Access to Quality Health Care - County Strategies and Partners Matrix - Herkimer

Priority Area Collaborating Hospitals Collaborating Counties Specific Focus Area Strategies and/or Interventions Partners
Access to Quality Health Care
  • Little Falls Hospital
  • Bassett Healthcare
  • Faxton-St. Luke's Hospital
  • St. Elizabeth Hospital
Oneida Prenatal care
  1. Increase access to prenatal care, as prenatal care and specialty care are markedly less available to county residents compared to other NYS residents in other counties.
  2. Herkimer County Public Health will attempt to support the Little Falls Hospital cancer screening outreach; St. Elizabeth hospital to increase mental health opportunities; and Faxton-St. Luke’s Hospital to implement one-stop OB care.
  3. Little Falls Hospital will collaborate with the Bassett Cancer Institute and the Cancer Services Program of Oneida, Herkimer and Madison counties to increase access to cancer screenings, especially in remote areas, such as Salisbury, Stark and Webb.
  4. Little Falls Hospital will collaborate with the Herkimer County Department of Public Health, Herkimer County HealthNet, Inc., local schools, primary care clinics and community organizations to expand early prenatal care educational materials available at community events, health fairs and school-based programs.
  • Little Falls Hospital
  • Bassett Healthcare
  • Faxton-St. Luke's Hospital
  • St. Elizabeth Hospital
  • Local schools
  • Primary care clinics
  • Community organizations
Chronic Disease
  • Little Falls Hospital
  • Bassett Healthcare
  • Faxton-St. Luke's Hospital
  • St. Elizabeth Hospital
Oneida  
  1. Educate residents about decreasing the time to recognize the signs and symptoms of heart disease and stroke.
  2. Provide diabetes and cancer screening.
  3. Improve public awareness of emergency care for heart attacks and strokes, the benefits of prenatal care, and the benefits of cancer and diabetes screening.
 
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies, and Healthy Children
  • Little Falls Hospital
  • Bassett Healthcare
  • Faxton-St. Luke's Hospital
  • St. Elizabeth Hospital
Oneida
  1. Access to OB/GYN care
  2. Family planning
  1. Establish a preconception clinic.
  2. Increase family planning services.
  3. Establish STD clinic.
  4. Improve transportation for keeping appointments with Primary Care Assistance Program providers.