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Huntsville Area Healthcare
Many of you have expressed concern of the healthcare in the Huntsville area. ADVON team member Mike Edwards recently submitted a blog outlining his experiences and lessons learned (read it here http://hqamcbrac.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/lessons-learned-from-my-move-to-redstone/).
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To update you all, here is some information that was provided by the Tennessee Valley BRAC commission regarding what they are doing to address the issue:
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Huntsville Hospital and Crestwood are going to increase physician recruiting and “subsidies”. They will start recruiting at residency programs
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Huntsville Hospital is going to start a hotline/weblink to match patients–they will be dedicating a full-time person to search open practices. There are some underutilized physicians with open practices. the Medical Society does not refer to non-members and many new physicians do not join the Society due to cost.
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Adding additional residency programs are difficult because freeze by federal government on funding of residents.
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Publicize what a family practitioner can do. Their capabilities may be more than what people would believe them to be.
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The Tennessee Valley will be updating their websites with to inform BRAC impacted employees of health care opportunities.
ADVON team member Roy Owens also provided the following information:
Both the Madison County and Parkway Medical Center website have “find a physician assistance” and if they are taking new patients. You may call them as well. Parkway Medical Center attained certification last year as a Chest Pain Center, first in the state to become certified. There is a pediatric clinic in Decatur that actually takes walk-ins during certain hours.
http://www.madisoncountydocs.com/
