{"id":792,"date":"2008-04-05T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2008-04-05T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T16:20:00","slug":"city-health-clinics-need-a-booster-shot-philadelphia-daily-news-04-04-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"CITY HEALTH CLINICS NEED A BOOSTER SHOT | Philadelphia Daily News | 04\/04\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/dailynews\/opinion\/20080404_CITY_HEALTH_CLINICS_NEED_A_BOOSTER_SHOT.html\">CITY HEALTH CLINICS NEED A BOOSTER SHOT Philadelphia Daily News 04\/04\/2008<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How they don&#8217;t work: The system is far from perfect. According to a report released by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project last year, <strong>it can take up to five months to schedule an appointment with a doctor at a health center. Advocates say the centers need to extend evening hours and add staff to shorten waiting times.<\/strong> The mayor&#8217;s proposed funding increase is supposed to deal with some of these issues.<br \/>One of the biggest challenges that health centers face is offering competitive salaries to attract qualified staff.<\/p>\n<p>The salaries offered by the city for three critical positions &#8211; pharmacists, dentists and physicians &#8211; are relatively low when compared to industry averages.<\/p>\n<p>The highest-paid pharmacist working for the city makes $77,013 &#8211; well below the national median of $103,000. The same is true for dentists who work for the city. A typical dentist makes $130,000 a year. That&#8217;s significantly more than the $95,630 made by the highest-paid dentists at city health centers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The largest discrepancy can found in the salary paid to doctors. The average physician working in a family practice makes $204,000. The highest-paid physician working for the city makes $109,820 &#8211; a difference of more that $94,000<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Just had to post this for all of those who insist we don&#8217;t have to wait for healthcare in America and that &#8220;everyoine in America has access to health care.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CITY HEALTH CLINICS NEED A BOOSTER SHOT Philadelphia Daily News 04\/04\/2008: &#8220;How they don&#8217;t work: The system is far from perfect. According to a report released by the Philadelphia Unemployment &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=792\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CITY HEALTH CLINICS NEED A BOOSTER SHOT | Philadelphia Daily News | 04\/04\/2008&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,47,33,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-physician-income","category-rationing-health-care","category-waiting-times"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}