The clinic will provide treatment for children, teens and young adults ages 0-21 needing non-emergency medical care in the evenings, over the weekends and during the holidays.
Clinic hopes to provide an alternative care option to the ER for children needing non-emergency medical attention in the evenings, over the weekends and during the holidays.
Patients want to be partners with their doctors in determining the course of their care. But for many conditions, there are no good guideposts.
Can school-based clinics undermine the parent-child relationships and interfere with the child’s relationship with his or her primary care provider?
The CDC has issued a new set of safety checklist guidelines to reduce outpatient infections because it has found that many facilities aren’t adhering to standard infection prevention practices.
The cost of a clinic generally makes it feasible only for employers with at least several hundred workers, but smaller companies are banding together to operate joint clinics.
Budget cuts will hurt all children, not just poor, op-ed columnists say. Hundreds show up for care at Tacoma Dome free clinic. Seattle Times decries Gov. Gregoire’s partial veto of medical marijuana law.
Seattle Times reporter Sean Collins Walsh writes that Washington’s new computer system for processing Medicaid payments is failing to pay so many valid claims that several doctors and clinics have stopped taking new Medicaid patients until they get paid for the ones they’ve already treated. Others say they soon may need to do the same, or even stop treating Medicaid patients altogether.
When you’re unhappy with the care you receive from a doctor or hospital, what can you do to be heard? In this month’s column, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, offers tips on where you can go to find help filing a complaint.
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Experts divided over recommendation to screen children for cholesterol
Some clinicians say universal screening is an important tool to help identify children who are genetically predisposed to high cholesterol and to pinpoint others who could benefit from treatment. Others express concerns that screening may do more harm than good.
People in state high-risk insurance plans often feel left behind
The federal health law set up new plans that are cheaper and more comprehensive than the older ones run by states but consumers need to go without insurance for six months to qualify.
Peeking in on your doctor’s notes
Although federal law guarantees patients the right to examine and get copies of their medical records, providers haven’t always made it easy to do so. But the movement to give patients direct access to their health information has picked up steam, and policymakers have encouraged it as a way to empower patients to help manage their health and their medical care.
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