Primary care physician

Watson Community Association is a non-profit organization located in Arizona. Watson Community Association operates a 200-bed acute care facility, Watson Community Hospital (WCH), which also employs primary care physicians to provide easy access to Primary Care for patients. WCH has eight clinics which are staffed by thirty-six physicians and seven midlevel providers, who specialize in internal medicine, family practice, infectious disease, and gynecology (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2013, p. 628-629)…

This hospital was the only main facility that provided critical health care to thousands of service members stationed in various locations in the Middle East before they returned back to the United States. I volunteered on the Medical Surgical floor, which focused on providing care to patients in critical condition or dealing with post surgery pain. One instrumental event that led to my decision to become a primary health care…

The outpatient facility I am going to discuss is pediatric primary health care facilities. Pediatric primary health care is an outpatient facility that deals with the medical care of children from birth to adolescents up to 18 years old. The most important provider in a pediatric primary health care facility is the pediatrician. A pediatrician is a primary care doctor who only sees children, and specializes in the physical, emotional, and behavioral needs of children. A pediatrician does…

Speech Title: Personal Responsibility is key to Wellness Attention Getter: Wellness is not Wishful Thinking, but an intentional reality Specific Purpose: Behavior Practices Impact on Health Introduction: Personality, beliefs and behavioral choices has the potential to bridge the gap between health deficits be it emotional or physical. Thesis: Personal Responsibility is crucial for maintaining wellness Credibility: I am a Health Coach who believes personal choices impacts wellbeing. I…

this assignment, I chose to shadow a health care employee. The organization I visited was Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser has a very interesting history that has guided the HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) to where they are today. They started in the early 1930’s, providing health care for construction workers on the Colorado River Aqueduct Project. Dr. Sidney Garfield provided care for injured and sick workers and while the employees were being taken care of, Dr. Garfield was losing money. They…

we do not have the best health care is because medicine has become a business. It is designed to turn a profit, therefore the quality of care diminishes. It is designed to protect the interests of the hospitals, doctors and insurance companies rather that the patients. Another reason would be that the access to health care is diminishing. For instance, because primary care is the lowest paying specialty in healthcare, there is a shortage in primary care physicians. As a result of the shortage,…

their input on patient cares. After I had been here for about one year, I recall I found this new confidence in my ability to care for my patients. I had begun to grow an encompassing knowledge of involving the different disciplines and the vast contributions a multidisciplinary approach has on patient care. Increased open communication with the providers, utilizing social workers when needed, consulting with respiratory therapy, working with radiology, involving the care management team early…

often neglected due to their lack of relevance and breadth of infection. While highly prevalent in many underdeveloped portions of the world, they are largely unseen in more developed countries. This discrepancy pushes the diseases off our radar as we care for the most part about ourselves and the issues we may face…

systems. Rural areas tend to have less practicing physicians with a shortage of specialists. Lower pay to primary care physicians is deterring many from choosing the field. Rural areas tend to be poorer and residents have a harder time obtaining health insurance coverage. Rural residents face various economic, social and cultural factors that influence how they receive health care. The Affordable Care Act provides a method to increase access to care through Medicaid expansion and tax credits;…

Comprehensive Primary Care plus is a five-year model that will begin in January 2017. CPC+ is an advanced primary care medical home model that aims to ensure care delivery design through a regionally based multi-payer payment reform. CPC+ includes two primary care practice tracks to deliver better care and improve health outcome. In the first track, the CMS would pay a risk adjusted monthly payment for each Medicare beneficiary’s care management services, in addition to fee for service for…