Drexel University Community-Based Master's Project Students Care Hospital Buddy Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelise Junior
Keyword(s):  
Care Hospital ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Drexel University ◽  
University Community

scholarly journals Occurrence and Characteristics of Verruca Vulgaris attending a Tertiary Care Hospital

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Lubna Khondker ◽  
Md Abdul Wahab ◽  
Md Shirajul Islam Khan ◽  
Muhammad Hasibur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Verruca Vulgaris

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/cbmj.v1i2.13861 Community Based Medical Journal Vol.1(2) 2012 32-37

scholarly journals Higher Education, Community Engagement, and the Public Good: Building the Future of Continuing Education in Canada

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Budd L. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Engagement ◽  
University Community

This article is about the potential for university-community engagement to serve the public good by transforming the health and well-being of our communities. It documents contemporary expressions of and renewed calls for community university engagement. It includes a detailed treatment of community based research, discussed in the overall context of community-university engagement. The article also explores some other important and growing dimensions of community university engagement, including the development of structures for the support of community-based research and community-service learning. It concludes with an argument that university-community engagement, while not the only current trend in higher education that affects our work in continuing education, is nonetheless a very important new development in which continuing education has much to offer and much to gain.

The Assessment of Clinically Significant Change Using the Life Skills Profile

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Trauer ◽  
Robert A. Duckmanton ◽  
Edmond Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Clinically Significant Change ◽  
Community Tenure ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
Clinically Significant ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Better Than

Objective: In the context of the need to develop practical outcome measures, the present study aimed to assess the sensitivity of the Life Skills Profile (LSP) in terms of differences between hospital-based and community-based clients, and to assess the sensitivity of the LSP to changes over time. In this way, criteria could be established whereby the LSP could be used to determine appropriate changes in locus of care, both in terms of the ‘cut-off’ for hospital-based and community-based tenure, and the level of ‘clinically significant change’ in functioning. Method: The LSP was administered at 3-monthly intervals to 200 clients of an area public mental health service with serious mental illness over a 21-month period. Locus of care (hospital or community) was noted at each administration. Results: Clients in the community scored significantly better than those in hospital, however there was a great deal of overlap. Using hospital or community tenure as the variable of interest, a measure of reliable and clinically significant change over a 3-month period based on the LSP was developed. A total LSP score of 116.5 or above best discriminated clients in the community from those in hospital, and a difference of 18 points or more in two LSP obtained 3 months apart was unlikely to have arisen by chance. A simple, two-part criterion of significant change based on these results showed 89% accuracy in matching transition (or lack of transition) between hospital and community with changes in LSP scores. Conclusions: The results need to be understood within the methodological limitations of the present study. The findings provide users of the LSP with guidelines for the interpretation of repeat assessments. This may encourage more services to use formal reassessment methods to monitor the progress of their clients.

scholarly journals (P2-78) Creating Alternate Care Sites and Community-Based Care Centers for the Delivery of Medical Care During Public Health Emergencies

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s161-s161
Author(s):  
M. Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Acute Care Hospitals ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Surge Capacity ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Concept Of Operations

IntroductionDeveloping alternative systems to deliver emergency health services during a pandemic or public health emergency is essential to preserving the operation of acute care hospitals and the overall health care infrastructure. Alternate care sites or community-based care centers which can serve as areas for primary screening and triage or short-term medical treatment can assist in diverting non-acute patients from hospital emergency departments and manage non-life threatening illnesses in a systematic and efficient manner. Additionally, if planned for correctly these facilities can also be used to decant less critical patients from inpatient wards thereby increasing the surge capacity of acute care hospitals.MethodsA model concept of operations plan for alternate care sites to be used during pandemics and large-scale public health emergencies was developed over a 3 year period, 2007–2010. Subject matter experts were convened and best-practice methods were used to design operational plans, clinical protocols, modified standards of care, and checklists for facilities appropriate to locate such a facility. This model plan was designed to allow the mild to moderately ill patient to be managed in a non-acute care hospital or community-based care setting and then ultimately return to their homes for convalescence, following a public health emergency where regional surge capacity had been exceeded.ResultsOver three years of interagency, comprehensive planning, training and review was conducted to create the model alternate care site/community-based care center concept of operations plan. Accomplishments and milestones included: Creating stakeholders, engaging community partners, site selection, staffing issues, detailed medical protocols and clinical pathways, functional role development, equipment and supplies, site security, media and communications plans, designing training programs and conducting drills and exercises.ConclusionThe key tenets of the concept, planning, operation and demobilization of an alternate care site or community-based care center will be discussed in this session. Participants will learn what has worked based on our planning experience. Lessons learned and best-practices developed in our program will be presented to assist attendees in beginning or continuing the process of creating surge capacity in the out-of-hospital setting, by planning to operate alternate care sites in their local areas.

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