Implementation Strategy Summary

Implementation Strategy Summary
FHN Memorial Hospital
December 30, 2013
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Health Needs to be Addressed: Prevention – General Wellness
Action Item
Population Served
Community
Screenings
Entire Community
Walk-in
Wednesday
Women
Young Hearts
Program
Youth
Dial A Doc
Program
Entire Community
Healthy Kids
Program
Youth
Miles for Minutes
Youth
Meals on Wheels
Elderly, Low Income,
Disabled
Health Resource
Library
Entire Community
Nutrition Outreach
and Education
Entire Community
Community
Exercise Resource
Map
Entire Community
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Objective
Continuing free community screening programs
in an effort to support health awareness.
Continuing and expanding the “Walk-in
Wednesday”
program
to
promote
mammography screening within the community.
Continuing and expanding the “Young Hearts”
program of screening for student athletes in the
community.
Continuing to promote the “Dial A Doc” program
within the community as an educational resource
for healthy living.
Continuing to support the “Healthy Kids”
program run in conjunction with the YMCA to
promote healthy lifestyles.
Continuing and expanding the Miles for Minutes
initiative in all three counties to support physical
activity.
Continuing the Meals on Wheels program.
Continuing to maintain a Health Resource Library
to facilitate community residents’ identification
of existing resources available to support health.
Establishing a Freeport collaboration among the
YMCA, local public and private schools, the
Freeport Area Church Cooperative, the
Stephenson County Health Department, and local
grocery stores including Cub Foods to coordinate
current nutrition outreach and education and to
identify new ways with to reach children and
adults. Areas of programmatic focus will be
designed to be culturally effective and reach lowincome access points in the community such as
Head Start, Food Banks, Churches, and other
social organizations.
Working with Freeport Park District, Carroll
County Health Department and JoDaviess County
Health Department to map all places and assets
in the Hospital Community where residents can
readily access physical activity. This map will be
used as an educational tool alongside the CATCH
food and nutrition curriculum being used at the
Boys and Girls Club, the YMCA, and the Freeport
public schools.
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Burchard Hills
Walking Path
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Entire Community
Helping to expand and maintain the Burchard
Hills walking path to support physical activity
within the community.
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Health Needs to be Addressed: Poverty and Uninsurance
Action Item
Population Served
Community
Screenings
Entire Community
Discounted Care
Uninsured
Meals on Wheels
Elderly, Low Income,
Disabled
Pharmaceutical
Assistance
Uninsured, Low Income
FHN Community
Clinic
Low Income
Affordable Care
Act Outreach and
Education
Uninsured, Low Income,
Entire Community
Reducing Financial
Barriers
Uninsured, Low Income
Financial
Education
Uninsured, Low Income,
Entire Community
Charity Assistance
Uninsured, Low Income
Financial
Counselors
Uninsured, Low Income,
Entire Community
Workforce
Development
Low Income, Entire
Community
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Objective
Continue free community screening programs in
an effort to support health awareness.
Continue providing discounts for uninsured
patients seeking care in the FHN system.
Continue Meals on Wheels program.
Continue providing pharmaceutical assistance for
community residents who cannot afford
medications.
Continue operating the FHN Community Clinic,
which provides flexible payment options, charity
care, and discounts, making health care more
affordable for the low-income population.
Identifying internal staff to work closely with the
Stephenson County Health Department in its
outreach efforts on the Affordable Care Act and
to expand the work initiated in the Hospital
community for both Medicaid and for subsidized
health insurance on the Illinois Health Exchange.
Outreach events will be held in locations within
underserved neighborhoods.
Identifying existing financial barriers to lowincome families in accessing services and
developing a response to reducing those financial
barriers.
Ensure all financial administrative staff at primary
care locations, especially those that serve a
larger underserved population, understand
eligibility for Illinois Medicaid and where to refer
patients for enrollment into the Affordable Care
Act through the Health Exchange.
Screen self-pay patients for presumptive charity
assistance.
Have dedicated financial counselors available to
assist community residents in negotiating the
costs of health care.
Collaborate with the Freeport Housing Authority
on its Workforce Development Initiative in job
placement for its graduates.
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Health Needs to Be Addressed: Health System Navigation and
Cultural Competency
Action Item
Population Served
Increase
Information
Availability
Entire Community
Translator Services
Non-English Speakers
Community
Outreach and
Education
Entire Community
Understanding
Culture of African
American
Community
African American
Population
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Objective
Enhance current marketing materials about the
FHN network to ensure information is available
to all populations in the Hospital community.
Tactics include developing a brochure and
additional website content that is readily
understandable and available in other languages
common in the community. The brochure will
include information such as information relating
to expanded hours, financial assistance
programs, and the importance of having a
regular primary care “medical home”.
Continue providing translator services in the FHN
facilities.
Conducting outreach events to educate
community residents about health system access
will be held in locations within underserved
neighborhoods. The Freeport Housing Authority
has offered that their locations would be ideal
for such events.
Facilitating focus group/discussion groups of
African-American residents and other African
American leaders in the community (not political
leaders) to discuss their perceptions of health
and how they maintain health. This content will
be framed into teaching points that could help
FHN staff and faculty understand the culture of
this community, specifically around the issues of
health and wellness in the Freeport area.
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Health Needs to Be Addressed: Transportation and Accessing
Providers
Action Item
Sports Physical
Program
Community
Screenings
Transportation
Vouchers
Enhance Services
at Community
Clinic
Explore Possibility
of FQHC Status
Expand Nursing
Home and
Advanced Care
Programs
Population Served
Entire Community
Expand Hours and
Days for Primary
Care
Working Population
Increase Mental
Health Coverage in
Rural Areas
Rural Community
Residents
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Objective
Continue and expand the sports physical
Youth
program.
Continue community-based screenings and
identify additional venues that are readily
Entire Community
accessible and convenient to vulnerable
populations.
Enhance the initiative of offering subsidized
Pretzel Bus transportation vouchers to lowLow Income
income
individuals
and
families
for
transportation to and from FHN facilities, in
conjunction with the City of Freeport.
Explore opportunities to enhance primary care
Working Population, Low services at the SCHD facility near the Eastside of
Income
Freeport so that services are comprehensive and
offered at convenient hours for working families.
Explore working with the SCHD to reapply for
Low Income
federally qualified health center status for the
onsite health clinic.
Expand nursing home and advanced care
programs, including post-discharge medical visits.
Provide early and late hours in addition to some
Saturdays to increase appointment availability at
times convenient for individuals who cannot
access care during traditional work week hours.
Work to bring greater behavioral health, physical
therapy, and specialist provider coverage to its
rural sites.
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Health Needs to Be Addressed: Prevention – Hypertension
and Stroke
FHN is indirectly addressing this health need through several of its objectives related to
promoting healthy lifestyle choices and delivering health educational programming within the
community.
Action Item
Population Served
Community
Screenings
Entire Community
Stroke Prevention
Classes and
Screenings
Entire Community
Stroke Response
Team
Stroke Patients
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Objective
Continuing to provide free community screening
for blood pressure to increase awareness of this
issue.
FHN will continue to engage community
members in stroke prevention programs by
offering classes and screenings in the
community.
While not a direct prevention measure, FHN has
created a stroke response team for patients
diagnosed by EMS as “stroke in evolution”.
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Health Needs to Be Addressed: Prenatal Care and Teen Birth
Rate
In responding to other unmet needs within the community, FHN is indirectly addressing this
issue through several of its objectives related to promoting healthy lifestyle choices and
delivering health educational programming within the community.
Action Item
Population Served
Lactation and
Breastfeeding
Program
Mothers and Babies
Parent Enrichment
Programming
Parents
Community
Resource
Connection
Mothers and Babies
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Objective
Expanding its lactation and breast feeding
partnership with the Stephenson County Health
Department.
Continuing to offer parent enrichment
programming.
Continuing to connect mothers with community
resources and existing programming.
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