Where Do Sedgwick County Residents Seek Medical Care?
When asked where do you receive most of your care? overwhelmingly, respondents indicate a particular physicians office (78.5%), followed by a hospital emergency department (5.2%), a hospital outpatient department (4.3%), other site (4.2%), an HMO group office (2.3%), a community health center (2.1%), or medical school clinic or hospital residency clinic (1.5%). Findings are similar for dependents and other adults (see Table 14). Respondents were asked, If you use hospital outpatient care, what location do you use? Nearly 60% of the respondents listed no response or dont know, suggesting that outpatient medical services are not frequently used. When a choice was listed, the most frequently listed response was Wesley Medical Center (11.5%) followed by Via Christi St. Francis campus (9.6%), Via Christi St. Joseph campus (4.8%), Riverside Hospital (1.9%) and the Veterans Administration Hospital (1.0%). Other location was listed by 11.5% of respondents (Table 15). Nearly three-fourths of su
