Report Reveals Healthcare Worker Shortage
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The study reports that the health care personnel needed to care for the aging baby boomer population just aren't there, and if something isn't done about it, Californians will be paying more, for less.
Students at City College of San Francisco will be taking your x-rays in 2009 when they graduate as radiologic technologists. Arturo Haiyagon knows why he's here:
"To take care of people when they come in sick or worried and your there to comfort them to make them feel that they're being taken care of," said Arturo Haiyagon, CCSF Radiologic Tech student.
But there aren't enough people getting the training Haiyagon is getting, according to the report funded by Kaiser Permanente and the California Wellness Foundation. It sees a shortage now and only getting worse in three out of four allied health professions, these are the caregivers such as pharmacists, physical therapists, EMT's, dental hygienists, and the list goes on. The Campaign for College Opportunity sponsored the study.
"It will make it harder to see a doctor, or to see a nurse, or to get the care you need. It's going to mean wait lists and it's going to affect the quality of the care we receive as Californians," said Abdi Soltani, Campaign for College Opportunity.
The chair of the City College of San Francisco Radiologic Technology Department, Kyle Thornton, has been a technologist for 24 years. He says the labor shortage started years ago when women started leaving these traditionally female occupations for other opportunities.
"Dot com was very attractive because one could make a lot of money there quickly. Essentially health care was not an attractive option because the work was hard and the pay was not very well," said Kyle Thornton, CCSF Radiologic Technology Dept.
That has changed. When the techs complete this two year program, they're looking at around 65,000 dollars a year. And that's part of the solution - according to the report -- promote that good earnings potential, and the opportunities for advancement, Also, it says California has to increase spending for more faculty and more of these higher cost health care programs. And the medical community has to pull together for more on the job training.
"Getting the clinical sites, whether it is for radiology technologists or if it's for nurses or its rides on the buses, we'll call an ambulance a bus, for the paramedic program," said Linda Squires-Grohe, Dean of CCSF School of Health.
The report also calls for a multi-faceted statewide support system for students in these programs.
"We have peer mentors, tutors, counselors, financial aid," said Linda Squires-Grohe.
"If this is what you want to do really focus on it and own it," said Arturo Haiyagon.
How many more allied health professionals do we need? The report says that varies by occupation from 10 to 85 percent more and that's to meet current demand. Projected demand it says requires even greater increases.
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Associate professor of eight people (including a master s degree students of 6), Dr. echelon of the building basically achieved. Academic Division I are in a leading position in the country, a number of experts to present as deputy director of the China Institute of Radiology, member of group members, youth members, chairman of the Hubei Provincial Institute of Radiology. At the same time as the Chinese Radiology magazine, deputy editor-in-chief, Journal of Clinical Radiology, editor-in-chief, radiology practice, deputy editor-in-chief and other key posts in academic journals. I Section also with a number of well-known German hospital established a medical and scientific research and cooperative relations.n
Class research projects over 30, all levels of professional journals in the journal published papers some 340 articles (including two for the SCI included), Huazhong University of Science and Technology is medical, education, research simultaneously advanced collectives.
To enter the 21st century, Wuhan Xiehe Hospital radiology will be a new look to the dawn of the new century. In section development, the emphasis on medical staff in the building and gradient Quality Training: With China s accession to the WTO and health system reform deepens, foreign advanced equipment and software introduction, my medical imaging will merge with the world. This profound and rapid development requirements of practitioners have solid clinical and imaging foundation, and certain scientific research and foreign language capabilities. Annual regularly send outstanding young and middle-aged backbone of full-time business for foreign language learning, encourage young doctors to technological change, innovation, and focus on their research capability training (in the resident doctors standardized training program of scientific research into capacity-building projects). In foreign exchange, the brothers focus on the same hospital, their allies overseas exchanges (annual send E Home Professor participate in the North America, Europe Radiology Society), and contribute to increased overseas journals to encourage.n
Conventional X-ray Section:
Traditional diagnostic imaging is the cornerstone of Section, has been used in clinical more centuries. We inherit the tradition, but also constantly ahead, blaze new trails, in recent years has held the entire digestive tract double contrast radiography, mammography and breast catheter angiography, and some new businesses.n
Special Branch in the province is my first introduction DR, the traditional radiographic opened up a new era with its high-resolution digital imaging and powerful image post-processing functions for the patients to provide better services. In addition, I also handicapped by the hospital patients to provide bedside photography services.n
CT Room currently equipped with three high-end CT machine, including Germany s Siemens 2 Taiwan and the United States GE 1 Taiwan, 16-slice CT is currently the world s most advanced CT scanner, a scanning time is short, fast imaging, scanning layer thickness, high image quality, post-processing a powerful advantages.n
Different parts of the human body can be as the head and neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis and limbs, joints, spine and other scans, apply to tumors, inflammation, tuberculosis, trauma, the diagnosis of congenital diseases, in particular the 16-slice CT for coronary heart and the show has a unique value, DSA can be comparable with the results.n
CT virtual endoscopy: This method not only from the proximal occlusion and stenosis, and from the remote observation of lesions and fibers can be observed less than endoscopic observation of the structure, or inaccessible, such as vascular cavity, trachea cavity, and so on. Mainly used for display nasal cavity, pharynx and larynx cavity, the digestive tract, such as tracheal tumor cavity.n
Magnetic resonance chamber was established in 1992, a solid technical strength, advanced facilities, the existing German Siemens 1.5T and Philip 0.5T superconducting magnetic resonance machine to one unit. The device is scanning speed, image quality, full-featured, morphology and function of the advantages of combining diagnosis, markedly improved the accuracy of the diagnosis. Early in particular small lesions showed more sensitive. Applicable to all parts of body checks and diagnosis of a variety of diseases, such as tumors, infections (including tuberculosis, viruses, parasites, etc.), vascular, metabolic, trauma, such as poisoning and congenital disease diagnosis.n
KONG Xiangquan professor in diagnostic radiology work for nearly 30 years, has rich experience of clinical diagnosis and deep knowledge of, proficient X-ray, CT and MR diagnosis, particularly adept at all kinds of difficult and complicated cases of MR diagnosis, in the Indochina region enjoyed a high reputation.
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