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

Yates 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

  • Water Quality.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital
  • Community Health Centers
  • Business Organizations/Corporations
  • Philanthropies
  • Schools
  • Media Organizations
  • Social Services
  • CBO-Youth Focused
  • Clinical or community based lifestyle change program
  • Clinical or community based lifestyle change Referral Agency
  • 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
  • Develop/implement community-led, place-based interventions targeted to address the social determinants of health in high-priority vulnerable populations
  • Reduce fall risks among vulnerable populations
  • Reduce occupational injuries and illnesses

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
  • Reduce sodium in hospital and nursing home meals
  • Promote community-based programs for fall prevention

Local Health Department Contact

II. Hospitals - Priorities, Partners, Goals and Interventions

Finger Lakes Health System: Soldiers & Sailors 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 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
  • Community Health Centers
  • Philanthropies
  • Social Services
  • CBO-Youth Focused

Goals:

  • Expand the role of health care and health service providers and insurers in obesity prevention
  • Promote culturally relevant chronic disease self-management education
  • Decrease hypertension rates
  • 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
  • Create community environments that promote and support healthy food and beverage choices and physical activity
  • Prevent underage drinking, non-medical use of prescription pain relievers drugs by youth, and excessive alcohol consumption by adults

Interventions:

  • Promoting of policies and practices in support of breastfeeding
  • Menu labeling; after school programs/committees; county competitions; media; local foods; resources on obesity for local providers; decreasing sodium in meals; expand FLHSA hypertension reduction program to area; decrease SSB; use EBT in Farmer's Market' s
  • Menu labeling; after school programs/committees; county competitions; media; local foods; resources on obesity for local providers; decreasing sodium in meals; expand FLHSA hypertension reduction program to area; decrease SSB; use EBT in Farmer's Market' s
  • Implementing of Complete Streets policies, plans, and practices
  • Increasing the availability, accessibility and use of evidence-based interventions in self-care management in clinical and community settings
  • Increasing adoption and use of food standards
  • Develop social marketing and anti stigma campaigns that promotes the importance of early identification and intervention
  • Establish linkages with the OMH Early Recognition and Screening Initiative in the region
  • Social Host Law; drug free communities; universal screening for children
  • Participating in community trial intervention to reduce high-risk drinking
  • Promote smoking cessation among people with mental health disabilities through partnerships with the NYS Office of Mental Health

Hospital Contact

  • Name: Operator
  • Phone: 315-787-4000