Prevention Agenda - County Strategies and Partners Matrix - Rockland County

Priority Area Collaborating Hospitals Collaborating Counties Specific Focus Area Strategies and/or Interventions Partners
Access to Quality Health Care
  • Nyack Hospital
  • Good Samaritan Hospital
  • Dutchess
  • Ulster
  • Putnam
  • Orange
  • Westchester
  • Sullivan
 
  1. Support and aid the expansion of community health centers.
  2. Expand facilitated enrollment.
  3. Improve case management, referral, co-location of services and disseminate information about available resources.
  4. Increase the proportion of persons who have access to and are covered for mental health care.
  • Department of Mental Health
  • Mental Health Association of Rockland County
  • Department of Social Services
  • Office of the Aging
  • Youth Bureau
  • InfoRock
  • United Way 211
  • Good Samaritan Hospital
  • Nyack Hospital
  • Helen Hayes Hospital
  • Public Health Priorities Committee
  • Department of Social Services
  • Rockland Immigration Coalition
  • Community Collaboratives
  • Spring Valley, Suffern, Nyack & Haverstraw
  • Rockland CARES
  • Haitan American Cultural and Service Organization
  • Konbit Neg
  • Community Action Partnership
Chronic Disease
  • Nyack Hospital
  • Good Samaritan Hospital
  • Dutchess
  • Ulster
  • Putnam
  • Orange
  • Westchester
  • Sullivan
  1. Heart Disease
  2. Cancer
  3. Physical activity and nutrition
  1. Expand Healthy Meetings Guidelines to all county organizations and non-profit organizations.
  2. Provide materials and easy-to-use healthy eating and exercise prescriptions to health care providers and service providers for use for their patients and clients.
  3. Publicize and recognize healthy businesses, restaurants and stores.
  4. Work with Rockland County Chapter American Cancer Society of the Rockland County Cancer Institute and community partners to build on successful healthy living partnership.
Public Health Priorities Steering Committee
Community Preparedness
  • Nyack Hospital
  • Good Samaritan Hospital
  • Dutchess
  • Ulster
  • Putnam
  • Orange
  • Westchester
  • Sullivan
  Ensure that every agency or organization that serves county residents is responsible for a plan of action.  
Healthy Environment
  • Nyack Hospital
  • Good Samaritan Hospital
  • Dutchess
  • Ulster
  • Putnam
  • Orange
  • Westchester
  • Sullivan
 
  1. Promote environmental changes which support healthier behaviors and reduce risk of disease.
  2. Explore opportunities to address policies which support good health at worksites and in the community through changes in built environment.
  3. Encourage and support green projects.
 
Mental Health/Substance Abuse
  • Nyack Hospital
  • Good Samaritan Hospital
  • Dutchess
  • Ulster
  • Putnam
  • Orange
  • Westchester
  • Sullivan
 
  1. Increase access to insurance for mental health treatment.
  2. Explore innovative methods to improve mental health support in places where people seek other kinds of services.
  3. Increase skills of primary medical providers and community service providers in identifying, treating, and referring for mental health needs.
  4. Improve discharge planning to include attention to mental health needs.
  5. Increase availability of intensive case management services that include mental health treatment.
 
Physical Activity and Nutrition      
  1. The Public Health Priorities Steering Committee will explore ways to assure that programs that address obesity and physical activity, initiated through the STEPS to a Healthier Rockland County grant, become part of the practices of other community organization and service providers’ practices.
  2. Expand the NYSDOH Healthy Meetings Guidelines to all county organizations, non-profit organizations, schools, health care institutions, and businesses.
  3. Provide materials and easy-to-use healthy eating and exercise prescriptions to health care providers and service providers for their patients and clients to use.
  4. Publicize and recognize businesses, restaurants and stores which participate in healthy meetings, offer healthy nutritional offerings and menus, and provide opportunities and incentives for employees and clients to exercise.
  5. Promote greater collaboration between Rockland County Health Department, Good Samaritan Hospital, and Nyack Hospital on education and outreach.
  6. Collaborate on early detection efforts.
  7. Work with Rockland County Chapter of the American Cancer Society and Rockland County Cancer Institute and community partners to build on successful healthy living partnership in order to expand outreach education, screening and early detection.
  • Department of Mental Health
  • Mental Health Association of Rockland County
  • Department of Social Services
  • Office of the Aging
  • Youth Bureau
  • Good Samaritan Hospital
  • Nyack Hospital
  • Helen Hayes Hospital
  • Public Health Priorities Committee
  • Department of Social Services
  • Rockland Immigration Coalition Community Collaboratives
  • Rockland CARES
  • Probation
  • Youth Bureau & Office for Community Resources
  • Haitan American Cultural and Service Organization
  • Konbit Neg Lakay
  • Bikur Cholim of Rockland
  • Volunteer Community Services
  • Refuah Health Center
  • Monsey Family Health Center
  • Ben Gilman Health Center
  • Hudson River Health Center
  • Community Action Partnership