Introduction
Patients with critical health conditions and health disabilities have an increased risk of health related issues especially due to the limited access to quality care that is patient-centered. Also, they lack a comprehensive patient care that is needed to address their physical and mental health care needs (Bezyak et al., 2012). This situation is clearly evidenced in our case study of the 52-year-old Caucasian woman. In this paper, we focus on important aspects of coordinated health care and communication between health care providers as a way of addressing Gail’s concern.
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Coordination Plan With Other Health Providers and Agencies to Promote Gail’s Care
A patient-centered medical home is an efficient way to coordinate Gail’s health condition. In essence, it would encompass various health care services, especially adult day care and nursing facility. Through the approach, Gail would access first-line medical care and treatment routinely. Also, it is an efficient way to improve her health condition while reducing the healthcare costs (Bezyak et al., 2012). Importantly, it would promote the formulation of a conceptual mechanism of an agent-based model guided health care (Marshall et al., 2012). This way, it would help provide a well-coordinated patient care to ensure successful recovery of her breast cancer treatment and closely monitor her health condition to reduce the side effects of her treatment.
Rationale for Promoting Communication between Providers
Barriers to Be Considered In Enhancing the Frequency and Quality of Coordination of Care
In considering the challenges that deter the ability to provide a continuous high-quality coordination of care, we focus especially on managing the workload of complex-needs patients and limited financial support. The small number of health care providers accompanied by a high number of frequent patients is a significant barrier. Notably, the provision of coordinated care requires collaboration of various models including patient-centered medical home, accountable and guided health care. This collaboration requires an adequate financial support, which is not adequately provided.
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Marshall, B. D. L., Paczkowski, M. M., Seemann, L., Tempalski, B., Pouget, E. R., Galea, S., & Friedman, S. R. (2012). A complex systems approach to evaluate HIV prevention in metropolitan areas: Preliminary implications for combination intervention strategies. PLoS One, 7(9), 1-16.
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