Success Stories by Topic: Hispanics

• Briscoe County Community Clinic
  July 2009
  This project provided primary and preventive health care services, health education, screenings, assistance in applying for entitlement programs, discounted fees for services, prenatal care, and class D pharmacy services to underserved residents of rural Texas.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Central Kansas Rural Health Outreach Project
  May 2009
  The Central Kansas Rural Health Outreach Project sought to address the chronic health issues of diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol among residents living in a three-county region in central Kansas.
• 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.
• 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.
• Diabetes Outreach and Education: Arizona
  May 2009
  The Douglas Diabetes Consortium recruited 360 individuals with diabetes to participate in the diabetes classes.
• La Red Health Center - 2001
  May 2009
  La Esperanza sought to establish a community-based health center to improve access to care for Latinos, African Americans, families living in poverty, and other rural residents with health care needs.
• Rural Health Outreach Diabetes Education Program
  May 2009
  The rural health outreach project made nearly 2,500 potential patient contacts, and, as a result of this outreach, 476 people became enrolled in the diabetes education program.
• 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.
• California InfoNet Project
  June 2007
  The InfoNet Project was formed to strengthen Tuolumne County residents access to health and social services by providing an easy-to-use website to provide information and assistance service for low-income households, the homeless, seniors, people with disabilities, Latinos and Native Americans.
• 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.
• 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.
• Mora & San Miguel Primeros Pasos/First Steps Program
  January 2007
  The Mora & San Miguel Primeros Pasos/First Steps Program proposes to serve up to 60 first-time parents and their children through the implementation of the research-based Healthy Families America Program.
• Single Point of Entry and Lay Promotora Program
  January 2007
  This 3-year outreach proposal is focused on designing a Single Point of Entry and Lay Promotora Program to deliver Prescription Assistance to a target population defied as residents of Taos County 18 years and older with a diagnosis of type 1, type 2, or gestational diabetes who are up to 185 percent of the poverty level.
• Steps to Wellness/Pasos a Salud
  January 2007
  This project is intended to improve the emotional and physical well-being of our rural community residents by providing individual and group support and education to people suffering from diabetes and/or obesity.
• Building Healthy Families Project
  January 2007
  The Building Healthy Families project is designed to meet the unique cultural, social, and linguistic needs of pregnant Hispanic women living in Marshall County.
• 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.