health center
Noun
Meaning
health center (plural health centers)
US standard form of health centre.
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Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.
Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room.
According to the Caddo Coroner's Office, the first death of a Caddo Parish resident related to COVID-19 came on March 24th, at Willis-Knighton Bossier Health Center.
A patient is loaded into the back of an ambulance by emergency medical workers outside Cobble Hill Health Center, April 17, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
And then most of my career has been inside federally qualified health centers and non-profits like the Mott Children’s Health Center.
Fitzpatrick commented how in the past, if a student at the Health Center needed emotional support, it took counselors 15 minutes to arrive.