Analysis of Primary Health Care Center: Somerset West Community Health Center

Running head: Seminar 4: Analysis of Primary Health Care Center 1
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Seminar 4: Analysis of Primary Health Care Center or project 2
Introduction
Primary Health Care centers are essential government facilities that were built up to
give cheap and accessible essential medicinal services to individuals of the general public.
Primary health care centers are the first choice for most people for health-related matters.
Primary health care centers are mostly run by general practitioners but also other professionals
such as pharmacists, dentists and opticians provide primary health care services. Primary health
care centers play an important role in the society and medical care provision s they receive a
large number of people with different queries and concerns each day (Suter et al., 2017).
The primary objectives of Canadian Primary Health Care providers include enhanced
acquiring of essential care administrations; improved systematization and assimilation of care;
extension of group-based ways to deal with clinical care; enhanced propriety of care, giving
attention to aversion and managing immedicable and complex disease; more education on
importance of self care to patients the usage and utilization of information technology system for
patient’s medical records, more satisfactory services for both patient and health provider,
conveyance of a characterized set of administrations to a particular populace, appropriation of a
populace based way to deal with designing and providing care, open cooperation in
administration and basic leadership, building limit with regards to quality change, responsiveness
to patients' and networks' needs, more noteworthy health value, healthcare framework
responsibility, proficiency, supportability(Hutchison, Levesque, Strumpf & Coyle, 2011). In
order to achieve these goals, the government of Canada and the primary health care providers
need to apply strategies in every health care center around the country using given policies.

Seminar 4: Analysis of Primary Health Care Center or project 3
Analysis of the Somerset Community Health Center
When searching the internet, I came across the Somerset West Community Health Center
(https://swchc.on.ca/) and I was interested in learning more about them and the services they
provide. Somerset West Community Health Center is one of the best non-benefits; community-
based and administered association that gives essential healthcare services, healthcare
advancement and social improvement in Canada. The healthcare center offers a wide assortment
of projects and services intended to address the issues of their locale through Primary Care,
Health Promotion, Families and Children, Mental Health and Addictions and in addition Chronic
Disease Management. The center has been providing services to residents of Ottawa River to
Carling Avenue and Island Park to Lyon Street for over 45 years. The center is run by a Board of
Directors and their services provision is guided by well-defined vision, mission, beliefs and
aspirations. The center has a team of highly qualified health professionals and social workers.
The Somerset West Community Health Center is guided by the principles of health
provision according to the Canada Health Act. These principles are; accessibility, health
promotion, use of technology, public/ community involvement/ participation, and inter-sectoral
alliances (Canadian Nurses Association, 2003).
The Community Health Center ensures the accessibility of health care services for all
residents residing in Ottawa. This is through providing services from Monday to Friday from
9:00 am to 4:30 p.m and up to 7:30 p.m for Tuesday and Thursdays. The center also ensures that
the needs of their clients are met by use of an accessibility plan to reach all patients and learn
about their diverse needs and come up with strategies for the patients to access the services. An
accessibility plan for the center is available online at