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Success Stories by Source: Rural Health Outreach Grantee Directory, 2006

  • Alliance for Hispanic Outreach and Regional Awareness Coalition
    January 2007
    The overarching goal of this proposal is to reduce health disparities in the Latino/Hispanic population in a four county area by increasing access to health care, providing health information and education, increasing direct health care services, improving occupational health and safety and developing community capacity and infrastructure to deliver culturally competent health care services.
  • Healthiest Manitowoc County 2010 Project
    January 2007
    This project will enhance the efforts of Healthiest Manitowoc County 2010 (HMC2010) through the implementation of four initiatives: Know Your Numbers, High School Peer Health Education, Manitowoc County Network for Child Passenger Safety, and Healthy Teeth Healthy Kids.
  • Salud en Sus Manos (Health in Your Hands) Project
    January 2007
    The goals of the Salud en Sus Manos (Health in Your Hands) project are to reduce disparities in diabetes and obesity; improve access to diabetes and obesity services; and improve the quality of diabetes and obesity health services for Hispanic and rural residents in the Yakima Valley in Washington.
  • CareLink Initiative
    January 2007
    CareLink Initiative was formed to improve access to comprehensive health screening and treatment for victims of interpersonal violence in a nine county area of east Texas.
  • Drug Endangered Child Outreach Network Project
    January 2007
    This project aims to deliver integrated medical and mental health services to the 24 Drug-Endangered Children/Drug-Endangered Infants and their families per year immediately upon identification.
  • East Texas Border Health Consortium Project
    January 2007
    The goal of this project is to deliver integrated primary and mental health care to isolated, chronically ill population groups in Harrison and Marion counties.
  • Keya Program - Long Life for Good Health
    January 2007
    This project seeks to reduce overweight and obesity to prevent diabetes and to improve the health status of those with diagnosed diabetes.
  • Matagorda-Wharton Health Access Consortium
    January 2007
    This project addresses the all-around need for better care and care access in a medically underserved area of Texas.
  • Precision Valley Physical Activity and Nutrition Consortium
    January 2007
    The Precision Valley Physical Activity and Nutrition Consortium will increase youth and family access to physical activities and increase opportunities for healthy food choices in Springfield and Windsor, Vermont.
  • Rural Health Outreach Consortium
    January 2007
    The Rural Health Outreach Consortium, a consortium of health and human service agencies in Bath County, Virginia, has formed to sponsor a community wellness program for county residents.
  • Texas Independence Program
    January 2007
    The Texas Independence Program (TIP) is designed to reduce the need for long-term institutional placement and increase options in the community for the 1,842 frail elderly and disabled residents of Texas' Colorado, Lavaca, and Jackson Counties.
  • Albemarle Hospital Foundation, Inc. Consortium
    January 2007
    The Albemarle Hospital Foundation, Inc., and its four consortium members are focusing on providing expanded services to medically indigent, uninsured and underserved adult populations of a six county catchment area of northeastern North Carolina: Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Pasquotank and Perquimans.
  • Caring Community Network of the Twin Rivers Project
    January 2007
    This project will enhance existing mechanisms and expand the capacity of the network to provide effective, coordinated, and accessible services throughout the region that improve health outcomes of uninsured clients with chronic illness and provide appropriate services such as emergency room care.
  • Community Health Services Consortium Project
    January 2007
    A consortium of three parties are working together to provide basic primary care and dental services to a target population of adults and children with incomes under 200 percent of the federal poverty level who live in the area of Willard, Huron County, Ohio, as well as the southeast corner of Seneca County and the northeast corer of Crawford County.
  • Health Coach Project
    January 2007
    This project's model is designed to improve chronic disease management among rural, HHS patients through trained community volunteers called "Health Coaches." These coaches will help patients transition from home health services to self-care and family care by offering home-based education, monitoring, support, and referrals, thus reducing the risk for emergent and hospital care.
  • Heart Health: A Rural Prevention and Treatment Program
    January 2007
    The high incidence of cardiovascular disease and stroke, coupled with the growing over age 65 population in Josephine County supports the critical need for this proposed rural outreach project entitled Heart Health: A Rural Prevention and Treatment Program.
  • Mora & San Miguel Primeros Pasos/First Steps Program
    January 2007
    The Mora & San Miguel Primeros Pasos/First Steps Program proposes to serve up to 60 first-time parents and their children through the implementation of the research-based Healthy Families America Program.
  • North Country Diabetes Project
    January 2007
    The project will execute a unique community health approach including screenings, risk awareness, and education sessions, creatively using a registered dietitian at the Health Department, home health care registered nurses, JCEO case managers, and community outreach workers.
  • Northeastern Oklahoma Community Health Center Alzheimers Project
    January 2007
    The Northeastern Oklahoma Community Health Center is addressing the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease by providing information and education to individuals who are caregivers to those suffering from the disease.
  • Northern Tele-psychiatry Initiative
    January 2007
    The Northern Tele-psychiatry Initiative will improve the mental health of children and teens, reduce the number of admissions to child psychiatric in-patient units, and help prevent the inappropriate prescribing of psychotropic medications by primary care practitioners to children and adolescents.
  • Norwich School District Project
    January 2007
    This project plans to improve the health status of its school-age populations by enrolling 90 percent of the target population into school-based health centers by the end of the school year; increasing access to primary care, mental health, and dental care services for students; and increasing enrollment in Medicaid, Child Health Plus, and Family Health Plus.
  • Pathways to Healthy Lives- North Dakota
    January 2007
    Provides public education focusing on making healthy dietary choices, being physically active, protecting oneself from sunlight and chemical exposure, getting health screenings for cancer, and preventing initiation or cessation of tobacco products usage.
  • Project R&R
    January 2007
    Project R&R offers a solution to the critical need for mental health and substance abuse services in a high-risk, multi-cultural frontier community.
  • Rural Health Care Services Outreach Project
    January 2007
    The Rural Health Care Services Outreach project will establish a program of integrated primary and behavioral health using elements of successful, HRSA-sponsored Health Disparities Collaborative models.
  • RxCUE program
    January 2007
    The RxCUE program is a community-based prescription medication assistance program.
  • School-Based Health Centers Expansion Consortium
    January 2007
    Bassett Healthcare and six school districts have formed a Consortium that seeks to expand and enhance their School-Based Health Centers (SBHC) to include dental and mental health care programs and community outreach services.
  • Single Point of Entry and Lay Promotora Program
    January 2007
    This 3-year outreach proposal is focused on designing a Single Point of Entry and Lay Promotora Program to deliver Prescription Assistance to a target population defied as residents of Taos County 18 years and older with a diagnosis of type 1, type 2, or gestational diabetes who are up to 185 percent of the poverty level.
  • Steps to Wellness/Pasos a Salud
    January 2007
    This project is intended to improve the emotional and physical well-being of our rural community residents by providing individual and group support and education to people suffering from diabetes and/or obesity.
  • Twin City Hospital (TCH) Healthy Community/Happy Children Outreach Program
    January 2007
    The goal of the Twin City Hospital (TCH) Healthy Community/Happy Children Outreach Program (HC/HCOP) is to provide an innovative, multi-agency means to reduce the number of overweight and obese men, women, and children of all ages in several rural Ohio counties.
  • Wayne Memorial Hospital Consortium Patient Safety Project
    January 2007
    This project is built on the premise that a significant aspect of patient safety that can be improved is in the realm of medication, including prescription, transcription, validation, documentation, ordering, dispensing, administering, and usage of drugs and other pharmaceuticals.
  • Behaviorial Health Resource Consortium
    January 2007
    Using an approach that integrates behavioral health into primary care practice, the consortium will add behavioral health faculty and trainees from the training program at UNMC to its existing array of services at the Good Neighbor CHC and to the diagnostic and treatment services of the Boys and Girls Homes programs.
  • Human Services Educational Programs
    January 2007
    This project involves developing and implementing a Human Services Certificate Program and a Human Services Associate of Applied Science Degree Program, that will train and educate individuals for jobs that support the delivery of a broad range of health-related services currently lacking in GBC's expansive, rural service area.
  • North Platte Dental Clinic
    January 2007
    This is to be a permanent dental clinic in North Platte, Nebraska, to serve Medicaid recipients and low-income self-paying residents.
  • Rural Dementia Telemedicine Initiative Project
    January 2007
    The goal of the Rural Dementia Telemedicine Initiative (RDTI) project is to establish a long-term, sustainable method of service delivery to Alzheimer's (dementia) patients, caregivers, and health care professionals involved in the delivery of diagnosis, disease management, and treatment in rural and underserved communities of Nevada and other western states.
  • Chronic Care Outreach Program
    January 2007
    The Chronic Care Outreach Program will plan self-management interventions and programs to reduce health disparities and increase access to nationally recommended health care services for residents living with diabetes and other chronic illnesses.
  • Cooperative Health Center Patient Mental Health Project
    January 2007
    The three-agency consortium formed for this project will provide access to mental health and substance abuse services, regardless of patients' ability to pay.
  • Eastern Shore Oral Health Action Network (ESOHAN)
    January 2007
    The primary goal of the ESOHAN is to address disparities in access to, and use of, oral health care services for children and low-income families.
  • Fighting Obesity in Children and Adolescents
    January 2007
    This project aims to reduce the proportion of children and adolescents who are overweight or obese in three Michigan counties.
  • Guide for Preparing Medical Directors Project
    January 2007
    The goal of the project is to develop the Guide for Preparing Medical Directors into an electronically delivered, mentor-supported, self-study program to train medical oversight physicians in rural, frontier, and wilderness locations.
  • Rice Regional Dental Clinic
    January 2007
    The goal of the Rice Regional Dental Clinic is to increase access to dental care for uninsured and underserved residents in the 12-county service area of west central and southwest Minnesota.
  • Rural Access: Mental Health Care Project
    January 2007
    The Rural Access: Mental Health Care Project will increase behavioral and mental health care services to low-income American Indian children and youth living on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in rural northeastern Montana.
  • Rural Maine Healthy Aging Program
    January 2007
    The main goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive medical and social service resource for the area's aging population.
  • Softening the Sunset Journey Project
    January 2007
    This project seeks to maximize local coordinated care resources toward the improvement of community awareness, early identification, access to care, and caregiver screening for older adult memory loss.
  • Thumb Area Nutrition and Physical Activity Campaign
    January 2007
    This project aims to reduce obesity and promote healthy lifestyles to adults and children through community outreach and health promotion interventions.
  • Franklin Parish Hospital Service District Mental Health Project
    January 2007
    The overarching goal of this project is to establish a primary care-based behavioral health program in the Franklin Parish region.
  • Mid-Coast Mental Health Integration Initiative
    January 2007
    The goals of the Mid-Coast Mental Health Integration Initiative are to improve access to child and adolescent mental health services, reduce the stigma associated with mental health, reduce the number of crisis interventions, improve coordination and cooperation among local health providers, and disseminate an innovative model.
  • Planning Equals Access for Louisiana (PEAL) Initiative
    January 2007
    PEAL is a network dedicated to increasing adult immunizations and adult vaccinations.
  • Richland Parish Hospital-Delhi (RPH-Delhi) Community Wellness and Prevention Program
    January 2007
    The Richland Parish Hospital-Delhi (RPH-Delhi) Community Wellness and Prevention Program is a model program designed to provide health assessments, health promotion, and health education in settings such as the school, worksite, health care facility, and community.
  • Building Healthy Families Project
    January 2007
    The Building Healthy Families project is designed to meet the unique cultural, social, and linguistic needs of pregnant Hispanic women living in Marshall County.
  • Connections Rural Health Initiative
    January 2007
    This projects main goal is to provide health care and human services for low-income children, youth, and families in two rural counties of central Kentucky.
  • Kentucky River Health Network Project
    January 2007
    This project is part of a twofold mission to improve access to preventive care services for the underinsured and uninsured in the target area.
  • South Central Dental Project
    January 2007
    This project will address a tremendous unmet need for dental care for the low-income people in the area, and will also pilot a dental program model integrated with medical care now provided by the participating clinics.
  • The CEI: Project Outreach
    January 2007
    This project aims to improve many aspects of healthcare in St. Mary and surrounding Parishes.
  • Wayne County Multi-Generational Behavioral Health Project
    January 2007
    The Project aims to increase access to behavioral health care for children, youth, and isolated elderly members by providing outreach and education resources, and promoting greater community involvement in an integrated network of services.
  • West Kentucky Dental Health Project
    January 2007
    The West Kentucky Dental Health Project (WKDHP) is a collaborative community-driven project that aims to build an infrastructure in 12 counties in rural western Kentucky to address early childhood caries and dental caries.
  • Western Appalachian Kentucky Health Care Access Consortium
    January 2007
    The consortium's mission is to improve access to primary care and dental care among low-income, uninsured, and underinsured residents, with a special emphasis on providing outreach services for the unmet needs of an expanding Latino population.
  • Accommodation, Collaboration for Community Education about Services for Seniors
    January 2007
    The goal of ACCESS to increase access to medical care and social services for seniors in the rural areas of Eastern Washington in Whitman County and North Central Idaho in Latah County.
  • Addressing Diabetes in Irwin and Ben Hill Counties
    January 2007
    This project aims to reduce diabetes-related hospitalizations and to reduce the incidence of type 2 diabetes in these two counties through awareness of prevention strategies.
  • Best Babies
    January 2007
    Best Babies will offer a comprehensive, integrated approach to perinatal care for women in these counties who are at high risk for adverse birth outcomes including maternal or infant mortality, low birth weight, very low birth weight, or other medical or developmental problems.
  • Community Health and Wellness Project
    January 2007
    The goal of this project is to improve the health and wellness of people living in the rural communities of Fayette, Franklin, and Rush counties in Indiana, especially the low income and elderly.
  • Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault Consortium
    January 2007
    Through a community effort, this project aims to launch an attack against domestic abuse and sexual assault through education, screening practices and public awareness.
  • Integrated Service Pathways Network Project
    January 2007
    This project aims to divert people with co-occurring disorders from the traditional criminal justice system/jail into programs which can effectively treat the problem and break the cycle of arrest, jail, release, and re-arrest.
  • Lifestyles Diabetes Project
    January 2007
    The project is designed to achieve diabetes awareness and prevention for citizens in the two counties and to provide education and support on self-management for many who have already developed the condition.
  • Project All Aboard
    January 2007
    This project aims to identify developmentally delayed children early to ensure every child has an opportunity to reach their potential.
  • Project for Perinatal and Postpartum Depression Detection
    January 2007
    This project will increase community awareness about perinatal depression, improve access to mental health screenings for childbearing women, and provide assessments and linkages to appropriate treatment for women with symptoms of depression.
  • Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Project (ADAPT)
    January 2007
    The Mendocino County Health Department and its partners developed the Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Project (ADAPT) in response to the need for substance abuse prevention and treatment services for rural youth in northern California.
  • Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation Program
    January 2007
    The overall goal of this proposed project is to meet the healthcare needs of elders so they can remain in their communities and stay connected to their homes and families for as long as possible.
  • Chronic Care Education Outreach Program
    January 2007
    The consortium for the Chronic Care Education Outreach Program will expand an existing chronic illness self-management education program to focus on the elderly in Woodruff and Prairie counties in the Arkansas Delta region.
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening Consortium
    January 2007
    This project will form a Colorectal Cancer Screening Consortium through the Kenaitze Indian Tribe (KIT), the Ninilchik Traditional Council, and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC).
  • East Central Mental Health-Mental Retardation, Inc.
    January 2007
    East Central Mental Health-Mental Retardation, Inc., has initiated a partnership of community agencies committed to the development and implementation of a comprehensive, countywide health risk prevention and outreach project.
  • Hardrock Youth Wellness and Prevention Program
    January 2007
    The Hardrock Youth Wellness and Prevention Program is a collaborative effort of the Hardrock Council on Substance Abuse, Inc. (a local non-profit corporation), the Hardrock Chapter House (a local governmental subdivision on the Navajo Nation), and the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health's Project EXPORT. The purpose of the collaboration is to strengthen their collective efforts in building a strong infrastructure for substance abuse prevention, intervention and treatment at the community level.
  • La Red Health Center Prenatal Services Program
    January 2007
    La Red Health Center (LRHC) expanded an existing program to offer prenatal and labor/delivery services to underserved and vulnerable pregnant women in Sussex County, Delaware.
  • Mobile Clinic/Telehealth project
    January 2007
    This consortium was formed to address the lack of basic healthcare available in the rural, impoverished areas of the Central Valley of California. This project will focus on health promotion and health screenings to prevent cancer and other diseases.
  • Rural Assistance Program for Churches and Schools
    January 2007
    The Rural Assistance Program for Churches and Schools (RAPCS) will provide access to health care for disadvantaged populations in Green, Sumter, and Marengo Counties. These counties are ranked among the poorest in the State and the Nation.
  • Rural Health Network of Monroe Co., FL, Inc. Project
    January 2007
    This project has entered into local communities with an intent of not duplicating services, but to create service access where those services may be lacking, and more importantly, to work within and without a network framework to improve health care services where possible.
  • Santa Catalina Island Healthcare Consortium
    January 2007
    A consortium consisting of Catalina Island Medical Center, Loma Linda University Medical Center, and the USC Catalina Island Hyperbaric Chamber, with the help of the Santa Catalina Island Company and Two Harbors Enterprises, will utilize creative outreach models to bring primary care services through a satellite clinic to the remote island community of Two Harbors.
  • Sylacauga Alliance for Family Enhancement Program
    January 2007
    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.
  • Tulare County Children's Health Initiative
    January 2007
    The Tulare County Children's Health Initiative (CHI) is focused on increasing dental and medical health access for children ages 0-18 through outreach and enrollment into publicly funded programs and by offering a new gap insurance product, Healthy Kids, for children ineligible for state Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
  • Washington County Community Wellness Consortium
    January 2007
    The Washington County Community Wellness Consortium, a collaborative of agencies and health providers, has developed a small, multidisciplinary weight loss and fitness model program, the cornerstone of which is martial art taekwondo.
  • West Georgia Chronic Disease Initiative
    January 2007
    The West Georgia Chronic Disease Initiative (WGCDI) is a community-based treatment, management, and prevention program targeting citizens in Carroll, Haralson, and Heard counties in rural West Georgia.