Success Stories by State: Illinois

• 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.
• Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center Connects Hospital, Clinics Through EMRs
  April 2009
  The Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in East Central Illinois has implemented an ambulatory electronic medical record software application that provides shared access to computerized patient health information across hospital services, home health organizations, hospice, and physician practices.
• External Peer Review Program- Illinois
  April 2008
  Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network (ICAHN) members (CEOs) recognized a need to have an outside/external mechanism for physician peer review for their hospitals.
• Midwest Medical Center- Galena, Illinois
  February 2008
  Midwest Medical Center was the first Critical Access Replacement Hospital to open its doors in the State of Illinois. They overcame a tremendous amount of challenges to improve and save health care in this small rural and tourist community.
• 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.
• Illinois 24/7 Suicide Prevention-Crisis Network
  August 2007
  The Regional Behavioral Health Network has established a 24-hour toll-free crisis line and mobile crisis program to improve access to care, service quality and staff moral.
• BCMW Community Services, Inc. (Illinois)
  May 2007
  Describes the housing case management services provided by an agency's Family and Community Development Specialists in Illinois.
• 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.
• Merging Medical Education and Community
  July 2005
  The crux of this project was to support community-defined health projects across the State and to involve 21 medical students in the delivery of community-based primary health care services.
• School Health Network (Canton, Illinois)
  July 2005
  This network was designed to increase access to health care for school-aged children, improve student health status, and decrease absenteeism as well as launching a "Prevention Coalition" to address four key public health challenges in local schools: alcohol and other drug use; violence; teen pregnancy; and transmission of HIV and other STDs.
• Expansion of Rural Dental Health Care Services in Macoupin and Montgomery Counties, Illinois
  July 2005
  Grant funds allowed this coalition to step up development of the dental clinic's comprehensive oral health services by purchasing equipment, expanding their hours, developing the clinic as a satellite teaching site, providing assistance to families newly eligible for Medicaid and offering oral health education to children in primary grades at all local schools.