Title: Reading: (CU3 M1) Community Healthcare Resources
Course: SkillsCom CMA 111 16.0 > Section: Credit Unit 3 Module 1

Telephone Triage and Community Healthcare Resources

As you answer the telephone or the messages on your EHR, one of the things that you may be required to do is to assist the patient in connecting out to their community healthcare resources for assistance.

Having a thorough understanding of the key resources available in your community makes you a real asset to the patient and to your provider.

There are many types of resources exist for patients, so knowing what is available and where they are located is important.

Check out these these five websites:

- Samaritan - (Willamette Valley & Coast)
- Corvallis Clinic
- Peace Health - (Eugene)
- Salem Clinic
- Independent Physicians

Other resources that are important to recognize for the work that they do in our community:

- Linn and Benton County Health Departments
- Albany, Lebanon, Newport, Corvallis, Lincoln City Police Department
- Linn, Benton, Lincoln County Sheriff Departments
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (Webpage)
- Center Against Rape & Domestic Violence (Webpage)

Sometimes just being able to provide a patient the right resource at the right moment in time makes all the difference.