, such as the neighborhoods, their salaries, occupational opportunities, etc. (Jin
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