Preventative Care

Preventive care is a cornerstone of Family Medicine. As such, SFHC offers appointments on a daily basis for immunizations, well child or Kan Be Healthy visits and well woman exams as well as laboratory, x-rays and yearly physicals (sports, daycare, school, DOT). We are also able to offer outpatient screening colonoscopies either through one of our own physicians or through referral. All providers are trained to address appropriate preventive care measures. We monitor the provision of several preventive care services as part of our QA/QI process as well.

 

Acute/Urgent/Emergent Care

SFHC maintains open appointments daily in each provider's schedule for walk-in patients or same day appointments for acute or urgent care. On Monday evenings from 5:00-8:00pm, appointments are available to clientele who can not schedule their appointment during daytime hours. Triage nurses are available at all times during business hours to assist those in need.

 

Chronic Disease Management

Chronic disease management is another cornerstone of Family Medicine. SFHC offers daily appointments for the management of chronic disease including but not limited to diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, depression, COPD, asthma, CHF, and many others. We have developed chronic disease management tools within our electronic medical record and all providers are well-trained in the chronic disease management model.

 

Immunizations

Salina Family Healthcare Center uses a very proactive approach to immunizations.
Due to our process improvements, we increased our immunization completion rates from 39% to 80% in a 3 month period in 2009. We have continued to improve these rates in 2010 and our current rates are above 85%!

Based on these improvements, SFHC was a recipient of the Wyeth Immunization Improvement Award in 2010. We have also been selected as a 2011 AAFP Foundation Pfizer Immunization Award recipient in the category of Best Practices.

 

Early Detection Works Program

Our clinic contracts with the state of Kansas to offer the Early Detection Works program, which provides free breast and cervical cancer screenings to women age 40 to 64 who have no health insurance and meet certain income guidelines.

To find out more about the Early Detection Works program, please call toll free 1-877-277-1368 or visit www.preventionworkskansas.org. Qualifying individuals will receive an enrollment number. One you have received your enrollment number, call our office to schedule your Early Detection Works appointment.

 

In-house Laboratory Services

Our on-site Laboratory provides a full spectrum of diagnostic tests and screening. The laboratory is accredited by COLA and on-site surveys are conducted every 2 years with awards given based on compliance and all COLA criteria met at the time of the survey. In addition, award recipients must have demonstrated successful proficiency testing in all events for the prior year. SFHC has attained an unprecedented 100% on our last 5 surveys.

 

Medication Assistance Program

SFHC provides a Medication Assistance Program (MAP) program to assist patients in getting medications directly from pharmaceutical manufacturers at no charge. Eligibility for the MAP program is approved by the pharmaceutical company. Application forms must be completed and appointments with our MAP Coordinator may be scheduled during regular business hours.

We also have an agreement with a local pharmacy to enhance access to medications for our patients. Through an established formulary, Jim's Pharmacy provides prescription medication to our patients for a nominal fill fee.

 

Translation Services

We provide Translation Services through:
• Full-time, in-house Spanish/English interpreter
• Telephone interpreter service for all languages
•Web-based interactive interpreter service for American Sign Language for our hearing impaired patients.

All written patient education material generated is also duplicated in Spanish.

 

Obstetrical Care

SFHC provides prenatal care, delivery, and post-partum care to patients within a 30-mile radius. We manage both routine pregnancies and high-risk pregnancies. We have an agreement with a local group of obstetricians who will see our patients in referral and will often co-manage higher risk pregnancies.

 

OB Group Visits

Salina Family Healthcare Center has collaborated with the Saline County Health Department to provide group prenatal education visits at our clinic for our patients. By providing the services to our patients within our clinic, our goal is for patients have a healthier prenatal course and uneventful delivery. Health Department staff comes on the third Tuesdays and Thursdays of each month and have two separate two hour sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Each class covers 2 topics per session, with one class being presented in Spanish each month.

 

Inpatient Hospital Service

Clinic patients requiring admission to the hospital for inpatient care are admitted to our inpatient service known as SHIP (Smoky Hill In-Patient). The SHIP service includes two resident physicians and one faculty physician who are responsible for providing inpatient care to all of our hospitalized patients.

 

24 Hour Emergency Answering Service

During times when our office is not open, SFHC has one resident and one faculty who are "on-call" to provide telephone triage and urgent or emergent care through the hospital emergency room. Patients can access the doctor on call through a local answering service (785-452-4001).