Chinatown Public Health Center has been using OC to maintain ZERO in new clients wait list since 2007. This blog is to share the success and resources to safety net primary care clinics leaders who maybe interested in implementing OC.
Here are the standing orders that the RN uses to order blood works and to do age and disease appropriate health maintenance services. Hope they are useful. Feel free to adapt and change to fit your needs.
This looks like a great health maintenance list. I had heard that the medicare guidelines for mammogram was changing. Does the clinic follow current medicare guidelines?
What an intuitive way to deal with wait lists for clients. I hope others will follow in your clinic's footsteps. Is your clinic part of a larger system, or independent? I am not familiar with San Francisco at all.
Kathryn, I work in one of the 16 health centers of the department of public health (DPH) of the city of San Francisco. DPH used to be the safety net providers for people without health insurance. Thus, customers choice was never a concern. In 2007 the Healthy San Francisco program contracted many more SF independent providers besides DPH clinics to start providing health care to people without health insurance. 52% clients enrolled in 16 consortium clinic as compared to only 34% enrolled in DPH's 16 clinics. Knowing that clients will have choices in 2014 OC is one of the immediate plan to provide timely access to new clients. Hopefully DPH will remain as clients' choice.
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ReplyDeleteThis looks like a great health maintenance list. I had heard that the medicare guidelines for mammogram was changing. Does the clinic follow current medicare guidelines?
ReplyDeleteYes, now we are referring clients for mammogram when the last one was done over 18 months ago.
DeleteWhat an intuitive way to deal with wait lists for clients. I hope others will follow in your clinic's footsteps. Is your clinic part of a larger system, or independent? I am not familiar with San Francisco at all.
ReplyDeleteKathryn,
ReplyDeleteI work in one of the 16 health centers of the department of public health (DPH) of the city of San Francisco. DPH used to be the safety net providers for people without health insurance. Thus, customers choice was never a concern. In 2007 the Healthy San Francisco program contracted many more SF independent providers besides DPH clinics to start providing health care to people without health insurance. 52% clients enrolled in 16 consortium clinic as compared to only 34% enrolled in DPH's 16 clinics. Knowing that clients will have choices in 2014 OC is one of the immediate plan to provide timely access to new clients. Hopefully DPH will remain as clients' choice.
Thanks for sharing this tool. It is great that you shared your expertise with other health care providers that may be creating clinics like these.
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