Success Stories by State: North Dakota

• Community Action Partnership-Minot Region Be Amazed Teen Maze Program
  September 2009
  A community effort to teach students in grades 7 through 12 to make positive life choices that can prevent some of the most serious threats to their health and safety.
• Wellness in the Valley: Suicide Prevention Task Force
  July 2009
  Wellness in the Valley was developed to be a community-based program designed to reduce the incidence of suicides and suicide attempts and to address the factors contributing to suicide in the area.
• Behavioral Health Services Model Project
  May 2009
  The primary focus of the project was to expand the number of behavioral health encounters by increasing the number of, and access to, behavioral health care providers.
• Caring for our Community
  May 2009
  Wishek Community Hospital and Clinic joined forces with MedCenter One Health Systems, McIntosh District Health Unit, Wishek Drug, and Napoleon Drug to expand access to essential health care services, to improve the coordination of those services, and to reduce health care costs.
• Diabetes Lay Educator Program: Enhancing Health Care for Hispanic Migrant Farmworkers
  May 2009
  The Diabetes Lay Educator Program was designed to reduce the high mortality rate and medical costs associated with diabetes in the area’s Hispanic population and to increase access to high quality, culturally competent health care services geared toward helping clients effectively manage diabetes.
• Mobile Unit Brings Cancer Screenings to Native American Women
  November 2008
  Describes how the Mobile Women's Health Unit works to meet the needs of Native American women living in rural areas.
• Women's Way
  August 2008
  Provides a way to pay for most breast and cervical cancer screenings for eligible North Dakota women.
• Sowing the Seeds of Hope
  July 2008
  Sowing the Seeds of Hope is responding to the mental health needs of farm families. This is a collaborative effort of project leaders in seven predominantly rural states: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
• North Region Health Alliance
  July 2008
  North Region Health Alliance improved connectivity among the 24 health care providers by implementing a telecommunication infrastructure.
• Migrant Health Service, Inc. $10 Self-Pay Drug Plan
  January 2008
  Migrant Health Service, Inc. (MHSI) was awarded the 2007 Sister Cecilia B. Abhold Award for Innovation in Health Outreach in the Midwestern stream. The award recognizes MHSI’s unique $10 Self-Pay Drug Plan that increases access to affordable medications in rural areas of North Dakota and Minnesota.
• Migrant Health Service, Inc. and Fargo-Moorhead YMCA Program
  January 2008
  Migrant Health Service, Inc. (MHSI) was recognized for its partnership with the Fargo-Moorhead YMCA that has provided facility memberships to more than 15 local farmworker families at no cost.
• 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.
• Infectious Waste Disposal
  August 2007
  Northland Healthcare Alliance is working to build a service line to process infectious waste. With the price of gasoline increasing, they are concerned about the costs of trucking the waste 300 - 400 miles.
• Dakota Prairie Community Action Agency Medicare Rx Plan
  June 2007
  In 2005 the Dakota Prairie Community Action Agency was able to provide outreach, information and assistance to elderly clients signing up for Medicare Prescription Drug Cards.
• Rural Chronically Ill Women: Online Support Network (aka "Women to Women")
  April 2007
  The Women to Women Project (WTW) aims to help isolated rural women with chronic illnesses adapt more successfully to living with their conditions in the face of limited access to health information and services.
• Wadena's Telemedicine Program
  January 2007
  Tri-County Hospital (TCH) has been providing medical specialist outreach via telemedicine since 1994. This 25-bed Critical Access Hospital in Wadena, Minnesota has one of the most active telemedicine programs in the country and is the headquarters for the new Minnesota Telehealth Network. This network will extend telemedicine services to 38 Minnesota counties and eight North Dakota counties.
• 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.
• Wellness Interventions Lasting a Lifetime (WILL) Project
  January 2007
  The Wellness Interventions Lasting a Lifetime (WILL) project-designed to encourage wellness and healthy lifestyles-will provide education on disease management and prevention to North Dakota residents of Cavalier County, the northwest section of Pembina County, and the northern portion of Ramsey County.
• Dakota Network of Community Health Centers
  May 2006
  This program has an Electronic Health Information Management Network with fully interactive video conferencing in place and it is being utilized to the benefit of the Dakota Network Collaborating Organizations and the patients served.
• Northland Integrated Network Systematic Disease Management Model Project
  July 2005
  The 17 member network's primary objective was to provide improved care services to residents with chronic diseases (diabetes and asthma) in rural and frontier areas by implementing a disease management process and tracking patients' participation and care services received.