Inside HRSA - July 2008 - Health Resources and Services Administration
 
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Call It "Find a Health Center 2.0"

If you haven’t visited recently, the Find a Health Center site on the HRSA Web has undergone a substantial makeover and upgrade.

The site now contains contact information (name, address, phone number and Web site, if available) for over 5,700 permanent or seasonal health center sites, including clinics and other auxiliary sites that deliver care to patients.

That’s a big improvement from the earlier version, which offered only addresses and phone information for about 1,000 grantee headquarters sites and the names of some affiliated clinics. Another bonus: the information on the new site is updated every day.

 

The improved Find a Health Center site on the HRSA web.
The improved "Find a Health Center" site - http://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov

 

Perhaps the biggest improvements on the revised Web site were achieved by adding mapping software and driving directions for each separate listing. A person who types in her ZIP code or home address and clicks on “Display results with text and map” not only gets a list of the nearest health center sites, that list comes with a map that plots the location of the sites.

If the searcher wants a close-up map of the neighborhood around an individual site, all she has to do is click on “Map this health center” for a better view. A route to arrive at the health center site from home or any other address is easily obtained by clicking on “Click here for driving directions.”

The improved site was developed by the Office of Information Technology’s Data Warehouse team, using data provided from the Bureau of Primary Health Care’s baseline scope verification project and HRSA enterprise site data in the Electronic Hand Books system. Patients at the Chase Brexton health center in Baltimore helped OIT improve the site by testing paper prototypes and making suggestions to enhance usability.

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