All e-mails are kept confidential . Vitally Important for Minorities Creating more community health care centers can increase low-income families' access to physicians and health care, according to a recent study comparing primary health care visits in 1994 and 1998 at community health centers, hospital outpatient departments and physicans' offices. Forty percent of all medical visits by ethnic minorities without health insurance or Medicaid are to community health centers or hospital outpatient departments, the study revealed. The study also found wide disparities in the number of ethnic minorities visiting physicians. Community health care centers increased the continuity of health care among typically medically underserved populations, the study concludes.
Continuity of care is the heart and soul of wellness for patients.