Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP James L. Holly, M.D. Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP


In The News - The Baton - is a pictorial representation of the patient’s “plan of care and the treatment plan,” which is the instrument through which responsibility for a patient’s health care is transferred to the patient.
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“The Baton” is a pictorial representation of the patient’s “plan of care and the treatment plan,” which is the instrument through which responsibility for a patient’s health care is transferred to the patient.  Framed copies hang in the waiting room of SETMA II and will soon hang in all public places throughout SETMA’s clinics.  A poster copy will be hung in every examination room.   The poster declares:

Firmly in the providers hand
--The baton – the care and treatment plan
Must be confidently and securely grasped by the patient,
If change is to make a difference
8,760 hours a year.


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