Running head: OUTPATIENT HEALTH CARE CENTRE
HCS 466 Week 1 Assignment Facility Planning: Outpatient Health Care Centre
Ruby Gamble
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Outpatient Health Care Centre
Health care centers are an essential part of society. They are responsible for ensuring that
the people that are living in that society have the best medical care. Health care centers are
important in that they provide viable health solutions for any patient that comes through their
doors. In my community, there was a need to have a health care center that would cater for any
outpatient needs that the society has (American Bar Association, 2005). The nearest health care
center was quite a distance, a fact that discouraged many patients to go to hospital in good time
until it was too late and their symptoms had become very severe. This made it a challenge for the
doctors to completely heal a patient that came to them. For the patients that were able to get
medical attention and be healed, it took too long and their symptoms had advanced to a level that
they need to have more medical attention than they would have if they had come into hospital
earlier than the time they came in.
Grey Sloan memorial is a health care facility that recently opened in my community. The
hospital caters for outpatient needs of any patients that come to their emergency room. The
facility is located in town where it is accessible to majority of the people that live in the locality
(Klein & Platt, 2009). The health care center is big enough to cater for any sort of trauma that
might happen in the society as a means of first aid before they are transferred to the general
hospital that offers inpatient services. The facility is well furnished with all the equipment that is
needed by patients. From the waiting bay to the consultation rooms, the facility is well fitted with
state of the art equipment that makes it easier to diagnose a patient and give them the relevant
services that they require.
The health care center has a system that enables the doctors and nurses to be able to
record and access all patient information at the touch of a button. Once a patient walks into the
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facility, it is the responsibility of the nurse that attends to him or her to ensure that they get all
the information and medical history of the patient that would enable the doctor to accurately and
promptly diagnose the patient. All the information is stored in the institution’s database and it is
used to ensure that the patients are in a position to diagnosed and ensure that the symptoms that
are presented are not a side effect of a previous drug taken.
Another advantage that the facility has is the fact that they have their own pharmacy. The
pharmacy stocks all the drugs and medication that a patient might require. It is an initiative that
has been embraced very well as every patient is assured that once they have been diagnosed they
will get their medication and will go home fully treated. It is different than other health care
centers that a person takes the prescription that has been written for it to go get filled at another
pharmacy (Klein & Platt, 2009). Being that the facility is still new it is certain that the
management have many more plans for the community. There are rumors that there are plans to
continue construction of wards so that the facility can also have an inpatient wing for any
patients that need more medical attention.
The community really needed a health care center that they could rely on. They needed a
facility that was near to them and had all the equipment that would make them be easily
diagnosed. With Grey Sloan memorial Health Care Centre in the society, it has been able to deal
with a myriad of cases before they became fatal to the patient. The society now has quick and
dependable medical attention close to their homes. They need not to worry about the distance
that they have to cover in order for them to get the medical attention that they need. There was
great urgency to have such a set up in the society and has been embraced well with the
community of over one thousand people that initially did not have such a platform.
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References
American Bar Association. (2005). Health care facility records: Confidentiality, computerization
and security. Chicago: Forum on Health Law of the American Bar Association.
Klein, B. R., & Platt, A. J. (2009). Health care facility planning & construction. New York: Van
Nostrand Reinhold.
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5) Click on escape to go back to regular mode.
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