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The Healthy Communities Partnership

The Healthy Communities Partnership aims to improve health and quality of life, providing education, services, and access in Logan County since 1997. The Mobile Health Unit offers essential services like physical exams, lab tests, and health education, addressing critical issues such as poverty and healthcare access. Residents' testimonies exemplify the unit's life-saving impact. Supported by various sources, the initiative serves multiple schools and locations in the county, positively impacting rural communities.

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The Healthy Communities Partnership

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  1. The Healthy Communities Partnership

  2. Mission: … to improve the health and quality of life of the people and communities we serve.

  3. Vision: … to create the healthiest community in America.

  4. Goals: • To provide education, support and alternative activities to promote healthy lifestyles; • To increase preventive healthcare services; • To increase access to primary care.

  5. History • Created in 1997 • Collaboration involving: • Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital • Family Medical Center • Lincoln/Logan County Chamber of Commerce • Logan County Health Department • Logan-Mason Mental Health

  6. HCP Task Forces HCP Steering Committee • RuralHealth Partnership • Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drugs • Healthy Families • Domestic Abuse & Violence • Senior Issues • Parish Nurse

  7. The Rural Health Partnership Current Mobile Health Unit

  8. New Service…Mobile Health & Dental Unit • Start-up grant of $225,000 from the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation • New unit arrived September 27, 2006

  9. Mobile Health & Dental Unit Facts • Median Logan County household income = $39,389(2000 US Census Bureau)Median Illinois household income = $46,590 (2000 US Census Bureau) • 10% of Logan County children (5-17 years) live below poverty level (2000 US Census Bureau) • Logan County has been designated a Dental Health Professional Shortage Area(Illinois Department of Public Health Center for Rural Health)

  10. Mobile Health & Dental Unit Facts, cont. • 11% of rural residents have never seen a dentist.(National Rural Health Association) • Children from families with lower incomes have nearly 12 times as many days missed from school due to dental problems.(National Maternal & Child Oral health Resource Center) • There are associations between oral infections and diabetes, heart disease, stroke and preterm, low-weight births.(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

  11. The H.O.P.E. Mobile

  12. Addressing Health Concerns • Making Life Skills education available to all 7th and 8th grade classes in the county. • Coordinating a healthy community by assisting communities to identify the health issues affecting them. • Providing access to primary and preventive healthcare through the Mobile Health Unit.

  13. Schools Served by the Life Skills Program • Hartsburg-Emden • New Holland-Middletown • Chester-East Lincoln • Mt. Pulaski • Elkhart • Lincoln Jr. High School Mt. Pulaski Grade School

  14. Locations Served by the Mobile Health Unit - Hartsbug - Emden - Chestnut - Mt. Pulaski - New Holland - Middletown - Elkhart - Atlanta - Latham - Broadwell - - H.O.P.E. Mobile …and two locations in Lincoln.

  15. Mobile Health Unit Staff • Pat Estep, FNP • Pam Clark, RN, BSN • Ruth Freeman, RN, BSN • Sue Estes, RN, CLC, BA • Mary Southerlan, Dental Hygienist

  16. Services Provided by the Mobile Health Unit • Physical Examinations • Ordering and interpreting lab tests • Acute illness management • Chronic illness management • Immunizations • Serum Injections • Tests • Environmental services • Health education guidance and counseling

  17. The Statistics Speak for Themselves… 37,055Total Service Contacts(Avg. 23 people per day)

  18. “I seriously believe that without the Mobile Health Unit…if I had let another day or two go by…my health would have been in serious jeopardy. The Mobile Health Unit is a wonderful thing. It saved my life.” -Rural Logan County resident

  19. “Without the Mobile Health Unit, my daughter would not have had her school physical. We don’t have a doctor and they were there when we needed it.” -Mother of High School Freshman

  20. Current Funding Sources • Southern Illinois University School of Medicine • Abraham Lincoln Healthcare Foundation • Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation • Hilda Humphreys Estate • Eaton Corporation • County of Logan • Patient Revenue • Private Donations

  21. QUESTIONS/COMMENTS

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