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Dear Friends,
John Quincy Adams once said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." Adams' words apply all our PCAN leaders who are true servant leaders. Here is an example of your successes:
This month, PCAN was featured as a case study on community health impact on the www.StakeholderHealth.org website and blog. Stakeholder Health is a national movement of hospital health systems who are working to shift their community benefit and outreach programs from "random acts of kindness" to impact community health initiatives. Members, including Florida Hospital, see the opportunity to not only treat disease, but to address the underlying causes of poor health: access to health care, poverty, lack of transportation and the like. This can be done by strategically shifting existing resources and collaborating with diverse community stakeholders. Stakeholder Health has many other interesting stories on its website; I encourage you to have a look.
On another note, you know that the 2013 Community Health Needs Assessment for the tri-county is completed and available to the community. Not surprisingly, the top identified needs are:
- Diabetes
- Heart Disease
- Obesity
- Maternal and Child Health
- Cancer
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Substance Abuse
- Mental Health
- Chronic Disease Management
- Violent Crime
- Health Literacy
- Single Parent Households
- Motor Vehicle Accidents
- Access to Care
You will find data and data charts for these and other health-related issues in the Assessment. Please feel free to use this information for your grant planning and other data needs. The Assessment is posted on the Orlando Health, Florida Hospital, Lakeside Behavioral Health and the Department of Health/Orange County web sites, and under Healthy Measures on the Health Council of East Central Florida web page.
In closing, I want to share the 2013 PCAN Accomplishments.
All the best,
Maureen Kersmarki
PCAN Chair
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Health Care Center for the Homeless Opens Two New Clinics
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Katie Schmidt. Marketing Associate. Health Care Center for the Homeless. (407)428-5751 ext. 334. kschmidt@hcnetwork.org
ORLANDO--- Health Care Center for the Homeless, an Orlando nonprofit founded in 1993, is to open and operate two satellite sites in 2014 that will primarily focus on providing medical care to homeless individuals.
The $650,000 in grant money was awarded under the "New Access Point Funding," an element of the Health Resources and Services Administration commitment to improve and expand access to needed health care services.
Health Care Center for the Homeless (HCCH) currently operates out of the Orange Blossom Family Health Center, located just a little west of the downtown area. The center provides various health services to the homeless and medically uninsured at little to no cost. One of the new sites will be located at the Community Hope Center in Kissimmee, while the other will be at the Samaritan Resource Center in East Orange County.
"Our service areas are Orange County, Osceola County and Seminole County," says the CEO of HCCH Bakari Burns. "But because we're located in downtown Orlando, there are a lot of transportation barriers. So to fulfill our mission, we really must expand to meet the unique needs of the homeless in this community.(Read more HCCH Opens Two New Clinics)
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Boot Camp for New Dads
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When you think of Healthy Start and its work in helping to create healthy pregnancies and healthy babies, fathers may not be the first connection that comes to mind. With one out of every three children living apart from their biological fathers, according to 2009 U.S. Census Bureau data, it comes as no surprise that negative outcomes are correlated to fathers being absent in the mother's and child's life. What may be surprising, however, is that there is a direct connection when it comes to maternal and infant health and whether or not the father plays an active role.
According to The National Fatherhood Initiative (www.fatherhood.org), the infant mortality rate is 1.8 times higher for infants of unmarried mothers. Infants without the father's name on the birth certificate are more likely to die within the first year. Three-
fourths of women whose partners attended a breastfeeding promotion class initiated breastfeeding, and the more knowledgeable the father is on breastfeeding, the longer the mother is likely to breastfeed. Unmarried mothers are less likely to obtain prenatal care and more likely to have a low birth weight baby. Not receiving early and regular prenatal care and having a low birth weight baby greatly increases the likelihood of having a baby born with health and developmental complications. Read more Boot Camp For Dads
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Stephanie Garris Joins Board of Directors for the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics |
Stephanie Garris, Grace Medical Home's Executive Director, was invited to join the Board of Directors for the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. Stephanie joins 11 other executives from nonprofit organizations around the country as the first Florida representative on the board. As a member of the board, Stephanie will help the NAFCC support the more than 1,200 free and charitable clinics across the United States. These clinics are safety-net organizations that utilize a volunteer staffing model to provide a range of medical, dental, pharmacy, vision and/or behavior health services to economically disadvantaged individuals.
The UCF College of Medicine celebrated its one-year anniversary of hosting the K.N.I.G.H.T.S. Clinic (Keeping Neighbors In Good Health Through Service). This student-run free clinic is a unique collaboration between the UCF College of Medicine and Grace Medical Home where medical school students and their attending physicians follow their own patients during twice a month evening clinics. Students are able to login to the electronic medical record and follow their patients when they are in school. We celebrate the success of this partnership and look forward continuing to serve our low-income friends and neighbors. |
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Community Health Centers is Growing
in Winter Garden
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Community Health Centers is relocating their Winter Garden center to a larger and more convenient location off of Highway 50 in Winter Garden. The new center is nearly double in size and will offer pediatric medicine, family medicine, pediatric dental, adult dental, pharmacy, podiatry and optometry. Located approximately two miles from the existing center at 13275 W. Colonial Drive in Winter Garden, this new center will open in late March 2014 with expanded and Saturday hours, as well as, a LYNX bus stop. Save the Date for a Ribbon Cutting & Open House Celebration on Saturday, April 12, 2014, more information coming soon. 
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The Primary Care Access Network (PCAN) is a coalition of 21 public, private, faith-based and government agencies that operate a full range of primary and secondary care services for over 100,000 uninsured residents of Orange County. PCAN is an integrated health network that is funded by sliding scale fees, as well as federal, state, county and community partner dollars.
PCAN's mission is to improve the access, quality and coordination of health care services to the underinsured and uninsured populations of Orange County.
For more information, visit our website at:
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