Quality of Community Health Centers
Analysis Paper: Quality Community Health Centers
The health of every human being is always a priority to every governing authority that cares for its people. Governments establish health centers as well as health policies and event budget for health services to be provided to the people. Some of these health centers are of national level whereas others are community based. The community-based health centers, however, have their share of issues in the course of delivering services. This has led to compromising of the quality of the health centers and the services they offer.
The New York is considered to the begging point for the establishment of community-based health centers in the United States of America. Some of its health centers date back to the early civilization yeas. Hence as a result, these health centers have many challenges, and hence the quality of their services is not that good. However, being an industrialized state, it also has some new and well technologically advanced health centers (Catton, 2011).
The health provision faces issues such as inadequate funding from the central government for the local-based public hospitals. This leads to less medical facility supplies and inadequate staff to serve the vast population of the New York state. Also as a result of inadequate funds, the issue of inadequate health centers arises. This leads to overcrowding in some of the hospitals hence due to the inadequate staff, the quality of the health centers deteriorates (Catton, 2011). The price of the health care services is also quite high hence very much inaccessible and unaffordable for the rural communities of the state whose average income is too low. The membership of the health centers is also deteriorating especially because of issues relating to race and ethnic affiliations of the state. The minority communities find hard in accessing...
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