Community
1. Describe your community.
a. I ‘m part of many communities with daughter a senior in High School this year, softball teams, church, family, friends and work. I have decided to write about is work. Health care is my line of work.
2. What are the shared experiences and events in your community?
b. The health center that I work at as been in our small town for more than 100 years. The current building that we are in was opened on March 6, 1951. As a community hospital our goals are to provide the high health care for the residents of the county and surrounding areas – children, teens, adult, senior citizens, friends and neighbors.
In 2004 we started to make an introduction of the needs for hospital infrastructure, which is aging, wiring is insufficient in keeping with today’s technologies, medical equipment and computers, to the community. We provided tours of the faculty from the penthouse to the boiler room for the community to see firsthand the updates needed for the present day building. Then we began a campaign for a replacement health center in our community.
3. What common goals do you and the people in the community share?
a. The staff at the health center are group of highly qualified, dedicated team of professionals striving to treat the body, mind and spirit of every person, delivering personalized, compassionate care for each individual being patient or staff member. We provide such care in many forms - technologically advanced medical services, quality health education for patients and staff members, health screening and more.
The need for new faculty that is easy access for the elderly patient, individual temperature control for their room, emergency services on the main floor (not the fourth floor), and like other health care center more space for outpatient services.
4. What stories in your community need to be told?
a. Beyond the walls of the health care, we work closely with businesses, community groups , schools, junior college, social services agencies and the other to build a healthier community and many people of the community and surrounding areas do’nt know the stories of the hospital, the services provided, and the needs of the health center are.
5. How individual, group and community stories might be told through art work?
a. The stories can be told with art work, starting with the history of the health care in the community, we have a whole wall mural that shows the history of the medical community; collage of medical items used in the past to the present, photos of past and present and future, a quilt with mural squares of the stories of the health history, or a traveling wall with our stories in photos.
6. Is there a sign, symbol, ritual, or story from these questions that could act as a central metaphor?
a. A symbol that has been used in communities across of United States is the capital (H) for health center. With own health center we use the H is in our logo for our health center.
7. Are there opportunities for to support and expand upon local craft traditions?
a. We will be using a traveling wall to go to the in NCK Music Festival, local festivals, Physicians’ appreciation reception, health fairs, county fairs, Christmas outreach, benefit golf tournament and many more. Many of the employees of the health care are put together a story quilt, with the history of the health center. We hope to finish this project by the end of April.
8. Discuss the idea that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” What aspects of the community environment do some members of the group find beautiful that other do not? Can those who find something ugly see it in another way?
a. Each one of us is different in many ways, what we see as beautiful, ugly, what is pleasing. You can drive down the same street every day and nothing beautiful about the drive but if you were to go for a walk down the same road you will see the beauty of the new kittens playing in the sun, tulips blooming, children playing outside and hear their laugher; things you miss driving.
9. Who could you partner with for this project?
a. For the project of building an updated health care facility, we have sent letter out to the local communities answering for their support. We have the support of the fellow employees, current and retired, friends and family of the hospital.
10. Where this event could take place or displayed at?
a. We will be having displays at county fairs, festivals, fundraiser, senior centers, golf tournaments, community health fair, high school health fairs, and health fair for companies in the local area.
11. Who would you like to reach in this project: Who would you like to see this project or be educated about your community?
a. I feel that all residents of the community and surrounding areas being children, teens, adult and senior citizens would benefits from seeing this project. If they use from themselves and for a love ones.
