Case Studies
What is it?Magruder Hospital has partnered with nearly 40 organizations, agencies and individuals to form the Ottawa County Council of Health & Social Concerns. The Council serves as a clearinghouse for information about local services and programs to ensure awareness of current programs,…
What is it?Through its Immigrant Health Outreach Program with a bilingual nurse patient navigator and medically trained interpreters, Mercy Medical Center offers culturally sensitive pre-natal care in its OB clinic. Following delivery, Mercy provides an in-house health education Spanish TV channel…
What is it?The Cassano Health Center, established in 2000, delivers a full range of primary and specialty physician services to all community members in need. The facility’s employees work with the primary care physicians, practitioners, specialists, and medical residents to provide tens of…
What is it?The Adena Health Foundation of the Adena Health System began in 2004 to award competitive grants to other non-profit community organizations. Funding for the Community Health Partners Program comes from donations and the health system budget. Grantees are required to include educational…
OverviewAsthma is the most common chronic illness diagnosed in children, and it’s the number one diagnosis for admission at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In urban Philadelphia, approximately one out of five children has asthma. The Community Asthma Prevention Program of Philadelphia (…
What is it?Project Search is a one-year, school-to-work transition program for students that was modeled after the growing Project SEARCH national program. Student trainees from the Cuyahoga Falls, Hudson, Kent, Stow-Monroe Falls, Tallmadge, and Woodridge school districts (Six District Educational…
What is it?Access to dental care for the uninsured and medical assistance patients was seriously lacking in York and Adams counties. WellSpan formed a task force in each county to address that and related issues. Composed of dentists, social service organizations, business community and government…
What is it?Opened in 2004, the Family Caring Clinic is a low-cost, sliding-fee scale (based on household income) practice that accepts almost all types of insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and self-pay. The Family Caring Clinic is a federally qualified health center (FQHC) with look-alike status. The…
What is it?Punxsutawney Area Hospital’s Amish Outreach Program is a part of its charity care and financial assistance program. The majority of the hospital’s Amish customers do not accept charity care and want to pay for the services they receive, but they realize that health care costs are too…
What is it?Meadville Medical Center helped form and continues to assist in the operation of the Meadville Area Free Clinic, which has provided free primary care in the area for the past 10 years. The clinic treats about 100 people per month at a cost to the clinic of about $30 per visit, including…