Objective: Support Decreased Substance Abuse

Strategies: 

• Host AA meetings at Mercy locations

Objective: Support Obesity Education

Strategies: 

• Provide free health screenings at community events
• Increase access to diabetes education programs at Mercy Health Mall
• Sponsor 4th and 5th grade track meet to promote exercise and fitness
• Wellness course for elementary school children
• “My Plate” education and activity at health fairs
• Increase “Healthy Image” Program

Objective: Support Decreased Substance Abuse

Strategies: 

• Increase drug rehabilitation program utilization
• Partner with drug prevention programs

Objective: Promote Smoking Cessation

Strategies: 

• Increase access to Mercy's “Smoking Cessation” program
• Create a scholarship program to bear some of the cost of the smoking cessation program
• Provide a free "Commit to Quit" support group
• Provide a stop smoking helpline through MercyCare
• Offer a free stop smoking wellness program for employees
• Work with the school districts to create an early education prevention program for children
• Mail educational materials about lung cancer screenings

Objective: Increase Access to Mental Health Care

Strategies: 

• Open an outpatient mental health program for teens and young adults
• Offer a suicide survivor support group through the Options program

Objective: Increase Access to Dental Care

Strategies:

• Statewide dental service project to provide preventive service and restorative care

Objective: Promote Hypertension Awareness

Strategies: 

• Participate in community health fairs
• Free screening days at clinics
• Mercy-led community events
• "Lunch and Learn" events held throughout the year to increase knowledge of heart failure and hypertension
• Mailings with wellness tips
• Provide access through Mercy website to hypertension screening tool

Objective: Support Obesity Education

Strategies: 

• Provide free health screenings at community events
• Increase access to diabetes education programs at Mercy Health Mall

Objective: Support Yearly Pap Test

Strategies: 

• Educate on importance of PAP testing at community events
• Mailings to women needing PAP testing

Objective: Colorectal Cancer Screening Education

Strategies: 

• Provide education and awareness at community health fairs
• Distribute publications on the importance of colorectal cancer screening
• Increase access to gastroenterology physicians in the community
• Send educational materials to the public

Objective: Increase Access to Mental Health Care

Strategies: 

• Open an outpatient mental health program for teens and young adults
• Offer a suicide survivor support group through the Options program

Objective: Autism Support

Strategies: 

• Create an autism treatment fund
• Provide autism awareness education at community health fairs
• Provide autism screenings at pre-K screening events