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Population-based Health Status Assessment
and Data Application for Health Status Improvement
I
conducted The
National Health Survey© to compile national
data on health status indicators, consumer utilization patterns,
behavioral risk factors and demographic data. The data from this
survey are used for comparative analysis in communities that conduct
population health status assessments.
I
am conducting the Concho Valley, Texas population based health status
assessment in collaboration with the Texas
Agricultural Extension and the Texas
A & M School of Rural Public Health, as part of an innovation
grant received from the Texas Department of Health in 1999. The
innovation grant is providing the resources to collect population
based health status data which can be used to provide the Health
Access Coalition, based in San Angelo, Texas, with baseline data
for health status improvement initiatives.
I planned, developed and implemented the Norwalk Community Health
Survey, as part of a comprehensive assessment of the city of
Norwalk, Connecticut.
I have conducted other projects to collect and apply population
based health status data in Larimer County, Colorado including:
- Implemented
one of the nation's first "time-two" population health
status assessment in 1999 for the Poudre
Health Services District, located in Larimer County,
Colorado. The first assessment of the District's health was
conducted in 1995.
- The
planning, development and implementation of a local community
health foundation with the mission of improving community health
status.
- Planning
and conducting two significant studies in 1995 of (1) community
health status and (2) human services system utilization and
satisfaction. These studies lent to a local restructuring effort
of human service delivery and potential integration of health
and human services.
- Creation
of a collaborative enterprise of all the local hospitals and
the Poudre Health Services District to assist in the development
of a Medicaid managed care program.
I
conducted a population-based health status assessment for Tenet
Health Systems, as part of the conversion process for the
eight former Allegheny Health Education and Research Trust hospitals
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from not-for-profit to for-profit
status. I conducted the assessment jointly with the Medstat/Inforum
group. Responsibilities included facilitation of the Mayorial-appointed
Community Board of Advisors, and working with national Tenet management
to implement the assessment. Results of the assessment were used
for product-line strategic planning, and community benefit program
planning for the system, as well as at each of the eight hospitals
that compose the Tenet Philadelphia system.
I participated in the creation of a city-wide
public health partnership in Hartford, Connecticut, composed
of representatives from city government, St. Francis Hospital and
Medical Center, Hartford Hospital, Hispanic Health Council, the
Hartford Health Department, and community organizations, transition
to the Institute of Medicine's recommendations in "The Future
of Public Health." This included conducting a strategic planning
effort with the Health Department and the institution of a Public
Health Advisory Council, I conducted and analyzed the results from
the Hartford Health Survey for this project.
I conducted the Southern Delaware Health Survey, a population-based
community health status assessment for residents of the service
areas of Beebe Memorial Hospital in Lewes, Delaware and Milford
Memorial Hospital in Milford, Delaware. These data were combined
with the data from the 1995 Kent County Survey to create a database
for health issues in central and southern Delaware. These data,
and the combined work of the Partnerships in Kent and Sussex County
resulted in the Southern Delaware Health Summit in May 1998. I facilitated
the planning group for the Summit, and both presented and facilitated
at the Summit.
I worked on a project in Union, Somerset, and Middlesex Counties,
New Jersey, with Muhlenberg
Regional Medical Center to create a Partnership for Community
Health and conduct a population
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