Thursday, July 10, 2008

Ratio of Prosthetic and Orthotic Practitioners to Potential Patients in State Population

Posted by Bill McLellan

As seen by the map below, Missouri and Illinois are well served by a relatively high ratio of prosthetists and orthotists to potential patients. With this level of friendly competition, patients should not need to tolerate long wait times for delivery or repair of their devices.

Still, this ratio by state does not reflect the disparity between the care that is accessible in urban and rural areas. That is why P & O Care is opening its new Jefferson County Care Center in Festus, MO. There are no other prosthetic and orthotic care facilities in Jefferson County, and with our vans we will be servicing other counties with no facility: Washington, St. Genevieve, and Perry Counties in MO, and across the river in Randolph County, IL. Finally, P & O Care's presence in Festus will bring an element of choice to patients who live near Farmington and Cape Girardeau. When healthcare professionals compete for their patients on the basis of quality of care and service provided, everybody wins.


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