2008 COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE PROGRAM AWARDEES For the past 21 years, the Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Program has provided approximately $15.5 million in community grants to distinguished health care organizations across the country and Puerto Rico. Each year, grants are reviewed by faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and rated by a separate selection panel of opinion leaders and advisors in community health care. Grants support initiatives that enable medically underserved people to access quality health care services in their community. This year’s grants focus on programs serving Hurricane Katrina-affected areas. Video presentations are available below.
Campesinos Sin Fronteras
Somerton, AZ
www.campesinossinfronteras.org Campesinos Sin Fronteras Video Presentation Campesinos Sin Fronteras (CSF) promotes healthy living, facilitates access to health services, and provides other culturally relevant information and support to migrant and seasonal farmworkers along with other members of the low-income Hispanic community along the U.S.-Mexico border in South Yuma County, Ariz. CSF engages a promotora model to provide educational outreach to agricultural fields and community locations. CSF's approach includes nutrition, exercise, stress, cultural factors, emotional factors, family dynamics, and spirituality. The Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant will go towards CSF’s Farmworker Family Prevention Initiative. This program will use an evidence-based approach to prevent cardiovascular disease, diabetes and childhood obesity in the Hispanic farmworker population. The Farmworker Family Prevention Initiative is based on the Su Corazon Su Vida curriculum, adapted to fit the local needs of CSF’s community and expanded to include a focus on family-based wellness and childhood obesity prevention.
Coastal Family Health Center
Biloxi, Mississippi
www.coastalfamilyhealth.comCoastal Family Health Center Video Presentation Coastal Family Health Center, Inc. (CFHC) is a federally qualified health center that provides quality health care and social services to those in need in the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which includes Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson counties. CFHC uses a sliding-scale fee system based on client income and the Federal Poverty Guidelines. Founded in 1978, CFHC now has 12 clinics and two school clinics offering primary health care, including dental, optometry, social services, women’s services, Medicaid screenings for children, lab services, behavioral health/substance abuse treatment, and an in-house distribution pharmacy. The Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant will go towards CFHC’s Healthy Weight, Healthy Kids program, which integrates self-care, parental support, and provider support into a unique weight management program for low-income families. This program follows the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Prevention Plus protocol.
Gulf Coast Health Educators
Pass Christian, Mississippi Gulf Coast Health Educators Video Presentation Gulf Coast Health Educators (GCHE) strives to meet the health education needs of the underserved and uninsured populations on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which includes Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson counties. GCHE empowers its target population to take charge of their health to prevent or treat chronic diseases through knowledge and good practice. GCHE was founded in August 2005 to provide the chronic health care services that many health care providers are unable to address. The Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant will go towards the GCHE’s Chronic Disease Management and Prevention Program, which will impart the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent or treat diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity to the GCHE’s target audience. The diabetes focus of the program is based on the American Diabetes Association approved Journey for Control Conversation Maps curriculum. The cardiovascular focus of the program is based on the American Heart Association guidelines.
Little River Medical Center, Inc.
Little River, South Carolina
www.littlerivermedcenter.com
Little River Medical Center, Inc. Video Presentation Little River Medical Center (LRMC) identifies and responds to the health care related needs of Horry County, S.C., serving the medically underinsured, including low-income minorities and migrant farm workers. LRMC has two heath centers, a dental practice, an onsite pharmacy, mental health services, and a Health Care for the Homeless program. LRMC also offers transportation for residents in need of such a service. LRMC offers a sliding-fee scale based on family income to ensure that services are affordable and accessible for all in need. The Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant will go towards improving LRMC’s existing Diabetes Collaborative program through several strategies including increased outreach to hard-to-reach populations, adding a certified diabetes educator to its staff, assigning a part-time case manager to work with the target population, and collaborating with partner organizations to develop personalized nutrition plans for patients.
Margaret J. Weston Community Health Centers
Clearwater, South Carolina
www.mjwchc.org Margaret J. Weston Community Health Centers Video Presentation Margaret J. Weston Community Health Centers (MJWCHC) is a Federally Qualified Health Center that provides quality, accessible health care services for the medically underserved residents of Aiken County, S.C. MJWCHC operates with three sites, providing primary and preventative health care services to nearly 10,000 patients regardless of their ability to pay. The Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant will go towards MJWCHC’s Margaret J. Weston Chronic Care Health Improvement program, which will increase knowledge of chronic disease self-management through education, comprehensive care for chronic disease, blood pressure checks, cholesterol monitoring, prescription medication management, and nutrition monitoring. Follow-ups will also be provided. This program is based on the Health Resources and Services Administration’s evidence-based Health Disparities Chronic Care Model.
Mariposa Community Health Center
Nogales, Arizona
www.mariposachc.net Mariposa Community Health Center Video Presentation Mariposa Community Health Center (MCHC) is a Federally Qualified Health Center and the largest health care provider in the border communities of Santa Cruz County, Ariz. Established in 1980, MCHC provides medical, dental, preventative, and public health services to all residents of its service area without regard to economic status. MCHC uses a well-established, promotora-based delivery model known as Platicamos Salud, in which more than 40 employees implement a spectrum of health promotion and disease prevention programs. The Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant will go towards MCHC’s La Vida Buena (Good Lifeways) program, an exercise and education program developed from existing youth education programs and based on various certified curricula. The program works to prevent obesity and the associated risk of diabetes among rural, Hispanic adolescents in Santa Cruz County, Ariz.
Navajo Lutheran Mission
Rock Point, Arizona
www.nelm.org Navajo Lutheran Mission Video Presentation The Navajo Lutheran Mission is a faith-based, nonprofit organization that provides education and social services to the community of Rock Point, Ariz., located in the Four Corners area of the Navajo Reservation. The Mission provides basic education to grades K-6; manages a community thrift shop; provides fax, copy, Internet, and phone access for community members; and offers additional services in the form of quilt giveaways, food and wood resources, community dinners, and other projects. The rate of Type 2 diabetes on the reservation is the highest in the U.S., according to data collected in 2007 by the Indian Health Services. The Navajo Lutheran Mission will use the Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant to re-open its community health clinic, which closed in 2004. In addition to providing basic health care, the clinic will address diabetes and heart disease through preventative measures and treatment with workshops and community outreach.
Northern Navajo Medical Center, Physical Therapy
Shiprock, New Mexico
http://home.nnmc.ihs.gov Northern Navajo Medical Center, Physical Therapy Video Presentation The Northern Navajo Medical Center (NNMC) is a 55-bed facility that provides comprehensive medical services to 53,000 Native American beneficiaries within the Navajo Reservation for the last 50 years. Recently, NNMC has seen an increasing number of obese children in their clinic with weight-related problems including slipped capital femoral epiphyses, diabetic foot problems, and general de-conditioning. The Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant will go towards NNMC’s Tse Bit’ Ai (TBA) Wellness Program, which works to promote healthy lifestyle choices and assist TBA Junior High School students in adopting healthy practices including physical activity and good nutrition. The program also strives to increase parent and community awareness of the problem of childhood obesity. NNMC’s program concept was modeled after the evidence-based Zuni Diabetes Prevention Program.
SharedCare, Inc.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
www.sharedcare.org SharedCare, Inc. Video Presentation SharedCare is a broad-based collaboration of community leaders that directs low-income uninsured residents of Horry County away from emergency rooms for primary care and into medical homes at two Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. Members are referred for free or reduced cost specialty care, diagnostic tests, outpatient surgery, physical therapy, prescription medications, and fitness. The Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant will go towards SharedCare’s Eliminating Health Disparities project. The project is grounded in the Health Belief Model and principles of community-based participatory health promotion practice. The program will work with members of a rural, predominantly African-American community to prevent and/or control diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease by promoting physical activity and good nutrition, building knowledge and skills that support positive behavior change, and linking low-income uninsured people with health care resources.
St. Vincent Regional Medical Center
Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.stvin.org St. Vincent Regional Medical Center Video Presentation The oldest hospital in New Mexico, St. Vincent Regional Medical Center (SVRMC) is a private, independent, non-sectarian, not-for-profit hospital, serving the growing communities between Albuquerque and the state of Colorado. SVRMC serves more than 275,000 people in its primarily rural, seven-county core service area. Many of its residents are at high risk for diabetes and obesity, and face linguistic, cultural, and economic barriers to health care. SVRMC has helped other community health clinics around New Mexico develop diabetes self-management program. The Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant will go towards SVRMC’s Diabetes Prevention Center for Excellence for Northern New Mexico, which focuses on preventing diabetes and complications from diabetes among rural, low-income and ethnic minority (Hispanics and American Indian) populations in its target area. |
