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Healthcare Complaints On Chirper
What Is A Clinic?
How To Place Hospitals
Healthcare Overlay
What Is The Medical University?
How To Fix Poor Healthcare
What Is The Average Health Percentage?
Citizens in Cities: Skylines 2 have natural life cycles. They go to school, have a job, and can even get sick. With a proper healthcare system, your citizens will remain happy and healthy, but it may take some work to reach a healthy population that doesn't complain about healthcare availability.
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In this guide, we are going to look at how to set up a healthcare system in your city. This will include preemptively preparing your healthcare buildings, as well as combating any healthcare issues that arise in your built city. First, let's address citizens complaining about healthcare via Chirper.
Healthcare Complaints On Chirper
Chirper is a social media site that your citizens basically use to complain constantly. While there are some good bits of information here, a lot of Chirps don't reflect the health and happiness of your general population.
From time to time, you may get a citizen complaining about a lack of healthcare. Once a hospital is built, these complaints will go down a little. At the start of the game, there is no preventing this, as you don't have the hospital unlocked yet.
We suggest turning off Chirper notifications, as they don't truly reflect the current state of your city.
What Is A Clinic?
Clinics are small healthcare buildings that provide to a relatively small amount of citizens. Prior to unlocking hospitals, you will rely on clinics for your main form of healthcare.
Once you place a clinic, you can spend some money on the upgrades listed below.
Upgrade | Description | One-Time Build? |
|---|---|---|
Ambulance Depot | Adds more ambulances, which drive to buildings around the city | Yes |
Extension Wing | Creates room for more patients | No |
Clinics are not meant to function as hospitals, but they work great in suburban areas that don't have a hospital in the immediate vicinity. In real life, there are more clinics and individual doctor's offices than hospitals, which is the same in Cities: Skylines 2.
How To Place Hospitals
After unlocking the hospital, we suggest placing one in a central location for your city. This area should be easily accessible; along a large road or near a highway for quick travel. Once your hospital is placed, you can do the following upgrades.
Upgrade | Description | One-Time Build? |
|---|---|---|
Helipad | Helicopters can launch from the roof and reach remote locations | Yes |
Specialized Treatment Ward | Citizens in the area remain healthier | Yes |
Trauma Center | Increases chances of recovery for patients | Yes |
Hospitals have a higher patient capacity and number of employees, but they have a higher upkeep cost. Before placing a hospital, be sure that you have enough money to do so.
Healthcare Overlay
With your hospitals and clinics placed, you will also need to consult the healthcare map overlay. From the top left corner of the screen, click on the "Info Views" menu, and then click on the medical symbol.
This will bring up an overlay that shows your healthcare (and deathcare) coverage. Streets that are green have good access to healthcare, while streets that are leaning more towards orange and red don't have the best coverage.
If your city is big enough, consider adding a second hospital. This will "fill in" those small gaps, and allow you to remove a clinic or two in the area.
Disease Control Center & Health Research Institute
The Disease Control Center and the Health Research Institute are two buildings that also boost the health of citizens. These buildings do not have any upgrades, and provide the following effects
Building | Effects (City-Wide) |
|---|---|
Disease Control Center | -25% Health Effects From Pollution -25% Disease Infection Risk |
Health Research Institute | +10% Park Entertainment -10% Disease Infection Risk |
With both of these buildings, you can greatly decrease the chances of getting sick, which boosts the health of your citizens.
What Is The Medical University?
The Medical University is a type of school that provides high education, as well as a few boosts to the health of your citizens.
A Medical University will provide the following city-wide bonuses.
- -25% Recovery Failures
- +10% Hospital Efficiency
As with hospitals and clinics, there are upgrades you can add to the university, which are found below.
Upgrade | Description | One-Time Build? |
|---|---|---|
Extension Wing | Increases Student Capacity by 500 | Yes |
Practice Clinic | Citizens can be treated near school, with +5% Health to those nearby | No |
Research Facilities | Increases chances of graduation | No |
How To Fix Poor Healthcare
Overall, it's best to plan your city in advance, but this isn't always the case. If your city has good healthcare coverage, but you still see the little ambulance icon above buildings, this may mean that ambulances can't reach their destination due to traffic or a long route.
Try placing clinics and hospitals on easily accessible roads. If one road leads into a community, ambulances may also get stuck there for a while. It's a good idea to have multiple 'entrances' to a housing area. Additionally, clinics close to populated areas can make for short ambulance trips.
Hospitals with helicopter pads can reach remote locations, but try not to rely on this too heavily; ambulances are more common than helicopters.
What Is The Average Health Percentage?
From the healthcare overlay menu, you can also see the average health percentage of citizens in your city. With clinics, this number will hover around 50 to 60 percent.
When you build more healthcare-boosting buildings that we mentioned above, this percentage can increase. With enough services near citizens, their overall health will greatly improve.
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