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Dagot’ee, my name is Gabriel Baca, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, and I am privileged to discuss The Arizona Resource Equity and Access Coordinator Hub (AZ REACH), shedding light on how it has profoundly impacted my tribe and how it has shaped my career in medicine.
Overwhelmed by a lack of resources and over-complicated processes, rural health practitioners are all too often finding themselves unable to provide the level of care required of their patients who are entering the hospitals sicker than ever. This is my healthcare journey and how I've uncovered my relentless commitment to improve equity of access to care for all patients.
“We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. Let's go to work.” — Coach Herman Boone, Remember the Titans. What if the public healthcare consumer had the same expectations of us as Coach Herman Boone did of his football players? Would they be wrong?
We partnered with vendors; we refined processes and operations; we left no stone unturned. While we still had a long way to go, after one year of operations under this new scope and authority, we grew our outreach by 14% and accepted more than 2,500 additional patients through our virtual front door, adding $14,000,000 dollars to the organization’s bottom line.
Have you ever wondered what it was really like to be a nurse during COVID-19? Partnering with LinkLive, our Chief Nursing Officer answers this question and also explains what led to many nurses joining the Great Resignation, along with what it will take to get them back.
There is no better time in healthcare than now. It wasn't that long ago that I stood at the ICU bedside, exclaiming to my colleagues that "This is a hospital, not a hotel..." (insert cringe) as we complained about needy patients or needy family members. Boy was I wrong! Little did we know that when we selected healthcare as a college major, that we were in fact selecting hospitality. With that, we must think and act like we're in the service industry. We would never imagine a concept of "yes, but not yet" in a service industry such as auto sales, so why do we accept it in healthcare?
Overwhelmed by a lack of resources and over-complicated processes, rural health practitioners are all too often finding themselves unable to provide the level of care required of their patients who are entering the hospitals sicker than ever. This is my healthcare journey and how I've uncovered my relentless commitment to improve equity of access to care for all patients.
Dagot’ee, my name is Gabriel Baca, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, and I am privileged to discuss The Arizona Resource Equity and Access Coordinator Hub (AZ REACH), shedding light on how it has profoundly impacted my tribe and how it has shaped my career in medicine.
In my new job, I get to see what healthcare heroes are doing at the frontline. I get to see the staffing challenges that nurses are enduring- what used to be the unthinkable is now the norm. The administrators get it, they aren’t disconnected, and they’re desperately trying to help. Nurses today are taking care of twice the number of patients they had previously cared for, and they’re literally doing it in a heroic fashion.
Let me warn you - healthcare data puzzles rarely play fair. They are notorious for arriving at the party without all their pieces, some forget their boxes, and a very small percentage brings a clear picture of what you’re trying to solve. If you’re like me, those challenges only make data puzzles more enticing. How many pieces are in your puzzle, begging to be put together to show a clear picture of patient throughput?
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