CITY SERVICES
Tip #2 -- Hospitals, Schools, Colleges, Museums, & Libraries

Hospitals, Schools, Colleges, Museums, & Libraries are all necessary for a great city.

Hospitals, Schools, and Colleges have a limited capacity (number of beds, number of desks, etc.) .  As your city grows, you will need to keep adding Hospitals, Schools, and Colleges.

Museums and Libraries are slightly different.  These are needed to help further the education of your Sims and make the city a good place to live and work.  Museums and Libraries don't have fixed capacities like the Hospitals, Schools, and Colleges, but you will need more as the city grows.

Your "Health, Education, & Aura" Advisor can help tell you how you are doing with these important services.  Click on [Meet] and then this advisor... he can tell you a lot about what you need to build, and when.  Check in with him often to see how you are doing.  Another important tool you can use to monitor how these services are doing is the [Query] button.

Hospitals:

Hospitals increase your populations health and lifespan, and your Sims will start demanding them right away.  Hospitals need to be distributed throughout the city so that the Sims can get to them, and each hospital will cost money every month as part of your "Public Health" budget.

You can check on how your hospitals are doing by using the [Query] button and clicking on any hospital.  If the "Number of Patients" starts getting close to the "Number of Beds", you need to build more hospitals!  Also check the "Grade" (you may need to scroll down to see this).  The grade will be affected by if you have enough hospitals, and if they are adequately funded in your budget.

Schools & Colleges:

Schools and Colleges help improve the education level in your city.  Better education will lead to high-tech industries developing.  Museums and Libraries help education and "aura".

Your Sims will need Schools right away.  Colleges, Museums, and Libraries will be needed later as your city grows.

Use the [Query] button to check on the grades of the Schools, Colleges, Museums, and Libraries.  For Schools, if the "Number of Students" starts getting close to the "Number of Desks", you need to build more schools!.  For Colleges, if the "Students in Attendance" starts getting close to the "Capacity", you need to build more colleges!

TIP -- The "Grades" of the Hospitals, Schools, Colleges, Museums, & Libraries are worth up to 5 points on the Judges Scoring (item City Layout #3).  For full points, your city will need a grade of "A" on all 5 of these items.  Also, your city's "health" number and "education" number are worth 2 points each on the Computer Score Sheet (items 5 & 6), and these numbers are affected by how good your Hospitals, Schools, and Colleges are.