Access to Care
Health care should be accessible to people of all ages, from all walks of life. Currently, that vision remains out of reach. Data shows that 78% of residents in this community live in an area affected by a Health Professional Area - which is more than three times higher than the rate for all California.
Residents recently voiced concerns about not receiving adequate care, requesting an accessible urgent care center. They shared concerns around the lack of treatment opportunities in the county, including residential treatment programs.
For more information about our goals and strategies, please visit our 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment and 2023 Community Health Improvement Plan.
Strategies
- Explore collaborative recruitment and incentive options.
- Utilize and create supports to lessen burden on providers.
- Partner with local Universities and Medical Schools to offer loan forgiveness.
- Consider recruiting families instead of individual providers.
Strategies
- Commit to consistently practicing cultural awareness and integration.
- Bring key players to the table to strengthen partnerships and build relationships.
- Educate and celebrate what each system is doing well.
- Look at challenges and how to collectively address those challenges.
Strategies
- Provide incentives for patients and employers with fewer sick days.
- Create targeted messaging for variety of services (i.e., mental health and substance use disorder).
- Improve and expand Wi-Fi access and increases places to charge a device.
- Provide training on telehealth at senior centers, libraries, food banks, school, shelters/warming centers.
- Engage/educate employers so that they can include information on telehealth services during their on-boarding process.
- Increase physical spaces to access telehealth and increase transportation.
- Promote diversity of telehealth providers.
- Make sure all navigators have information on telehealth access and training.