Success Stories by State: Florida

• 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.
• 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.
• Smiles on Wheels Mobile Dental Program
  May 2009
  The purpose of this project was to implement a mobile dental service, Smiles on Wheels, that emphasized community-based oral health education targeting low-income preschool children through third-graders as well as pregnant women living in poverty in five rural counties in the Florida Panhandle.
• 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.
• 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.
• EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
  September 2007
  Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
• 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.
• Farmworker Case Management Across Borders
  July 2005
  This project's overall objective for the migrant and seasonal worker populations was to increase their access to health services and specifically: (1) to increase management of their chronic diseases; (2) to increase completion of their treatment for communicable diseases; (3) to reduce their need for emergency dental care; and to increase their access to vision care.
• Healthy Connections West
  July 2005
  The goal of this project was to provide mental health intervention services to targeted children and their families in order to achieve improved academic and social performance.