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

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

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

  • Prevent Substance Abuse and other Mental Emotional Behavioral Disorders.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Community Health Centers
  • Colleges/Universities
  • Mental/Behavioral Agencies/Organizations
  • Social Services
  • CBO-Youth Focused
  • 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
  • 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
  • Reduce burden of Tick Borne Diseases
  • Prevent exposure to tick bites through increased community awareness and use of preventive measures
  • Prevent underage drinking, non-medical use of prescription pain relievers drugs by youth, and excessive alcohol consumption by adults

Interventions:

  • Increasing the availability, accessibility and use of evidence-based interventions in self-care management in clinical and community settings healthy eating and physical activity in schools; worksite wellness; community access to healthy food; educate me dical community on evidence-based practices; plan to get uninsured covered for medical care; promote screening services
  • CME to providers re Lyme Disease treatment; public education for personal protection for tick borne diseases
  • develop a community-wide plan to address prescription drug overdose; reduce inappropriate access to prescription drugs;; expanding overdose prevention measures; access and use of treatment for opioid dependence

Local Health Department Contact

II. Hospitals - Priorities, Partners, Goals and Interventions

HealthQuest: Vassar Brothers Medical Center and Northern Dutchess 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

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital

Goals:

  • Promote culturally relevant chronic disease self-management education
  • Promote tobacco use cessation, especially among low SES populations and those with poor mental health
  • Promote use of evidence-based care management of chronic disease Increase flu immunization rates, especially among 65+
  • Reduce occupational injuries and illnesses

Interventions:

  • Other preventing chronic disease intervention--smoking cessation activities: Will Add smoking questions to the EMR; educational activities to PHC patients Increasing the availability, accessibility and use of evidence-based interventions in self-care mana gement in clinical and community settings Provide community education on prevention, recognition and management of diabetes
  • Enact protocols to screen all outpatients for vaccination and provide
  • Develop patient education and outreach to 65+ demographic
  • Increase provider education and treatment consistency of tick bites and illnesses through promotion of CDC guidance

Hospital Contact

MidHudson Regional Hospital

Community Service Plan (CSP not posted )

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

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

  • Prevent Substance Abuse and other Mental Emotional Behavioral Disorders.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital
  • Schools
  • Media Organizations

Goals:

  • Improve the design and maintenance of the built environment
  • Prevent underage drinking, non-medical use of prescription pain relievers drugs by youth, and excessive alcohol consumption by adults

Interventions:

  • The interventions are unspecified

Hospital Contact

  • Name: Angela Fulton
  • Phone: 845-431-8115