Success Stories by State: Georgia

• South Georgia Regional Dental Health Initiative
  July 2009
  The South Georgia Regional Dental health Initiative was designed to provide on-site dental health prevention education in each of the five counties through a full-time Dental Hygienist and dental clinic services one day a week in dental clinic located in Turner County.
• The East Central Georgia Regional Teen Wellness Coalition
  July 2009
  The Initiative increased awareness and access to health promotion services by providing ongoing leadership training regarding healthy lifestyles for local youth; encouraging these youth to take a leadership role in planning, implementing and monitoring local health promotion/education projects; and supporting these youth as they plan and coordinate an ongoing local healthy lifestyles education outreach campaign for the youth in our service area.
• 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.
• 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.
• Meadows Regional Medical Center Rural Health Outreach Project
  May 2009
  The cosortium provided a wide range of primary health care services, including general health, blood pressure, and blood glucose screenings to uninsured and underinsured families living in the service area.
• Southwest Georgia Multicultural Health Initiative
  May 2009
  The Southwest Georgia Multicultural Health Initiative was created to ensure that translation and interpretation assistance was available to individuals with limited English proficiency seeking care at local hospitals and health departments, to improve providers’ understanding of cultural diversity issues related to the people they serve, and to ensure that people with limited English proficiency have access to routine health education and screening services.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Chronic Disease Prevention & Management Patient Navigator Program
  April 2009
  Is designed to improve health care outcomes for uninsured adults residing in Camden, Glynn and McIntosh counties in southeast Georgia.
• Around the Country: Clinic Serving Low-Income Children Inspires Rural Dental Practice
  February 2009
  Describes how a small dental clinic has met the needs of children living in rural, underserved Georgia counties.
• Rx for the Uninsured
  April 2008
  Rx for the Uninsured finds physicians, procures prescription medications, and provides care management for uninsured Central Georgians ages 19-64, who have incomes within 200% of the Federal Poverty Level and who suffer from diabetes, heart disease, hypertension or depression.
• Lowndes County Partnership for Health
  January 2008
  The Lowndes County Partnership for Health is currently involved in helping local businesses and churches implement worksite wellness programs.
• Healing Center Helps Children
  June 2007
  Dedicated to enriching the lives of children with disabilities in middle Georgia, The Healing Center provides financial assistance in physical, occupational, music, massage, speech, hippo, aquatic and mental therapies.
• 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.
• Floyd County Dental Clinic
  January 2007
  The Floyd County Health Department Regional Dental Health Clinic was designed to provide access to oral health services in the following areas: Preventive care, restorative care, emergent care, nursing home services, fluoride varnish care, conscious sedation, and services under general anesthesia for five counties in Northwest Georgia.
• 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.
• St. George Clinic Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2005
  In response to the recognized health care need and a survey of citizens indicating that 76 percent would use a health clinic if available, partners in the county built a small building to provide health and social services to one-third of county residents living in the southern region.
• Warrior Wellness Center
  July 2005
  To address the serious issue of teen pregnancy in Jefferson County, a network was formed to establish an effective mechanism for proactive pregnancy prevention and health promotion outreach for the county's rural adolescents.
• Health for a Lifetime
  July 2005
  This project was designed to combat cardiovascular disease by addressing the modifiable risk factors, as described by the American Heart Association, in three populations: hourly wage workers, the African American faith community, and middle school children.
• Screven County Hospital Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2005
  Developed to bring health care to rural communities in Screven County, this project was designed to identify people at risk for cardiac, cerebral vascular and diabetic health problems through the use of outreach health screenings.