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Question: What is the treatment for the flu?
Answer:There are several flu treatments available, and a medical professional can help you determine which one is right for you. The most common flu treatments are antiviral drugs like Tamiflu, which can help shorten the duration of the flu.
Continue ReadingOur Florida locations offer Tamiflu or a generic alternative (oseltamivir phosphate) near you for only $30 onsite — with no insurance necessary — or can get you the prescription you need.
In addition, your doctor may also recommend fluids, pain relievers or fever reducers to help ease your symptoms. Over-the-counter treatments will also help control your symptoms. Talk to your doctor about which medicines might be right for you.
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Question: Why is onsite medication dispensing important?
Answer:Medication dispensing is a critical component of patient care, as it ensures that patients receive the right medications in the correct doses and understand how to use them properly.
Continue ReadingOnsite medication dispensing helps you get your medication as fast as possible while eliminating wait times and an additional trip to a pharmacy. More importantly, onsite medication dispensing improves patient care as your doctor will be able to explain the proper dosage, side effects and any other details about your medications.
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Question: What is medication dispensing?
Answer:Medication dispensing is the process of providing patients with prescribed medications. It involves giving patients the specific drugs, doses and instructions needed for their treatment. Medication dispensing can occur in various health care settings, including hospitals, pharmacies, doctors’ offices and urgent care centers like Centra Care.
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Question: What does having cancer have to do with my heart?
Answer:As if having the diagnosis of cancer were not enough, the treatments that we use to combat cancer have the potential to have deleterious side effects on the heart.
There can be immediate side effects which are more rare and side effects that can occur up to several years after treatment. All parts of the heart have the potential to be affected including the valves, electrical system, coronary arteries and the actual pumping function of the heart. Your Oncologist is very aware of these potential side effects and sometimes will involve one of our cardiologists to help manage your care. Thankfully, we know that cancer of the heart itself is very rare. AdventHealth has several cardiologists who have a special interest in Cardio-Oncology.
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Question: Does the Birth Place temporary closure have anything to do with the hospitalists?
Answer:This announcement is not related to previous changes around our hospitalist program. Hospitalists are physicians who see inpatients for a variety of reasons within the hospital, and physicians who take that role may or may not see patients outside of the hospital setting. This was simply a matter of our community physician partners no longer being able to cover the 24/7 call necessary for us to run a birthing unit, and those physicians have been very supportive through our search for coverage. Some of them have expressed that they would continue to deliver their patients here once we are able to secure the full-time coverage.
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Question: Why is AdventHealth closing this service?
Answer:Birth is a unique service because it was entirely staffed by our community physician partners. They are not able to continue to provide the 24/7 coverage necessary to operate a birth place, and while they gave us a gracious six-month notice, it was not enough time to secure new physician coverage with the necessary credentials who live within 20 minutes of our hospital. We are grateful for continued partnership to find a solution as we all want to continue providing birth services in our local community.
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Question: How many babies are born at AdventHealth Ottawa each year?
Answer:Approximately 130 babies are born at AdventHealth Ottawa each year, which is about 30% of babies born in our area.
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Question: When do you anticipate being able to resume labor and delivery services in Ottawa?
Answer:AdventHealth Ottawa is committed to providing high quality labor and delivery care to Franklin County residents and the surrounding region. We have been diligently working to identify a solution, including deliberate efforts to recruit physicians with the necessary training to help provide these services. We hope to reopen birth services by as early as summer 2024 and are pursuing a variety of options for inpatient 24/7 coverage.
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Question: Will any employees lose their jobs?
Answer:Pausing labor and delivery services in Ottawa will impact 17 RNs who currently staff the Birth Place. They will have the opportunity to pursue positions in other departments in Ottawa and or at AdventHealth South Overland Park and AdventHealth Shawnee Mission. These staff members would be welcomed back to the Birth Place at AdventHealth Ottawa when we resume birth services.
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Question: Why has it been such a challenge to hire a new physician who can deliver babies?
Answer:We are attempting to recruit physicians who can provide the 24/7/365 continuous coverage necessary to run a maternity unit. We need physicians credentialed in obstetrics and surgery, and they need to live within 20 minutes of our hospital when on call. It is a challenging physician recruitment environment, but our search continues.