Success Stories by Source: Outreach Sourcebook, Vol.10, 2000-2003, Office of Rural Health Policy

• Connect for Healthy Kids
  May 2009
  Connect for Healthy Kids provided services to any families with children— from unborn children to children 8 years of age—in Grant County.
• Eastern Panhandle Integrated Delivery System Rural Health Outreach Project
  May 2009
  The project was designed to promote health, prevent disease, and increase access to health care services for older individuals by providing outreach and education about existing health care and social services.
• Family Net
  May 2009
  The Oneida County Department of Social Services launched the Family Net program to provide a more coordinated, better functioning system of care for at-risk families.
• Hardy County School-Based Health Project
  May 2009
  The primary goal of the project was to improve access to health services for children in the Hardy County schools and to enhance their physical and emotional well-being by providing them with comprehensive health care services.
• Partners in Agricultural Health Program
  May 2009
  PAH was designed to strengthen existing occupational health services within three county health departments and five participating hospitals by providing educational programs and preventive screenings for farmers and their family members, creating an educational program for health professionals to enhance their understanding of the unique healthcare needs of farmers, and developing an interactive Web site to market the project and disseminate educational information.
• Rural Health Outreach (Charleston, West Virginia)
  May 2009
  This program, the only one of its kind in West Virginia, was designed to overcome some of the key rural health care access issues experienced by people with HIV/AIDS.
• Community Connection
  May 2009
  The main goal of the Community Connection project was to provide integrated mental health and primary preventive services to adolescents and elderly individuals living in the Beverly, Daily, Mill Creek, and Mingo districts of Randolph County and the Belington district of southern Barbour County.
• Community Health Education and Development Program
  May 2009
  The Community Health Education and Development (CHED) program was established to increase health care access in the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula of Virginia.
• Olympic Peninsula Maternal Child Home Visiting: Strengthening Services Through Collaboration
  May 2009
  The goals of the project were to improve the quality of maternal and child home visits through training, support, and enhanced local resources; to improve the home visiting program by increasing revenues through private insurance and Medicaid; and to expand the number of home visits by increasing outreach to postpartum women living in outlying areas.
• Tellico Plains Full-Service, School-Based Clinic
  May 2009
  The school-based clinic was designed to address several health problems in the community by improving the physical health status of school-age children in Tellico Plains and surrounding communities and by identifying and treating health problems and ensuring followup care.
• Behavioral Health Services Model Project
  May 2009
  The primary focus of the project was to expand the number of behavioral health encounters by increasing the number of, and access to, behavioral health care providers.
• Caring for our Community
  May 2009
  Wishek Community Hospital and Clinic joined forces with MedCenter One Health Systems, McIntosh District Health Unit, Wishek Drug, and Napoleon Drug to expand access to essential health care services, to improve the coordination of those services, and to reduce health care costs.
• Chickasaw Nation Rural Health Outreach Program
  May 2009
  The Chickasaw Nation Rural Health Outreach Program was designed to provide a range of primary health care services to Native American elders living in the most rural and remote areas of the region. Specifically, the program was designed to expand services to areas where geriatric care was not available.
• Choctaw Nation Specialty Services Program
  May 2009
  The project consortium, led by the Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority, provided many services such as ophthalmology, cardiology, orthopedics, pediatric dental care, pediatric endocrinology, Alzheimer’s care, psychiatry, neurology, and otorhinolaryngology to residents of an underserved area.
• Continuum of Care
  May 2009
  The Continuum of Care project was created to increase access to culturally appropriate mental health and substance abuse services for those in need. The project specifically targeted lowincome tribal members and their families.
• Fayette County Dental Clinic
  May 2009
  The Fayette County Dental Clinic was created to meet the oral health needs of Medicaid recipients and low-income families in Fayette County.
• Hancock County School-Based Health Center
  May 2009
  The Hancock County School-Based Health Center project offered several innovative education and support programs to children and parents.
• Health Connection for School Success
  May 2009
  Health Connection for School Success (HCFSS) was established to address the fact that children’s health not only is an important measure of community well-being but also is strongly associated with how well children perform in school.
• Pediatric Wellness Program
  May 2009
  The Pediatric Wellness Program was designed to be a comprehensive education and health intervention program targeting children and adolescents aged 0 to 18 years living in Tuscarawas County.
• Rural Health Outreach to the Cheyenne River Reservation: Creating an Early Health Care Community
  May 2009
  This project focused on increasing public awareness of early intervention services; providing prescreening, screening, and tracking services; referring children in need for further evaluation; providing evaluation and diagnostic services; and linking children to area resources.
• Serving the Working Poor, Retaining Health Care Providers, and Planning for Best Management Practices: The Challenges Met by a Network of Rural Health Care Providers
  May 2009
  The purpose of this project was to stabilize and sustain the practices of three area providers who were vital to safeguarding the health of residents.
• Waterfall Clinic
  May 2009
  The Coos County Waterfall Clinic offered many services to low-income families in the area.
• Butte Silver-Bow Primary Care Clinic
  May 2009
  The main goals of the project were to change destructive life patterns and improve the physical and mental health status of residents by providing intensive mental health services, promote collaboration among key health and social service agencies in providing comprehensive services, and educate community members about how, when, and where to get help when they need it.
• Child Dental Health Initiative
  May 2009
  The Child Dental Health Initiative was designed to develop and implement a comprehensive, innovative approach to the delivery of dental services to low-income children living in the MAYland region.
• Family Advocacy Network
  May 2009
  FAN was established to raise community awareness and educate providers about child abuse and domestic/sexual violence and to establish the FAN center as a coordinated response agency for victims and their families.
• Frontier Youth Initiative
  May 2009
  The Frontier Youth Initiative (FYI) was conceived as a response to the loss of funding for school nurses in a nine-county region of north-central Nebraska.
• Miles For Smiles
  May 2009
  The mission of the Miles for Smiles project was to create a mobile dental unit to provide quality, onsite dental care to low-income children in the seven-county area.
• Park County Diabetes Project
  May 2009
  The Park County Diabetes Project was developed to instigate a formal process for identifying and tracking patients with diabetes, to coordinate health care services for residents with diabetes, to increase the knowledge of area health care and ancillary providers regarding diabetes management, and to provide diabetes education to patients and families.
• Rural BASICS
  May 2009
  Rural BASICS (Behavioral Access Study Integrating Continuum Services) succeeded in developing and implementing a continuum of care that served individuals of all age groups and ethnicities.
• Rural Health Outreach (Cape Girardeau, Missouri)
  May 2009
  The Cross Trails Medical Center (CTMC) used grant funds for expanded evening hours and hired a nurse educator in the towns of Marble Hill and Advance.
• St. Lawrence Access to Care Program
  May 2009
  Program activities included an intensive education and outreach campaign to increase awareness of the need for and availability of preventive health screenings, a concerted effort to access points to network services for uninsured and underinsured residents, and the provision of followup and diagnostic testing for uninsured and underinsured clients with problematic screening results.
• Torrance County Rural Outreach Initiative
  May 2009
  The Torrance County Rural Outreach Initiative targeted the county’s two most vulnerable populations—children covered by Medicaid and the uninsured.
• Butler County Parish Nurse Project
  May 2009
  The Butler County Parish Nurse Project was developed to create a delivery system that focuses on the prevention and early detection of several illnesses, including heart disease and cancer.
• Central Kansas Rural Health Outreach Project
  May 2009
  The Central Kansas Rural Health Outreach Project sought to address the chronic health issues of diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol among residents living in a three-county region in central Kansas.
• Diabetes Lay Educator Program: Enhancing Health Care for Hispanic Migrant Farmworkers
  May 2009
  The Diabetes Lay Educator Program was designed to reduce the high mortality rate and medical costs associated with diabetes in the area’s Hispanic population and to increase access to high quality, culturally competent health care services geared toward helping clients effectively manage diabetes.
• ElderLynk
  May 2009
  ElderLynk was established to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and to build awareness of the mental health needs facing rural senior citizens in a 10-county region in northeast Missouri.
• Farmworkers Health Initiative
  May 2009
  The Farmworker Health Initiative was designed as an educational and screening outreach program targeting African American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic men, women, and teenagers who worked in agriculture-related jobs. The program focused on preventing and treating occupational and medical health problems.
• HeartNet
  May 2009
  Alpena General Hospital developed a coalition of organizations to support a wide range of health education activities throughout the five-county region.
• Maquoketa Community School District (MCSD) Rural Health Outreach Program
  May 2009
  The MCSD Rural Health Outreach Program provided a wide range of health promotion and disease prevention activities including nursing offices in every school, annual health screenings for all students, dental care, mental health services, community education, annual scoliosis screenings for sixth through eighth grade students, and annual vision, height, weight, and blood pressure screenings.
• Outreach Rural Health for Rural Maine
  May 2009
  This project was designed to expand home care services for patients with anxiety and depression in the easternmost counties of the United States—Aroostook County and Washington County.
• Timely Life Care Project
  May 2009
  The project funded 4,320 patient visits, and there was increased understanding among many in the area’s health care system of the value of palliative care in reducing acute care recidivism, the length of hospital stays, and emergency room and doctor’s office visits.
• Ninth District Opportunity Rural Health Outreach Program
  May 2009
  Ninth District Opportunity, Inc., joined forces with several organizations in the area to promote safe and healthy home environments, to connect children to health care services, to reduce infant mortality, and to reduce the risk of a second teen pregnancy among area youth.
• Osteoporosis and Breast Cancer Screening and Prevention Program
  May 2009
  The Community Medical Center (CMC) of Western Illinois served as the lead agency in implementing an osteoporosis and breast cancer prevention and screening program for women living in Illinois’ Warren and Henderson Counties.
• Protecting the Golden Hour
  May 2009
  The main purpose of the Protecting the Golden Hour project was to develop and implement an adaptable, ongoing system of training, coordination, and accountability among 18 rural emergency medical service (EMS) units in Region 2.
• Rural Health Education Program
  May 2009
  The Rural Health Education Program sponsored an array of programs designed to increase awareness of diabetes, to reduce the risk factors for the disease, and to teach people with diabetes how to manage the illness properly.
• Senior Discount Drug Program
  May 2009
  The McKinney Community Health Center developed a consortium of organizations to provide senior citizens living at or below the poverty level with discount-rate medications for hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia.
• Southeast Georgia Communities Health Links Project
  May 2009
  The primary purpose of the Health Links project was to address linguistic and cultural barriers to health care experienced by migrant and seasonal farmworkers in a four-county region in southeast Georgia by providing interpretation services, health education, case management, and improved access to primary health care services.
• The Partnership for Rural Elderly
  May 2009
  The purpose of the Partnership for Rural Elderly was to provide direct rehabilitation, consultation, and educational services to a population of rural and low-income elderly citizens in northern Georgia who did not otherwise have access to such care.
• Treutlen County School Health Initiative
  May 2009
  The Consortium members launched an onsite school clinic; conducted onsite assessments and screenings for vision, hearing, blood pressure, and mental health and provided various other services to Treutlen County students and staff.
• A Caring Country Community
  May 2009
  The primary goal of the Caring Country Community project was to promote interaction between the community’s elderly and young residents.
• Alaska Youth Media Project
  May 2009
  It is not uncommon for rural communities in Alaska to be designated as health professional shortage areas. The shortage of health professionals in these communities limits opportunities to educate rural residents, including youth, about healthy behaviors that can reduce morbidity and mortality later in life.
• Delta Enterprise Community Rural Health Outreach Program
  May 2009
  The project established a single point of contact for clients to the services available throughout the six-county region. The single point of contact was the outreach workers employed by the program.
• Diabetes Outreach and Education: Arizona
  May 2009
  The Douglas Diabetes Consortium recruited 360 individuals with diabetes to participate in the diabetes classes.
• Focus on Wellness
  May 2009
  The overall goals of this project were to decrease the percentage of students who were absent from school 10 days or more each year, to increase the percentage of high school students who graduated on time, and to decrease pregnancy rates among female students aged 15 to 17 years.
• Improving Access, Outcomes and Cost for Women's and Children's Health Services
  May 2009
  The project succeeded in establishing labor and delivery services at Baptist Memorial Hospital.
• La Red Health Center - 2001
  May 2009
  La Esperanza sought to establish a community-based health center to improve access to care for Latinos, African Americans, families living in poverty, and other rural residents with health care needs.
• Lifelines
  May 2009
  The Rural Health Network of Monroe County sought to develop and sustain a countywide infrastructure for providing primary health care services to the county’s uninsured inhabitants.
• Monroe Health Foundation Dental Clinic
  May 2009
  Good oral health habits can be developed at an early age. However, many children and adolescents living in rural areas do not have sufficient access to affordable dental health services. This is especially true in the area surrounding Monroeville, Alabama, where children and adolescents covered by Medicaid experienced numerous barriers to receiving oral health education and treatment services.
• Ridge Health Partners Program
  May 2009
  The Ridge Health Partners Program was established to meet the primary care and preventive health needs of six target communities—Dundee, Davenport, Haines City, Lake Hamilton, Loughman, and Waverly.
• Rural Health Outreach Diabetes Education Program
  May 2009
  The rural health outreach project made nearly 2,500 potential patient contacts, and, as a result of this outreach, 476 people became enrolled in the diabetes education program.
• Western Yuma County Rural Health Outreach Project
  May 2009
  The Western Yuma County Rural Health Outreach Project was designed to increase access to health care services for the growing Hispanic population in Yuma County.
• Wray Health Initiative Project
  May 2009
  A group of community organizations joined forces to create a health promotion and disease prevention initiative designed to provide enjoyable activities that encouraged physical activity and healthier living.
• Yell County Rural Health Consoritum
  May 2009
  The goal of the Yell County Rural Health Consortium was to increase access to basic health care and to improve the cardiovascular health of the residents of Danville and the surrounding areas.