Alpha Centauri – Specialized Care for the Future As a tactical response to the regional deficit of primary care providers and a marked stressing of local emergency departments along with urgent care facility resource overburden, Alpha Centauri has been developed from the ground-up as a premier walk-in healthcare entity in Elk County, Pennsylvania. We endeavor to provide quality healthcare in the vein of three key specializations necessary in our region: orthopedics, gastroenterology, and pediatrics. These specialties are often the most sought out after residential patients are referred from local urgent care and emergency departments, and our primary goal is to deliver these vital services to our patients without delay, and prioritize the care needed without the potential of degenerating conditions caused by the inability of local health systems to deliver this care in a timely manner. The initial vision and groundwork is what will become three separate walk-in clinics based on our current specialization capacities, the first and primary of which will be made ready for clientele on February 15th, 2017. Further plans involve opening a new facility in the tri-county area every six months for an additional two years. Our priorities in developing a comprehensive continuum of care for our patients are as follows: 1.) Emergent, critical analyses for the job descriptions and specializations these facilities must consider for operation and integral secondary and tertiary
* Meet each and every target physician and entire office staff within the first two weeks in the field. Leave contact information. Identify decision makers within clinics.
I have been given the opportunity to create a new healthcare facility, and I have chosen to
primary and secondary health care facility providing an array of patient care services in the areas
Our vision is to be the hospital of choice for patients, employees, physicians, volunteers, and the community.
As a chief operating officer of a hospital, you have been tasked with opening a new ambulatory care center in your city.
Trinity Hospitals five year plan includes development of an orthopedic center, cardiovascular center and a cancer center. Task four asks for an assessment of the viability of one of these service lines. By assuming the role of the hospital CEO, I will evaluate the orthopedic center service line and present the findings to the board of directors for their approval.
A new issue has been identified for providers who have more than one specialty. So far, this issue has only been identified for Rehab Agencies. The issue involves one or more specialty for a Rehab Agency. For example an Rehab Agency may provide services like physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and rehab therapy. In Cactus, the provider specialty may show as follow.
This summer I spent my time with Holzer Health Systems in Gallipolis, Ohio. This health care system was opened over a century ago by Dr. Charles E. Holzer Sr. as a 7 bed hospital. The hospital expanded in 1950 with Dr. Holzer’s son and six other physicians and has been growing ever since (Holzer, 2017). We now have over 160 providers in 15 different locations throughout Ohio and West Virginia. Holzer is a nonprofit organization whose mission is friendly visits, excellent care, every patient, every time. Our vision includes being the regional leader in primary care, general medical and surgical services, cancer care, post-hospital care, and healthcare education. Holzer puts the patient and community at the center of everything that they do.
Kimbrough gives in my opinion a great opportunity for many health care professionals. The staff they need to have to perform all of these services could be tremendous. You would need to have physicians both primary and specialty along with nurses or trained technicians. IT is as important as health care professionals as the facility runs through its own insurance and keeps records through their system that are up to date and make it efficient for patients being seen in this facility. As hospitals run I would assume you could have the same type of governance with a facility such as this with a CEO, Board of Trustees, and medical directors. A chief of service would be needed to make sure the facility stays within regulation sanitary, safe, and following codes. Now being a military facility I am unsure of how they hire. A question I have about the facility is; does it have to be staffed by military, volunteer, or is it associated with an educational facility to teach. The website is helpful for a patient seeking care, but not for someone looking for a career.
The first step that would have been determining how to increase our patient load being that two medical facilities located a short distance away are closing and the projected major hospital building a new medical office a mile away from us. After recognizing the chance, a plan needs to be drafted. Every area of this change needs to be examined including every possible problem that may arise not only during the planning phase but also once implemented. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all employees are aware and involved in the entire process. Collecting ideas/recommendations from employees may possibly contribute to averting preventable oversights.
I can tell many things about the star B-Centauri by looking at this H-R diagram. First of all I can see that it has a temperature of almost 30,000 K, that means it is almost five times hotter than our sun. Next, B-Centauri's luminosity is 10, 000 Lu which means it produces ten thousand times the energy of our sun. I know that B-Centauri is a spectral type O by reading the H-R diagram. During the Vlab we found that Naos was a spectral type O. All stars that are spectral type O are blue, meaning they are the hottest type of stars. Stars of the same spectral type have the same composition. Since Naos has hydrogen, helium, and helium ions so does B-Centauri. The mass of B-Centauri is twenty times the mass of our sun. The radius of B-Centauri
I can tell many things about the star B-Centauri by looking at this H-R diagram. First of all I can see that it has a temperature of almost 30,000 K, that means it is almost five times hotter than our sun. Next, B-Centauri's luminosity is 10, 000 Lu which means it produces ten thousand times the energy of our sun. I know that B-Centauri is a spectral type O by reading the H-R diagram. During the Vlab we found that Naos was a spectral type O. All stars that are spectral type O are blue, meaning they are the hottest type of stars. Stars of the same spectral type have the same composition. Since Naos has hydrogen, helium, and helium ions so does B-Centauri. The mass of B-Centauri is twenty times the mass of our sun. The radius of B-Centauri
The health care system must change to improve our nation’s health and takes strong steps to address the unsustainable growth of health care costs in America. We still have a long way to go before our health system become effective. We still have population that do not have insurance, have difficulties accessing their health care, or their needs are not met within the healthcare system. It is an investment in prevention and wellness and increasing access to primary care physician.
The healthcare system is currently undergoing many restructuring changes, due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which are impacting many healthcare organizations such as Centura Health. Centura Health is a large hospital based healthcare system located in Colorado and western Kansas. Many of the current healthcare changes are effecting the larger healthcare systems the most, as they are the ones that are serving large portions of the United States, and they are the ones that can make the biggest changes. Some of these changes include restructuring how reimbursement for Medicaid and Medicare happen, increasing access to care for the community, and increasing the amount of technology throughout the healthcare system. Centura Health has responded to the requirements positively. They have begun to change the culture of their system by increasing access to care at every life stage from birth to death, increased the technologies within their hospitals, and increased the focus on the patients when they are being treated within their facilities. They have dubbed this the 2020 Centura Health strategy, creating a continuum of care with every one of their facilities, including hospitals, home health, physicians’ offices, and laboratories. Even though they are currently a success story with the changes they are implementing there were challenges that needed to be overcome. Many of the challenges they faced will be
The Dixie Regional Medical Center is undergoing expansions. The new expansions recently finished have been desperately needed and have been helpful. Granted, they reduce costs that would have come from transporting people between the two inpatient hospital facilities that were about a mile and a half apart, as well as the cost of health risks that might accompany transporting patients has been reduced. Although these expansions have been major, costing over $182 million dollars to Intermountain Healthcare and adding more than 270,000 square feet of hospital space, it has not been enough to meet the demands of the ever increasing population in local areas