Showing posts with label community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community. Show all posts

Friday, August 23, 2013

Social Condition Which Impact Health, Long Ignored In Medical Practice, Now Being Incorporated In New Care Models

New Care Models Look At Social Factors in Health by David Pittman.  Medpagetoday.  August 22, 2013.

(1)  Models such as __________________________ should provide means for connecting patients clinical care with broader social services.

(2)  Lack of access to __________________________________________ makes people more vulnerable to heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and other diseases.

(3)  The _________________ coordinates care for patients at a community level, expanding the impact of health care by focusing on ___________________.

(4)  According to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  survey ____________ doctors felt unequipped to health with their social needs, while ________ percent felt unmet social needs are leading to worse health.

(5)  The failure of the system to provide payment to doctors for services to connect patients with community resources is beginning to be addressed by ______________________.

(6)  Minnesota is reimbursing providers up to $600 per member per month to _________________
____________________________________.

(7)  ICD-10 will allow for greater _____________________________.

(8)  The Medicaid Medical Home, created by the ________________, is one of the programs designed to help link patients with community resources.


Sunday, September 30, 2012

Transition for the Developmentally Disabled

After Decades in Institutions, a Bumpy Journey to a New Life  by Rachel L. Swarns.  The New York Times.  September 30 2012.

In response to Justice Department pressure, states are integrating the developmentally disabled into society.  The Department's view is that these individuals are needlessly segregated from society in public hospitals, nursing homes, and day programs.  Georgia has been, as a result, releasing hundreds of back into society mostly into small group homes with up to 4 residents.  This article traces the family and personal transitions of one developmentally disabled resident of Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, GA.  which is now mostly empty after housing up to 13,000 patients in the 1950's.