Success Stories by Source: Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 12, 2002-2005, Office of Rural Health Policy

• Briscoe County Community Clinic
  July 2009
  This project provided primary and preventive health care services, health education, screenings, assistance in applying for entitlement programs, discounted fees for services, prenatal care, and class D pharmacy services to underserved residents of rural Texas.
• Four County Health and Wellness Project
  July 2009
  The project’s goal was to provide increased access to wellness promotion, disease prevention, and rehabilitation services to residents living in the four-county region.
• Hispanic Health Outreach Project
  July 2009
  The Hispanic Health Outreach Project provided outreach, education, and case management services to Hispanic residents in Portage and Waupaca counties.
• Honoring our Children Project
  July 2009
  The Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council’s Honoring Our Children Project (HOC) developed a culturally competent, collaborative network of tribal and non-tribal health providers, elders, leaders, and community members to address the complex array of health care problems facing American Indians living near the Lac du Flambeau community.
• North Central Washington Mental Health Project
  July 2009
  The goal of the North Central Washington Mental Health Project was to increase and improve access to appropriate mental health and chemical dependency services, particularly for lowincome residents and Hispanics.
• Point Roberts Wellness Clinic
  July 2009
  A Wellness Clinic is established in an isolated town in rural Washington.
• Valley Health Exchange Network
  July 2009
  The main goal of this project was to help create a community-based health care system that was better equipped to meet the health care needs of a more racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse population in rural Virginia.
• Van School-Based Health Care Initiative
  July 2009
  This project was designed to provide health promotion, health education, and primary health care services for more than 2,100 students in the Van Independent School District.
• Central Missouri Health Care Outreach (CeMo)
  July 2009
  The project opened a sister clinic that operated out of the Morgan County Health Center. The clinic provided primary care, mental health services, as well as pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and referral services at no cost to low-income, uninsured individuals.
• Cherokee Health Systems Rural Outreach Project
  July 2009
  Cherokee Health Systems proposed a collaborative health outreach project to address issues like language barriers, lack of trust in the health care system, and, in many cases, more pressing human needs—such as social services, food, and clothing in this predominately rural Appalachian region.
• Community-Based Care for Persons Living with Type 2 Diabetes
  July 2009
  The Community-based Care for Persons Living with Type 2 Diabetes program was designed to prevent complications commonly associated with type 2 diabetes.
• Fit for Life
  July 2009
  The Fit for Life program was designed to provide medical supervision so area residents with health conditions could safely participate in an exercise program and educational opportunities.
• Great Basin College Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2009
  This project aimed to recruit new EMTs, to help rural communities retain new recruits, to provide training, to secure training equipment, and to improve pre-hospital response services in the state of Nevada.
• Inter-Lakes Dental Clinic
  July 2009
  The clinic offered the full range of dental services, including fillings, sealants, root canals, extractions, crowns, bridges, dentures, cleanings, and checkups. Clients served by the clinic were of all ages and income levels, although the project placed strong emphasis on serving indigent patients covered by Medicaid or Child/Family Health Plus.
• Modified Health Risks: Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  July 2009
  The primary focus of the program was providing health screenings to detect the presence of sleep apnea and the associated health risks of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity to people in five rural counties.
• Replicating Best Practices to Improve Access to Health Care Services and to Reduce Rural Health Disparities for Children
  July 2009
  Several Health Professionals were hired to help children overcome a number of health disparities and access barriers in rural Oregon.
• Wellness in the Valley: Suicide Prevention Task Force
  July 2009
  Wellness in the Valley was developed to be a community-based program designed to reduce the incidence of suicides and suicide attempts and to address the factors contributing to suicide in the area.
• Women's Intervention Network of Scioto County
  July 2009
  WIN offered a variety of services such as gynecological exams and Pap tests, mental health assessments and counseling, advocacy and referrals, referrals and payment for mammograms, transportation, child care during appointments, and women’s health education to women in Scioto County.
• Adolescent Behavioral Health Project
  July 2009
  This project was designed to provide adolescents with an employment experience at the health center to help build self-esteem, develop healthy decisionmaking capabilities, and prevent the onset of chronic health problems. The medical center provided a range of behavioral health services to students at the two local schools, those participating in the employment program, and young children at home.
• Ajo Diabetes Outreach and Education Program
  July 2009
  The project used community-based educators and promotores to help medical providers educate patients and to conduct community outreach about diabetes.
• Appalachian Violence Outreach Network (AVON)
  July 2009
  This project administered wellness classes and workshops to women in a rural, underserved area.
• Connecting the Chronically Ill
  July 2009
  The Connecting the Chronically Ill project's goals included connecting the chronically ill, medically underserved adults to health care services; Improving quality of life through wellness education and case management services; and providing health care coverage for low-income, medically underserved, chronically ill adults age 18 and older living in Baker County.
• Language Links for Healthier Families
  July 2009
  Language Links for Healthier Families was created to increase access to health care for Latino families in south central Georgia through health education and outreach by eliminating language and cultural barriers to quality care.
• Mendocino County AIDS Volunteer Network Health Outreach and Prevention Education (HOPE) Project
  July 2009
  The MCAVN Health Outreach and Prevention Education (HOPE) project fielded three outreach teams to distribute AIDS prevention messages to injection drug users, homeless individuals, the impoverished, and those alienated from the health care system.
• North Idaho Partners in Care
  July 2009
  This project used a mobile clinic to reach remote, underserved rural areas in the region. The project has emerged as a model of community cooperation and persistence in addressing unmet health care needs in a large, rural, underserved area.
• Salina Area Health Network
  July 2009
  This outreach grant allowed this community to enjoy longer hospital hours, more services and more qualified staff.
• SMART: Diabetes and Hypertension Education and Outreach Program
  July 2009
  The Diabetes and Hypertension Education Outreach Program screened more than 1,000 area residents for diabetes and hypertension. The project succeeded in reducing hospitalizations among program participants by nearly 70 percent.
• Toombs Teen Health Collaborative
  July 2009
  Organizations throughout the region joined forces to create the Toombs Teen Health Collaborative in an attempt to reduce teen pregnancy, reduce repeat births by teens,and to implement a system to improve community-based health care services to teenagers.