Crossroad Health Center
Site Description
Crossroad Health Center is a Christian health center dedicated to making health care accessible and affordable to Over the
Rhine and its surrounding neighborhoods for the past twelve years. Crossroad's mission is to provide accessible,
comprehensive health care in partnership with their patients and community, leading to healthy, changed lives. Crossroad
has a staff of about nine physicians and a nurse practitioner, who provide health care to more than 4,000 patients. Most
of the patients served live at less than half the poverty level ($7500 for a family of four), and one out of three patients
is uninsured. Services offered at Crossroad include general medical care for all ages (immunizations, check-ups, management
of acute and chronic problems), mental health counseling, podiatry, Spanish interpretation, and gynecology and prenatal care.
Job Description
The intern will...
- • Gain experience in a Christian medical office setting.
- • Begin to understand the complex issues facing the underprivileged: finances, nutrition, home environment,
social services, access to healthcare.
- • Gain an increased awareness of resources available to providers who care for urban, poor populations.
- • Shadow medical providers one or two half days a week, observing medical care.
- • Interview the Medical Director and Clinical Coordinator about the assets/needs of their population and the role
of spirituality in providing health care.
- • If bilingual in Spanish, interpret for Latino patients during the visit. (Latinos comprise 15% of our patient population).
- • Interview one or more of the office staff to get their perspective on how their patients deal with poverty,
how they make a difference as their primary care provider, and how Crossroad staff work as a team.
- • Watch a video on Illiteracy in Healthcare; choose one patient education tool to revise, based on that information
(Ex: Take one of our brochures and revise it to be more visual, less wordy; or create a needed one).
- • Get patients ready to see the medical provider: Record blood pressures, temp, weight, height, vision and hearing
screening, chief complaint and medications.
- • Hold children for lab work and vaccinations.
- • Fill out lab requisitions.
- • May learn to dipstick urine and run rapid strep tests.
- • File/pull charts along with doing miscellaneous typing and mailings.
- • Work on specific summer projects with the Clinical Coordinator, such as data collection/analysis on children with
anemia, lead poisoning, and asthma, to improve quality of outcomes and care.
- • Participate in the Over the Rhine Festival and Health Fair the first Saturday in August.
- • Work Monday through Friday, 9 - 5:30 pm.
Priority given to applicants that are bilingual in Spanish, have prior health clinic experience and/or have a desire to do
health missions. This site welcomes interns of any religious denomination.
Intern Experience Summary
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