Success Stories by State: Tennessee

• Four County Health and Wellness Project
  July 2009
  The project’s goal was to provide increased access to wellness promotion, disease prevention, and rehabilitation services to residents living in the four-county region.
• Cherokee Health Systems Rural Outreach Project
  July 2009
  Cherokee Health Systems proposed a collaborative health outreach project to address issues like language barriers, lack of trust in the health care system, and, in many cases, more pressing human needs—such as social services, food, and clothing in this predominately rural Appalachian region.
• Tellico Plains Full-Service, School-Based Clinic
  May 2009
  The school-based clinic was designed to address several health problems in the community by improving the physical health status of school-age children in Tellico Plains and surrounding communities and by identifying and treating health problems and ensuring followup care.
• Hancock County School-Based Health Center
  May 2009
  The Hancock County School-Based Health Center project offered several innovative education and support programs to children and parents.
• 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.
• Shared Information Technology (IT) Services
  August 2007
  The Community Health Network was formed to share information technology (IT) resources among varying sized community health organizations across Tennessee, from one doctor, one location, to much larger groups in multiple locations.
• Public Health Certificates Offered Online
  June 2007
  The Tennessee Department of Health created an online training program where department staff can earn certificates in applied epidemiology, health leadership or healthcare management.
• Drug Endangered Child Outreach Network Project
  January 2007
  This project aims to deliver integrated medical and mental health services to the 24 Drug-Endangered Children/Drug-Endangered Infants and their families per year immediately upon identification.