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?Malama Pu'uwai is a free, comprehensive cardiovascular wellness program offered four times per year. It focuses on positive lifestyle changes that will reduce controllable risk factors of heart disease and stroke. Participants must commit to a six-week program, with meetings held鈥
What is it?Increasing the number of youth and adults at a healthy weight is a top priority for Lancaster General Health.
What is it?Partners for Healthy Students (PHS) is a school-based health service that provides free medical and urgent/emergent dental care to uninsured or underinsured children at 26 participating schools in three area school districts and charter schools. In 2014, PHS will be expanding its service鈥
What is it?In an effort to reach asthma sufferers early in childhood and puberty 鈥 especially those who fall into lower-income categories 鈥 Camp Catch Your Breath was formed more than 20 years ago. The camp is hosted at Jackson鈥檚 Mill 4-H Camp by United Hospital Center and the American Lung鈥
Providing comprehensive outpatient care for people living with HIV disease in suburban Virginia, Inova Juniper Program enhances quality of life for over 1,300 uninsured and underinsured clients.
Overview
In 1999, when two local hospital emergency departments (EDs) and a small primary care clinic closed, the remaining local EDs struggled to serve one of the state鈥檚 largest uninsured patient populations. Orange County providers, including Orange County Government, hospitals, federally鈥
OverviewThe Neighborhood School Nurse Initiative is a collaborative effort between Froedtert Hospital, Westside Academies (a K-8 public charter school), and Progressive Community Health Center (a federally qualified health center), to provide a full-time school nurse for about 700 students in the鈥
What is it?St. Mary鈥檚 Hospital, part of SSM Health Care, partners with ABC for Health, a not-for-profit public interest law firm, to provide advocacy in financial and legal health care issues. The partnership also provides proactive health benefits counseling services to help patients secure all鈥
OverviewIn 1991, in partnership with Baltimore鈥檚 Seventh Baptist Church, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (UMH) opened a primary health care clinic to provide services to uninsured residents of northeast Baltimore. Originally located in the basement of a house owned by the church, the clinic has鈥
What is it?With the increasing trend of childhood obesity in this country, Frisbie Memorial Hospital鈥檚 latest community initiative is to improve the nutrition and fitness habits of children. 鈥淗ealthy Moves鈥 is a collaboration between Frisbie鈥檚 Outpatient Nutrition Services and Rehabilitation鈥