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Acute Care Case Study

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According to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, in 2014 the number of discharges in Yolo that had to do with Acute Care was 14,371. Chemical Dependency Recovery Care was 11, Physical Rehabilitation Care was 106, Psychiatric Care was 1,075, and Skilled Nursing was 21 which turns out to be a total of 15,584 discharges in all of YOLO county in 2014. Of the 14,371 discharged patients in Acute Care, 10,737 or 74.71% of them were sent home. 288 of them had passed away, 1,457 went on to home health services, 86 of them had left against medical advice, 50 of them went on to a residential care facility, 1,231 went on to skilled nursing facilities/intensive care at a different facility, 9 were discharged to skilled nursing / intermediate …show more content…

283 of them are currently active in their own specialty. For every 1,000 individuals in the county of Yolo, there are 1.51 doctors that specialize in Allergy and Immunology, 4.01 that specialize in anesthesia, 1.51 in cardiology, .5 in colorectal surgery, .5 in dermatology, 5.52 in emergency medicine, .5 in endocrinology, 30.61 in family medicine, 2.1 in general surgery, 1.51 in geriatrics, 1 in gastroenterology, 2.01 general practitioners, 16.56 internal medicine, .5 in nephrology, 1.51 in neurology, .5 in nuclear medicine, 8.53 in obstetrics, 2.51 in occupational medicine, 1 in oncology, 2.01 in ophthalmology, 3.01 in orthopedic surgery, 1.51 in other medicine, 1.51 in otolaryngology, 1 in pain medicine, 1.51 in pathology, 11.04 in pediatrics, 1 in physical and rehabilitation, .5 in plastic surgery, 9.53 in psychiatry, .5 in pulmonology, 4.01 in radiology, 1.51 in rheumatology, .5 in spine surgery, .5 in sports medicine, .5 in thoracic surgery, and 1 in

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