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Healthcare reform will increase load for primary care practices
Busy primary care practices will be even busier.
The new system created by the passage of the healthcare reform bill is expected to send a flood of newly insured patients into primary care offices.
James Warren, a writer with the Chicago News Cooperative, reports that clinics at Access Community Health Network, the nation’s largest network of federally qualified health centers, are bracing for an onslaught of new patients in primary care.
The Charlotte (NC) News and Observer interviewed the head of the University of North Carolina hospitals emergency department, who has a similar view. “With more people covered by health insurance, primary care doctors will be stretched thin, and reliance on emergency departments may spike,” Dr. Charles Cairns told the paper.
Allen Wong, a physician with McKee Internal Medicine, told the Carolina Weekly Newspapers that he expects primary care to take a larger role in delivering healthcare services.
School AEDs: Tennessee Senate passes new school defibrillator bill
Rhonda Harrill with picture of her son, Tanner Lee Jameson, who died of sudden cardiac arrest. (Photo: Mark A. Large/The Daily Times)
A bill to encourage schools that have automated external defibrillators to place them near gyms and other sports venues passed the Tennessee Senate last week. The House version of the bill, sponsored by Rep. Robert Ramsey, is now in committee.
The bill was named in memory of Tanner Lee Jameson, who died of sudden cardiac arrest June 26. The 13-year-old collapsed while playing in a parks and recreation basketball game at the school. The school had an AED, but it was in the school’s office and too far from the gym to be brought in time. His mother, Rhonda Harrill, has been working with legislators to advocate for the school AED bill.
Awareness of school AEDs in Tennessee has increased as a result of the September, 2009, AED rescue of University of Tennessee basketball player Emmanuel Negedu. He collapsed from sudden cardiac arrest during a workout on the college’s indoor football field. Coaching staff administered CPR and used a nearby defibrillator to revive Negedu.
For questions about AEDs for communities, schools, businesses, and agencies in Tennessee, please contact Cardiac Science AED expert Ben Jennings.
Courtney’s Crusade for AEDs and AED awareness
On Easter weekend, My Fox Houston ran a story on Kindal VanConkhite, a woman who has spent more than a decade campaigning for AED awareness and AED placement in memory of her twin sister Courtney, who died of sudden cardiac arrest.
Both sisters inherited Long QT syndrome, a heartbeat abnormality that can cause sudden cardiac arrest.
Kindal VanConkhite, along with her mother and stepfather, have raised money through Courtney’s Crusade and helped lobby for the school AED law in Texas. Here’s her story:
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AEDs, Cardiology