1    Discussion

The Commonwealth Fund’s report Cultural Competence in Health Care: Emerging Frameworks and Practical Approaches provides four brief case study examples of culturally competent healthcare service models. Your textbook outlines the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health’s National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS). The CLAS consists of 14 standards, a listing of which can be found on page 14 of your textbook. Choose one of the case studies in the report and discuss which elements of the CLAS the healthcare service meets.

2    Journal: Culture

Think about your own culture. What would a healthcare provider need to know about you and your culture in order to provide culturally competent healthcare? Consider issues such as your ethnicity, religion, and so on.

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Community Health Model

From the report, this discussion will evaluate the community health model. According to the standards set by Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS), the community health model managed to meet most of them. The Sunset Park Family Health Center (SPHFC) was built to address the issue of an increase in demand of basic health care services in the unprivileged areas of Brooklyn, New York. By providing these services, the model managed to meet the first CLAS standard that advocates for effective, respectful and equitable health care services that tend for the needs of the locals despite of their...