Pediatric Community Care Center

Pediatric Community Care Center

Introduction

Unite states of America constitutes a large variety of community, ranging from the native white and backs to the migrants. The New York City is accounted to have the largest number of the migrant population, making the city a blend of cultural variations. This distinct existence of multicultural existence has affected the foundation of the health care setting, depending of interest and needs of the community.

This paper has chosen an underserved community with multicultural population living together. The paper discusses the challenges that might be encountered if the foundation of a small pediatric satellite clinic, which is an extension of the “pediatric community care center” working for multiple communities of the city. This paper will also discuss the qualities of an administrator responsible to ensure an efficient foundation and the benefits of the pediatric satellite clinic for the community.

Discussion

Chosen Community and the Rationale behind selection

The community I have selected is an underserved community in New York, with a combination of Latinos and Puerto Ricans and whites. The community is predominated by Latinos, constituting 85 % of the people of community, Puerto Ricans ranking second with 10% while the white population comprises of 5 % population.

The Latinos and Puerto Ricans are the communities living in extreme poverty in New York City. Most of families and their children lack healthcare insurance, and therefore, poor health care provision (Flores, et.al, 1998). This is the reason that children of these communities have been suffering from significant higher rate of diseases and with an elevated mortality rate as compared to other communities.

Figure 1 NYC individuals living in poverty http://www.wnyc.org/story/87484-puerto-ricans-in-new-york-strugglingstill/

The Latino children are indicated to rank first in minorities of children, suffering from various environment related diseases, mercury from candy illness and pesticides infections (Carter-Pokras, et.al, 2007). In order to provide these children with improved care and to reduce the rate of mortality, the pediatric community care center decided to expand its services in the form of a small pediatric satellite clinic in the community.

My Role as an Administrator

After the construction of the clinic was completed, I was chosen as the new administrator to recruit staff, develop strategies to build rapport I the community, selection and installation of technology and ensuring that the process meets the legislation and is complying with regulatory agencies.

Being an administrator, I believe that professional knowledge and competency is essential. It is vital to ...