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The health of the local health care community just keeps improving.
The latest advancement on that front was revealed Tuesday when officials of Stormont-Vail HealthCare and the world-renown Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minn., announced they had entered a partnership that will give local physicians access to the clinics physicians for consultations.
Through the partnership, local physicians will be able to send a patients relevant medical records and images, through secure connections, to specialists at the Mayo Clinic and ask questions about the patients condition and treatment options. Responses from the consulting specialist should be received within 48 hours.
Randy Peterson, president and CEO of Stormont-Vail, said the arrangement decreases the odds patients will have to travel for consultations and care.
Obviously, the connection with Mayo Clinic and its specialists will benefit Stormont-Vail, its patients and northeast Kansas. The development is the latest evidence the local health care community is being aggressive in its attempts to ensure patients receive the best possible care close to home.
Earlier developments include participation by Stormont-Vail and St. Francis Health, which cheered Stormont-Vails partnership with Mayo Clinic, in regional health care organizations and research partnerships with The University of Kansas Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute facility.
Although the primary goal always is to improve research and patient care, such things reflect well on Topekas hospitals and the community. The latest edition of Consumer Reports gave Stormont-Vail a very good rating among the nations hospitals.
Stormont-Vails place among the Mayo Clinic Care Network wasnt earned easily, however. David Hayes, medical director of the care network, said hospital and clinic officials worked for 10 to 12 months to establish the partnership, the first of its kind in Kansas.
Hayes said the application process includes four stages during which potential partners have to show they provide quality care and put the patient first, which required visits to Stormont-Vail by Mayo Clinic officials.
In addition to the consulting service, the partnership gives Stormont-Vail physicians access to AskMayoExperts, an online tool that offers information about disease management, treatment and clinical care.
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Editorial: Local health care community takes another big step
A House bill passed Thursday would change the health care law's definition of full-time work from 30 hours a week to 40 hours a week.
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WASHINGTON House Republicans renewed their election-year assault on President Barack Obama's health care law Thursday, their opposition undimmed just days after Obama celebrated news that more than 7 million Americans had signed up for coverage under the law.
The GOP-led chamber voted 248-179 to change the law's definition of full-time work from 30 hours a week to 40 hours a week. The result would be that fewer workers would get employer-sponsored health coverage and hundreds of thousands more people would be uninsured, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Republicans, backed by the Chamber of Commerce and other business groups, said the change would restore the traditional definition of full-time work while providing needed relief to businesses that are struggling with increased costs from the health care law. Businesses say they are being forced to cut worker hours, limit full-time jobs and drop health coverage because of the law, which requires businesses with 50 or more full-time workers to provide health coverage or pay penalties.
It was the House GOP's 52nd vote to change, repeal or otherwise uproot Obama's health law, and the measure faced certain death in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Eighteen Democrats joined with all Republicans in approving the bill, named the Save American Workers Act of 2013.
In rancorous debate on the House floor, Democrats accused Republicans of being obsessed with attacking the health law, while Republicans ridiculed Democrats for trying to change what they called a commonly understood definition of full-time work.
"We all know 30 hours isn't full time but that's what Obamacare says," said Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark. "Even in France a full-time job is 35 hours a week."
Democrats said the law's 30-hour definition for a full-time workweek was meant to make it harder for employers to avoid covering full-time workers by slightly reducing their hours. Changing the definition to 40 hours would make the requirement virtually meaningless because employers could simply skirt it by knocking full-time workers down to 39-and-a-half hours a week, they said.
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Health care costs have never been considered economical in rural communities, but the divide between rural and urban costs have only been exacerbated by the Affordable Care Act.
"We've gone from letting the insurance companies use a pre-existing medical condition to jack up rates to having a pre-existing zip code being the reason health insurance is unaffordable," Colorado rancher Bill Fales told the Associated Press. "It's just wrong."
Like others living in rural areas, Fales has seen his monthly premiums skyrocket by 50 percent to nearly $1,800 per month.
Insurance officials argue that geography is just one of the three determinants used by insurance companies under the federal health care law to set premiums. Other insurance price zones on the most-expensive list include rural areas in Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman with America's Health Insurance Plans, a Washington, D.C.-based industry group, explains that the cost differences between densely and sparsely populated areas shouldnt be considered a shock: it is simply more expensive to deliver health care in rural communities were fewer doctors, specialists and hospitals are stretched thin by the aging rural population and the inherent dangers surrounding farming.
According to USDA data, there were 42,000 work-related injuries reported in 2009. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in 2010, 476 farmers and farm workers died as a result of a work-related injury, incurring a fatality rate of 26.1 deaths for 100,000 workers.
And when it comes to saving lives, proximity to health care can mean the difference between living and dying, and in rural areas, that isnt always possible.
"In rural areas, it's common that you are seeing transport times of over half hour to an hour to a trauma center," Dr. Sage Myers, a pediatrician and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania said, noting that in South Dakota, there are just one or two trauma centers covering the whole state.
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Some states do have an option to reduce the premium divide between urban and rural areas. They can set a single statewide rating zone, reducing premiums to rural regions by shifting costs onto more-populated areas in the state. Just six states Delaware, Hawaii, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont chose a single rating zone.
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