Partnering with diverse community navigators, MVHS is conducting heart disease education and screenings where community members live, learn, work, play, worship and age.
HANYS’ Age-Friendly Collaboratives are helping organizations meet the needs of a growing population of older adults. Sign-up is open for the 2023 programs.
Their community care team identifies people who need wrap-around services and facilitates ongoing care plans, leveraging the power of a community-based anchor institution to mobilize cross-sector partnerships.
Mohawk Valley Health System and community partners formed the Lead-Free and Healthy Homes Mohawk Valley Coalition to reduce lead poisoning, improve testing and support access to healthy housing.
Advancing Healthcare Excellence and Inclusion provides education, tools and support to help New York hospitals and health systems achieve their health equity goals.
Improving the care of older adults, 85 healthcare facilities have been designated Age-Friendly in the program’s first two years.
HSS' Aging with Dignity program provides participants with tools to overcome aging challenges, creates a sense of community and offers a calming, supportive and open environment to discuss shared experiences.
Their Food as Medicine program has built a culture of local food procurement practices and increased their community’s access to healthy food.
They established clinical management guidelines and a trauma concurrent nurse reviewer to improve the communication, documentation and follow-up of incidental clinical findings.
CVPH's “hospital without walls” approach to delivering COVID-19 monoclonal antibodies eased the burden of a thinly stretched ED staff and allowed nursing home residents to recover at home.
St. John's Episcopal worked with community partners to distribute fresh produce and non-perishables and free COVID-19 vaccinations, test kits, health screenings and education.
WPH's comprehensive ED redesign improved patient flow and efficiency, reduced length of stay and significantly decreased their door-to-provider and door-to-department times.