Community Partnerships
Worcester, MA
December 2017
Overview
Launched in 2000, the UMass Memorial Ronald McDonald® Care Mobile provides onsite medical and dental services to children, families and individuals at 11 low-income neighborhoods, serving as an entry point into the health care system. The Care Mobile…
Hospitals and Health Systems Ensuring Access in Their Communities is a compendium of case examples of AHA members from across the country employing the nine emerging strategies recommended by the association’s Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities.
DeKalb, IL
September 2017
In April 2014, HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital partnered with Effingham Catholic Charities to create a Dental Voucher Program for adults 18 years and older who are underinsured or uninsured and in need of an emergency tooth extraction.
After HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital conducted the 2015 community health needs assessment, one of the top priorities identified was addressing the chronic disease of diabetes.
The annual Point In Time surveys in Connecticut show that New Haven has the highest concentration of both individuals and families experiencing homelessness in the state. The paradigm shift from sheltering to re-homing people is becoming the norm, and Yale New Haven is working hard with a continuum…
New Haven, CT
November 2017
Overview
As the leading health care organization in Greater New Haven, Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) demonstrates its longtime commitment to families—especially mothers and children—by providing a variety of wide-ranging programs. Working within our diverse urban…
The Joan C Dauber Food Bank originated in 1976 as an effort to help meet the food needs and alleviate poverty in the Hartford community.
Mid-Level Developmental Assessment (MLDA) addresses a gap in care for children with mild to moderate challenges whose needs typically are not severe enough to qualify for publicly funded intervention programs, such as Birth to Three or preschool special education, and often go unaddressed.
The Help Me Grow® National Center (National Center) is a flagship program of Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health (the Office).