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Success Stories by Topic: Health services
- Highland County Community Action Organization Television Show Program
September 2009
The Highland County Community Action Organization created a cable television show as a means to efficiently reach individuals and families who are spread throughout their rural service area, in their own homes.
- Gundersen Lutheran Health System: Performance Improvement Through Partnership
August 2009
Gundersen Lutheran Health System is a physician-led, not-for-profit integrated delivery system serving more than 550,000 people in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.
- Hispanic Health Outreach Project
July 2009
The Hispanic Health Outreach Project provided outreach,
education, and case management services to Hispanic residents in
Portage and Waupaca counties.
- Honoring our Children Project
July 2009
The Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council’s Honoring Our Children
Project (HOC) developed a culturally competent, collaborative
network of tribal and non-tribal health providers, elders, leaders,
and community members to address the complex array of health
care problems facing American Indians living near the Lac du
Flambeau community.
- Point Roberts Wellness Clinic
July 2009
A Wellness Clinic is established in an isolated town in rural Washington.
- Valley Health Exchange Network
July 2009
The main goal of this project was to help create a community-based
health care system that was better equipped to meet the health care
needs of a more racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically
diverse population in rural Virginia.
- Van School-Based Health Care Initiative
July 2009
This project was designed to provide health promotion, health
education, and primary health care services for more than 2,100
students in the Van Independent School District.
- Central Missouri Health Care Outreach (CeMo)
July 2009
The project opened a sister clinic that operated out of the Morgan County Health
Center. The clinic provided primary care, mental health services,
as well as pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and referral services
at no cost to low-income, uninsured individuals.
- 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.
- Community-Based Care for Persons Living with Type 2 Diabetes
July 2009
The Community-based Care for Persons Living with Type 2
Diabetes program was designed to prevent complications
commonly associated with type 2 diabetes.
- Great Basin College Rural Health Outreach Program
July 2009
This project aimed to recruit new
EMTs, to help rural communities retain new recruits, to
provide training, to secure training equipment, and to
improve pre-hospital response services in the state of Nevada.
- Replicating Best Practices to Improve Access to Health Care Services and to Reduce Rural Health Disparities for Children
July 2009
Several Health Professionals were hired to help children overcome a number of health disparities and
access barriers in rural Oregon.
- Adolescent Behavioral Health Project
July 2009
This project was designed to provide adolescents
with an employment experience at the health center to help build
self-esteem, develop healthy decisionmaking capabilities, and
prevent the onset of chronic health problems. The medical center
provided a range of behavioral health services to students at the two
local schools, those participating in the employment program, and
young children at home.
- Language Links for Healthier Families
July 2009
Language Links for Healthier Families was created to increase access to health care for Latino families in south
central Georgia through health education and outreach by
eliminating language and cultural barriers to quality care.
- Salina Area Health Network
July 2009
This outreach grant allowed this community to enjoy longer hospital hours, more services and more qualified staff.
- SMART: Diabetes and Hypertension Education and Outreach Program
July 2009
The Diabetes and Hypertension Education Outreach Program
screened more than 1,000 area residents for diabetes and
hypertension. The project succeeded in
reducing hospitalizations among program participants by nearly
70 percent.
- Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital Community Clinic
May 2009
The Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital Community Clinic was established to provide primary medical and preventive services for
low-income and uninsured residents.
- Meadows Regional Medical Center Rural Health Outreach Project
May 2009
The cosortium provided a wide range of primary
health care services, including general health, blood pressure, and
blood glucose screenings to
uninsured and underinsured families living in the service area.
- Rural Health Outreach Program for Southeastern North Carolina
May 2009
The goals of the project were to expand access to care, restrain
costs, and improve the quality of services delivered to Hispanic
individuals and families living in the service area.
- Smiles on Wheels Mobile Dental Program
May 2009
The purpose of this project was to implement a mobile dental
service, Smiles on Wheels, that emphasized community-based oral
health education targeting low-income preschool children through
third-graders as well as pregnant women living in poverty in five
rural counties in the Florida Panhandle.
- Southwest Georgia Multicultural Health Initiative
May 2009
The Southwest Georgia Multicultural Health Initiative was
created to ensure that translation and interpretation assistance was
available to individuals with limited English proficiency
seeking care at local hospitals and health departments, to improve providers’ understanding of cultural diversity
issues related to the people they serve, and to ensure that people with limited English proficiency have
access to routine health education and screening services.
- West Middle School Wolverine Den of Health
May 2009
Local Organizations joined forces to establish a school-based health center at West
Middle School in Montgomery County that focused on the
health care needs of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.
- Connect for Healthy Kids
May 2009
Connect for Healthy Kids provided services to any families with children—
from unborn children to children 8 years of age—in Grant County.
- Family Net
May 2009
The Oneida County Department of Social Services launched the Family Net program to provide a more
coordinated, better functioning system of care for at-risk families.
- Hardy County School-Based Health Project
May 2009
The primary goal of the
project was to improve access to health services for children in the
Hardy County schools and to enhance their physical and emotional
well-being by providing them with comprehensive health care
services.
- Partners in Agricultural Health Program
May 2009
PAH was designed to strengthen existing occupational
health services within three county health departments and
five participating hospitals by providing educational programs
and preventive screenings for farmers and their family
members, creating an educational program for health
professionals to enhance their understanding of the unique healthcare needs of farmers, and developing an interactive Web site to market the
project and disseminate educational information.
- Rural Health Outreach (Charleston, West Virginia)
May 2009
This program, the only one of its kind in West Virginia, was
designed to overcome some of the key rural health care access
issues experienced by people with HIV/AIDS.
- Community Connection
May 2009
The main goal of the Community Connection project was to
provide integrated mental health and primary preventive services to
adolescents and elderly individuals living in the Beverly, Daily,
Mill Creek, and Mingo districts of Randolph County and the
Belington district of southern Barbour County.
- Community Health Education and Development Program
May 2009
The Community Health Education and Development
(CHED) program was established to increase health care
access in the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula of
Virginia.
- Pediatric Wellness Program
May 2009
The Pediatric Wellness Program was designed to be a
comprehensive education and health intervention program
targeting children and adolescents aged 0 to 18 years living in
Tuscarawas County.
- Rural Health Outreach to the Cheyenne River Reservation: Creating an Early Health Care Community
May 2009
This project focused on increasing public awareness of early
intervention services; providing prescreening, screening, and
tracking services; referring children in need for further evaluation;
providing evaluation and diagnostic services; and linking children
to area resources.
- Waterfall Clinic
May 2009
The Coos County Waterfall Clinic offered many services to low-income families in the area.
- Rural BASICS
May 2009
Rural BASICS (Behavioral Access Study
Integrating Continuum Services) succeeded in developing and implementing a
continuum of care that served individuals of all age groups and
ethnicities.
- Rural Health Outreach (Cape Girardeau, Missouri)
May 2009
The Cross Trails Medical Center (CTMC) used grant funds for expanded evening hours and hired a nurse educator in the towns of
Marble Hill and Advance.
- St. Lawrence Access to Care Program
May 2009
Program activities included an intensive education and outreach
campaign to increase awareness of the need for and availability of
preventive health screenings, a concerted effort to access points to network services for uninsured and underinsured residents, and the
provision of followup and diagnostic testing for uninsured and
underinsured clients with problematic screening results.
- Torrance County Rural Outreach Initiative
May 2009
The Torrance County Rural Outreach Initiative targeted the
county’s two most vulnerable populations—children covered by
Medicaid and the uninsured.
- Southeast Georgia Communities Health Links Project
May 2009
The primary purpose of the Health Links project was to address
linguistic and cultural barriers to health care experienced by
migrant and seasonal farmworkers in a four-county region in
southeast Georgia by providing interpretation services, health
education, case management, and improved access to primary
health care services.
- The Partnership for Rural Elderly
May 2009
The purpose of the Partnership for Rural Elderly was to provide
direct rehabilitation, consultation, and educational services to a
population of rural and low-income elderly citizens in northern
Georgia who did not otherwise have access to such care.
- Treutlen County School Health Initiative
May 2009
The Consortium members launched an onsite school
clinic; conducted onsite assessments and screenings for vision,
hearing, blood pressure, and mental health and provided various other services to Treutlen County students and staff.
- Lifelines
May 2009
The Rural Health Network of Monroe
County sought to develop and sustain a countywide infrastructure
for providing primary health care services to the county’s uninsured
inhabitants.
- Ridge Health Partners Program
May 2009
The Ridge Health Partners Program was established to meet the
primary care and preventive health needs of six target
communities—Dundee, Davenport, Haines City, Lake Hamilton,
Loughman, and Waverly.
- Western Yuma County Rural Health Outreach Project
May 2009
The Western Yuma County Rural Health Outreach Project was
designed to increase access to health care services for the growing
Hispanic population in Yuma County.
- Yell County Rural Health Consoritum
May 2009
The goal of the Yell County Rural Health Consortium was to
increase access to basic health care and to improve the
cardiovascular health of the residents of Danville and the
surrounding areas.
- Community Access Program (CAP)- West Virginia
April 2008
Partners in Health Network improved access to health care services, provided discounts and free services to patients who met the financial eligibility screening, and provided care management services to adults ages 19-64 with asthma, depression, diabetes and hypertension.
- Credentialing Verification Service- West Virginia
April 2008
Partners in Health Network, Inc. (PIHN) Credentialing Verification Service’s (CVS) purpose is to assist associate entities (both members and non-members of the Network) in credentialing practitioners in accordance with accreditation standards and guidelines.
- Coalition of Health Services, Inc.- Regional Liaison Services
March 2008
The primary purpose for the development of a regional liaison services project was to ensure coordination of services and information between the two acute care hospitals in Amarillo and rural health care facilities throughout the upper 26 counties for the Texas Panhandle.
- Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance
March 2008
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance (CCHA) used a common broker for group, life and LTD insurance products.
- Rural Community Health in Connecticut: Challenges and Opportunities
August 2007
The goals of this Connecticut Office of Rural Health project were to capture a picture of current health care issues impacting rural Connecticut, gain a better understanding of the health status of rural residents and develop a supporting rural health data base.
- Western Healthcare Alliance Preferred Provider Organization
August 2007
The Western Healthcare Alliance (WHA) Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) provides participating WHA Members with a discount on any employee health service received from another WHA Member provider.
- Healing Center Helps Children
June 2007
Dedicated to enriching the lives of children with disabilities in middle Georgia, The Healing Center provides financial assistance in physical, occupational, music, massage, speech, hippo, aquatic and mental therapies.
- SPARC Project Saves Women's Lives- Connecticut
June 2007
SPARC, a nonprofit health organization, began a program to administer flu shots and at the same time helped women find a mammogram provider to prevent cancer.
- Dancing to Deter Diabetes
June 2007
The "Reach Out" project in rural Lake County, California, helps diabetics learn about nutrition and medication, and they dance.
- 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.
- One-Stop Shop for Mind and Body
June 2007
Designed to simplify access to care in Newaygo County Michigan, the Baldwin Family Health Care center is combining health care and human services in a one-stop shop for the mind and body.
- Thiel Hospitality House
March 2007
The Thiel Hospitality House is a community supported short residence opportunity for not just loved ones of hospitalized patients in crisis, but for overnight ambulatory care patients, visiting practitioners, and health professions students as well.
- Alliance for Hispanic Outreach and Regional Awareness Coalition
January 2007
The overarching goal of this proposal is to reduce health disparities in the Latino/Hispanic population in a four county area by increasing access to health care, providing health information and education, increasing direct health care services, improving occupational health and safety and developing community capacity and infrastructure to deliver culturally competent health care services.
- Rural Health Care Services Outreach Project
January 2007
The Rural Health Care Services Outreach project will establish a program of integrated primary and behavioral health using elements of successful, HRSA-sponsored Health Disparities Collaborative models.
- Connections Rural Health Initiative
January 2007
This projects main goal is to provide health care and human services for low-income children, youth, and families in two rural counties of central Kentucky.
- The CEI: Project Outreach
January 2007
This project aims to improve many aspects of healthcare in St. Mary and surrounding Parishes.
- Santa Catalina Island Healthcare Consortium
January 2007
A consortium consisting of Catalina Island Medical Center, Loma Linda University Medical Center, and the USC Catalina Island Hyperbaric Chamber, with the help of the Santa Catalina Island Company and Two Harbors Enterprises, will utilize creative outreach models to bring primary care services through a satellite clinic to the remote island community of Two Harbors.
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