Essex County Department of Health and Hospital(s) Prevention Agenda 2013-2018 Priority Selection and Partners

Essex County Prevention Agenda 2013-2018 Tracking Indicator Dashboard

I. Local County Department of Health - Priorities, Partners, Goals and Interventions

Community Health Improvement Plan

Prevention Agenda Priorities:

Preventing Chronic Diseases: View the State Action Plan for this priority

  • Access to High-Quality Chronic Disease Preventive Care and Management in Clinical and Community Settings.
  • Reduce Illness, Disability and Death Related to Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital
  • Schools
  • Clinical or community based lifestyle change program

Goals:

  • Create community environments that promote and support healthy food and beverage choices and physical activity
  • Prevent childhood obesity through early child-care and schools
  • Expand the role of health care and health service providers and insurers in obesity prevention
  • Expand the role of public and private employers in obesity prevention
  • Increase screening rates for cardiovascular diseases; diabetes; and breast, cervical and colorectal cancers, especially among populations experiencing health disparities
  • Promote evidence-based care
  • Promote culturally relevant chronic disease self-management education

Interventions:

  • Implementing of Complete Streets policies, plans, and practices
  • Increasing the availability, accessibility and use of evidence-based interventions in self-care management in clinical and community settings
  • Promote and support healthy food and beverage choices and physical activity in community, schools; expand the role of health care and health service providers in obesity prevention (breastfeeding promotion in hospitals and elsewhere; use of EHR to targe t obesity counseling); establish a "learning collaborative" around organizational nutrition

Local Health Department Contact

II. Hospitals - Priorities, Partners, Goals and Interventions

Elizabethtown Community Hospital

Community Service Plan (CSP not posted )

Prevention Agenda Priorities:

Preventing Chronic Diseases: View the State Action Plan for this priority

  • Access to High-Quality Chronic Disease Preventive Care and Management in Clinical and Community Settings.
  • Reduce Illness, Disability and Death Related to Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure.

Partners:

  • Hospital
  • Community Health Centers
  • Media Organizations

Goals:

  • Promote culturally relevant chronic disease self-management education
  • Promote evidence-based care
  • Expand the role of health care and health service providers and insurers in obesity prevention

Interventions:

  • Improve access to primary care; increase cardiac and pulmonary tertiary care; increase patients in diabetes self-mgmt
  • Increasing the availability, accessibility and use of evidence-based interventions in self-care management in clinical and community settings

Hospital Contact

Inter-Lakes Health: Moses-Ludington Hospital

Community Service Plan

Prevention Agenda Priorities:

Preventing Chronic Diseases: View the State Action Plan for this priority

  • Access to High-Quality Chronic Disease Preventive Care and Management in Clinical and Community Settings.
  • Reduce Illness, Disability and Death Related to Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital
  • Community Health Centers
  • Health Insurance Plans

Goals:

  • Promote culturally relevant chronic disease self-management education
  • Promote evidence-based care
  • Increase screening rates for cardiovascular diseases; diabetes; and breast, cervical and colorectal cancers, especially among populations experiencing health disparities
  • Prevent childhood obesity through early child-care and schools
  • Create community environments that promote and support healthy food and beverage choices and physical activity

Interventions:

  • Increasing adoption and use of food standards
  • Worksite wellness, including a number efforts to have people eat healthier food at hospital cafeteria
  • Identified evidence-based programs as "using NYS Smokers Quitline" and "Persons with Arthritis can Exercise" (PACE); passing out educational materials

Hospital Contact