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

Madison 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.

Promote a Healthy and Safe Environment: View the State Action Plan for this priority

  • Outdoor Air Quality.
  • Water Quality.

Promote Healthy Women, Infants and Children: View the State Action Plan for this priority

  • Maternal and Infant Health
  • Child Health

Promote Mental Health and Prevent Substance Abuse: View the State Action Plan for this priority

  • Prevent Substance Abuse and other Mental Emotional Behavioral Disorders.
  • Strengthen Infrastructure across Systems.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital
  • Business Organizations/Corporations

Goals:

  • Reach and maintain a healthy weight for children/adolescents ages 4-18
  • Improve the design and maintenance of home environments to promote health and reduce related illness
  • Improve the design and maintenance of the built environment to promote healthy lifestyles, sustainability and adaption to climate change Reduce occupational injuries and illnesses
  • Increase the proportion of NYS babies who are breastfed
  • Reduce the prevalence of dental caries among NYS children
  • Increase utilization of preventive health care services among women of reproductive ages
  • Increase access to and awareness of mental health services
  • Reduce youth use and abuse of drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Interventions:

  • Promoting of policies and practices in support of breastfeeding
  • Link health care-based efforts with community prevention activities (Fit Kids Madison County)
  • Conduct research to support evidence-based approaches to reducing obesity (Fit Kids Madison County)
  • Expand Healthy Schools New York initiative to all school districts
  • Establish Food Hubs and Farm to School program
  • Publicize risk factors and steps to improve home environment (Healthy Housing Initiative)
  • Promote and implement Madison County Smart Growth Policy and Code Audit Tool for Rural Communities in at least 3 municipalities
  • Establish and provide technical assistance services to municipalities on the Madison County Smart Growth Policy and Code Audit Tool
  • Conduct research to review links between occupation and industry and chronic and infectious diseases (Workforce Health & Productivity Management initiative)
  • Concerted outreach and media campaigns directed at targeted occupational groups (Workforce Health & Productivity Management initiative)
  • Develop and implement local service networks and coordinating strategies to ensure that women with identified risk factors are linked to appropriate community resources
  • Implement business case for breastfeeding at work sites
  • Link children and families to dental services and ensure access to a quality system of care (Community School Initiative)
  • Facilitate co-location of medical and dental programs and development of effective referral networks (Community School Initiative)
  • Conduct robust studies on cost-effectiveness, intervention coordination and cultural challenge (Community School Initiative)
  • Implement telemedicine psychiatry
  • Identify and implement evidence-based practices and environmental strategies to prevent underage drinking, substance abuse and other MEB disorders (eg, INROADS, Botvin's Life Skills, Class Action, Project Alert)
  • Support campaigns and policies that prevent tobacco sales to minors (Reality Check)
  • Develop and support social marketing campaigns to promote activities that enhance MEB health

Local Health Department Contact

II. Hospitals - Priorities, Partners, Goals and Interventions

Community Memorial Hospital of Hamilton, NY

Community Service Plan

Prevention Agenda Priorities:

Promote Mental Health and Prevent Substance Abuse: View the State Action Plan for this priority

  • Strengthen Infrastructure across Systems.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital
  • Community Health Centers

Goals:

  • Create community environments that promote and support healthy food and beverage choices and physical activity
  • Expand the role of public and private employers in obesity prevention
  • Affordable healthy foods to increase intake of fruits and vegetables
  • Strengthen infrastructure for MEB health promotion and MEB disorder prevention

Interventions:

  • Increasing the availability, accessibility and use of evidence-based interventions in self-care management in clinical and community settings
  • Promoting smoking cessation benefits among Medicaid beneficiaries by implementing Opt-to-Quit in FHQC's and Hospitals
  • Adopting tobacco-free outdoor policies
  • Promoting NYS Smokers' Quitline
  • Workplace wellness; CPED and Safe-Growth; active transportation; restricting tobacco marketing; HBP collaborative; community wide physician guidelines for diabetes care
  • Increase # of agencies licensed by OMH and OASAS; increase FTE Psychiatrists serving Madison; increase public awareness of existing services

Hospital Contact