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

Orange 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 Obesity in Children and Adults.

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

  • Maternal and Infant Health
  • Reproductive, Preconception and Inter-Conception Health

Partners:

  • Business Organizations/Corporations
  • Colleges/Universities
  • Schools
  • Faith-Based Organizations
  • Housing Organizations
  • Mental/Behavioral Agencies/Organizations
  • Social Services
  • Local Coalition

Goals:

  • Create community environments that promote and support healthy food and beverage choices and physical activity
  • Promote tobacco use cessation, especially among low SES populations and those with poor mental health
  • Reduce premature births in New York State
  • Prevention of unintended and adolescent pregnancy

Interventions:

  • Implementing of Complete Streets policies, plans, and practices
  • Promoting smoking cessation benefits among Medicaid beneficiaries
  • The smoking cessation benefits would be targeted towards anyone who lives or works in Orange County
  • To increase the availability of affordable healthy foods, especially in communities with limited access, through starting and sustaining farmers' markets
  • Develop and implement local service networks and coordinating strategies to ensure that women with identified risk factors are linked to appropriate community resources
  • Promote annual preconception and inter-conception visits to develop and review reproductive health plans
  • Identify and promote education messages on delaying sexual activity, contraceptive use, and preventive health care
  • Improve work with faithbased organizations, focusing on dissemination of facts to their members
  • Support or conduct public health detailing to improve health and human service providers' knowledge, beliefs and skills related to improved use of evidence-based clinical and community-based interventions to reduce preterm birth

Local Health Department Contact

II. Hospitals - Priorities, Partners, Goals and Interventions

Bon Secours Charity Health System: Bon Secours Community Hospital and St. Anthony Community 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.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital

Goals:

  • Create community environments that promote and support healthy food and beverage choices and physical activity
  • Increase Access to High Quality Chronic Disease (Diabetes) Preventive Care and Management in clinical and community settings

Interventions:

  • Increasing the availability, accessibility and use of evidence-based interventions in self-care management in clinical and community settings

Hospital Contact

  • Name: Operator
  • Phone: 845-368-5000

Greater Hudson Valley Health System: Orange Regional Medical Center

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.

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

  • Maternal and Infant Health
  • Reproductive, Preconception and Inter-Conception Health

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital

Goals:

  • Reducing adult smoking and teenage everyday smoking and increase screening rates by developing a primary care network
  • Promote tobacco use cessation, especially among low SES populations and those with poor mental health
  • Create community environments that promote and support healthy food and beverage choices and physical activity
  • Expand the role of health care and health service providers and insurers in obesity prevention
  • Reduce premature births in New York State
  • Reduce premature births in New York State

Interventions:

  • ORMC offers smoking cessation resources in partnership with POWR Against Tobacco Coalition of Orange County's Smoking Cessation Center to identify patients and distributes information about the availability of smoking cessation products and referrals to sm oking cessation programs Promoting smoking cessation benefits among Medicaid beneficiaries
  • Increasing adoption and use of food standards Implementing of Complete Streets policies, plans, and practices
  • Work with paraprofessionals to reinforce health education and health care service utilization and enhance social support to high-risk pregnant women Develop and implement local service networks and coordinating strategies to ensure that women with identif ied risk factors are linked to appropriate community resources
  • Implement policies, community and organizational systems and practices to expedite enrollment of low-income women in Medicaid, including presumptive eligibility for prenatal care and family planning coverage
  • Provide routine preconception and inter-conception health care for women of reproductive age that include screening and follow up for risk factors, management of chronic medical conditions and use of contraception to plan pregnancies

Hospital Contact

St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital

Community Service Plan

Prevention Agenda Priorities:

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

  • Reduce Illness, Disability and Death Related to Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure.

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

  • Maternal and Infant Health

Partners:

  • Hospital
  • Community Health Centers
  • Health Insurance Plans
  • Housing Organizations
  • Mental/Behavioral Agencies/Organizations
  • Social Services
  • Public/Private Transportation
  • Local Coalition

Goals:

  • Expand community partnerships to deliver pre/post-natal education resources
  • Increase the percentage of women who receive breastfeeding education leading up to and immediately following giving birth
  • Increase the percentage of expectant families who receive prenatal education
  • Increase the proportion of NYS babies who are breastfed
  • Reduce premature births in New York State
  • Expand community partnerships to deliver pre/post-natal education resources
  • Increase the percentage of women who receive breastfeeding education leading up to and immediately following giving birth
  • Increase the percentage of expectant families who receive prenatal education

Interventions:

  • Provide a comprehensive prenatal educational program for expectant families in our service area
  • Prenatal education aims to influence health behavior, increase preparedness for childbirth, develop social support networks, educate on safety measures and reduce prenatal risks as well as risks after the baby is born
  • Promote pre/post-natal breastfeeding education activities for expectant/new mothers, specifically aimed at increasing the breastfeeding rate
  • Provide a comprehensive prenatal educational program for expectant families in our service area
  • Prenatal education aims to influence health behavior, increase preparedness for childbirth, develop social support networks, educate on safety measures and reduce prenatal risks as well as risks after the baby is born
  • Promote pre/post-natal breastfeeding education activities for expectant/new mothers, specifically aimed at increasing the breastfeeding rate

Hospital Contact