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Katie Goforth and Tonya Garner met and worked with members of the Grundy County Health Alliance on community outreach.
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Affordable Care Act. Detailed information about TPCA services, ACA Basics, Special Enrollment periods, legislative updates. Results: With 18.4% of Grundy residents ages 18 to 65 uninsured, it is essential that residents are informed of their choices. The information and resources gathered at this conference will help in public education.
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Introduced the SCPHN and it's goals and objectives.
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Addressed social determinants for children and learned how some communities are addressing mental health needs for rural children.
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Hosted by TN Justice Center. Agenda: Toolkit for TennCare (access and enrollment resources); Legislation; Development of local plan for assisting enrollment. Increasing healthcare coverage enrollment of residents on the Plateau will improve health outcomes.
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Katie Goforth met with Caleb Rae of Grundy Primary Care Clinic to discuss goals and ojbectives of the netwoek and invite him to join.
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Hosted by County Health Rankings and Road Map (www.countyhealthrankings.org) Information shared about the County Health Rankings, Culture of Health Prize, and Coaching services offered by the organization.
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Meeting involved Shelia Beard, Julie Keel, Jim Peterman, Katie Goforth, Amanda Cook, Sarah Brown, John Wheeler, Lacey Oliver, Emily Partin. This meeting involved several community organization including VISTA, University of the South, and South Cumberland Learning and Developmnt.
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Katie Goforth met with Kathy Solomon (University of the South) and Laura Willis (Sewanee Messenger). Introduced the SCPHN Goals and Objectives. Discussed building the public awareness of health care needs and opportunities.
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[South Cumberland Plateau Health Network](www.facebook.com/southcumberlandplateauhealthnetwork) Contains information about data, TennCare, media releases, and community resources.
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Katie Goforth met with Grundy County Executive Mayor Michael Brady to introduce the SCPHN and deliver the Letter of Commitment signed by the previous Mayor. Mr. Brady is interested in improving health outcomes for Grundy Co., and in July had noted interest in exploring a critical access hospital for Grundy Co.
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A "brick and mortar" grant was recently awarded to repair/renovate the old GCHS, for the purpose of providing space for classes to be offered by local colleges and community members (including medical assistant classes) and for counseling of VBHS clients. Brainstorming about possible uses for the building, needs assessment, etc. Action Steps: Formation of sub-committees, several of which involve SCPHN members.
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Creation of contact list on Wiggio. Results: All Steering Committee members can add to this "live" document and build the network.
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Agenda: e-Cigarettes; Anti-Tobacco Initiatives; Community Paramedicine; ACA Update; Population Health; Health Care Workforce Development. Posted notes and hand-outs to Wiggio Steering Committee. Results: Networking with agencies who can assist the SCPHN. Arranged meeting with Cindy Siler of the Tennessee Rural Partnership (TRP)to extend collaboration efforts.Identified on-line resources available from the TN Dept of Health for mapping community resources/providers, etc.
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Introduction of IT resources to assist with collaboration between patient, primary care, specialist and hospital. Results: Sharing of resource materials and links, and announcement of future HIMSS events.
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This webinar covered Medicaid and CHIP enrollment processes. 18% of Grundy, 17% of Marion, and 16% of Franklin Co. residents are uninsured.
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Various groups from the community met to learn about Dr. Celeste Ray's semester ethnography research project. Students will conduct lifestyle interviews of community members in Tracy City. The group brainstormed questions related to their individual data needs. The answers will provide important data about healthcare gaps/disparities affecting the community.
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Review of formation of SCPHN; review of Health Provider and Ranking data; intro. of Event Log; update on TennCare enrollment community outreach; organizational collaboration with RHAT, TNRP, NCHN; developing partnerships with community members; formalization of SCPHN governance; new HRSA grant opportunity.
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Attended by Tonya Garner, Sheila Beard, Julie Keel, Jim Peterman, Katie Goforth, Sarah Brown, John Wheeler, Lacey Oliver, Emily Partin, Caleb Rae, Karen Wickham, and Carol VandenBosch. Community partners involved included Grundy County Health Department and Grundy County Health Council Partners.
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One-hour overview of the Appeals process, materials and legal assistance available from Tenn. Justice Center. Helping people get healthcare coverage will impact health outcomes.
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Hosted by RWJ Foundation, introduced features available on the County Health Rankings website, to assist in disaggregation of data and deep data analysis.
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This class provided an opportunity to further SCPHN goals and objectives through collaboration and project work with others in the class.
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Community Outreach to share SCHPN goals and objectives, and incorporate these, as appropriate, with goals of the TCBC.
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Hosted by RWJ Foundation. The RWJF highlighted a Culture of Health Prize winning community that developed innovative programs to improve social health factors that affect overall health outcomes. The information detailed the importance of inter-agency collaboration on health initiatives (cross-pollination of ideas between such entities as the SCPHN, Grundy Safe Communities, law enforcement, and the Grundy Health Council).
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Meeting with Lisa Howich with the Office of Career Development to share objectives ad goals of the SCPHN. Lisa assists students in curriculum/career/post-grad/fellowship opportunities
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Agenda: Evaluation; Development of Mission Statement; Cerner Resources; Communications; Market Place Trainings and Sign Up; Focus Groups; Dental Health Outreach; Future Presenters
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Possible community funders for future projects
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Over 200 people gathered to learn about the issues of substance abuse in Grundy County. Entities from all areas and fields were represented.
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Community awareness even to inform about health care coverage
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Overview of county, Early Intervention Services for birth - 3 yr, Food programs, CTE, Reading Initiative, safe buildings. The Early Intervention Services, Food programs, and Medical orientation for CTE are areas in which the SCPHN can collaborate.
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Enrolling uninsured health care users
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The goal is to enroll as many uninsured in Grundy, as possible, in order to improve their access to health care.
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Community Development (non-profits, agencies working in Grundy) Introduced to Miracle on the Mountain playground project for disabled kids.
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Learning effective ways for framing conversations with varied audiences.
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Innovation and Creativity. The primary goal of the Learning Communities is to build leadership capacity within the newly forming rural health networks.
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Signed up 10 and set them up for helping others through the American Exchange.
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Partnered with Medical Foundation of Chattanooga to work with local volunteers to do an ACA Sign up: helped 6
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Partnered with Medical Foundation of Chattanooga to work with local volunteers to do an ACA Sign up: helped 8
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Coordinated by Bonnie McCardell, who brought together community, VISTAS, SCPHN to share their goals.
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Community Health Workers: Their Roles in Preventing and Controlling Chronic Conditions
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Smoke House. Network volunteers and Med. Foundation of Chatt. Partnered to assist 11 people with health coverage enrollments.
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So. Tenn. Med. Systems. Network volunteers and Med. Fndtn of Chatt. Partnered to assist 12 people with health coverage enrollments. Two more were assisted by phone.
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Review Community Participatory questions and plan.
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CHIP is the community health improvement planning.
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Using Youth Mental Health First Aid to foster GRIT (Project AWARE).
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Financial Sustainability: What is Your Vision for the Future. Received individual coaching from CNM strategic planning consultant.
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Review of Community Conversations and survey questions; Strategic planning process
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Attended at the invitation of the Office of Community Engagement, Univ. of the South. Used as a platform to share SCPHN goals/objectives, understand structure and needs within the school system on "wellness wheel" initiatives, and learning strategies for effective strategic planning.
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To discuss Diabetes Coalition initiatives (Reversing Diabetes) and possible PPOD model for SCLDC.
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distributing supplies and information to families. Spoke to parents of 325 children about the goals and objectives of SCPHN, and distributed contact info.
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To gain insights on community priorities for SCPHN operations.
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Meeting with Sheriff Shrum to plan CAPR (Canine Assisted Prisoner Recovery) pilot program.
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Discussing Positive Deviance as a method of engaging the community by "flipping" assessments from gaps to assets, focusing/identifying what is working to improve health among individuals that should, logically, not have improved health outcomes (but do).
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Local Foods, Local Places initiative. Review of final draft of Action Plan. SETDD might be able to develop a business incubator model into the current grant and build in operating costs into the budget for a limited period of time so there is sustainability going forward. HRSA grant opportunity –Grundy County is within the catchment area of a FQHC, which is underutilized and self-reports that it doesn’t offer mental health services, dentist, xray, etc.
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Canine Assisted Recovery Effort for Grundy jail inmates, in collaboration with local Therapy Dog program. Potential for growth and increased behavioral health services in conjunction with program.
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Meeting with Dr. Jim Peterman's Medical Ethics Class to collbaborate with students on research related to the RWJF community coaching.
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Network members involved include Julie Keel, Tonya Garner, Emily Partin, Katie Goforth, VISTAS, and Nicky Hamilton.
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Provided feedback to UTK about their Smart Communities Project, which includes health care access community surveys and other health initiatives.
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Discussed possible interests to do public health research on the South Cumberland Plateau
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Meeting with Nancy Anness of St. Thomas Health. Advertised to our SCHN Network and Steering.
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Dr. Norman Weatherby (MTSU),
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Introduction of the TN Healthier Communities designation and its goals and objectives.
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11/18-11/20/2015 :
The South Cumberland Health Network was awarded the 2015 Collaboration Award. Network member Tonya Garner awarded the Rural Health Worker of the Year. Network members Karen & Steven Wickham awarded the 2015 Award of Merit for work in the community to reverse/prevent diabetes. -
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South Cumberland Health Network Network and Steering Meetings, Recognition event for community partners, recognizing RHAT awards and furthering partnership with RHAT, HRSA, NCHN and TNRP.