Case Studies
The 黑料正能量 Association produces case studies on its member organizations across a wide range of health-care topics.
What is it?The Truman Medical Center Healthy Harvest Mobile Market is a mobile grocery store unit that travels throughout the urban core of the city on a weekly basis, bringing residents opportunities to purchase healthy choices such as fresh fruits and vegetables in their community at an鈥
What is it?The La Crosse YMCA Community Teen Center is a safe drop-in center that is free of tobacco, alcohol and drugs. It offers free skill-building and recreational activities that are attractive to young people and makes use of their talents, energy and creativity. A Gundersen Health System鈥
What is it?On a monthly basis, dietitians from Georgetown Hospital System/Sodexo offer a free, hour-long field trip to a local supermarket to help attendees choose healthier foods. Participants learn how to read labels and ingredients, pick healthy snacks, shop on a budget and how marketing鈥
What is it?For the past seven years, Christiana Care has hosted 鈥淟atinas Fuertes Y Saludables 鈥 Latinas: Strong and Healthy.鈥 This annual conference, held entirely in Spanish, is conducted by Christiana Care outreach and education staff in partnership with several community agencies. Christiana鈥
What is it?Randall Children鈥檚 Child Safety Program is a three-pronged effort that is integrated into obstetrical and pediatric services in all five Legacy Health sites in Oregon and Washington. The three separate and collaborative, hospital-based child injury prevention programs are the Child鈥
What is it?Growing Home is a volunteer-driven community organization addressing homelessness, hunger and opportunities for at-risk children. Programs include an Interfaith Family Shelter, Homeless Prevention, an after-school program, a food pantry with hygiene items, health care services,鈥
What is it?Each May through October, Monadnock Community Hospital (MCH) hosts the Fresh Chicks Marketplace (FCM). The FCM at MCH is a place where people experience a wide variety of local vendors who offer high-quality produce, products, skills and music. The marketplace educates and informs people鈥
What is it?For the first time in the history of the program, Methodist Health System was a presenting sponsor of the KETV 7 Can Help Kids/Salvation Army Back-to-School Backpack Program. Collection barrels were located at all three Methodist Health System hospitals; Methodist Physicians Clinics in鈥
What is it?MaineGeneral sponsors farmers鈥 markets to give their community a chance to meet their neighbors while shopping for fresh, local foods. The Medical Center purchases much of the food it serves from local sources and market chefs have won awards at high-profile events cooking with local鈥
What is it?This free community event educates seniors and individuals experiencing disability about safe ways to continue meeting their transportation needs. 鈥淒rive Safe Chattanooga鈥 also features CarFit, an educational screening that allows older adults to review options for adaptive driving鈥