Success Stories by State: Washington

• North Central Washington Mental Health Project
  July 2009
  The goal of the North Central Washington Mental Health Project was to increase and improve access to appropriate mental health and chemical dependency services, particularly for lowincome residents and Hispanics.
• Point Roberts Wellness Clinic
  July 2009
  A Wellness Clinic is established in an isolated town in rural Washington.
• Olympic Peninsula Maternal Child Home Visiting: Strengthening Services Through Collaboration
  May 2009
  The goals of the project were to improve the quality of maternal and child home visits through training, support, and enhanced local resources; to improve the home visiting program by increasing revenues through private insurance and Medicaid; and to expand the number of home visits by increasing outreach to postpartum women living in outlying areas.
• Healthy Nations Initiative
  October 2008
  The Healthy Nations Initiative was funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help Native Americans reduce the harm caused by substance abuse in their communities.
• Washington State Emergency Medical and Trauma Care Services
  December 2007
  Established to promote a system of emergency medical and trauma care services, the Washington Emergency Medical and Trauma Care Services offers timely and appropriate delivery of emergency medical treatment for people with acute illness and traumatic injury, and recognizes the changing methods and environment for providing optimal emergency care throughout the state of Washington.
• Level One Cardiac Partnership-Lincoln Hospital, Davenport, Washington
  October 2007
  Shares a personal story at Lincoln Hospital which is a good example of a cardiac partnership between a rural hospital and an urban hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab.
• 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.
• Rural Resources ‘Diner’s Choice’ Program
  June 2007
  A coupon system to provide restaurant and home delived meals to nutritionally at-risk seniors.
• EMS Live @ Nite
  June 2007
  EMS Live @ Nite is an interactive video conferencing program to help educate volunteer emergency medical services personnel who don’t have easy access to training sites.
• Angel Flight West: A Higher Level of Kindness
  June 2007
  Angel Flight West provides free, private air transportation for people with medical and other needs.
• 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.
• Salud en Sus Manos (Health in Your Hands) Project
  January 2007
  The goals of the Salud en Sus Manos (Health in Your Hands) project are to reduce disparities in diabetes and obesity; improve access to diabetes and obesity services; and improve the quality of diabetes and obesity health services for Hispanic and rural residents in the Yakima Valley in Washington.
• Callam County Hospital District #1
  July 2005
  This network consisted of 11 sites representing community mental health centers, health care providers, and other health, education, and social services agencies that supported the delivery of behavior health and other health care services.
• Facilitating Health Care for Special Needs Children in Southwest Washington State
  July 2005
  The project consortium developed survey instruments, policies, procedures, and data forms and then contacted health departments, schools, and local medical and service providers to introduce project services and encourage referral of children with special needs.