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

Broome 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.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital
  • Health Insurance Plans
  • Business Organizations/Corporations
  • Colleges/Universities
  • Schools
  • Faith-Based Organizations
  • Media Organizations
  • Housing Organizations
  • Public/Private Transportation
  • CBO-Youth Focused
  • Clinical or community based lifestyle change program
  • Local Coalition

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
  • Increase screening rates for cardiovascular diseases; diabetes; and breast, cervical and colorectal cancers, especially among populations experiencing health disparities
  • Promote evidence-based care
  • Reduce fall risks among vulnerable populations

Interventions:

  • Promoting of policies and practices in support of breastfeeding
  • 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
  • Increasing adoption and use of food standards
  • Implementing Complete Streets policies, plans, and practices
  • Promote community-based programs for fall prevention

Local Health Department Contact

II. Hospitals - Priorities, Partners, Goals and Interventions

Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial 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.

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

  • Water Quality.

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

  • Strengthen Infrastructure across Systems.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital
  • Health Insurance Plans
  • Faith-Based Organizations
  • Local Coalition

Goals:

  • Promote culturally relevant chronic disease self-management education
  • Promote evidence-based care
  • Increase screening rates for cardiovascular diseases; diabetes; especially among poor and vulnerable populations (Medicaid)
  • Create an environment- on the Lourdes Hospital campus that promotes and supports healthy food and beverage choices and physical activity for associates
  • Reduce fall risks among vulnerable populations
  • Promote mental, emotional and behavioral (MEB) well-being in communities
  • 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:

  • Pediatric BMI screening; inclusion of screening Lourdes patients enrolled in the Medicaid Health Home
  • Increasing adoption and use of food standards
  • Become a Great Beginnings hospital By 2017 become a Baby Friendly Hospital
  • Promote community-based programs for fall prevention
  • Implement the Otago evidenced based falls prevention program
  • Focus on Lourdes patients who are enrolled in the Medicaid Health Home and the disparate population that will receive special attention to promote mental health are the socioeconomic poor

Hospital Contact

United Health Services: United Health Services Hospitals (Wilson Medical Center, Binghamton General Hospital, and Physician Practices)

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.

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

  • Maternal and Infant Health

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital
  • Colleges/Universities
  • Schools
  • Social Services
  • Local Coalition

Goals:

  • 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
  • Promote culturally relevant chronic disease self-management education Eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke
  • 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
  • Prevent initiation of tobacco use by New York youth and young adults, especially among low socioeconomic status (SES) populations
  • Increase the proportion of NYS babies who are breastfed

Interventions:

  • Increasing adoption and use of food standards Increasing the availability, accessibility and use of evidence-based interventions in self-care management in clinical and community settings Adopting tobacco-free outdoor policies
  • Promoting of policies and practices in support of breastfeeding
  • Promoting smoking cessation benefits among Medicaid beneficiaries
  • Provide structured, comprehensive breastfeeding education and professional lactation counseling and support during pregnancy, in the hospital and at home

Hospital Contact