I so much love what CURE International is doing! Glory to God in the Highest! What about America? Why is healthcare a mess here? The elderly face troubled times. Picture yourself in your 80’s and 90’s trying to deal with present day American healthcare. It is hard enough in your 70’s!
The Christian Post
Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor
CURE International, a U.S.-based Christian nonprofit organization, has launched its most significant hospital expansion project to date, breaking ground on a 22,000-square-foot, three-story facility in Ethiopia. The new state-of-the-art building marks a milestone in the organization’s 25-year history of serving children with treatable disabilities.
The expansion will include five operating rooms, seven exam rooms and 22 patient beds, enabling the facility to serve about 5,000 patients annually, said the group, which operates a global network of eight children’s hospitals, in a statement to The Christian Post.
With an investment of $12.5 million, the project is supported by The Rees-Jones Foundation, which provided funding for the construction and furnishing of the facility, and USAID, which supplied the medical equipment. More Here
America healthcare is failing. Sharon and I have been experiencing this failure first hand of late. We have been having some health issues. It is hard to be seen at a Hospital, we waited almost 9 hours one day to be seen. It is very hard to be seen by a doctor now in New Mexico. We are seen by providers, not doctors on most cases. The nursing shortage is horrible. We praise GOD that we have now found a doctor and and two wonderful specialists. Glory! Thank you LORD! Treat our doctors and nurses with fill respect. They are under tremendous pressure, the problem starts with the greed of hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance companies, they have deaf ears to the challenges.
I give urgent care facilities in Albuquerque a C- to a D in how they treat patients. You see them popping up all over. Lord have mercy! The cost of healthcare and meds are going through the roof! EVEN WITH INSURANCE! Lord have mercy!
How is UNM going to staff their expansion? UNM dies not have enough nurses now. We get many complaints of the quality of healthcare at UNM. Failing the Grade: New Mexico hospital rated ‘below average’ in national survey
The United States is facing a physician shortage, and it’s expected to worsen in the coming years:
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Projected shortage
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) estimates that the US will have a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036. This includes a shortage of 20,200–40,400 primary care physicians and 10,100–19,900 surgical specialists.
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Impact
The shortage is already affecting the entire country, but it’s hitting hardest in areas with the highest need and the fewest resources. For example, 83 million Americans don’t have adequate access to a primary care physician, and many pregnant women in Idaho and Mississippi can’t find obstetricians.
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Causes
The shortage is due to a number of factors, including burnout among physicians and people choosing to leave the profession early.
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Solutions
Some solutions include:
- Increasing training: The AAMC says that continued investment in training new physicians is critical.
- Improving efficiency: The health system needs to be made more efficient so that it can do more with fewer providers.
- Managing illness proactively: The health system needs to be better at managing illness proactively.
- Digital health care: The use of digital health care, such as telehealth visits and home delivery of prescriptions, can help make the health system more efficient.
- Increasing training: The AAMC says that continued investment in training new physicians is critical.
