Success Stories by State: Louisiana

• 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.
• IT Project Connects Rural Louisiana Hospitals
  November 2008
  Describes how Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange (LARHIX), an information technology project bringing together 24 rural hospitals and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport (LSUHSC-S), works to fill the gaps in patient record sharing among rural Louisiana hospitals.
• Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker Program
  October 2007
  The Vanderbilt Center for Health Services’ Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) program provides early intervention services to low income families in Nashville as well as other urban and rural areas in Appalachia and the Mississippi delta, including Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Dubach Health Outreach Project
  January 2007
  The purpose of this health outreach project was to access a multidisciplinary community-based intervention to combat obesity and related chronic diseases in Dubach and the neighboring communities.
• Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project
  January 2007
  Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project is a health education and screening project targeting obesity and related diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke in at-risk African American adolescents and adults in the parishes of Bienville, Lincoln and Jackson.
• The CEI: Project Outreach
  January 2007
  This project aims to improve many aspects of healthcare in St. Mary and surrounding Parishes.
• Better Health for the Delta
  December 2006
  The Southeast Louisiana AHEC grantee for the Louisiana Mississippi Delta initiative combined our activities during Phase I and Phase II with the Robert Wood Johnson RWJ) Southern Rural Access Grant Program (SRAG) rural loan fund component and created "Better Health For the Delta".