Monterey to integrate county health care system

MONTEREY – The Monterey County Board of Supervisors has accepted a plan to integrate the county’s wellbeing treatment program, producing it less difficult for clients to obtain the specialized care they have to have.

The board unanimously voted Tuesday in favor of a program by the county’s Health Section and Administrative Business office and Natividad Healthcare Center to coordinate affected person care products and services.

Monterey County Director of Well being Elsa Jimenez argued that the construction of the county’s existing wellness process sites the stress on sufferers to request out care by way of the “complex and often unorganized techniques that we’ve made.

“At present our technique is fragmented, solutions are siloed,” she claimed. “And when you imagine about the demographics in our community, which tends to be an ageing populace, a populace that may well only speak Spanish or a different indigenous language that may not essentially be equipped to entry our techniques, it seriously puts a huge responsibility on them.”

County and Natividad officials argued other substantial, multi-county health and fitness methods like Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente have now integrated their affected individual care networks, and that undertaking so will lead to improved affected individual and team pleasure.

In addition to approving the approach, the board approved the generation of an advert hoc committee that will oversee the unification of the county’s health and fitness treatment system.

As aspect of the vote, county Supervisors Chris Lopez and Wendy Root Askew ended up appointed to provide on the committee.
Root Askew pointed out that, after she broke her arm final 12 months, her health practitioner gave her a referral for actual physical therapy. That referral allowed her to program her appointment in the very same wellbeing treatment workplace within just 5 minutes.

“Appropriate now, our county clinic people never have that capability to have that form of built-in care,” she said. “They ought to have to have that variety of integrated treatment, and the obligation for producing this method lies on us.”

County health and fitness and Natividad officers did not give a timeline for when the process will be absolutely built-in, as it will involve a number of methods, including charge analyses and the alignment of medical record archives.