Strategy: Improve the health of patients with specific needs

Tactics:

• Alcohol & Substance Abuse

Strategy: Improve the health status of individuals with chronic illness and promote healthy lifestyles

Tactics:

Obesity

- Perform adult body mass index (BMI) screening annually

• This measure assesses adults aged 18-85 who have had a minimum of one BMI screening annually

Strategy: Improve the health of patients with specific needs

Tactics:

• Alcohol & Substance Abuse

Strategy: Improve the health status of individuals with chronic illness and promote healthy lifestyles

Tactics:

- Smoking Cessation

• Provide smoking cessation educational materials to adult patients

Strategy: Improve the general health of individuals living in Walworth County

Tactics:

- Continue to develop and offer various access sites for primary and specialty care services:

• Mercyhealth Delavan
• Mercyhealth Elkhorn
• Mercyhealth Lake Geneva
• Mercyhealth Hospital & Medical Center Walworth

- Monitor current rotating physician specialties to ensure appropriate utilization and fulfillment of community health needs

- Promote use of My Chart patient portal as a communication tool for patients and physicians as a means to enhance access and compliance

Strategy: Improve the general health of individuals living in Walworth County

Tactics:

Health Improvement and Maintenance

- Proactively manage Medicare population through ACO initiatives focused on preventive care

Strategy: Improve the health of patients with specific needs.

- Geriatric services

Strategy: Improve the general health of individuals living in Walworth County

Tactics:

Education and Awareness

- Breast cancer screening

• Schedule mammogram prior to patient leaving their office visit
• Expand mammography hours of operation

- Cervical cancer screenings

- Osteoporosis (bone density) screenings

- Colorectal cancer screenings

Strategy: Improve the health status of individuals with chronic illness and promote healthy lifestyles

Tactics:

High Blood Pressure

- Controlling high blood pressure

• This measure assesses the percentage of patients 18-85 years of age who have a diagnosis of essential hypertension

- Hypertension and high cholesterol awareness/education

Diabetes

- A1C testing

• This measure assesses percentage of people 18-75 years of age with a diagnosis of diabetes who had two or more A1C tests, one A1C test or no A1C tests within the measurement year

Strategy: Improve the general health of individuals living in Walworth County

Tactics:

Immunizations & Vaccinations

- Childhood immunizations

• Patients aged 12-24 months
• Patients aged 24-36 months

- HPV Vaccination

• Follow-up visits scheduled at time of initial vaccine

- Pneumococcal Vaccination