Community Assessment of Homestead Using Windshield Walking Survey

Environment; A good number of the buildings observed in the in Homestead community appeared to have been built in early 1940 up to the most recent one being less than ten years old. Majority of these buildings appear having been built of bricks, tiles and vinyl sidings. The most evident architectural styles included Homestead vernacular, Mission style, Art Deco and Miami modern among others. A higher number of these were in excellent conditions and shape. Although a few needed renovation (Imbruce, 2007). Key parks that occupy the free spaces include the Losner Park situated close to the Seminole theatre as well as West Palm Beach. The street beams up with intense activities in the morning, noon time and the evenings. During this time the traffic is high, as majority of those who commute to work are getting to or leaving their respective work stations.

Heavy traffic at an average of 50,000 traffic count is experienced along the Florida Turnpike especially at the northeast part of the city; this traffic reduces toward the southern part of the city to almost 22,000 around the terminus point within the Florida city. Due to the ever increasing population, the noise levels in the Homestead community have continuously become a pervasive concern. Poverty levels are very alarming among the age bracket of 20 to mid 60s as majority of these young adults struggle to go post high school education and this is more worse with the males, a good number of the household occupancy are rented houses yet still there are some which lie unoccupied for renting out. Majority of those who do not own houses are the Latinos (Washko & Fennell, 2017).

Services The community receives medical services from the Homestead Hospital situated along 975 Baptist way; the Campbell Drive/SW 312 Street and serves a wide patient zone divided into six ZIP codes. With an estimated population of over 180,000 people. This emphasizes how over stretched the physicians and other medical team is. Community nurses and healthcare providers can be trained and equipped in well established rehab centers to address this menace (Fisk, 1979). Chronic disease management centers; The Homestead hospital serves a wider population and with an increase in the sedentary lifestyle, the population requires several centers to manage diseases such as hypertension, diabetes among other lifestyle diseases. This will also serve to reduce the in-patient size to the already overstretched hospital. These centers will go along way with enlightening the population on health living.