Partnership Stories
Health Services for Children with Special Needs, a local HMO Assesses Lead Hazards in a Medicaid Eligible Population of Developmentally Disabled Children
Health Services for Children with Special Needs, a local HMO for developmentally disabled children assesses the home environments of children for lead hazards and environmental asthma triggers.
Florida Disabled Outdoors Association Shares Facilities to Meet Community’s Needs
Florida Disabled Outdoors Association works to ensure natural resources are accessible for all people to enjoy regardless of ability and promote these resources to persons with disabilities.
HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) Collaborates with Baltimore Community
ODPHP has recently undertaken developing a "Quick Guide to Healthy Living" that is appropriate for consumers with limited health literacy
SAGE Aims to Improve the Health of Older Adults at Risk for Nursing Home Placement
The goal is to integrate a comprehensive geriatric hospital-based clinical program with a community aging network to improve the health, functional status, and prevent institutionalization of older adults at risk for nursing home placement.
QuitLink: Partnering Clinical Practices and Telephone Quit Lines to Leverage an Improvement in the Quality of Tobacco Counseling in Primary Care
To test whether patient-reported delivery of intensive smoking cessation counseling in primary care practices (beyond simple advice to quit) is enhanced by an office systems approach.
IUMG and YMCA Work to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
Indianapolis group works with YMCA to offer a lifestyle weight management program to prevent type 2 diabetes
Michigan group (GRIN) partners locally to test Community Health Education and Referral Liaison (CHERL) Program
When asked to describe the success of their program, Trissa Torres stated “CHERL is like a bridge to support and sustain key relationships between physicians, patients, and community services for the purpose of supporting healthy behaviors.”
Help me search for tools and resources
Take me back to the Community Toolkit menu