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Site Selection Tips
Site Selection Criteria
This checklist can help you select an asthma screening program site.
- Look for space in high-traffic locations such as a shopping mall, civic center, community hospital lobby or health fair.
- Walk through the site to determine physical set-up.
- Determine available dates and times for the screening.
- Check to see what other events are occurring at the site location on the proposed screening date that might either compete with your screening or help generate traffic.
- Ask about insurance liability and permit requirements, if any.
- Identify equipment needs such as tables, chairs and easels (see Equipment Checklist), and determine what can be provided by the operator of the site and what must be brought in.
- Determine electrical access. You will need electricity for spirometers and a television/DVD player if you want to display the educational DVD.
- Find out if the location allows signs or flyer distribution for publicity before or during the event. For instance, in a mall, ask if flyers and posters can be distributed or displayed in food courts and stores. In a hospital, ask if flyers or posters can be displayed at the information desk, cafeteria or in literature racks.
- If the screening program is held in a community hospital or mall, place a notice in the hospital newsletter or mall merchant newsletter. Plan ahead so you don’t miss publication deadlines.
- Ask about public address announcements. As a public service, some malls and retail stores will agree to announcements periodically throughout the day to help drive traffic to the screening.
- Determine storage space. If a screening is more than one day, make arrangements for a secure place for overnight storage of screening equipment.
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