Prevention Agenda - County Strategies and Partners Matrix - Orange

Priority Area Collaborating Hospitals Collaborating Counties Specific Focus Area Strategies and/or Interventions Partners
Access to Quality Health Care
  • Bon Secours Charity Health System (3 sites)
  • Orange Regional Medical Center (2 sites)
  • St. Luke’s/Cornwall Hospital (2 sites)
  • Dutchess
  • Putnam
  • Rockland
  • Sullivan
  • Ulster
  • Westchester
 
  1. Improve care and service coordination.
  2. Increase resident knowledge and awareness of available programs, services, and eligibility for benefits.
  3. Improve health literacy levels in education and outreach materials, forms, and applications.
  4. Improve access to and availability of mental/behavioral health and substance abuse counseling and testing services, especially for children and adolescents.
  5. Increase access to/availability of sub-specialty care services, especially for children and adolescents in psychiatry, neurology, pulmonology and endocrinology. The most critical sub-specialty services for adults are endocrinology, neurology, cardiology, orthopedic, specialized dentistry (e.g., periodontal, oral surgery).
  6. Increase availability of primary health care providers with a ‘holistic’ approach to prevention (e.g., weight management, smoking cessation, nutrition counseling).
  7. Increase availability of primary and specialty care providers representative of populations served.
  8. Expand hours of service delivery.
  9. Reduce stigma/lack of acceptance of public insurance programs and FQHC services.
  • Maternal Infant Services Network
  • Community Health Centers
  • Faith based organization
Chronic Disease
  • Bon Secours Charity Health System (3 sites)
  • Orange Regional Medical Center (2 sites)
  • St. Luke's/Cornwall Hospital (2 sites)
  • Dutchess
  • Putnam
  • Rockland
  • Sullivan
  • Ulster
  • Westchester
CVD Healthy Orange will collaborate with Orange Regional Medical Center to conduct heart screenings. The population served includes adults in Orange County with emphasis on low-income, uninsured.
  • American Heart Association
  • Orange Regional Medical Center
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies, and Healthy Children
  • Bon Secours Charity Health System (3 sites)
  • Orange Regional Medical Center (2 sites)
  • St. Luke's/Cornwall Hospital (2 sites)
  • Dutchess
  • Putnam
  • Rockland
  • Sullivan
  • Ulster
  • Ulster
  • Westchester
  1. Lead
  2. Access to care
  3. Family planning
  4. Sexual health education
  1. Educate daycare providers.
  2. Educate pre-natal care providers on lead testing for mid-Hudson children ages 1 and 2; Visit at least 25% of prenatal care Consortium providers.
  3. Collaborate with and support Maternal Infant Services Network, WIC, and Community Health Worker Program initiative.
  4. Strengthen partnerships with community and faith-based leaders.
  5. Intensify efforts with schools and parent organizations in high risk communities.
  6. Continue participation in the Orange County Perinatal Consortium to improve access to early prenatal care.
  7. Collaborate with Maternal Infant Services Network and the Regional Lactation Consortium.
  8. Partner with BOCES and community-based pregnancy prevention programs.
  9. Help parents to develop skills in discussing sexuality issues with their children.
  10. Collaborate with community health partners to expand family planning education and services for adolescents and adults at high risk of HIV/STD infection and substance abuse.
  11. Disseminate outreach and risk reduction materials to high risk communities.
  12. Strengthen outreach to medical providers.
  13. Improve techniques for safe and less costly housing remediation.
  14. Provide funds or loans for low-income home owners.
  15. Expand programs to educate and certify trained lead remediation specialists.
  16. Promote universal lead testing, especially in areas of high incidence and prevalence for elevated blood lead levels.
  17. Explore options for comprehensive assessment of injury data to assist in the identification of areas needing intervention.
  18. Expand injury prevention and education activities and media campaigns for the elderly, particularly regarding falls prevention and home safety.
  19. Educate adolescents and adults about preventing motor vehicle injuries.
  20. Expand Healthy Neighborhoods Program to other high risk areas in the county.
  21. Use social media to reach adolescents with prevention messages.
MISN/Regional Lactation Consortium