Patients/community members discuss access to care and time. (2023)
I feel that you can get here. That’s true. I think that time’s an issue and I think that time in terms of taking time off of work to be able to be there is an issue. I walk around the neighborhood in the northeast area, and you see a place opening, you figure you can walk through the door and ask. It’s like, “Oh, well we don’t do walk-ins today,” although it says walk-ins. “Oh, but we don’t do it today” kind of thing. So I think access is an issue. Even when you have a facility standing right in front of you, they’ll say, “No, we don’t do it today.”