Patient-centered clinics emerged because of the necessity to reform the traditional medical system, which includes such stereotypes as medical cards, telephone communication, queue visits, and several other features. According to Brown and Park (2014), a patient-centered clinic is explained as an institution where “a small group of primary care and specialist providers are responsible for a cohort of patients” (p. 502). GreenField Health may be considered as an organization that embodies the very essence of the reform. Their patient-centered services and the implementation of modern technologies are the most known aspects.
GreenField was founded in 2001 by Kilo as a private medical practice. It has been working hard on the improvement of medical care to use as many innovative ways of operating the clinics as possible. This allowed us to achieve quite impressive results. Firstly, the crowd visits are completely abolished and changed into more comfortable forms of patient–staff communication. Additionally, due to the limited number of employees, patients establish a closer relationship with the medics. Secondly, the same change happened to the phone calls, which became more efficient and reliable yet were also supplemented by the e-mail correspondence. It is one of the examples of technological advancement in medical institutions, although there are more in the case of GreenField Health. Medical cards were transformed into medical health records fully available online. Moreover, both medical practices and equipment reached a new level to match modern advancements.
GreenField Health has gained its reputation as a reliable and, what is more crucial, modernized medical organization. Its achievements are deeply connected to the new tendencies in the development of medicine. Such trends are meant to move outdated medical care in the right direction and include the concept of a patient-centered clinic. GreenField Health follows the principles of the patient-centered clinic due to its innovative ways of providing health care and focuses on close patient-staff relationships.
References
Brown, D. S., Park, K. (2014). Accreditation: its role in driving accountability in healthcare. In M. Joshi, E. R. Ransom, D. B. Nash, S. B. Ransom (Eds.), The healthcare quality book: vision, strategy, and tools (vol. third edition) (pp. 495-523). Chicago, Illinois: Health Administration Press.