09.08.2013
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Hello Alaskan’s,
To those reading our blog, welcome! We are happy to have so many individuals subscribed to our RSS feed.
Are any Internet bloggers reading this article today? Many bloggers read other bloggers and in healthcare, it’s no different.
This past week, we came across a blog of a blog on another blog (did I lose you?) originating from LeeAnn Thieman called “nurse job satisfaction higher-nurse retention needs attention”.
While the article had merit, it’s the large following of comment from the multiple other blogs that drew our attention.
Take a look at the article:
https://www.leannthieman.com/blog/nurse-job-satisfaction-higher-nurse-retention-needs-attention/?goback=%2Egmp_4410640%2Egde_4410640_member_225082860
While nurses are a major part of our healthcare system, medical assistants, front office, billing staff are also supporting those hard working nurses. We like to include them into our conversation but we understand many of the blogs spoke mainly to nurses.
The major discussion formed from a survey completed with 969 nurses had results that 76% were satisfied or very satisfied in their job in caring for the sick and 5% of the nursed were extremely dissatisfied.
What the statistics found was that out of the 5%, a large portion were the newer nurses from ages 25-34.
The feedback the blogs spoke mainly to these 3 key items:
- Many providers spoke to the extreme power a good team can influence better patient care.
- Those nurses who had put time into their career felt greater satisfaction.
- A larger range of participants would most likely have changes or influences the numbers.
It can take time for individuals to find a career that combine their passion with an equal degree of income. The impressions from the bloggers was that those who were dissatisfied came from the fact the newer nurses were not making what they felt they were valued.
This was one of the two main points that struck many readers was not healthcare centered but individual centered: what is the real value we bring to our career and are we undervalued or do we overvalue ourselves?
The second point being sometimes those who feel undervalued, also undervalue others without knowing.
At MediCenter, our entire staff is running at an urgent care mixed with a multispecialty family practice pace. We like to share in the success of the team and remove the “I” statements. The success we live with is mainly due to the success of the entire clinic. Healthcare has the same stress that every other career provides like long hours, continuous training, humbling experiences, success, those crazy bosses, failure, and the list grows.
A few strong points made by the mass of bloggers was that “we could use more is that when we think we are so valued, we need to take the time to look around and see if we are undervaluing others who are part of our team”.
What are your thoughts Alaskans?
01.08.2013
Functional Medicine Pearls
Within just a few hours, MediCenter has already recieved many positive and encouraging comments on our article in the front page of the business section in the Peninsula Clarion.
The above mentioned article is MediCenter “Our Medical Home Approach”.
Primary Care Medical homes are often misunderstood by organization that are not primary care lead. Being the Kenai Peninsula’s largest primary care lead multi-specality clinic, we feel that we have some enlightening things to say about our past primary care medical home success.
We have attached the article to this posting: MediCenter Our Medical Home Approach
We also are going to post it below, we hope this causes some further interest into why MediCenter is the preferred primary care lead multi-speciality clinic in the Kenai Peninsula.
We thank our patients for giving us the many opportunities to learn, grow, serve, and enable us to help provide the care which draws so many to our practice.
“Our Medical Home Approach”
“Hi I’m Clark and I am an employee and a real patient of MediCenter’s Primary Care Medical Home. I am one of the many patients who have been asked to help explain why I chose MediCenter and why I made MediCenter my Medical Home. While many other healthcare practices talk about patient centered care, very few really understand what being a “Primary Care Medical Home” actually means. While there are many important parts of a Primary Care Medical Home, at MediCenter, our focus will always be on the patient. This is only possible by moving away from “Physician-Centered Practices” to “Patient-Focused Teams”. MediCenter Primary Care Medical Home is demonstrated in our staff who put their hearts and careers into caring for others, it is about teams that work late to fit in one more patient, and about the individuals who give of themselves in service to help others in need. MediCenter Medical Home has a focus to advance the “Triple Aim” goals of “Better Health, Better Care, and Lower Costs”. I would urge you to call MediCenter and become a member of their medical home. You may have heard their slogan “At MediCenter, you’re always welcome, you’re always home”. As a current employee of the MediCenter and as a patient I have had the opportunity of seeing this firsthand. My family and I have always felt welcome, and we have always felt at home.”
Let’s blow away the smoke thrown around on what is a Primary Care Medical Home and discuss our pioneering work in getting MediCenter to be the Medical Home on the Kenai Peninsula. MediCenter Medical Home has a foundation built on various healthcare goals. These goals
are to reduce healthcare costs, improve clinic efficiency, improving patient access and engagement, improving continuity (healthcare follow-though) and coordination, improving prevention, and promote excellent care delivery.
A Person-Centered Approach to Care: During the last 10 years, MediCenter has moved from sick-care to real healthcare. What this means is that our providers have moved away from just treating symptoms of a disease. MediCenter care delivery is taking a new approach to solving the root cause of illness and not just treating the symptoms. Instead of managing illnesses, why not empower our patients to remove them? This is why MediCenter care is built around the needs of the individual and population. Instead of treating diabetes, let’s work together to reverse the disease. Together we can work to become independently healthy.
Wellness and Prevention: Our pioneering work starts with team based care to ensure that every patient has their yearly preventative physical which is usually covered by their insurance with little or no out-of-pocket costs. Many life-threatening illnesses are caught early on when we can do something by a basic screening during this annual exam. To ensure that our patients thrive, we have invested in care team staff at MediCenter. These individuals work tirelessly to have all patients go through their annual physical and to ensure that all preventative screening is performed.
Coordination of Care: Many have asked what MediCenter means when they say they are a Primary Care Lead Multi-Specialty Clinic. Primary care providers and staff act as patient advocates. Together we walk with our patients through specialty care and help make sure the patient is never lost in a sea of providers. Our staff works to ensure your prescriptions make their destination, which referrals find their way to the specialist, and most importantly, the specialists coordinate their care with the primary care provider. Only then can we achieve the highest level of care for each patient. We are your care advocates and we walk beside our patients in all stages of life. Contact your primary care provider and watch as your care improves with any chronic disease. For a medical home in which your primary care provider walks side by side with you, helping coordinate all aspects of your medical care, please call 283-9118 today.
