Health Care Providers and Professionals

Read the case study and answer the questions. Your paper should be in APA style including a cover page and a reference page. You do not need an abstract.

Questions

1. Briefly discuss the interrelationship between medical providers and professionals and the patients they serve within the context of an overarching health care delivery systems such as CHS.

2. Describe how the financial bailout offered by the health care providers models their commitment to delivering health care services to their rural community. Give an example of when providers, professionals, and patients have pooled their collective resources to either create or maintain a health care delivery system.

References

Al-Sawai, A. (2013). Leadership of health care professionals: Where do we stand? Oman Medical Journal, 28, 285–287. http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2013.79

Anand, S., & Bärnighausen, T. (2012). Health workers at the core of the health system: Framework and research issues. Health Policy, 105(2–3), 185–191.

Ellison, A. (2018, July 10). CHS closes Missouri hospital; physicians put their money on the line to expand services. Becker’s Hospital CFO Report. Retrieved from https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/chs-closes-missouri-hospital-physicians-put-their-money-on-the-line-to-expand-services.html

Hain, D. J., & Kear, T. M. (2015). Using evidence-based practice to move beyond doing things the way we have always done them. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 42(1), 11–21.

Smith-Sable, B. (2018, July 6). After hospital closure, a Missouri community tries to fill the gap in health and jobs. Retrieved from http://kbia.org/post/after-hospital-closure-missouri-community-tries-fill-gap-health-and-jobs#stream/

Case Study: Health Care Providers and Professionals 

Clinician leadership is necessary to ensure that health care delivery is up to the standard of care within a health care organization. Health care providers and professionals seek to model core leadership elements such as integrity, reliability, and communication. The modern health care organization employs knowledgeable workers who are highly qualified professionals, subject-matter experts, and leaders in their specialty area of health services (Al-Sawai, 2013).

The health care workforce includes physicians (MDs and DOs), midlevel providers (physician assistants and nurse practitioners), nursing professionals (registered nurses), and other allied health professionals (e.g., physical therapists, dietitians, etc.). It takes a skilled and competent workforce to deliver quality evidence-based health care for a panel of patients (Hain & Kear, 2015). According to Anand and Bärnighausen (2012), “Putting health workers at the center of the system is essential because all health systems work through health professionals to achieve their goals” (p. 186). However, the health system is only as good as the education, training, integrity, morals, and ethics of its workforce members. Leadership is an essential skill set for professionals to possess as a core element of care continuity and coordination of chronic diseases.

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