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Important Health Center Context Fill out this section during your planning process | |
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Internal Characteristics | |
What are the characteristics of your health center? (rural/urban; other demographic variables, use of expanded care team, culture)? Our | Our health centers are in both urban and rural areas. 70% of patients are 100% and below poverty line; 73% are insured by Medicaid/Medicare; 54% are Hispanic or Latinx; 18% of our patient base comprise of special populations (unhoused, agriculture workers & families, veterans). |
What are the infrastructure characteristics of your health center (use of expanded care team, culture)? | |
How do interventions and/or workflows need to be adapted to ensure health equity? | 41% of CCHC patients are best served in a language other than English so providing written education materials, videos in other languages are important. In pursuit of health equity, our DEI practices at CCHC focus on meeting each patient where they are so the interventions chosen are to ensure each patient’s understanding related to their specific data. |
How complex are the patient interventions to implement (e.g., perceived difficulty of implementation, reflected by duration, scope, radicalness, disruptiveness, and number of steps required)? | Currently, all interventions are done in the exam room (videos) and the ASCVD calculator teaching tool is shown via provider’s iPhone or iPad with the patient. |
What are key characteristics of the participating setting(s)? | |
External Characteristics | |
What external or environmental supports or threats are there? | |
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