Assessing and Improving Community Health in Wisconsin
Mercy Walworth Hospital and Medical Center
Mercy Health System
N2950 STATE ROAD 67
LAKE GENEVA, WI 53147
Walworth County
Implementation Approaches
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