Which statement is NOT true about community health centers preventive and primary care services?

• A. Physical assessments
• B. Health screenings
• C. Disease management
• D. Day care and acute and chronic care management

Answer: (D)

Community health centers are built around preventive and primary care delivered in an outpatient setting. They routinely perform physical assessments during visits, offer health screenings (like blood pressure, cholesterol, cancer screenings), and provide disease management programs to help patients control chronic conditions through education, monitoring, and coordinated care. The idea of day care and acute care management does not fit this outpatient, preventive-focused model. Day care implies supervised care during the day outside of a step-down or hospital setting, and acute care management refers to urgent, hospital-level care. Those are not typical components of CHCs’ preventive and primary care services. Therefore, the statement pairing day care with acute and chronic care management is not true for community health centers.