Why we ALL have a stake in solving the rural healthcare crisis | Tee Faircloth | TEDxAtlanta
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- Опубліковано 8 кві 2019
- Tee Faircloth is a turnaround expert with a 20-year track record rebooting insolvent companies and distressed industries. As CEO of Coordinated Care Inc., he is at the forefront of revitalizing rural healthcare to make a difference for the 70 million Americans who depend on rural hospitals.
Today, Tee is actively working with legislators, state governments, academic institutions and national rural health advocates to drive innovations that can benefit patient care and hospitals alike. Tee Faircloth loves solving big challenges. His latest target: rural healthcare.
Tee spent the last 20 years rebooting insolvent companies and distressed industries. His company Coordinated Care Inc is revitalizing rural healthcare to make a difference for the 70 million Americans who depend on rural hospitals.
Today, through the company’s mission, Tee is a thought-leader on rural health actively working with legislators, state governments, academic institutions and national rural health advocates to drive innovations that can benefit patient care and hospitals alike.
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It was a great talk. I learned interesting facts that I never thought about before. For example, I had no idea what makes small towns “die.” It makes sense that if there is no good healthcare facility in town, it will not prosper, and everyone would want to leave for the location with better access to healthcare. It is a sad truth that there is still a lack of efforts from the government and healthcare system to change this situation, but it is great when we have people like Tee Faircloth who are active advocates for the rural community. All people are equal no matter where they live, and everyone deserves and has the right to get excellent quality healthcare.
I liked how Tee Faircloth explained how urban and rural areas are interconnected and lack of hospitals in the rural area affects urban hospitals and their patients too. And his new model of rural healthcare that he proposed is very clever. Of course, it is not an easy task to turn around the entire system that was running this way for so long for years. His idea looks very realistic, it is a workable model that can redistribute finances and forces in healthcare that will benefit everybody starting with patients, including the healthcare system and government by cutting the cast and unnecessary expenses. However, I see that these changes will not happen overnight, but it gives hope that one day more people can be satisfied- patients will have their needs met, the stress in hospitals can be redistributed and everyone can be in a win-win situation.
Tee Faircloth makes an excellent argument of why we all are involved in the rural healthcare crisis. He focuses on mostly the economics and improved healthcare outcomes that can be achieved by improving rural medicine. These being great points I also believe it simply is an ethical obligation for the healthcare system to try to improve rural medicine. Physicians and other healthcare professionals take an oath to uphold certain ethical principles. These being respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. I want to focus on beneficence which in other words says that physicians are to act in the best interest of the patient. This certainly can apply to this discussion on the rural healthcare crisis. Many healthcare professionals might argue because they are urban they don’t need to worry or be involved in rural medicine. I think Tee Faricloth argument that rural and urban medicine are intricately connected in many ways says volumes of why all aspects of healthcare should be involved in rural health. Being aware of some of these ways makes it clear that if physicians are to uphold their ethical oath they need to think about rural medicine. I do believe however it is important to be realistic but that doesn’t mean there is no hope and to do nothing. No matter how difficult or how long it would take to improve rural medicine it needs to be thought about and discussed. It is an ethical obligation for healthcare professionals to do so. By ignoring the rural crisis it is breaking the oath of beneficence to patients. Rural medicine is also just one aspect of many in healthcare that can be improved. I believe if healthcare professions bring it back to the core principles of why they took the ethical oaths, there wouldn’t be this question of why does rural medicine need to be improved and they would rather start asking the question how are we going to improve rural medicine. Lastly, healthcare is interconnected in all ways. By improving rural medicine other facets of healthcare will also improve. As Tee Faircloth says we all have a stake in the rural healthcare crisis.
The decline of rural healthcare facilities is a large problem in the United States and I commend Faircloth for bringing this issue up and stating why we all have a stake in this issue. It is not an issue that is heard much about and society needs to be educated on why this is such a large issue. I completely agree that there is an effect on urban healthcare facilities and that hospitals can only handle so much so it decreases optimal care to patients. The term beneficence comes into play here. Beneficence is about promoting good for the patient. On a holistic approach, there are many factors that come into play. Social, economic, spiritual, mental, and physical factors all have to be taken into account. To expand, this means that when providing healthcare these all should play a role in the plan of care for a patient. So, having someone who lives in a more rural community should probably receive care closer to home and having a facility that can take care of their healthcare needs closer to home would be more beneficial. Cost and funding plays a role into whether these facilities can stay open. I agree with Faircloth in that focusing on having these facilities handle more rehabilitation and long-term management of various healthcare issues would improve the state of the decline in rural healthcare facilities. I also would like to add to this and state that in a more holistic approach, this would increase the quality of patient care and would encourage healthcare providers who would like focus on long-term management to work in more rural areas. Lots of patients are unable to stay in a hospital many miles away from home just so they can have their condition be managed. Additionally, people have jobs and families that they need to take care of and might not be able to drive to an urban hospital just for a physical therapy appointment. By making rural facilities be able to handle long-term management, then a patient’s mental health and these barriers for care can be addressed.
Yaa it's a wonderful opportunity to understand and learn English language and it will ofcourse boost ones inner confidence ...when they hesitant to convey ideas in English language . hope for more good vedios and new platform .it's sooo helpful .and introduce new links for all
lmao this guy owned a BAR. how has he advanced to a ted talk
why does that matter?