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

Schenectady 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.

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

  • Reproductive, Preconception and Inter-Conception Health

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
  • Health Insurance Plans
  • Business Organizations/Corporations
  • Philanthropies
  • Colleges/Universities
  • Schools
  • Housing Organizations
  • Mental/Behavioral Agencies/Organizations
  • Social Services
  • Public/Private Transportation
  • CBO-Youth Focused
  • Clinical or community based lifestyle change program
  • Clinical or community based lifestyle change Referral Agency
  • Local Coalition

Goals:

  • Eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke
  • Promote evidence-based care
  • Promote culturally relevant chronic disease self-management education
  • Prevention of unintended and adolescent pregnancy
  • Prevent and reduce occurrence of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders among youth and adults
  • Prevent suicides among youth and adults
  • Support collaboration among leaders, professionals and community members working in MEB health promotion, substance abuse and other MEB disorders and chronic disease prevention, treatment and recovery

Interventions:

  • Adopting tobacco-free outdoor policies
  • Promoting quit line, smoking cessation though not necessarily among Medicaid beneficiaries, promoting breastfeeding
  • 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 identified risk factors are linked to appropriate community resources
  • Providing breastfeeding education in the hospital and Healthy families at home to some women
  • They are advocating to expand the dental screening program
  • Rejuvenating a suicide prevention committee

Local Health Department Contact

II. Hospitals - Priorities, Partners, Goals and Interventions

Ellis Medicine: Ellis 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 Obesity in Children and Adults.
  • Reduce Illness, Disability and Death Related to Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure.

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

  • Water Quality.

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

  • Reproductive, Preconception and Inter-Conception 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
  • Community Health Centers
  • Health Insurance Plans
  • Business Organizations/Corporations
  • Philanthropies
  • Colleges/Universities
  • Schools
  • Housing Organizations
  • Mental/Behavioral Agencies/Organizations
  • Social Services
  • Clinical or communnity based lifestyle change program
  • Clinical or communnity based lifestyle change Referral Agency
  • Local Coalition

Goals:

  • 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
  • Prevent initiation of tobacco use by New York youth and young adults, especially among low socioeconomic status (SES) populations
  • Reduce violence by targeting prevention programs particularly to highest risk populations
  • Improve the design and maintenance of the built environment
  • Prevention of unintended and adolescent pregnancy
  • Prevent and reduce occurrence of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders among youth and adults

Interventions:

  • Promoting NYS Smokers' Quitline
  • Promoting smoking cessation among people with mental health disabilities through partnerships with the NYS Office of Mental Health
  • Increasing adoption and use of food standards
  • Promoting smoking cessation benefits among Medicaid beneficiaries
  • Promote community-based programs for fall prevention
  • Help identify and recruit 'natural helpers' from affected communities who can serve as trained paraprofessionals in health promotion programs, and individuals for professional education/training to serve as health care practitioners in their community
  • The CSP indicated another intervention was being employed that was unspecified and did not match a specific intervention identified in the Prevention Agenda
  • Support the implementation of comprehensive, evidence-based, age-appropriate sex education in schools and other community settings
  • They plan to do a study on 100 women-post partum to assess post-partum depression, decrease the rate of newborn drug related hospitalizations and study 100 drug addicted mother-newborns

Hospital Contact