Health Provider Survey

An organization such as the Pocahontas Memorial Hospital (PMH) is established to be a primary care source for a rural community, serving 5% of the state’s population (Pocahontas Memorial Hospital, 2013). PMH wishes to deliver compassionate care and promote healthy lifestyles through working collaboratively with other healthcare facilities, and delivering adequate patient education, while sustaining financial viability (Pocahontas Memorial Hospital, 2016). This organization would like to offer a comprehensive satellite health clinic within Pocahontas County, as the strategy to intervene existing weaknesses and threats to the health of the community of Pocahontas County.

There is no doubt that there is a prevalence of substance abuse throughout several age groups. To a certain extent, a society is faced with the reality of controlling substance abuse. Or allow it run rampant throughout the community. Often times, we hear and read about the level of substance abuse among teen, young adults and mid-aged

Throughout the years public health efforts have evolved in order to meet health care need of populations. Despite advances the United States continues to have high morbidity rates of individuals with chronic illness. Adding to the rates, many Americans are suffering from mental health disorders. The issue caused many research studies to focus on integrating behavioral health and primary care in order to reduce health disparities in the nation. This paper will analyze how the integration of behavioral health in primary care facilities help serve the need of our population.

The steps of Behavioral Health Continuum of Care Model used assisted Latin American Coalition for the Prevention of Addictions) CLAPA in developing the infrastructure needed for community based public health approaches leading to effective and sustainable reductions in alcohol, tobacco and use of other drugs and the prevention of common diseases by our Hispanic/Latino community through changes behavior. The King Foundation would go out to the street in the communities to meet with the participants and used these steps: Step 1: Assess Need; Step 2: Build Capacity; Step 3: Plan; Step 4: Implementation; Step 5: Evaluation, (Rodriguez, 2016).

The five most important characteristics for a healthcare provider is honesty, patience, empathy, responsibility, and a team player. I picked honesty because for me honesty is important because if I was the patient I would like for the nurses and doctors be completely honest with me. To be honest you have trustful. Patients should be able to always have faith in you. You always have to be honest with the patients no matter what. Honesty has a lot to do with the healthcare industry.

Substance abuse is a very widely known public epidemic in today's society. Many people are unfortunately plagued by this issue. According to Emedicinehealth.com (2012), “People abuse substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs for varied and complicated reasons, but it is clear that our society pays a significant cost,” (para. 1). People that are affected by substance abuse includes a very different range of people. Many that abuse the substances end up having health-related problems which in turn increases the need for health care. Other people that are affected by substance abuse are the family members and friends of the abusers because they have to deal with the person abusing the substances. Things that can be abused are

Policy analysis of mental health care under the ACA as well as description of how mental health care/service are organized under the ACA from federal to local levels.

Over the past several months Touchstone Behavioral Health has been making some very exciting changes. These changes are due to agency growth as we are adapting to the increased need for services along with our desire to continue to provide the best clinical services possible to the families that partner with Touchstone. Along with this growth some processes will be new for families that wish to use private Insurance benefits.

In and around most large cities in America, the rising substance abuse epidemic has brought about a renewed interested in determining the root cause of substance abuse, the effects of substance abuse on individuals and societies, and the substance abuse treatment modalities that achieve the best outcomes. In reviewing the current research on substance abuse there seems to be no one clear cause of substance abuse disorders, although there is strong evidence that a number of life circumstances may predispose an individual to a substance abuse disorder, as well as a number of protective factors that may reduce an individual’s risk of developing a substance abuse disorder. One important risk factor that is commonly associated with substance

This research paper was written to provide the outlook of the opinions on the most predominant behavioral health issues in the local community, as well as the approach in which the organizations are to work together to address those behavioral health issues in the local community. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) used the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and Child Health Survey in order to determine information in regards to those residents that are 18 and older. "The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and Child Health Survey is a federally funded random telephone survey of Colorado residents. Information is gathered on a variety of health behaviors, conditions and preventative health practices"(State of Colorado, 2016). The University of Colorado Hospital is also the medical campus for the state of Colorado. Due to the early donations from businessman Philip Anchutz, the earliest phases of the development for the campus allowed the vision for the new medical campus to flourish. In the start their vision statement in their master plan was overarching, with it being seven paragraphs long, but it made for planning out the vision statements for each year after easier with a stable foothold on what was required. While the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus contains multiple different healths science related schools and colleges. Located on a portion of what use to be Fizsimons Army Medical center

The CMS, along with the AHRQ, are the proponents for the Hospital Compare survey. They provide hospital surveys and reports these results on its Hospital Compare portal to assist Medicare consumers in making informed healthcare decisions. The GGI then filters this information through our proprietary hospital ranking algorithm to make sense out of it so consumers can make informed decisions. In doing so, we consider hospital characteristics to help understand the survey results and to get a better idea of consumer satisfaction and hospital care. We consider specifically, the hospital location, type (Acute Care or Critical Access), ownership (government, profit, non-profit, etc.), and other services and then provide these ratings and rankings

The most common health issue and need that substance abusers have are short- term and long-term problems. The health issues that this population have is neurological problem no matter what type of drug it is it effects the brain (Drug Abuse and Addiction: Signs, Symptoms, and Help for Drug Problems and Substance Abuse, 2013). Drugs alters and changes the way the brain looks and function. According to the helpers guide (2014), stated that drugs effects the dopamine levels in the brain, which causes that pleasure feeling that the brain would want on a regular. The substance take on the form of the person behavioral patterns such as eating and drinking (Drug Abuse and Addiction: Signs, Symptoms, and Help for Drug Problems and Substance Abuse, 2013). The need for this community is having more resources out there to help people that do not have family members supporting them to get the right help. Another need is helping people that want to get help but cannot afford treatment and educating this population about the different resources that is available to them to help them recover. The community needs to be open more for substance abusers to seek out treatment and more encouraging for this population to speak out.

I completed my participation observation on an outpatient behavioral health service agency called North Central Behavior Health Systems (NCBHS) that is located in LaSalle, Illinois. The reason why I chose the NCBHS agency center is because I have heard of the services provided to the local and neighboring communities. I currently work in an inpatient behavioral health unit. Our patients are discharged with a treatment plan that includes follow-up appointments with outpatient service centers such as NCBHS. Since many of my patients are discharged from my unit with follow-up at NCBHS, I decided to further my knowledge on this outpatient service agency.

Between June 5th and July 31st of 2015, a physician satisfaction survey was conducted on Development Centers’ consumers. A total of 150 surveys were completed. Each survey was collected confidentially after a doctor appointment, which may have included a medication review, therapy session or other type of treatment. The survey was then collected by a member of the support staff and mailed to the Quality team for entry and analysis. Much of the commentary was very positive. Some of the comments included were, “I see a big difference in my son since he’s been seeing [the doctor].” “[The doctor] is always very concerned about [my] needs when I ask a question.” “[The doctor] is always kind, friendly, and professional at all times.”

Patients’ satisfaction surveys are useful in identifying ways of improving your practice. It demonstrates that the practice is interest in the patients’ views and is interest in improving the quality of the institution. After analyzing the results of the surveys, it is important that the establishment acts on the results. The results should be used as a method of improvement and not as a way to place blame. There are several methods of using surveys as a data collection tool. Surveys can be mailed, performed electronically, or in a face-to-face interview. The World Wide Web, social media contexts, and technology have turned around the way people communicate, broadening consumer ability to create and share product or service-related