C. W. Williams Community Center

C W Williams Community Center: A Community Asset Case Study

Lakenya Campbell

Palm Beach State College

HAS 4938

January 24, 2021

Purpose of the research

C W Williams Community Center, a community facility, was assessed to determine its problems in providing adequate health care to the community. Action will later be undertaken to solve the issues based on the results of the study. Therefore, the research had two purposes:

· To examine the problems that bedevil the health care system at the community level.

· To propose interventions that should be undertaken in addressing the healthcare system's problems at the community level.

This paper will address issues that affect C W Williams Community Center and other community-based health center and then propose ways to address the problems.

Health is not equal to all people in the United States. Some receive the best care, but some lack it. Community health center provide health care to the medically underserved populations within society. This research will seek to determine the underserved people and state their locations to improve the region's facility. It will then recommend the activities that should be undertaken to uplift the facility's standards by providing medical equipment and drugs.

The majority of the community health center serve the poor within society (Lazar & Davenport, 2018). This makes them charge less because people are unable to afford high-end medication. They are, therefore, popular with the poverty-stricken communities. The purpose of this research is to determine the poverty levels within the regions with community health facilities. It will then propose mechanisms such as subsidized health care or insurance-based health care to the patients.

To effectively provide healthcare to patients, most facilities offer managed care to patients. This is a method used by the state to organize or manage the cost of medication, operation, and quality of care (Cook et al., 2007). The research will assess how the government can intervene in providing health care to its citizens by contracting with MCOs to offer Medicaid programs to beneficiaries. This will significantly reduce the cost and provide better manage utilization of health services.  

The research will also look at the challenges experienced by moving from the primarily fee-for-service to a managed care environment. Physicians have been barred from working with C W Williams Community Center after the transfer because they entered the hospitals under the managed care. This has affected the facility's quality of care by denying it the best doctors to treat patients. Therefore, this research aims to provide a solution to see such facilities to get the best doctors. Strategies will be improvised to see community facilities contract medical facilities without breaching their former employers' agreement.

To work well and provide quality care to patients, the community-based facilities should partner with other hospitals to offer additional services that are not provided by them (Lazar & Davenport, 2018). Therefore, this study will identify facilities that are well equipped and can provide extra care to the patients at a reduced price.

Community care facilities are also touted to be working on losses. This is because they are located in poor neighborhoods, and most clients cannot pay for high-end medication (Lazar & Davenport, 2018). The research will look at C W Williams Community Center's financial records and assess the profits or losses that the hospital makes. The study will then suggest ways to enable the hospital and other community facilities to make more profits even as they offer affordable health care to the economically poor populations. Partnership with insurance companies can assist in addressing the problem of frequent losses incurred by community hospitals.

Therefore, the research will assess the problems that affect community hospitals and suggest ways of improving the situation to provide affordably and quality care to patients.  

References

Cook, N. L., Hicks, L. S., O'Malley, A. J., Keegan, T., Guadagnoli, E., & Landon, B. E. (2007). Access to speciality care and medical services in community health centres. Health Affairs, 26(5), 1459-1468.

Lazar, M., & Davenport, L. (2018). Barriers to health care access for low-income families: a review of the literature. Journal of community health nursing, 35(1), 28-37.