Sylacauga Alliance for Family Enhancement Program

Topics	Health insurance and uninsured
States served	Alabama
Description	The goal of this project is to increase the quality and years of life for individuals of the target population of under and uninsured residents of Talladega County, Alabama with chronic diseases of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Diabetes and/or Hypertension.
Services offered	The vehicle by which is through a community partnership using a computer-assisted Parish Nurse Disease Management Program (PNDMP). This PNDMP provides a community based holistic approach and extends the impact of the Parish Nurses with the use of Family Health Advocates (FHAs) using laptop computers to access the management information system. The use of FHAs will expand an existing innovative community disease management program of parish nursing by enabling more clients to be enrolled for a longer period of time. Utilization of a management information system (MIS) by the community consortium providers, a parish nurse and the family health advocates will allow for efficient and effective exchange of information and standardization of data collection in a community setting.
Results	Indicators of success of this project will be a 94 percent increase in enrollment, achievement of one or more of individual health goals, an improvement in quality of life as indicated by results of a SF36 survey, a 30 percent increase in pharmaceutical support (or $250,000), a 50 percent increase in the number of social and health services provided to the target population and a 30 percent increase in the utilization of the community health network MIS. This project builds on existing research on the relationship between spirituality and health, the effectiveness of lay community health workers, and enabling technology.
Replication	The further development and expansion of a PNDMP in addition to meeting real needs in this rural community provide a replicable model for use in other rural communities.
Source	Rural Health Outreach Grantee Directory, 2006
Contact person	Margaret Morton, Ed.S., Executive Director Sylacauga Alliance for Family Enhancement, Inc. P.O. Box 1122 Sylacauga, Alabama 35150 Phone: (256) 245-4343 Fax: (256) 245-3675 E-Mail: mortonm@safesylacaupa.com
Date added	January 11, 2007

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