Ensure urgent care facilities are available within 30-minutes of every resident.
Modern medicine can largely be handled with a firm commitment to improved technology and mental health resources. But, one gaping hole remains in the infrastructure of Jasper and Newton county: urgent care facilities. These facilities bridge the gaps in an improved healthcare infrastructure by providing emergency medical care ranging from obstetrics to trauma wounds to overdoses.
We must be steadfast in our commitment to recruiting a hospital network to locate their urgent care facilities to multiple comm- unities in our counties. This may likely involve multiple medical networks from various locations but will ensure that local citizens never have to travel further than 30 minutes by car to receive needed emergency medical treatment when it’s most needed.
