What Are Your Community Healthcare Resources?

If you are like most, you are likely more familiar with the traditional acute inpatient hospital. Yet, with the renewed emphasis on community healthcare, it is just as likely you will need services as an outpatient.  The optional text has a nice visual of this.

 

Provide a review of local community healthcare resources.

Include the following aspects in the assignment:

• Use several resources (phone book, Windshield survey, internet, etc.) to create a thorough list of non-hospital healthcare facilities in your community.
• Provide the town/city name, name of the facility, type of the facility, specifics about what services the facility provides.
• Were you surprised at what you found? If so, why?
• Do you think there are sufficient services for your community? Why or why not?
• Did you find an underrepresented area (without mental health, walk-in, low-income/free clinic, women’s health, Planned Parenthood, Senior Citizen Center).
• Why do you think these facilities are not represented in your area?
• Make a simple chart with columns for each required section. Answer the final questions under the chart as Q& A.
• Cite any references. Proper grammar, sentence structure, and spelling are required. Use your own words. Copying and pasting are not allowed.