Getting Your Needs Met in the Health Care System
Across
- 2. retail or medical facilities where people obtain medications. Can provide information and guidance regarding medications
- 5. provided by phone and is sometimes called a health information line. Exist to help answer health questions and provide advice like whether or not to go to the emergency room, how to manage a fever. Available 24-hours/day (2 words, no space)
- 7. convenient option to receive care for medical problems when you are not experiencing an emergency, and your PCP provider is not available
- 8. Clinic provide services in neighborhoods with limited access to medical services. Usually provided in large vehicles like buses or semi-trailers that have been fitted with the features of a doctor's office. (2 words)
- 9. focus on oral care
- 10. provided by physicians trained in comprehensive initial assessment and continuing care. Provide routine health check-ups, screenings, and treating illnesses that are not emergencies
Down
- 1. also called a "minute clinic"
- 3. for people who have an injury or condition that needs immediate medical attention; delaying care would be life threatening or life altering
- 4. for advanced or complicated conditions that need more complex care than can be provided with PCP services.
- 6. services that joins primary care and behavioral health care (mental health, substance use)