Priority Area |
Collaborating Hospitals |
Collaborating Counties |
Specific Focus Area |
Strategies and/or Interventions |
Partners |
Access to Quality Health Care |
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- Enhance access to primary care and medical specialty services for medically indigent and underserved Sullivan County communities through a subcontract with the local hospital for recruitment of primary care providers in the Western end of Sullivan County, a health professional shortage area.
- Provide translation phone services for indigent non-English speaking patients of the cancer screening program
- Review an assessment of the health insurance status of Sullivan County residents completed in 2007.
- Create a Health Equity Council to address the disparate health outcomes evident by differences in morbidity and mortality statistics by race and ethnicity.
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- Catskill Regional Medical Center
- County Mental Health Department (“Community Services”)
- County Youth Bureau
- County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council (“SCADAS”)
- County Aging services
- Sullivan County BOCES’ health professions program
- DSS (locally called the “Department of Family Services”)
- County antipoverty agency (“CACHE”)
- Regional perinatal network (“Maternal Infant Services Network” or “MISN”)
- PRASAD Children’s Dental Health Program
- RN from the health unit of the sole local community college (Sullivan County Community College)
- Family Empowerment Council
- Orange-Sullivan Hospice
- United Way
- Hudson Valley HIV Care Network
- Probation Department
- Hudson River Health Care
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Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies, and Healthy Children |
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- Dental Health
- Unintentional injuries (child seats in vehicles)
- Immunizations
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- Subcontract to PRASAD Children’s Dental Health Program for enhancement of access to dental health education and treatment services for Sullivan County's population of medically indigent children and pregnant women.
- Provide maternal peer support and education.
- The Healthy Families Program promotes healthy families and reduces the incidence of child abuse and other subsequent problems by using a strength-based curriculum.
- Bilingual outreach worker assists families with pregnant women and children to feel safe and utilize necessary preventive and primary health services.
- Enhance Sullivan County's youth and adolescent health status through a county wide obesity reduction education program.
- Implement a teen pregnancy program.
- School nurses throughout the county and school health teachers provide health and reproductive education classes and materials.
- The Center for Discovery serves children with special physical and educational needs.
- Collaborate with Teen Link of Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley.
- OB/GYN’s offer family planning and women’s health services.
- The Maternal Infant Services Network provides county wide preconception and prenatal classes to reduce poor maternal and child health outcomes through funding from the Rural Health Network of Sullivan County.
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- PRASAD Children’s Dental Health Program
- WIC
- Visiting Nurse Program
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Mental Health/Substance Abuse |
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- Reduce Sullivan County's high rates of adolescent alcohol and substance abuse by supporting several Communities That Care Coalition's Smoking education and cessation program.
- Provide nicotine replacement therapies.
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- Recovery Center
- Sullivan County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services (SCADAS) Program
- Sullivan County Community Services
- Rural Health Network
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