Integrating Care For City Of Pasadena Public Health Department

As I am in placement at an organisation that supports service users and their carers to build a better future, the professionals I see working together would be a social worker and a family worker. Although, within the staff members there are also

Human services professionals are those who facilitate and empower those in society who require assistance in meeting their basic human needs both emotionally, mentally, and physically. Human services professionals work with diverse cultures in many different settings to provide prevention, education, and resources for individuals, families, groups and communities. Some of the populations served are, children and families, adolescents, and the homeless. To support groups in crisis human services professionals must be committed, patient, possess listening skills, and have an ability to be empathetic without reducing one’s ability to be empowered (Martin, 2011).

What professionals work within that mode: Professionals who work in this mode would be nurses, caregivers, home health aides, nursing assistants and physical therapist. There are different services rendered for this mode which include community -based service, community -based services come from Adult day cares, Senior centers, or local community (or neighbors). Community- based service offer a variety of services such as social engagement, transportation services, prepared meals and home repair. Other Professionals who also work in this fields are Facility based services or hospital care. This mode offers Residential care, Skilled nursing facilities, Assisted living, Long Term acute care and life care facilities. These modes offer health and personal care, nursing care and staff around the clock, rehabilitation, post

There are a total of 28 staff at the agency. This includes one secretary, manager, 4 Supervisors and directors, and direct service personnel. The direct service personnel are made up of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed professional counselor, Licensed Mental health clinician, mental health aide, an intern, and Social workers with a Master’s degree or higher. While I was not given exact salary amounts, Mrs. Gregory revealed the salaries range from 25,000 and up, with those with higher education and work experiences in the upper range along with the supervisors.

Integrated Health Care: this program provides integrated health services that address the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of consumers. Through this program, SCs are able to ensure that consumers receive a physician and a care team. SCs work with consumers’ care teams to throughout the recovery process.

There are various levels and types of integration, such as hospitals merging with hospitals and physicians aligning with physicians and hospitals and physicians affiliating. Additional services such as home health care, long-term care facilities, pharmacies, and more can be added to result in a continuum of care. A fully integrated delivery system is one that unites a financing group with all providers. The system is built on a foundation of primary care, and all facets of it operate under capitation, so everyone involved shares risk. The strategy of integrated delivery systems is to coordinate the seamless delivery of high-quality healthcare services over the continuum of care. There are the benefits of having information systems integrated

• Working one-on-one with the Navigator to define specific services needed for the Empowerment Center’s Clientele. (e.g. offering legal referrals and behavioral health through clinicians). Developing this list of services and making sure it is readily available for the victims, families and church members.

Integrated delivery service (IDS) is a coordinated, integrated system which helps in eliminating waste from unnecessary, unsafe care. This is crucial for improving quality and reducing costs. Modern healthcare system is very complex with wide variation in practices and cost of services. Also, there are dearth of guidelines, utilization and quality management, collaboration, peer review process and low accountability. All this has made healthcare more fragmented. The opposite of this fragmented care is organized, coordinated and collaborative network that: 1) link various healthcare providers, via economic, non-economic and clinical way in order to provide coordinated care and 2) is accountable, both clinically and economically for better patient

Population health is the wave of the future. Darves says “it’s the latest health care catch phrase and it has enormous implications” (2015, p. 6). However, when communities, cities and town are healthy the cost of that group’s healthcare is reduced. This is the ultimate goal of Hinden’s information and a growing number of varied populations. However, the effort involved must be concerted for the delivery model to succeed. The benefit of a concerted approach to population healthcare is that all care providers (clinical and nonclinical) take the whole health of the patient into account because all care providers now have a vested interest in the quality of care for which they are being collectively paid to provide. This is a new concept for most American providers accustom to seeking the maximum fee-for-service allowable and not always treating the whole patients because of volume based patient care practices.

Integration has many positive effects in the health care society. This new health and social care provide three superior outcomes. The first is that integration makes the restricted resources go further.

Employment provides resources and benefits that supports a healthier life style. An individual’s ability to access affordable quality health care is essential to their physical, social and mental health. Instead of spending the budget on health fairs and educational lectures, the hospital should implement a strategy that will increase job opportunities, allow the health care professionals to educate the community to promote healthier lifestyles, and provide case management and follow up to those who are limited to quality clinical care. By creating opportunities the local workforce will strengthen, provide more individuals access to resources and quality health care and improve the health of the overall community. Although the hospital cannot meet all the unmet health needs within the community, health within the community is a shared responsibility of hospitals, public agencies and other important stakeholders within the community. Also according to Linn, Sandifer, and Stein health and social factors are closely related with considering community health rankings. This is why it is important for the hospital to leverage their resources to improve health and the quality of life within the

as a bridge to connect human health and environmental health in order to promote healthy communities, public health, and

Assumption of the health of a local population by an integrated system, enabling coordinated health services across sites of care (e.g., between a hospitalization and post-acute care), as well as providing the social and financial support needed during an illness (Burns and Pauly, 2002; Robinson and Casalino, 1996; Shortell et al., 1993; Walston, Kimberly and Burns, 1996, pg, 15).

Organized teams must be set up so that the patients with a certain type of disease such as diabetes, skin infections, heart diseases etc. are grouped together and there treatment follows a specific protocol that covers the spectrum from screening to education,

The accelerating costs of US healthcare, the economic downturn, and reform outcry have revitalize interest in integrated delivery systems (IDS). However, this is not a new concept. Shortell and McCurdy (2010) define IDS as a “network of organizations that directly provides or arranges to provide a coordinated continuum of services to a defined population and is able and willing to be held accountable for the cost, quality and outcomes of care and, the health status of the population served”(p.370). Today, many healthcare providers believe in the integrated delivery system; in fact, Strandberg-Larsen and Krasnik (2009) state that many think that it would lead to higher quality care, lower cost, and the maintenance or improvement the