Community Women's ClinicThe Community Women's Clinic is a clinic that serves the health and wellness needs of girls and women in the San Francisco Bay Area. This clinic, opened in 1999, is a voluntary, non-profit enterprise. (Women's Community Clinic website, 2014, history 1) The Women's Community Clinic (WCC) provides services to women, the transgender and gender-variant community, and girls ages 12 and older who live in San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda or Marin County. regardless of their ability to pay for the services. Their service requirements are either not having health insurance, having inadequate health insurance, having Medi-Cal, or needing the privacy of someone who shares their policy insurance. WCC has enrollment counselors on site to help patients enroll and decide on a plan offered by the Affordable Care Act. (Women's Community Clinic website, 2014, FAQ 1)WCC is a project of the Tides Center. The Tides Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. This designation allows WCC to be exempt from federal income and property taxes, state registration for fundraising and for individuals to make tax-deductible charitable contributions to the clinic. (Tides website, nd, p. 1) The clinic's core values ​​are listed as client-centered care, cultural inclusion, and harm reduction. Client-centered care is, as one might think, client-centered. Staff strive to treat, educate and empower their clients in a language they are comfortable with, safe and non-threatening. This clinic cares for many unique individuals from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Cultural inclusion focuses on actively learning about different cultures and beliefs as well as accepting and validating differences...... middle of paper ...... providing education. Each patient admitted to cardiac rehabilitation presents a profile of risk factors upon admission and reassessed throughout the program and upon discharge. Education is provided based on the individual needs of each patient and the entire group regarding cardiovascular health and wellness. PHN orientation involves many aspects such as trend detection, data collection and analysis, disaster preparedness and relief, communicable disease reporting and many other tasks for the entire community , and not just for a select group like me. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, chapter 46) Works Cited Stanhope, M. and Lancaster, J. (2012). Public health nursing: population-centered community care (8th ed.). Maryland Heights, Missouri: Elsevier Mosby.Tides website. (nd). http://www.tides.org Community Women's Clinic website. (2014). http://www.womenscommunityclinic.org