Convenient Care Association Executive Director Responds to the American Medical Association House of Delegates on Convenient Care Clinics.PHILADELPHIA -- *** MEDIA ADVISORY *** The following statement, "If It's Broken, Fix It," attributed to Tine Hansen-Turton, Convenient Care Association Executive Director, is in response to the American Medical Association's House of Delegates House of Delegates n. The lower house of the state legislature in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. announcement on Monday that it will push for state and federal agencies to conduct investigations of Convenient Care Clinics for conflicts of interest. "If It's Broken, Fix It" "Convenient care clinics have proliferated in retail settings throughout the country due to a widespread lack of access to high-quality, affordable health care in America. Convenient care clinics collectively boast a 98% patient satisfaction rate, which indicates that Americans have embraced this innovative and visionary 1. visionary - One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to "see" things using TV cameras. (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer. model of health care. While the American Medical Association American Medical Association (AMA), professional physicians' organization (founded 1847). Its goals are to protect the interests of American physicians, advance public health, and support the growth of medical science. (AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. ) convened its annual meeting this week to discuss ways to prevent patient access to convenient health care, the Convenient Care Association (CCA (1) (Common Cryptographic Architecture) Cryptography software from IBM for MVS and DOS applications. (2) (Compatible Communications A ) held an annual retreat to promote accessible, affordable, price-transparent health care to all Americans. "The core focus of the CCA's annual retreat was to further establish best practices for the industry, ensure high-quality, patient-centered health care in all of our clinics, maintain high levels of patient satisfaction and safety, and encourage all patients to develop quality relationships with traditional health care providers. "The CCA partners with all health care providers, including physicians, to create an integrated model of health care delivery in America. We are surprised that the AMA would take the position that it has, because so many physicians and other health care professionals have accepted this new model and see it as part of the solution to our broken health care system. "The AMA and CCA should be working together on solutions to improve our health care system's efficiency and effectiveness. America has embraced the services that CCA members are providing as part of the solution, and we invite the AMA to recognize the role clinics provide in offering access to affordable, high-quality, basic health care services to all individuals." Tine Hansen-Turton is Executive Director of the Convenient Care Association, the non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. for the Convenient Care Industry (CCI CCI Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie (France) CCI CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Citation Index CCI Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Western Australia) ). |
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