NeighborCare clinics were established forty years ago with a commitment to serve the disadvantaged (NeighborCare 2015). There are twenty-four clinics throughout the Seattle area located in the impoverished neighborhoods where health care is lacking. The variety of services offered is substantial and impressive; such as, system wide over forty languages and dialects are spoken. This paper delineates an overview of the experience of the Lake City NeighborCare clinic.
Services Provided
There are two locations in Lake City; one is a satellite office with limited hours/days, while the other operates regular business hours Monday through Friday. The atmosphere is inviting and comfortable while the staff is outgoing, congenial, and professional.
NeighborCare’s mission is to provide health services to the population that has difficulty accessing care and to improve the health status of the community (NeighborCare 2015). Their vision is to have zero health disparities with 100% access to health care. The choices offered were at this clinic were comprehensive, including: nutritional counseling, a RN diabetic educator, behavior health services, psychiatric RN, midwife and maternity services, medical and dental care, and ophthalmology appointments to diabetic patients. One benefit of being an established …show more content…
Ryan states, diabetic patients are a large population of this clinic, mixed with some homeless patients (R. Rinker, personal communication, July 7, 2015). The clinic, located at Pike Market, where he worked previously, sees a large percentage of homeless patients for wound care issues. He mentions the south Seattle clinics encounter a larger population of patients that speak a foreign language. The Lake City clinic has some patients that speak Somali, Amharic (an Ethiopian language), Arabic, Spanish and English. The Lake City clinic does provide on site translators for some of these
Services Provided
There are two locations in Lake City; one is a satellite office with limited hours/days, while the other operates regular business hours Monday through Friday. The atmosphere is inviting and comfortable while the staff is outgoing, congenial, and professional.
NeighborCare’s mission is to provide health services to the population that has difficulty accessing care and to improve the health status of the community (NeighborCare 2015). Their vision is to have zero health disparities with 100% access to health care. The choices offered were at this clinic were comprehensive, including: nutritional counseling, a RN diabetic educator, behavior health services, psychiatric RN, midwife and maternity services, medical and dental care, and ophthalmology appointments to diabetic patients. One benefit of being an established …show more content…
Ryan states, diabetic patients are a large population of this clinic, mixed with some homeless patients (R. Rinker, personal communication, July 7, 2015). The clinic, located at Pike Market, where he worked previously, sees a large percentage of homeless patients for wound care issues. He mentions the south Seattle clinics encounter a larger population of patients that speak a foreign language. The Lake City clinic has some patients that speak Somali, Amharic (an Ethiopian language), Arabic, Spanish and English. The Lake City clinic does provide on site translators for some of these