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A 9 page paper discussing an approach to planning a primary care center at a fictional teaching hospital associated with a fictional medical school. The paper recommends establishing the equivalent of a permanent health fair to serve several purposes: serving the local community; providing access to care to uninsured people; and bringing back to the hospital those who need medical attention but would have been more likely to visit a private practice or walk-in clinic. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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9 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShlthCrBlack.rtf
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All of health care remains in flux as the industry redefines itself in the face of an ongoing shortage of nurses; rising numbers of uninsured Americans; spiraling costs
that refuse to be reigned in; and now a decline in the numbers of individuals seeking training as medical doctors for the future. Teaching hospitals such as that associated
with the Blackwell Health System in conjunction with the Blackwell School of Medicine are particularly affected. These hospitals need cutting-edge technology so that they can teach the next generation
of medical practitioners with and about it, but many teaching hospitals associated with universities fail to show any profits ever (Christensen, Bohmer and Kenagy, 2000). Though the primary aim
of Blackwell Health System is not to make untold profits within the health care industry, practicalities require that it operates as profitably as possible while meeting its primary mission as
the teaching hospital that provides the training ground for students of the Blackwell School of Medicine. The advent of urgent care clinics, walk-in
clinics, outpatient surgical centers and other organizations attending to the least serious ailments requiring short-term medical attention has had the effect of skimming this portion of the health care business
from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and Holm, 2000). Adding an ambulatory primary care center
will enable Blackwell Health System to reclaim some of these less seriously-ill patients; enhance the hospitals profitability; and provide ambulatory primary care training and experience for the medical schools students
and interns. The center also will directly benefit the local community, in that it will gain high-quality care in a more accessible manner, with the assurance that the areas
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