Eighteenth Annual Monroe E. Trout Premier Cares Award/Vision
Descriptions and contact information for award recipient, finalists and semi-finalists
Compiled January 2010
Award recipient
Centering Healthcare Institute "CenteringPregnancy Group Prenatal Care" program
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Cheshire, CT
Since 2001, Centering Healthcare Institute (www.centeringhealthcare.org) has had the mission "to change the paradigm of health services to a group care model in order to improve the overall health outcomes of mothers and babies across the life cycle.” CHI's executive director, Sharon Rising, developed CenteringPregnancy® to bring women out of the exam room into a group setting where they receive basic prenatal checkups, build community with other women, and gain knowledge and skills in pregnancy, childbirth and parenting. Overall, women in this group care experience a 33 percent lower rate of preterm birth, demonstrating a dramatic impact on health outcomes.
Centering Healthcare Institute process map (Word file)
Contact:
Sharon Rising, MSN, CNM, Executive Director
Centering Healthcare Institute
558 Maple Avenue
Cheshire, CT 06410
203.271.3632
srising@centeringhealthcare.org
Finalists
"The NiteStar Program"
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St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY
The NiteStar Program uses age appropriate/culturally sensitive theatrical methods to empower youth with skills to lead healthier lives. The program also helps parents and professionals to better understand and communicate more effectively with young people. The involvement and investment of parents, teachers and local resources help to create a better community for their children. NiteStar builds skills, attitudes and resources for young people that can reduce pregnancy, HIV/STD and sexual victimization among youth in neighborhoods and communities with some of the highest risks.
NiteStar process map (Word file)
Contact:
Cydelle Berlin, PhD, Executive Director
NiteStar - St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
1111 Amsterdam Avenue - Scrymser 1
New York, NY 10025
212.523.3599
cberlin@chpnet.org
Boston's Community Medical Group
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Boston, MA
Founded in 1988, Boston's Community Medical Group (BCMG) provides care to those living within one hour of Boston. Conditions include congenital anomalies, nervous system tumors, neuromuscular disorders, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, cerebral palsy, etc. All participants use wheelchairs for mobility and rely on personal care attendants or alternatives for assistance with activities of daily living.
BCMG's mission is to provide high quality, comprehensive primary care in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible by reducing barriers to care and establishing a highly personalized partnership with patients. Cost savings abound from preventing adverse medical events. BCMG costs rank far below traditional Medicaid fee-for-service plans that would typically cover these patients.
BCMG process map (Word file)
Contacts:
Mary Glover, ANP-BC, Director
Boston's Community Medical Group
One Boston Medical Center Place
Dowling N 5108
Boston, MA 02118
800.442.0520
mary.glover@bmc.org
Every Child Succeeds
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Every Child Succeeds (ECS) is a home visitation program providing home visits for first-time mothers who are young, low-income, single and/or receiving inadequate prenatal care. These are all factors that tend to put their children at higher risk for delayed development, inadequate ongoing medical care, abuse, neglect and poor academic achievement. Home visits start during a mother's pregnancy and continue through the child’s third birthday, allowing for long-term relationship building and support for all major developmental stages of the child. Since 1999, ECS has served more than 15,000 families in Greater Cincinnati through more than 300,000 home visits.
Every Child Succeeds process map (PowerPoint file)
Contact:
Judith B. VanGinkel, PhD, President
Every Child Succeeds
3333 Burnet Avenue, ML 3005
Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039
513.636.2830
everychildsucceeds@cchmc.org
Center for Life - CenteringPregnancy® Program
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Washington, DC
In June 2007, the Center for Life at Providence Hospital began using the CenteringPregnancy® model of healthcare delivery, which identifies low-risk maternity patients between 16 and 20 weeks of pregnancy with estimated due dates within four weeks of each other, inviting them to participate in a group session format. Over the past two years, 467 women participated in the program. Only 5 percent of babies were born prematurely compared to the U.S. preterm delivery rate of 12.7 percent and Washington, DC, rate of 15.9 percent. Four percent of the babies were low birth weight (LBW) compared to the DC LBW rate of 11.1 percent.
Contacts:
Debra Keith, CNM, Director
Center for Life - CenteringPregnancy®
Program
1150 Varnum Streen, NE
Washington, DC 20017
202.269.7075
djkeith@provhosp.org
Good NEWS for a Better LIFE
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Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Azle, Azle, TX
Good NEWS for a Better LIFE was created in 2006 as a product of two programs serving the well (senior volunteer caregivers providing social support services such as telephone calls, visits, shopping assistance, minor home repair, yard work, chore services and transportation to hundreds of other senior citizens) and the frail (those seniors who need health education, screenings, exercise and healthcare). Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Azle and Good NEWS work together to enrich the quality of life of seniors. Since 2007, only three people have been discharged from Good NEWS to a nursing home, with six current participants over the age of 90 living at home independently.
Good NEWS for a Better LIFE process map (.jpg file)
Contacts:
Marsha Ingle, Community Relations Specialist
Good NEWS for a BETTER Life
108 Denter Trail
Azle, TX 76020
817.444.8668
marshaingle@texashealth.org
Semi-finalists
Reducing Disparities in Our Nation's Capital: Providing Personalized, Evidence-Based Care to DC's Underserved
Family Health and Birth Center Inc., Washington, DC
The Family Health & Birth Center (FHBC) is specifically located in Ward 5 in NE DC, and today its patients come from throughout NE and SE, Wards 5, 6, 7 & 8. DC is divided into Wards 1-8 and each Ward has a distinct character that can be evoked by citing its name to any DC resident. The burden of poor healthcare outcomes is born by Wards 5, 6, 7, and 8, incidentally the predominantly African American, low income Wards. FHBC works to address the existent and growing primary care needs of this community. The cumulative effects of individual and family poverty, compounded by neighborhood poverty, significantly impact the life-long health of residents served by FHBC.
Contact:
Madeleine Beebe, Development Coordinator
801 17th Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20002
202.398.5520
madeleine.birth@gmail.com
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Crime Victims Treatment Center
New York, NY
The Crime Victims Treatment Center (CVTC) of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center was established in 1977 as a small grassroots program and is now one of the largest and most comprehensive hospital-based victim treatment centers in New York State. The staff offers a full range of free services including crisis intervention, individual, family and group counseling, as well as holistic therapy and psychiatric consultation.
Contact:
Louise Kindley, LCSW, Clinical Coordinator
411 W. 114th Street, Suite 2C
New York, NY 10025
212.523.4430
cvtc@cvtc-slr.org
Memorial Hermann Health Centers for Schools
Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation, Houston, TX
For thirteen years Memorial Hermann Health Centers for Schools have worked within Houston area schools, providing a medical, mental health and dental home to underserved at-risk children. The program began with two school-based clinics in 1996 serving three schools and has grown to five clinics serving 33 schools. . As the program focus is access to care for these children, all services are provided free of charge.
Contact:
Deborah Ganelin, Director, Community Benefits
9301 Southwest Freeway, Suite 470
Houston, TX 77074
713.448.5982
deborah.ganelin@memorialhermann.org
BEST Oral Health
Partners for a Healthier Community Inc., Springfield, MA
The Bringing Early Education Screening and Treatment (BEST) Oral Health Program is an initiative of Partners for a Healthier Community (PHC) for preventing oral disease in very young children – infant, toddlers, and preschoolers. Preschool children rising to Kindergarten from BEST programs sited in Early Education & Care Organization (EECO) preschools will enter school free from oral disease, healthier, and ready to learn. The BEST Oral Health program strategy integrates dental, pediatric, and early childhood resources to deliver comprehensive oral health education and prevention services to infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families.
Contact:
Frank Robinson, Executive Director
PO Box 4895
Springfield, MA 01101-4895
413.794.7739
info@partnersforahealthiercommunity.org
Family Service & Guidance Center
Topeka Inc., Topeka, KS
Family Service & Guidance Center of Topeka Inc. (FSGC), is a licensed 501(c)(3) community mental health center that has been helping children and families in Shawnee County and northeast Kansas since 1904. Since 1984, FSGC has focused on meeting the unique mental health needs of children and families, and today, FSGC takes pride in being the only agency of its type in Eastern Kansas that focuses its resources and expertise exclusively on the unique behavioral and mental health needs of children and families.
Contact:
Amy Burns
325 SW Frazier Ave
Topeka, KS, 66606-1999
785.232.5005
fsgc@fsgctopeka.com
Palmetto Health office of Community Services Teen Health Initiatives
Palmetto Health, Topeka Inc., Columbia, SC
In an effort to advocate healthy lifestyle choices, in 2001 the Office of Community Services developed as one of its initiatives a teen health program to engage adolescents and deter risky behaviors. Teen Talk has become a comprehensive teen health program designed to reduce unintended pregnancy, experimentation and use of tobacco products and drugs, and youth recreational and gang violence. Using a curriculum that is culturally and ethnically responsive, in the past eight years, more than 40 middle and high schools and community centers have adopted these youth development programs as innovative features of their organization.
Contact:
Stacey McPhail, Director, Palmetto Health Maternal and Child Health
Initiative
1501 Sumter Street
Columbia, SC 29202
803.296.3910
stacey.mcphail@palmettohealth.org
Foundation for Rehabilitation Equipment and Endowment (FREE)
Roanoke, VA
In 1998, a group of health care providers noticed patients going without necessary rehabilitation equipment because of the inability to pay. This prompted the formation of the Foundation for Rehabilitation Equipment and Endowment (FREE). FREE recycles used mobility devices, gifting them to people in need. Gifted equipment includes power wheelchairs, manual wheelchairs, hospital beds, walkers, bathroom equipment.
Contact:
Sonja Schaible, Executive Director
P.O. Box 8873
Roanoke, Virginia 24014
540.777.4929
sonja@free-foundation.org
Rady Children's Toddler School
San Diego, CA
Founded in 1995, the Toddler School is an educational program designed to integrate early education for typically developing toddlers and toddlers with ASD (children 18 months to three years). The Toddler School program serves children throughout San Diego County. The program consists of a total of 21 hours a week of direct service and parents commit to using the techniques learned in parent education an additional 10 hours per week at home. Children receive intensive services in the inclusive classroom 3 hours a day, 5 days a week.
Contact:
Aubyn C. Stahmer, PhD, BCBA-D, Research Dr.
3020 Children’s Way
San Diego, CA 92123
858.966.7703 x3223
astahmer@casrc.org
Infant Mortality Program
St. John Community Health Investment Corporation, Highland Park, MI
The Infant Mortality Program (IMP) has spent the past 23 years working to reduce the disproportionate rate of infant mortality in metro Detroit. Most of the clients that IMP serves have little or no access to health care. IMP has a preconception program component that provides clients with a health assessment and education before they become pregnant. Clients who are pregnant are provided with home visits to monitor their health status, a volunteer mentor who provides emotional support during their pregnancy, parenting classes, and literacy and/or GED tutoring.
Contact:
Karen Gray-Sheffield, Executive Director
45 Candler Street
Highland Park, Michigan 48203
313.868.8420
infantmortality@sbcglobal.net