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March 22, 2013 edition
The Pulse
Your regular check up on SCKMC activities SCKMC Partners for the Patients For years South Central Kansas Medical Center has built strong relationships with individual physicians, specialty groups, and other facilities to extend care to their patients. These relationships are viewed as the medical center’s “care partners”. “A care partnership is really a person or entity that works with us through transitions of care with patients that we may have,” said Steve Perkins, SCKMC’s Chief Executive Officer. “We rely upon these partners to be able to provide things that we do not, as a hospital, provide.” The medical center treats hundreds of patients every month. Many times advanced cases require the skills of a specialist, and the hospital will rely upon the cooperation of a partnering physician. There are a large number of specialists on the SCKMC medical staff roster, together they represent 22 unique fields of medicine. Some of these partners have permanent office space within the medical campus and see patients multiple times each week, while others are able to read diagnostic testing remotely and never actually step foot within the medical center. However most of the care partnerships in place allow for the physician (or physician group) to share clinic space within the hospital’s outpatient services building, seeing patients in Ark City on a rotating schedule through the specialty clinic. The specialty clinic program has become so successful for the medical center that they have delayed adding any additional physicians that would require use of the clinic space due to scheduling limitations. “We appreciate having physicians working our specialty clinic, unfortunately we have gotten to the point now where we’ve really run out of time and space for additions. In response to the problem, SCKMC’s Board of Trustees have begun to discuss the potential of future site development through stand alone physician or medical office buildings.
Stop by and meet the newest members of our team:
Tammie Demo – Sec. Carrie Rivers – MS CNA Jennifer Milam – ER RN Lindsey Jacoby - Housekeeper Dana Murphy – MS CNA Katherine Cosby – MS RN
Patricia Felts – OR RN Kay Nobles – ER RN Riley Thomas – OR Tech Kelly Williams – Rad Tech Jennifer Campbell – ER Reg.
World Water Day Each year on March 22, World Water Day attracts international attention to the conservation and development of freshwater resources. In December 2010, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation. The Water Cooperation 2013 campaign aims to promote water cooperation across different types of organizations and governments and across different disciplines—as a foundation for peace and sustainable development. Partners from around the world work to improve access to healthy water because inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) conditions exist in a range of settings, from temporary refugee camps to entire neighborhoods in large cities. Since 1990, the number of persons able to access improved drinking water and sanitation resources has increased by 2 billion and 1.8 billion respectively. Despite these gains, hundreds of millions still lack access to these essential resources. Diarrheal diseases, mostly a result of unsafe water and inadequate sanitation, account for 1 in 9 child deaths worldwide. In 2010, over 800,000 children under 5 years of age died from diarrhea, making diarrhea the second leading cause of death among children in that age group. The global WASH program provides expertise and interventions aimed at saving lives and reducing illness by improving access to healthy and safe water, adequate sanitation, and improved hygiene. The WASH program works on long-term prevention and control measures for improving health, reducing poverty, and improving socioeconomic development as well as responding to global emergencies and outbreaks of life-threatening illnesses. These improvements reduce the lethal impact of WASH-related diseases ranging from cholera to typhoid fever to hepatitis. For more information on CDC's Global WASH Program, visit the “CDC at Work” section of our Global WASH website, http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/programs/. How can we improve this publication? Share your thoughts, story ideas, and comments by e-mail to claytonp@sckrmc.org.
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