Sunday, December 22, 2024
12/22/2024
UAH Health Services provides primary and urgent care to our campus community which includes students, faculty, and staff. With the growth of the on-campus university population, and the heightened awareness and evolving impact of contagious viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, the need for on-campus health services is greater than ever. Members of the university community utilize the UAH health clinic for many of their health care needs, including annual exams, preventative healthcare, screening and treating chronic disease and many infections/illnesses like COVID, tuberculosis, influenza, etc., as well as for triaging injuries that accompany an active student population. In addition to providing patient care, the health clinic educates and trains undergraduate nursing students and graduate Nurse Practitioner students in coordination with the UAH College of Nursing. The UAH health clinic is currently housed on the third floor of an academic building and shares a hallway with unrelated classrooms and faculty offices. This clinic facility space was not originally designed for the provision of health care, and much of the current medical examination tables and equipment are aging and lack patient accessibility. The health clinic also does not currently have an x-ray imaging system and therefore must refer patients to go off-campus for x-ray services, which can delay treatment by hours or days, especially since a number of the university’s residential and international students lack transportation. In addition, many students are un- or under-insured, further impeding their access to high quality and affordable healthcare. UAH Health Services will improve patient outcomes at its on-campus Health Clinic by upgrading equipment to modernize and expand direct patient care. This will improve campus healthcare accessibility while providing educational opportunities for the UAH College of Nursing students who receive student training at the clinic. The UAH H ealth Services enhancement plan includes the acquisition of new patient examination and diagnostic equipment, and the acquisition and installation of modern health care communication and electronic medical record management capabilities. This investment is intended to allow UAH Health Services to make affordable, high-quality, and timely healthcare available to the entire campus community, and especially to UAH students who often find themselves in economically vulnerable circumstances. The acquisition of a digital X-ray system, along with the associated facility modification needed for patient and clinic staff safety in the presence of this system, will allow the clinic to treat illnesses and injuries more precisely and efficiently, increasing patient access, wellness, and satisfaction while also providing hands-on training for our student workers and nursing students to prepare them for their future careers in healthcare. The clinic will also replace its difficult-to-access, aging, and deteriorating examination tables with accessibly designed multi-positional, low seat-height examination chairs to provide better accessibility and ergonomics for our patients and healthcare providers. The health clinic will also acquire and install a critically-needed patient flow communication system with emergency call lights, nurse alert system, and monitoring to keep our patients and employees safe. Finally, to provide high quality health care to patients while educating our student workers and graduate students the clinic will improve its diagnostic tools by obtaining cutting edge technology with an infrared vein visualization system, digital video microscope, laboratory analyzers, higher quality vital signs monitors, upgraded LED otoscope/ophthalmoscope kits, and mobile medical workstations to house the technology needed for point of care processes.
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