Priority Area |
Collaborating Hospitals |
Collaborating Counties |
Specific Focus Area |
Strategies and/or Interventions |
Partners |
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies, and Healthy Children |
Auburn Memorial Hospital |
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Increase breastfeeding rates |
- Collaborate with local agencies and hospitals to promote maternal and child health programs.
- Provide supports and educational resources available within the community for county residents.
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- Auburn Memorial Hospital
- Reach Central New York
- Local physicians
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Physical Activity and Nutrition |
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- Continue local Eat Well Play Hard Programs focusing on increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables by children and to increase physical activity among target group.
- Implement Healthy Communities Capacity Building Initiative to assess policy, practice and environment to promote better nutrition and increase physical activity by engaging a variety of community stakeholders.
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Tobacco Use |
Auburn Memorial Hospital |
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- Support and collaborate with regional tobacco programs to promote cessation, policy and practice changes to reduce second-hand smoke. This will include a collaborative effort with Auburn Memorial Hospital to educate maternity and public health nurses on tobacco cessation.
- Work with Cayuga County Community Health Network to support efforts applying for tobacco use prevention grant.
- Work with St. Joseph Hospital to request tobacco cessation counselor training.
- Train LHD and hospital staff on methods to assist pregnant women in reducing tobacco use.
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- St. Joseph's Hospital
- Auburn Memorial Hospital
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