One of the scheduled presentations for the Tuesday morning plenary sessions at the Twentieth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access is by Doctor Rick Flinders of the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program. His topic is “The Family Medicine Residency as Change Agent”.
In preparation for the discussion panel that will follow Dr Flinders’ presentation, Doctor Hector Flores of the White Memorial Medical Center has developed graphical and visual representations of points he will be making about the development of new relationships between local government entities concerned with health care delivery to “safety net” populations and the White Memorial Medical Center family medicine residency program.
The following slides supplement Doctor Flores’ discussion.
Doctor Flores adapts a chart from the policy document Healthy People 2010
Dr Flores the overarching ideas behind key Institute of Medicine reports published during the past decade:
Doctor Flores discusses the major tiers of care in Los Angeles County.
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Dr Flores observes that Los Angeles County cannot properly be called a “system of care” – instead it might be characterized as a “non-system”.
Dr Flores then looks at the impact of public policy initiatives in the study area.
Dr Flores discusses the interaction of different “sectors” in providing care in East Los Angeles
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Dr Flores presents the following policy ideas:
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Dr Flores then raises the prospect of genuine health care reform taking place at the local level, incorporating a much wider group of providers and facilities than is often considered feasible in current policy proposals.
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Fri, Apr 3, 2009
Community Benefits, Natl Conferences, Teaching Health Centers