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CMMC Walk-In Clinic
TIMES Friday Jan. 17, 1975
Hospital Board Eyes
Waiting Line Causes
By Elaine King
Times Medical Writer
Confederate Memorial
Medical Center (CMMC)
board members last night
examined problems causing
long waiting periods for many
CMMC walk-in clinic patients.
Board member Laurence
Guidry, in a letter to other
board members, cited cases
he discovered in visits to the
walk-in clinic each day for a
week earlier this month.
Guidry's letter recounted
talking to patients lying on
stretchers or sitting in the
clinic who told him of waiting
for hours, sometimes all day,
before seeing a doctor
The walk-in clinic is one of
the outpatient clinics at
CMMC and patients usually
do not have appointments.
About 4,000 patients were seen
at the clinic during
December, according to
Robert C. Hall, hospital
director
Dr Ike Muslow, medical
d i r e c t o r at CMMC,
acknowledged that a problem
exists in handling patients
that come to the clinic.
One of the causes, he told
the board, is that the patients
all tend to arrive at the same
time
The long waits to see a
doctor are not just a problem
at CMMC, he said, but occur
in most big city hospitals. He
called the clinic one of the
most important areas of the
hospital, but the hardest to
manage.
He told Guidry that he
would like to send a copy of
the letter to all section heads
at CMMC.
A solution reported by large
hospitals with similar
problems, Dr. Muslow said,
has been to hire fulltime
doctors to handle the patients
who come in.
At the clinic the work is
done by physicians on a
rotating basis
It is difficult, however, Dr
Muslow said, to find
physicians willing to work in
such a situation fulltime and
the funds to hire such
physicians have not been
allocated, although they have
been requested.
Guidry said he would like a
list of all projects requested
by CMMC that have not been
funded so board members can
contact state legislators and
officials about providing the
money.
Dr. Muslow said a study of
areas where patient loads
originate is under way with
the aim of establishing
satellite clinics in areas where
many patients live.
Such a program has not
worked well in New Orleans,
he pointed out, but should
work in Shreveport. New
Orleans areas where satellite
clinics are needed are in high
- crime areas and personnel
are reluctant to staff the
clinics Here, he feels, there
would not be problems of that
type.
A committee is studying the
feasibility of satellite clinics,
he said.
Object Description
| Title | Hospital Board Eyes Waiting Line Causes |
| Creator |
King, Elaine T. |
| Subject |
Outpatient Clinic (Confederate Memorial Medical Center, Shreveport, La.) Confederate Memorial Medical Center (Shreveport, La.) Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (Shreveport, La.) Confederate Memorial Medical Center Board of Directors (Shreveport, La.) |
| Publisher |
Shreveport Times |
| Date | 1975-01-17 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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