Nurse Managed Center: Primary Care at Satellite Sites

Elizabeth Kinion
Professor of Nursing
 

                                                     Funding Sources
                                                     Description of the Project
                                                     Collaborations
                                                     Projected Benefits of the Project
 

Funding Sources

DHHS grant IDIONU3021201, AHEC grant #20S2 Summit Portage Area Health Education Network

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Description of the Project

The focus of this project is to expand primary health services offered by the center for Nursing. The services augment an already wellestablished nursing center by providing linkages between the Center and medically underserved, vulnerable populations. Three outreach satellite clinics have been established to provide direct access to care. The clinics are co-located with other services such as food bank, social services, child development education, emergency housing, and HIV testing programs. The primary focus of this project is interdisciplinary education of health care providers. Care providers include registered nurse students, graduate nursing students, dietetic students, social work students, medical students and residents from North Eastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and residents from Barberton Family Practice. Local collaboration includes, but is not limited to, Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital, Akron Children's Hospital, Summa Health System, Akron General Hospital, The Akron City Health Department and the Summit County Health Department. ^36-40 Provide a data source for collaborative clinical outcome research, which will allow users to document patient problems and outcomes of care, by utilizing national and community health care data bases that contain large scale 3D colored CAT scans and other mathematical 3D reconstructions of 2D images.

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Collaborations

Of special interest is our database of client care, the Omaha System Data.  This community health database allows users to document patient problems and outcomes of care. Our goal is to combine our database with other national nursing centers that use the Omaha System Data. This will then serve as data source for collaborative clinical outcome research, which will impact social policy development. Initial collaboration will occur with the University of Delaware, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and other universities will be added annually. A high performance network connection will make this possible. Other institutions will be able to participate in this project as they obtain connections to the vBNS backbone

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Projected Benefits of the Project

The inter connections of geographically distributed supercomputers via high speed networks will allow users to access theneeded high performance computer power needed for large complex applications; users would no longer be limited by resources available at only one site. In addition to collaborative research projects a high performance network has the potential to facilitate medical/clinical care to the patients. Access to images in these records requires transmission of multiple Gbyte files within 10-15 sec.

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