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

Tompkins 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

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

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

  • Promote Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Well-Being in Communities.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital
  • Health Insurance Plans
  • Colleges/Universities
  • Faith-Based Organizations
  • Mental/Behavioral Agencies/Organizations
  • Social Services
  • CBO-Youth Focused
  • Local Coalition

Goals:

  • Eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke
  • Promote evidence-based care
  • Promote culturally relevant chronic disease self-management education
  • Promote mental, emotional and behavioral (MEB) well-being in communities

Interventions:

  • Adopting tobacco-free outdoor policies
  • Promote living in homes where smoking is prohibited; decrease asthma risk factors in homes; Diabetes self-management; Identify community partners engaged in EBI Delivery, ID gaps, and promote benefits of EBIs

Local Health Department Contact

II. Hospitals - Priorities, Partners, Goals and Interventions

Cayuga Medical Center of Ithaca, NY

Community Service Plan

Prevention Agenda Priorities:

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

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

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

  • Promote Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Well-Being in Communities.
  • Prevent Substance Abuse and other Mental Emotional Behavioral Disorders.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital
  • Social Services
  • Clinical or communnity based lifestyle change program
  • Local Coalition

Goals:

  • Expand the role of health care and health service providers and insurers in obesity prevention
  • Create community environments that promote and support healthy food and beverage choices and physical activity
  • Eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke
  • Other chronic disease goal: Reduce asthma
  • Increase participation of adults with arthritis, asthma, cardiovascular disease of diabetes in a course of class to learn how to manage their condition
  • Promote mental, emotional and behavioral (MEB) well-being in communities
  • Strengthen infrastructure for MEB health promotion and MEB disorder prevention
  • 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:

  • Promoting NYS Smokers' Quitline
  • Adopting tobacco-free outdoor policies
  • Summer sports camps; increase healthy food distribution for lower SES; Pulmonary functions testing for lower SES
  • Mobilize community for reducing alcohol use
  • Facilitate SBIRT training; Collaborative Care Model; county suicide screening initiative

Hospital Contact