Assessing and Improving Community Health in Wisconsin
Southwest Health Center
Implementation Approaches
Goal: Promote safety/harm prevention (esp. farm, drug and alcohol related)
Strategy: Increase opportunities for public education
- Work with UNITE to identify priority alternatives for reducing binge drinking and drug use
Goal: Reducing opioid misuse and abuse
Strategy: Offer education and increase community collaboration among stakeholders
- Review policies and provide education for practitioners. Draft an organizational and/or community plan for addressing opioid misuse and abuse
Goal: Promote safety/harm prevention (esp. farm, drug and alcohol related)
Strategy: Increase opportunities for public education
- Work with UNITE to identify priority alternatives for reducing binge drinking and drug use
- Promote smoking cessation using existing educational resources
Goal: Reduce barriers to access
-Strategy: Partner to bring in specialists
- Identify target specialties for recruiting
- Evaluate potential to add a counselor in SBS
- Create a public awareness campaign to reduce the stigma of mental health and promote practitioners
- Review potential of adding a practitioner in the Women’s Center
-Strategy: Connect uninsured with available products
- Leverage navigators for education prior to enrollment opportunities
-Strategy: Connect at risk patients with community care program
- Create greater visibility for our financial counselors and community care program, and encourage applications with an easy, customer-friendly process
- Investigate an e-visit option for primary care to provide an easy, stay-athome, relatively low cost alternative to a traditional office visit
- Evaluate possible clinic locations around the SH service area
- Review and evaluate alternatives for services at Epione Pavilion
Goal: Providing education, screenings, early interventions, monitoring, and case management
-Strategy: Better leverage current outreach opportunities and create new highly impactful ones
- Boost promotion of screenings and local outreach activities via social media and other public relations vehicles (depression screenings and memory screenings, BMI, sleep apnea, diabetes/glucose, etc)
- Promote smoking cessation using existing educational resources
- With a new oncology program, initiate a local cancer screening outreach program
- Evaluate potential and benefits of EMS staff performing home visits for at risk patients
- Bring screenings and education to annual Senior Expo, Elderfest, and other trade-show style eve
Goal: Boost awareness of existing services
-Strategy: Provide awareness building for underutilized services
- Initiate new occupational health program and boost communication with area employers
- Create campaigns to encourage primary care visits and preventive care
Goal: Facilitate provision of needed community services
-Strategy: Increase counseling availability
- Evaluate potential to add a counselor in SBS
-Strategy: Offer onsite Oncology and Hematology service
- Partner with UW Health to create a cancer treatment center at SH
-Strategy: Offer occupational health services
- Recruit a occupational health specialist and develop a program
Goal: Providing education, screenings, early interventions, monitoring, and case management
-Strategy: Better leverage current outreach opportunities and create new highly impactful ones
- Evaluate potential and benefits of EMS staff performing home visits for at risk patients
- Create a monthly educational series using the new EMS Station Community Room
- Bring screenings and education to annual Senior Expo, Elderfest, and other trade-show style events
- Maximize use of online profiles to reduce patient communication apprehension with practitioners
- Facilitate increased use of MyChart to aid communication with primary care practitioners
- Boost promotion of screenings and local outreach activities via social media and other public relations vehicles (depression screenings and memory screenings, BMI, sleep apnea, diabetes/glucose, etc)
- Promote smoking cessation using existing educational resources
- With a new oncology program, initiate a local cancer screening outreach program
Goal: Improve patient advocacy
-Strategy: Partner with local coalitions and groups to improve knowledge of area services
- Contribute to a revised UW Extension resource list on web and in print
- Use social media and blogs to highlight low awareness options around community
Goal: Promoting and supporting healthy lifestyle changes
-Strategy: Increase public opportunities for health education and improvement
- Create a monthly educational series using the new EMS Station Community Room
- Track education and outreach results in terms of participants
- Maintain participation and support of UNITE community collaboration for health improvement
- Gather new information on specific needed programming with the launch of a new occupational health program
- Bolster blogging efforts to provide a growing source of online resources with a local slant/interest
Goal: Intensely focus community education to change underlying causes of metabolic syndrome and related disease
-Strategy: Work with community to develop partnerships with the common goal of making healthy choices easier
- Continue support of safe routes to school program
- Focus sponsorships and community involvement resources on those events and activities that support wellness and healthy lifestyles
- Leverage cooperative efforts with community partners, such as UNITE, to explore new opportunities for impactful programs
- Employ communications vehicles (Heart 2 Heart magazine, blogs, social media, local media health pages) to highlight local healthy living champions, programs, and learning opportunities
- Create and publicize a new annual community health living award, recognizing a group or individual who makes a remarkable contribution
Goal: Providing education, screenings, early interventions, monitoring, and case management
-Strategy: Better leverage current outreach opportunities and create new highly impactful ones
- Boost promotion of screenings and local outreach activities via social media and other public relations vehicles (depression screenings and memory screenings, BMI, sleep apnea, diabetes/glucose, etc)
- Promote smoking cessation using existing educational resources
- With a new oncology program, initiate a local cancer screening outreach program
- Evaluate potential and benefits of EMS staff performing home visits for at risk patients
- Bring screenings and education to annual Senior Expo, Elderfest, and other trade-show style events
Goal: Promote safety/harm prevention (esp. farm, drug and alcohol related)
Strategy: Increase opportunities for public education
- Support Grant County Health Department’s Farm Safety Day
- Work with UNITE to identify priority alternatives for reducing binge drinking and drug use