Community Connections
What is it?The Pali Momi Wellness Station features a technology bar with educational and interactive displays that promote health and wellness topics. The wellness station is located at an enclosed shopping center, enabling shoppers to use smart tablets at the station to look up general health…
What is it?Through the Kids Don’t Float program, free life jackets are available for use at loaner stations located throughout Fairbanks and Alaska’s Interior. Each year, Safe Kids Fairbanks and Fairbanks Memorial Hospital order enough quantities to keep the stations supplied all summer. The goal…
What is it?The program decreases sodium and fat in foods prepared in Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) hospitals through the use of fresh herbs and vegetables. CAMC implemented a value-chain food system incorporating local growers, replacing imports from the outside economy with herbs and…
What is it?The Serial Inebriate Program (SIP) is a court-ordered, 90-day, 10-bed treatment program for serial inebriates. Through this collaboration between Sutter Medical Center and several community partners, clients receive alcohol addiction counseling and are offered permanent housing through…
What is it?St. Mary’s Health Care System partners with the Athens Twilight Criterium Foundation to present programs to children on exercise, nutrition and helmet use. Bike racers make wearing helmets cool by sharing their experiences and enthusiasm. Nurses educate about brain injury, and a “melon…
What is it?With funding from BMO Harris Bank, Rush University Medical Center is partnering with Medical Home Network (MHN) and Malcolm X City College (MXC) to develop new, sustainable models of care to improve health care delivery in underserved Chicago communities. Educational programs are being…
What is it?Since 2006, Healthy Woman has provided free monthly health education programs for women to improve their emotional and physical well-being. Educational topics include osteoporosis, stress management and nutrition. Through community partnerships, the program has brought fun and…
What is it?The Heart of New Ulm Project (HONU) is an award-winning, community-driven initiative to reduce heart attacks in the rural community of New Ulm. As a population-based prevention demonstration project, it applies evidence-informed health improvement practices in the community, health care…
What is it?Tipping the Scale is a mentoring and advocacy program providing students in grades nine through 12 extensive case management, one-to-one mentoring, training in communication/presentation, general life skills education, and job readiness/mentor-based paid summer employment. Students are…
What is it?Agnesian HealthCare has a long-standing partnership with ASTOP (Assist Survivors / Treatment / Outreach / Prevention), an independent sexual assault service provider offering cost-free treatment, outreach, prevention and advocacy. The hospital provides rent-free space, and its domestic…