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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)? | Elaine Ellis Center is a ambulatory FQHC located in Ward 7 in the Kenilworth Community in Northeast Washington D.C. The mission of this healthcare center is to provide affordable, quality healthcare to the underserved community which includes the Kenilworth Court public housing community and its surrounding areas regardless of their ability to pay. |
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? | Interventions and workflows need to be inclusive and adaptable to reflect the complexities and challenges that the patient population face to achieve positive outcomes to health equity. Access, communication and resources are the most important characteristics to achieve 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)? | Patient interventions can be complex are the patient interventions to implement due to an number of factors. This can range from patient engagement, staffing structures of the clinical care team and/or standing order policies. Patient interventions should be simple in the number of steps so everyone on the care team can follow. |
What are key characteristics of the participating setting(s)? | Elaine Ellis is a small but growing organization. The care team contributes in providing care to the patients is adaptable (especially in sharing duties), diverse, responsive and motivated to provide quality healthcare to the community of patients. Other Challenges patients face range from transportation for access, medication affordability, health literacy and resources for care. |
External Characteristics | |
What external or environmental supports or threats are there? | One of the benefits of Elaine Ellis is that it is located in a high traffic area which serves as a thoroughfare. it is accessible by Metro bus and provides free parking to the patients. It also allows a good environment to provide a good location and base for community outreach for the patients and residents in the surrounding area. |
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