Personal Statement Of Purpose: A Career As A Rural Health Clinic

Rural Oklahoma is filled with small farm communities and small towns. Towns where everyone knows everyone and family is of major importance. Pond Creek Oklahoma is one of those communities with a census approximately 856 residents located in Grant County (Pond Creek, Oklahoma, 2015). This town has strong Christian roots and you get the feel of family, football, and love. There is a small variety of businesses and churches but the primary source of income for the community is agricultural. It isn’t uncommon to see tractors making their way down the highway during planting times and combines during harvest. One thing that the town and its citizens lack is access to health care. There are no medical facilities in the town such

The negative impacts of limited or lack transportation services on rural population include rescheduled or missed appointments, delayed care and missed or delayed medication use (Syed, Gerber & Sharp, 2013). Mattson (2010) claimed that the delay in medical appointment for rural clients not only resulted in missing the care at the time they most need it, but it also can be more serious and costly

After I am finished with my education, I see myself in a career in public health, specifically as a HIV/AIDS Research Associate or an International NGO Aid Worker.

One area where access to care is a problem is in the rural communities. Healthcare professionals including physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses all affect the quality and cost of care (Derksen, & Whelan, 2009). Going forward importance needs to be placed on using recourses more efficiently and effectively; these resources include but are not limited to tests, prescriptions,

Similar to my home state of Louisiana, Tennessee has also struggled with a chronic shortage of rural primary care physicians. While this statistic does depict a true challenge for our two states, over the years Meharry Medical College has done an exceptional job in inspiring medical students to one-day practice in a rural setting and bring about better health care to underserved individuals, regardless of race or ethnicity. This aspect

Transportation is one of the largest barriers to health care access in rural communities. Fortunately, many interventions

People living in rural areas are experiencing highly limited excess to health care facilities either because they are not aware of the disease symptoms as a

I have spent my time as a student pharmacist learning about opportunities within clinical pharmacy and making certain that I was equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed. In my pursuit, I became an active member of pharmaceutical organizations, held multiple leadership positions, attended clinical conferences, established research projects, participated in community service events, and other initiatives. I excelled academically, which was manifested in not just a high academic standard but also in tutoring fellow classmates and arranging sessions with other pharmacy students to help them improve time management and study skills. I shadowed pharmacists and residents before my advanced pharmacy practice experiences commenced to discover which areas of clinical pharmacy I found intriguing. I have obtained valuable pharmacy practice experiences in five specialties thus far including inpatient internal medicine, long term acute care, geriatrics and telehealth, and primary care. Through these rotations, I built upon the knowledge I acquired from my didactic courses but also developed patient-centered approaches and strengthened my clinical skills. I enjoyed many aspects of my rotations, including contributing pharmacotherapy recommendations, providing patient education, attending rounds and interdisciplinary team meetings – all of which have solidified my desire

Significant health disparities between rural and urban populations have been a major concern in the United States. One prominent factor contributing to the disparities is lack of access to quality care in rural areas which is closely associated with challenges faced by rural health care providers (National Rural Health Association, 2007). Rural hospitals are the key health care provider in rural areas, offering essential health care services to nearly 54 million people (American Hospital Association, 2006). They face a series of challenges such as workforce shortages, rise in health care costs, difficulty in finding access to capital, difficulty in

Within the United States, there are substantial inequalities between the places and people. The rural community is one of such significant inequalities and health care disparities. With approximately one-sixth of the population in the United States of America living in rural areas, it is necessary to address the social and economic conditions accountable for the health disparities and inequalities among this vulnerable population.

Rural Americans face an exclusive combination of issues that create disparities in health care that are not found in urban areas. Many complications met by healthcare providers and patients in rural arears are massively different than those located in urban areas. Financial factors, cultural and social variances, educational deficiencies, lack of acknowledgement by delegates and the absolute isolation of living in remote rural areas all combined to hinder rural Americans in their struggle to lead a normal, healthy life. Rural hospitals located in rural areas faces many disadvantages, such as; minimum resources, shortcoming or unprepared professionals, and financial disparities. Although many of these challenges could be solved

Many people living in the Greenville County area today don’t have insurance to cover their doctor visits or hospital bills. In addition to providing ambulatory care the clinic will provide several less obvious benefits to a health system. We aim

It provides valuable research and independent analysis on rural health care to federal and state policy makers. This report provides loads of information on demographics and the health care system in Wyoming which helps to understand its dynamics and the challenges it faces. From the population trends it is clear that the youth and working population is shrinking. With the total population on the rise, the elderly will make up most of the total population by 2020, and it will be more ethnically and racially diverse. This will put more stress on already over-burdened health care system. To make things worse, there is a significant shortage of health care personnel and staff in a state with over half a million population. The challenges with recruitment and retention of healthcare workforce make it extremely difficult to provide health care to rural population. Most of Wyoming’s area has been designated as primary care vulnerable because of its low population density which means there is an inadequate supply of primary health care in these areas. The authors also talk about heavy reliance of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) on volunteers, with most of the certified ambulance personnel (77%) composed of non-paid volunteers or part-time

A challenge that many rural communities are dealing with is the lack of primary care physicians, specialist, understaffed hospitals, and transportation. “Only about ten percent of physicians practice in rural America despite the fact that nearly one-fourth of the population lives in these areas” (National Rural Health Association [NHRA], n.d., para. 2). Although, there are programs designed to improve patients access to hospitals and physicians in rural areas, provider access for these patients remains a barrier. Technology can bridge some of the gaps of care for these patients and it can be beneficial in many ways. With enhanced technology, primary care physicians and patients will be able to have support, access to quality care, improvement in self-management skills, which ultimately, will improve a patient’s health. To assist physicians with delivery of optimal care and for patients to be able to go to scheduled wellness visits with physicians, a new approach to solving rural health barriers are needed.

The people of Colchester have no other recourse but to use the nearby Emergency room. “Non-[Community health center] counties had a higher rate of all types of ED visits compared with [Community health center] counties; disparities affect all rural patient groups, irrespective of age, race, gender, or sexual orientation; vulnerable populations, however, remain the worst affected” (Douthit, et al. 2015, 7-10). Consider the elderly who become sick but cannot see their own physician due to how busy the physician is, as rural physicians’ offices can be. The elderly often finds their physician unavailable and are told to just go to the walk-in clinic or more commonly, the emergency room, even if it is not a true emergency. The elderly people living in rural areas are certainly be at higher risk for hospitalization due to dehydration, for instance, which can lead to dizziness and falls without access to 24-hour access to urgent care facilities. According to Semenza (2015), more free-standing clinics are needed and are opening in response to the excessive cost of unnecessary emergency room visits and hospitals enduring many financial losses. For now, the chronic scarcity of these care systems continues to be of issue even though health care professionals know that by having them as well as afterhours transportation to them, 24-hour urgent care facilities could save billions of health care dollars. “Medicare beneficiaries in fair to