Staffing Program For A Public Health Office

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.

The underserved populations have increased exponentially. The Rural Policy Research Institute (2009) defines the medically underserved as, “the ratio of primary care physicians per 1,000 population, the infant mortality rate, the percent of the population with incomes below the poverty level, and the percent of the population age 65 and over.” By that definition, over half the state is considered to be an underserved population. With the demand and needs of the state, it is no surprise that the FNP has become a more utilized provider of healthcare is many settings. There has also been a recent emergence of nurse-managed health centers or (NMHCs), as a form of primary care delivery. According to Espirat and Debisette (2012), NMHCs reduce Medicaid costs, are a great Segway to community outreach and provide quality primary prevention.

The hospital that the clinic is attached to is opening a brand new facility and has decided to expand their community support by opening a family medicine clinic that will utilize the hospital resources. The community is a wide range of working classes, low income, poor, and rural families that must travel some distance to reach health care providers. Attracting patients that need primary care and continued health care will drive referrals to the ancillary departments in the hospital. This increases revenue for the hospital.

The services includes; health screening, education and prevention programs for diabetes, obesity and HIV, screening and access to child immunization and shots for adult clients. This service is extremely important because so many people are lacking health care, especially if they come from a small reservation they might lack the capacity to for example find a disease like cancer, in one of their patients. They provide access to primary care by making contracts with different community clinics and medical providers for medical, dental and specialty care. They also provide culturally sensitive services because there are sometimes cultural issues between the doctor, and the patient due to different belief systems. The clinic provides services like physicals, management of medicine, STD/STI screening, pap smears, pregnancy testing breast exams, and contraceptives. It is important to note, that the also have health services for seniors/elders, nutrition and weight loss. The only requirement is the patient has to be a member of a federally recognized tribe or one that is state recognized to receive health education/service programs. The primary care clinic varies from clinic to clinic and should be consulted before

Currently, the clinic provides medical services to the local businesses. These services include physical examination and treatment of the staff who work in these businesses. In order to determine whether clinic is the best option, it is important to analyze the financial records to determine its feasibility. Word Count: 71

Peace Memorial Hospital is a 600-bed, independent, not-for-profit, general hospital located on the southern periphery of a major western city. It is one of six general hospitals in the city and twenty in the county. After doing much research, the Board of Directors has decided that they should open an ambulatory location in the downtown area, to be known as the Downtown Health Clinic (DHC). The clinic will have 4 major objectives: “1. To expand the hospital’s referral base, 2. To increase referrals of privately insured patients, 3. To establish a liaison with the business community by addressing employers’ specific health needs, and 4. To become self-supporting three years after opening” (Kerin

25% Evaluation of the Public Health and Medical Preparedness Capabilities through the analysis and evaluation of the CHD Preparedness Expectations, programmatic deliverables and other sources of information on CHD and regional preparedness performance; analysis and evaluation of the Healthcare Coalitions contract deliverables and other sources of information; analysis and evaluation of state and local After Action Reports, and the analysis and evaluation of the state and local Health And Medical Response System capabilities. The analysis and evaluation includes determination of the progress on building capabilities,

In the next ten years I see many changes taking place in health care. The biggest changes I foresee are the availability and amount of health care providers, in rural and other areas that lack the adequate health care, will continue to drop and the price of health care will continue to rise. This may be a dreary outlook but that is where I know I, and other future PAs, can help! It is hard to draw many providers, specifically doctors, to small-town USA. There are not as many activities and not as diverse patient population as some urban areas can offer. Neither of those issues make a difference to me, or many other PAs, who often come from those small towns and are drawn back to them to provide the care they desperately need. The second huge

The upward trend of the need for essential healthcare services, along with implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, demonstrates the need for quality professionals to serve the public. Nurse Practitioners (NP) are skillfully trained and highly educated to handle this rapid transition. NPs are defined as “RNs who have additional education and perform advanced nursing roles including consultation, education, research, and leadership. These healthcare providers demonstrate superior competencies to practice autonomously and collaboratively to perform assessments, order laboratory and diagnostic test, diagnose, prescribe medications and treatments, and perform procedures, as authorized by legislation and their regulatory scope of practice”(Faith et al., 2014, p. 2). In this community, there is currently one urgent care center and one Minute Clinic located inside CVS Pharmacy. However, both of these facilities have limited services hours and do not operated on any weekends or holidays. This business plan is a proposal to launch a nurse practitioner urgent care clinic that accommodates this community’s health related needs afterhours, weekends, and most major holidays. Helping Hands Urgent Care is designed to service the entire family starting at 18 months.

As a result of these concerns, the hospital’s Administrator, Dr. Mahon instructed Sherri Worth, the Assistant Administrator, to conduct a research. The results of the research confirmed that the PMH needed to build an ambulatory clinic in the downtown area. The main objectives of this new addition was to increase PMH’s referral base, to increase referrals of privately insured patients, to liaise with business community and to become self-supporting in three years after opening.

Healthcare is costly not only to the patients but also to the hospital in regards to the hiring of new staff. An organization with a high turnover will have to spend additional money to hire new employees therefore its essential to retain the current employees instead of constantly having to recruit new ones which can results in decline the morale of the current staff.

Although our clinic is small, and we render basic medical care, we still render care. The biggest workload we see at the clinic is providing physicals for military families. We also

World Health Organisation (WHO, 2007) defines CHWs as members of the community, chosen and trusted by the community to serve the community, and their actions need to be accountable to the community on their close understanding of the community. Their training is shorter than professionals and their work is reinforced by the health system. In NZ, CHWs, either voluntary or paid, are more culture-based and are fundamental in providing primary health services to the Māori. Generally, CHWs promotes whanaugatanga (community connection), linking the community to the services they are not aware of. They assist with scheduling appointments, arranging transport and referring to specialists when their people are not prioritising health and well-being. They sometimes accompany their people to appointments to improve health literacies by interpreting the information given by doctors (Forrest, Neuwelt, Gotty &

A staffing plan provides systems of controlling and monitoring human resource capital and associated costs as well as creating a structure for effective role performance (Gerhart, Hollenbeck, Noe, & Wright, 2007). The plan gives an outline for the required workforce to facilitate an organization undertake the requisite workload and assesses staffing needs in future (Burke & Cooper, 2005). Staffing plan will identify the compliance measures with the federal and state regulatory bodies. It will also assist to communicate and develop goals to stakeholders (Dunham-Taylor & Pinczuk, 2006). Components of a staffing plan for Victory Dialysis Center are presented here in identifying the qualifications, number, and duties of prospective employees.

Since the Alma Alta Declaration in 1978, countries have invested in several initiatives and innovations aimed at achieving the Health for All target through the use of the principles of primary health care such as equity, community empowerment and participation, health services integration and multisector approach (1). The use of Community Health Workers in primary health care is one of the significant achievement made by the countries in ensuring that all the principles of primary health care are met. There is documented evidence of improved health outcomes such as high immunization coverages, reduction in maternal and child mortality as well as