Priority Area |
Collaborating Hospitals |
Collaborating Counties |
Specific Focus Area |
Strategies and/or Interventions |
Partners |
Access to Quality Health Care |
- Glens Falls Hospital
- Adirondack Medical Center
- Saratoga Hospital
- Elizabethtown Community Hospital
- Moses Ludington Hospital
- Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home
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Access to primary and preventive care |
- Increase access and desire for primary and preventive care and early screening.
- Change attitudes and beliefs that medical care is only for those sick or symptomatic.
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- Private providers
- Health agencies
- Adirondack Rural Health Network
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Chronic Disease |
- Glens Falls Hospital
- Adirondack Medical Center
- Saratoga Hospital
- Elizabethtown Community Hospital
- Moses Ludington Hospital
- Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home
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- Diabetes
- Congestive heart failure
- Cancer
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- Provide health education to increase awareness about chronic diseases and their risk factors.
- Increase screening and early detection.
- Promote regular preventive care physician encounters
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- Private providers
- Health agencies
- Adirondack Rural Health Network
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Physical Activity and Nutrition |
- Glens Falls Hospital
- Nathan Littauer Hospital
- Elizabethtown Comm. Hospital
- Moses Ludington Hospital
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- Essex
- Hamilton
- Saratoga
- Washington
- Fulton
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- Establish a regional task force to select activities.
- Design implementation schedule.
- Select evidence based methods of evaluation by January 1, 2010.
- Develop a workplan and implementation schedule by June, 2010.
- Implement interventions by June, 2011.
- Evaluate by June, 2102.
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- Glens Falls Hospital
- Adirondack Rural Health Network
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