1. Organization
Friend Family Health Center (FFHC) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving medically underserved populations in Chicago’s southeast and southwest areas. The FFHC sites include the main clinic Cottage Grove and 4 off-site locations; Ashland, Beethoven, Pulaski, and Western. FFHC patient populations consist of mainly uninsured or families on Medicaid. FFHC offers services in three main areas: Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, and Internal Medicine. Their services include health prevention, primary care, family planning, and well child services. FFHC ensures that patients have access to required primary and preventive care, enabling health services and supplemental services through referrals and contractual arrangements.
Mission:
The mission of Friend Family Health Center is to provide access to quality, patient-centered primary and preventive health care services regardless of an individual’s socioeconomic status.
Vision:
To be the patient-centered medical home of choice and the employer of choice by becoming the premier, full-integrated health care delivery system in the communities we serve.
2. Overview of Internship
Through the Friend Family Health Center internship program I was assigned to the HIM and Referral Departments. The HIM department is responsible for acquiring, analyzing, and protecting digital and traditional medical information vital to providing quality patient care (American Health Information Management
The population that FCFFHC provide medical care services to is 19,325 of rural and low-income people. The Health Center serve people of all ages from newborns to adults. Patients with insurance are require to present their insurance card before he or she receive services. Patients are expect to pay the co-payment or co-insurance. Patients without insurance at 100% of poverty level are require to pay a minimum of $30. Patients who pay for his or her services are require to pay, according to the sliding fee of $40, $50, or $60. The Health Centers’ sources of revenue are generated
Our vision is to be the hospital of choice for patients, employees, physicians, volunteers, and the community.
“To improve the health of our community and to deliver effective and efficient healthcare in which our patients and users feel cared for, safe and confident.” Annual Plan 2013/14
To be the premier provider of state-of-the art health services in the greater central Ohio region.
As a FQHC, LSCC’s mission is to provide care to underserved and uninsured residents of our service area. In Central Texas, people who lack health insurance are disproportionately poor and disproportionately racial/ethnic minorities. Because of this confluence of socioeconomic indicators, LSCC’s patient populations are more likely than other groups to experience health disparities which can negatively impact a patient’s life from the day he or she is born, through development, through adulthood, and up until the day he or she dies. Excess morbidity and early mortality are the indelible scars dealt by health disparities upon LSCC’s target populations. In light of this reality, LSCC must go beyond the mere provision of care to ensure that our
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The Family Health Center is a clinic that is under the umbrella of Bear Valley Community Hospital, a small rural hospital. The hospital is located in a ski resort town in the mountains above San Bernardino County. The next closest medical facility is an approximate hour drive on curvy mountain roads. The hospital is a standalone hospital, not associated with any other hospitals or chains. Bear Valley Community Hospital provides emergency room services, has eleven acute beds and a skilled nursing facility. Bear Valley Community Hospital accepts a wide variety of insurances and sees all ages and types of patients. The Family Health Center has a variety of specialty providers, as well as family practice. They have doctors with specialties in internal medicine, family practice, obstetrics/gynecology, pain control and chiropractic services (Family Health Center, n.d.). There is a telemedicine program that currently provides psychology services through telemedicine (Family Health Center, n.d.). There are several Family Nurse Practitioners and a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (Family Health Center, n.d.). As a result they see patients from pregnancy through adulthood. The clinic sees patients of all socioeconomic levels and accepts
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The vision is of a society in which every family can provide a loving, healthy, and secure home where children can grow and thrive.
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The “Community Resource Sheet” is list of organizations that may or may not provide you with the medical services that a client needs. Some of these organizations provide their services free of charge, where as others charge based on the individual’s ability to pay, (i.e., based on an individual’s income). But these philanthropic measures have not improved the plight of the “working poor,” retirees, nor those left homeless by the recession, minimum wage jobs that do not offer health insurance, or a living wage, illnesses, on the job injuries, accidents, or marital separation and divorce. These are just a few reasons people find themselves in dire straits medically, and financially.
Foundation Communities is a homegrown non-profit organization that is centered around providing essential services to the members of the local Austin community. They provide convenient resources such as education in financial stability, housing and access to health care. The Insure Central Texas Program is one of the many services that is offered through Foundation Communities, a non-profit organization. With more than 2,000 volunteers annually, this program has had the ability to educate individuals about creating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. In addition, Insure Texas is active during the open enrollment period, delivering health insurance to various people and their families. Specifically, since 2014, Foundation