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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)? | Hamilton Community Health Network (HCHN) is a FQHC in the Flint MI and surrounding areas with 8 mostly urban sites and 1 small rural site. |
What are the infrastructure characteristics of your health center (use of the expanded care team, culture)? | |
How do interventions and/or workflows need to be adapted to ensure health equity? | SDOH are assessed and barriers addressed for all new patients, annually and when life situations change by protocol at HCHN. Staff must ensure these screening assessments are completed on all patients and all interventions related to SDOH addressed to ensure health equity. |
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)? | Current lack of and transition of staffing will be our most difficult struggle to implementation. Training staff may be disruptive at initiation and training must fit clinic schedule of training times. |
What are key characteristics of the participating setting(s)? | Established in 1983, Hamilton is the largest FQHC in Genesee County with seven clinics and one clinic in Lapeer County. We have over 200 employees and a network of over 40 providers specializing in primary care/family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, optometry, oral health, podiatry, behavioral health and psychiatry. Additionally, Hamilton has Michigan Medicine (University of Michigan) physicians and providers attend specialty clinics monthly. Those clinics include urology, gynecology, and breast health. |
External Characteristics | |
What external or environmental supports or threats are there? | Hamilton is located in a food desert and transportation tends to be a barrier due to patients feeling unsafe on public transportation. |
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