The Downey Family Care Center
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED CENTER
Access to preventative medicine is the key to a healthy community. This begins with access to primary care health services that partner with the patient to provide education as well as direct care. The center will be a medical home for families lacking full medical service access. The center's education, preventative care, and holistic, family-centered approach will decrease morbidity, decrease healthcare costs, improve emergency room wait-time for those with true emergency medical problems and overall improve the quality of life for Downey’s surrounding communities.
The center will be a team training site for DRMC’s Family Practice residents, medical students, nursing students, Family Nurse Practitioners/Physician Assistants in training, Optometry/Podiatry/Dental students in training from Western University of Health Sciences.
Clinic services are projected to include:
- Comprehensive Primary care for children, adults and seniors
- Pre-natal care and education
- Preventive education on asthma, diabetes, heart disease, HIV, STD’s, teen pregnancy,
- Obesity
- Women, Infants & Children (WIC) enrollment
- Urgent care services
- Basic radiology and lab services
- Some medication services
- After hours and weekend appointments
- Patients seen regardless of ability to pay
- Nutritional and exercise education
- Mental Health referrals and counseling on-site
- Community Outreach
The facility will include nine treatment rooms, radiology, laboratory, medication dispensing, two counseling/education rooms and a conference room for resident and patient education. In addition to primary and urgent care services for indigent patients. The Clinic will serve as a referral source for low-income populations and as a follow-up facility for those discharged from the hospital.
The Downey clinic is currently under construction and is 85% complete. We need your help to finish construction. The clinic will care for the most underprivileged in Southeast LA, offering a healthcare home that has a high standard of healthcare in a culturally competent manner. We need $100,000 to finish construction so that we can open our doors and start caring for those in need.
The Downey clinic is currently under construction and is 85% complete. We need your help to finish construction. The clinic will care for the most underprivileged in Southeast LA, offering a healthcare home that has a high standard of healthcare in a culturally competent manner. We need $100,000 to finish construction so that we can open our doors and start caring for those in need.
