Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System

being treated at a health center at Gila River Native Reservation in Sacaton, Arizona, which services seven Districts in Pinal County, Arizona. The facility services Native clients from all tribes and of all ages. The center provides services at the hospital where clients are seen in the emergency room or admitted to the hospital. There is a Diabetes Center where clients receive treatment for diabetes (Brief Solution Focused, Case Management, Narrative Therapy, One-on-One and Family Counseling, Weight, A1C monitoring, Blood Pressure Monitoring, Group Counseling and Family Therapy). There is also a Podiatry Center within the hospital and a pharmacy. In addition, the hospital has its own transportation department that…

Health care access is very important. It allows all people to get care from many different places around the world. There are many ways that access to health care impacts the people who use it. Heath care access impacts, the physical, social, and mental status of people, the prevention of disease and disability, treatment of conditions, quality of life, and life expectancy (Access of Health Services, 2016). For people to have access to quality health care it is vital that health insurance…

Financial Performance One of the key strategic challenges is to balance AF’s mission of serving all patients, regardless of their ability to pay or against tight fiscal environments at federal, state, and local levels. Although, AF receives federal section 330 grants from the Public Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, these funds have not kept pace with growing needs or economic changes within the health care industry. Thus, to remain financial viable in the…

Maria shared that for the first 5 years of their marriage, they travelled back and forth from San Luis, Arizona to Salinas, California. Maria reported that each year they would stay in a different house. Maria stated that living in Salinas was renting a room in a house where they usually had to share the house with two other families. Maria shared that Jose always worked on the lettuce fields. Jose worked picking up lettuce where he then passed it to another person who was in charge of wrapping…

Our guest speaker, Dr. Medina, was very enlightening. As he spoke about the Arnold Sarn case, and what it had accomplished, it was sad that it took so long to get these necessities established from the seriously mentally ill. He talked about how prior to this some mentally ill individuals could not qualify for Medicaid and the state did not adequately cover the treatment that they needed and would be an additional burden on their families. By enrolling the individuals that were covered…

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