Assessing and Improving Community Health in Wisconsin
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-All Saints
Implementation Approaches
-Promote and educate the community on healthy eating habits and prevention of chronic diseases.
-The Clinical Dietetics will offer nutritional counseling and education throughout the lifespan.
-Provide education on the effects of tobacco use.
-Offer support groups for those in the community who are trying to quit smoking and use of other tobacco products.
-Offer education to local schools to prevent the younger generation from beginning to smoke or use tobacco products.
-Continue to offer classes such as “Breathe Better, Live Better”.
-Provide access to comprehensive primary care by establishing a medical home for uninsured populations without access to a primary care physician.
-Continue to provide health education to underinsured and uninsured patients.
-Offer guidance to patients in scheduling their care and offer assistance in their care pathways.
-Provide a comprehensive, client-centered, care coordination and home visitation system to provide pre-natal and post-natal services for all women and families with infants at risk of fetal and infant mortality through one year of life.
-Focus on decreasing prematurity as a cause for infant mortality.
-Expand Centering Pregnancy Model.
-Provide PNCC/Medical Home care at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare –All Saints as part of Racine County Home Visiting Network.
-Continue to provide health education to underinsured and uninsured patients.
-Offer guidance to patients in scheduling their care and offer assistance in their care pathways.
-Provide a comprehensive, client-centered, care coordination and home visitation system to provide pre-natal and post-natal services for all women and families with infants at risk of fetal and infant mortality through one year of life.
-Focus on decreasing prematurity as a cause for infant mortality.
-Expand Centering Pregnancy Model.
-Provide PNCC/Medical Home care at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare –All Saints as part of Racine County Home Visiting Network.
-Promote and educate the community on healthy eating habits and prevention of chronic diseases.
-Provide education on the effects of diabetes.
-Offer professional, personal support and guidance to individuals desiring to achieve health lifestyle behaviors.
-Offer support groups for those in the community with diabetes.
-The Clinical Dietetics will offer nutritional counseling and education throughout the lifespan.
-Offer education to local schools to prevent diabetes in the younger generation.
-The Diabetes Management Department will continue to offer several counseling and education programs for the community such as Diabetes Basics and The Diabetes Prevention Program.
-Improve access and services to children in need of mental health services in Racine County
-Educate and promote understanding and awareness with community local law enforcement and community stakeholders on mental health issues that impact our community.
-Offer Crisis in Intervention Training.
-Offer Crisis in Partnership Training.
-Partner with National Alliance on Mental Illness to provide community education programs that increase awareness of mental health issues.
-Create a trauma-informed community utilizing the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Survey as a framework to convey how personal adversity affects one’s social-emotional well being.