Community Partnerships
OverviewThe Community Asthma Partnership was launched in 1992 by Baptist Health working with Nemours Children鈥檚 Specialty Care and University of Florida Health. Wolfson Children鈥檚 Hospital 鈥 a Baptist Health hospital 鈥 took over operations of the Community Asthma Partnership in 2006. In alignment鈥
OverviewThe mission of the Wellspring Cooperative Corporation (WCC) is to develop a network of worker-owned cooperatives, business entities that are owned and controlled by their members, formerly underemployed and unemployed inner-city residents who work in them in Springfield, Mass. Worker-owners鈥
OverviewBaystate Springfield Educational Partnership (BSEP) is a high school health career pathway program for high school-age residents of Springfield, Mass. It includes exploration of health careers, a teen mini-medical school, and summer work employment opportunities to give students interested鈥
OverviewPartners for a Healthier Community (PHC) is the public health institute of western Massachusetts, advancing public health practice and making systematic improvements with policy changes to improve population health in the Pioneer Valley. It drives policy change leading to system-level鈥
OverviewChildren who are overweight are at risk for many other health problems, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, bone and joint problems, and gallbladder disease. Baystate Children鈥檚 Hospital is committed to reducing the prevalence of childhood obesity and assisting families fighting鈥
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The Baystate Family Advocacy Center (BFAC) has been operational since 1997. Under hospital and medical leadership, law enforcement, child protection, and prosecutorial disciplines formed an alliance, called the Child Abuse Prevention Alliance of Hampden County and endorsed the children鈥檚鈥
What is it?The primary focus of the Community Resource Center (CRC) is to reduce potentially avoidable emergency department (ED) visits through intervention while clients are present in the ED. The CRC takes a holistic approach to medical problems and additionally seeks to address unmet social,鈥
What is it?In 2009, Rockcastle Regional President/CEO Stephen Estes had an idea that would turn the town鈥檚 built environment into a place for exercise. He envisioned a series that would give runners and walkers a goal to accomplish every month. The series, named the Countywide Stride, began as four鈥
What is it?The 鈥淏eyond the Walls鈥 program operates three outreach centers located in some of the most impoverished areas of Bakersfield. Services provided at these centers range from giving food and clothing to the homeless, to preventive health care seminars for individuals suffering from chronic鈥
OverviewAultman鈥檚 Transportation Outreach program serves the area鈥檚 Amish population with non-emergency medical transportation to Aultman hospital and its outlying health facilities. With transportation a particular concern for those in rural areas and others, this reliable and dependable services鈥