[clw04002]

My name is Christine Wilbur and I am currently in my third year at Uconn's school of nursing. I was recently assigned a project to write a report about Windham (not including Willimantic) and Scotland's health care systems that are located in town. I have spent a lot of time trying to research and learn about different businesses in the area that pertain to health care, however, I seem to be having a lot of trouble coming up with much. Yesterday I spent some time exploring the two towns and I noticed there aren't many businesses relating to health care in the town, but I'm afraid I am missing many of them and I do not want to. The information I am working on will eventually be made readily available for public use and I really want to do an excellent job representing the town. Please anything you can tell me would be of substantial use and greatly appreciated.
For example I need to learn if there are any:

Grocery Stores
Doctors Offices
Dentists
Emergency services
Insurance stats
Local paper
Local radio stations
Eye Doctors
Specialist doctors
Long term health care for the elderly
and the list goes on...basically anything and everything that pertains to health care would help me immensly in my journey towards finishing this project.

Thank you
Christine Wilbur

[Ebenezer Devotion]

You have an interesting project as Scotland and Windham are very different towns. Scotland is a more or less a small antique farm town representing the area where routes 14 and 97 (Devotion road) meet. In terms of industry there is virtually none save the store (The Scotland General store - which has served travelers through and locals since before the automobile) and a few family owned farms - milking parlors etc.. Some stables. Route 14 cuts the town in two and it is essentially residential land to either side of the road to the town lines. On the other hand, Windham encompasses Willimantic by definition (though it didn't always - whether or not to call it "Windham" or "Willimantic" was a slow decision made) and includes not only Windham Hospital, but a number of nursing homes, chiropractic offices - dental offices, walk in clinics etc. I think there is a wealth of stuff to dig into in terms of Windham but tying it to rural and historical Scotland might be tough. If it's not too late perhaps you could just focus on Windham and if you must include Scotland perhaps relate statistically how many people in Scotland avail themselves of the medical resources in Windham which alas probably equals most and would be hard to verify. Hmm. This probably didn't help you but I tried.

[Ebenezer Devotion]

I missed the part where you are not to include Willimantic. That seems odd. There is nothing in Scotland on your list of industries however there is a nursing home on route 203 - about 1/2 mile from Windham center - the Willimantic side of 203. Can't think of the name of it offhand.

[clw04002]

Thank you so much for your input. Yeah there is actually another group covering Willimantic leaving us with the outskirts of Windham. Our projects are eventually going to be made public so I just want to make sure I do not overlook any of the smaller businesses (if there are any, which I am not finding) and misrepresent the town. But, thank you for your help.