Prevention Agenda - County Strategies and Partners Matrix - Broome County

Priority Area Collaborating Hospitals Collaborating Counties Specific Focus Area Strategies and/or Interventions Partners
Access to Quality Health Care
  • United Health Services
  • Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital
  
  1. Increase healthcare coverage
  2. Increase access to mental health services
  3. Increase access to prescription medications
  1. Coordinate approach to the administration of grant-funded educational and service programs (private and government funded) through community coalitions.
  2. Work with the local service providers and agencies to increase coverage to address community needs.
  3. Use facilitated enrollment for insurance products for which individuals may be eligible.
  4. Refine care models to maximize delivery of mental health/ behavioral health services across continuum of care and in various delivery settings.
  5. Utilize allied health professionals.
  6. Expand linkages with Binghamton University to increase service learning and community-based projects.
  7. Explore grant funding opportunities and evidence-based strategies for increasing access to mental health services.
  8. Develop an implementation strategy to replicate successful services and programs throughout the service area.
  9. Increase the coordination of pharmacy safety net programs.
  10. Educate providers about about prescription assistance programs (PAPS) and prescribing practices.
  11. Increase awareness of PAPs and expand number of programs and organizations that will assist patients to complete applications.
  • Mothers and Babies Perinatal Network of South Central New York
  • Southern Tier Health Link
  • Action for Older Persons
  • Rural Health Network of South Central New York
  • Community Alternative Systems Agency (CASA)
  • Broome Cover the Uninsured Week Coalition
  • Communities Joined in Action
  • Dr. Garabed A. Fattal Community Free Clinic
  • Binghamton VA Outpatient Clinic
  • Broome County Department of Social Services
  • Mental health service providers
  • Homeless Coalition
  • Law enforcement
  • Pharmacies and Pharmaceutical Companies
Chronic Disease
  • United Health Services
  • Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital
  
  1. Obesity in children and adults
  2. Diabetes and diabetes-related hospitalizations.
  3. Avoidable hospitalizations due to heart failure.
  1. Outreach and education to promote physical activity and nutrition.
  2. Intervention and prevention through engaging the community in health lifestyle and behavioral changes.
  3. Policy and systems level changes in schools and worksites including:
    1. Hospital-based diabetes education programs.
    2. Chronic disease self-management programs.
    3. Case management of patients with diabetes
    4. Provider-patient and provider-hospital initiatives to provide disease management to patients with congestive heart failure.
    5. Innovative home care programming and continuum of care to patients when they leave the hospital.
    6. Home health and telehealth monitoring services.
    7. Post-hospital discharge follow-up calls.
 For each of the three Chronic Disease Priorities Areas, the county has identified their key partners, which appears to encompass virtually all of the community-based organizations, networks, various State agencies, clinical providers, the Strategic Alliance for Health, etc.
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
  • United Health Services
  • Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital
    
  1. Refine care models to maximize the delivery of mental health/behavioral health services across the continuum of care and in various care delivery settings such as primary care, specialty care, and utilization of allied health professionals.
  2. Expand linkages with Binghamton University to increase service learning and community-based projects.
  3. Explore grant funding opportunities and evidence-based strategies for increasing access to mental health services.
  4. Develop an implementation strategy to replicate successful services and programs throughout the service area.
  5. Expand partnerships to support new Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program at Binghamton University.
  • Broome County Mental Health Department
  • Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier
  • Greater Binghamton Health Center
  • Dr. Garabed A. Fattal Community Free Clinic
  • Binghamton University
  • Catholic Charities of Broome County
  • The Family & Children’s Society
  • Department of Social Services
  • Broome-Tioga Board of Cooperative Education Services
  • Keep Youth Doing Something Coalition
  • United Way of Broome County
  • Broome County Office for the Aging
  • Broome County Youth Bureau Law Enforcement
  • Homeless Coalition
  • Broome County Health Department