Projects Funded by the Foundation for Healthy Communities

2004  2003  2002  2001  2000  1999  1998  1997  1996  1995

For more information on any of the following programs, contact Maggie Williams, at 614.221.7614 or maggiew@ohanet.org.

2004
Get-A-Life
$15,136
Southern Ohio Medical Center, Portsmouth
The project sets goals for blood pressure, weight, tobacco usage and fitness and rewards participants with fitness center memberships or opportunities for a walking program.

O’Bleness Means Health
$9,580
O’Bleness Memorial Hospital, Athens
A program to engage 25 percent of O’Bleness’ workforce to take initial assessments and set personal goals for exercise and nutrition. The program includes a smoking cessation and stress management component.

Shape Up, MMH!
$20,000
Marietta Memorial Hospital
Identifies, educates and sustains motivation of employees with high risk for cardiovascular disease.

Strong and Healthy Employees
$17,589
Euclid Hospital, Cleveland
A program with personalized clinical support as well as electronic communications to employees diagnosed with diabetes, high blood pressure, and/or high cholesterol.

Wellness At Work program
$17,720
Berger Health System, Circleville
A program to enroll 75 percent of Berger’s workplace into the Wellness At Work program. Employees will participate in a health risk appraisal that will be used to identify and track individual and corporate modifiable health risks to which education will be targeted.

Wellness Works
$20,000
Middletown Regional Hospital
Offers free health assessments to all participants, with referrals to wellness education, and, if needed, intervention. Participants will receive a monthly deduction on their health insurance premiums.

2003
AGAPE Program
$12,500
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
A project to increase the number of individuals tested for HIV/AIDS and decrease the incidence of STDs, especially in the African American population.

CATS, Concerned About Teen Sexuality Program
$8,145
Mercy Foundation, Springfield
Enables 25-30 high school students to deliver abstinence messages to local middle and high school students.

Fighting Invisible Tigers
$5,872
Mercy Foundation of Mercy Health Partners - Western Ohio, Springfield
A 12-week school-based stress management and life skills development program helping high-risk, adolescent females. Skills presented include healthy behaviors, self-esteem and life planning.

Mahogany’s Child
$15,100
Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton 
An African American women’s health program to promote physical activity and weight loss and decrease diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Positive Choices Plus
$9,851
St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo
A project targeting 60 high-risk women residing in homeless shelters to promote health lifestyles choices and reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases.

Start Activity by Increasing Natural Intrinsic Movement
$13,657
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Drug and Poison Information Center
A 52-week program increasing physical activity among African American youth through martial arts-based self-discipline techniques.

Take Off Teens
$9,511
Children’s Medical Center, Dayton
A program promoting healthy lifestyles to underserved, inner city youth through extracurricular exercise and nutrition education.

Youth Health Initiative
$15,000
University Hospital of Cleveland
A three-week summer camp targeting overweight African American children aged 9-12 to promote healthy eating and exercise habits in addition to human sexuality classes emphasizing STD prevention.

2002
The Body Shop Program
$8,460
Children’s Medical Center, Dayton  
A physician-prescribed nutrition, exercise and support program for low-income children in 20 counties.

Exercising for Life
$10,493
Adena Health System, Chilicothe
The program promotes healthy lifestyles though exercise for low-income individuals suffering with obesity or cardiac disease.

Get Fit Seniors
$11,500
Marietta Memorial Hospital  
The program is designed to encourage healthy lifestyles in southeast Ohio’s senior population by providing clinically supervised exercise classes in rural senior centers.

Health Fitness Program
$14,946
Children’s Hospital, Disability Services, Cincinnati   
A health and fitness program targeted to students with significant disabilities who are usually prevented from engaging in regular physical activity.

Healthy Lucas County - A New Me in 2003
$10,780  
Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio, Toledo
HCNO will conduct an 8-week community challenge to encourage lifelong physical activity and healthy eating habits for 650 county residents.  

Low Birth Weight Reduction Program
$10,000
Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati  
A 3-year neighborhood partnership work group to address low-birth-weight babies in at-risk neighborhoods among African-American women.  

Step Out For Your Health
$9,500
Fairfield Medical Center, Lancaster 
A county-wide program to promote daily physical activity and wellness education.  

Take Off Dayton!
$10,000
Samaritan Health Foundation, Dayton
Collaborating with local media, the program aims to increase awareness of and participation in healthy activities to help residents meet their healthy behavior goals.

Weight Loss Program
$8,500
Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center and Rockdale School-Based Health Center 
Created to promote weight loss through diet and exercise to low-income children, predominately African Americas age 4 to 16, who have been identified as obese.

Y.E.S., Youth Enjoying Sobriety
$8,712 
Henry County Hospital, Napoleon 
A prevention and intervention program for identified youths with documented substance abuse incidences, and their families.

2001
AEDs on Site  
$6,450
Mercer County Joint Township Community Hospital, Coldwater
The grantee will be placing automated emergency defibrillators (AEDs) in strategic locations which serve at-risk populations. These places include two fitness centers (Lake Front Racquet & Health Club and the YMCA) and the Mercer County Council on Aging Center. All facilities serve the elderly and these AED would be the first units accessible and easily used by lay people to save lives, if an emergency occurs.

Caregiver Training Program
$5,175
Robinson Memorial Hospital, Ravenna
In collaboration with Hospice of Robinson Memorial Hospital and the United Church of Christ in Kent, this training program will provide individuals in the Portage County community with essential information to care for loved ones with terminal illness in their homes. The goal is to increase caregivers' knowledge and skills and increase their confidence in providing care, ultimately having a positive impact on the overall health and quality of life of the patient(s).

Conversations for Senior Choices
$10,000
St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland
St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland, plans to expand its existing Palliative Care Performance Improvement program, initiated in January 1999, which is currently offering a two-day training program on pain management, end-of-life nursing care, spirituality. The addition would be to develop and deliver a nursing intervention program to teach and assist those over 65 and their families an understanding of advance directives and making informed choices about their care. The outpatient Ambulatory Care Clinic would become involved so that the advanced directives could be offered through this avenue.

Dementia Care Mapping Training
$10,000
Community Hospital of Springfield
The Community Hospital of Springfield developed a training program for Alzheimer’s disease patients and others with dementia. The DCM is a new method for evaluating and improving the quality of dementia care for patients in day care centers, residential homes, psychogeriatric wards, long-term care facilities or any other formal care setting.

The Gatekeeper Program
$9,410
Southwest General Health Center, Middleburg Heights
To keep Brunswick/Medina County seniors healthy and independent, this model of elder care locates and identifies at-risk older adults, particularly those who are isolated and in need of assistance; assesses the full range of individual seniors’ needs connects the appropriate resources to improve the quality of life and maintain independence; and follows up on their care to ensure delivery of services for a minimum of three months.  

Grady D.R.I.V.E. (Driver Rehabilitation for Instruction and Vehicle Education Program)
$7,197
Grady Memorial Hospital, Delaware
This comprehensive safety education program is targeted to at-risk residents of Delaware County who are at least 60 years old and previously licensed to drive but due to physical or cognitive impairment, have been advised by their physician not to drive until a driving evaluation is done. The program is in collaboration with the Council for Older Adults, Geriatric Services of Dodd Hall at OSU and Senior Citizens, Inc. of Delaware County.

Hospital-Based Kinship Program
$7,500
Center for Healthy Communities, Dayton in collaboration with The Children’s Hospital of Dayton
The project addresses the growing number of American children living in grandparent maintained homes and assists kinship caregivers with information and assessment of local resources. The project provides in-house education for hospital staff from five local hospitals in the Dayton area and three hospitals outside the Dayton area. 

Mercury Thermometer Exchange
$7,500 (funded by Cardinal Health)
Fisher-Titus Medical Center, Norwalk
The project will address the environmental and public safety hazards of mercury and mercury thermometers.  The hospital will conduct six community-based “Mercury Thermometer Exchange” events to educate and involve the public in the safe, non-toxic solution to mercury disposal.  The Medical Center collaborates with the Huron County Health Department, local physicians and the Huron County Emergency Management Agency.

Music, Movement Therapy 
$7,500
Ireland Cancer Center – University Hospitals of Cleveland in Collaboration with The Repertory Project of Cleveland Heights
This unique partnership between a cancer hospital of a major state teaching hospital  integrates the art of dance, the therapeutic outcomes of Tai Chi and music therapy during elderly patients’ recovery period following surgery in the hospital. The therapies  address the physiological and psychological needs of hospitalized patients to benefit mood, socialization and medical compliance of patients as well as the stress reduction for hospital staff including occupational and physical therapists, and family members.

Personal Freedom and Safety for Seniors Program
$5,000
Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati
TriHealth Seniority, a membership program for older adults at Good Samaritan and Bethesda Hospital in Cincinnati, presents educational programs and guidance for older adults in the areas of health, medications, insurance, end-of-life issues and advocacy. Debbie Gardner of The Survive Institute, a former police officer and her husband, Hamilton County Sheriff deputy would be commissioned to conduct self-defense classes for the elderly in the Tri-State area.

Respecting Choices
$15,000
Marietta Memorial Hospital, Marietta
Marietta Memorial Hospital, Marietta, plans to expand its existing services to seniors and the chronically ill, by collaborating with numerous local agencies, to train facilitators who will in turn provide end-of-life-care education (to fulfill the wishes of the terminally ill) for others. The hospital has identified a model for an on-site educational program (Respecting Choices by Bernard Hammes, PhD at Gundersen Lutheran to teach Advance Care Planning facilitation skills to persons in the community who work with elderly adult on a regular basis.

Senior Outreach Program
$6,100
St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center – Mercy Home Care, Toledo
The program provides home-based intervention to at-risk low-income and isolated seniors in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan within a50-60 mile radius of Toledo to decrease unnecessary hospitalizations and/or emergency room use and to improve quality of life. The program is in collaboration with AmeriCorps of NW Ohio, St. Charles Mercy Hospital and Renaissance Senior Apartments.

Stress, Insomnia, Fatigue Study
$7,500
Lake Hospital System, Willoughby
Targeted toward the elderly population of Lake County, this project is designed to perform screening, public and physician education and follow-up outcome measurement on the incidence and effects of hidden depression.  The Lake Hospital will collaborate with Pathways, a Lake County Mental Health Agency to conduct the screenings and to measure the effectiveness of educational interventions in increasing physician awareness, assessment and treatment of depression in their elderly patients.

Sunset Project
$10,000
Fostoria Community Hospital, Fostoria
Fostoria Community Hospital, Fostoria, is enhancing an existing health ministry program, targeted at frail elderly, chronically ill and clients and their families who are either planning for or struggling with end-of-life issues, including the following activities.

• Training to all current parish nurse volunteers to accurately inform patients about hospice services;

• Disseminating educational materials about the benefits through the parish nurse program;

• Coordinating medical equipment donation and recycling program;

• Coordinating an Advanced Directives educational program including six sessions at different locations to promote the benefits and using volunteers to facilitate the development;

2000
356-MEDS
$10,260
Southern Ohio Medical Center, Portsmouth
The program is designed to help low-income residents of Scioto and surrounding counties to obtain free or low-cost prescription medications using a hospital-sponsored phone number, 356-MEDS. Callers receive information about the various pharmaceutical companies' special programs that assist people who cannot afford to buy prescriptions that they need. The phone number dials directly into the hospital's pharmacy where a pharmaceutical technician determines if the medications are available and the patient's eligibility, as determined by the pharmaceutical companies. The patient's physician is notified and prescription medications are sent to the physician's office and held for distribution. Transportation to the physician's office is provided for those unable to find transportation.

Be a Friend – Bring a Friend
$8,200
Robinson Memorial Hospital, Ravenna
Be a Friend – Bring a Friend is a stroke screening and prevention program targeting African Americans. This at-risk population has historically not participated in screening and prevention programs offered at health care institutions, but responded well to a pilot project in 1999 that performed screenings in churches. The program, based on the pilot project, specifically targets men’s groups in the churches, since they are less likely to participate in health screening programs. Volunteers assisting with the program include physicians, dieticians, nurses, diabetic educators from Robinson Memorial Hospital, faculty and students from Kent State University College of Nursing, students from Akron University College of Nursing, faculty and students from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and church members.  

Breastfeeding Rate Increase Program
$12,500
East Ohio Regional Hospital, Martins Ferry
The goal of the program is to improve breastfeeding rates so at least 75 percent of all infants in the area will be breastfed by the time they are discharged from the hospital and at least 50 percent will continue to be breastfed at six months of age. The project will provide prenatal education about labor, birth and feeding the newborn at two prenatal clinics and WIC offices. It will also provide post-natal education regarding early breastfeeding challenges, consultation and support at outlying sites, and hospital-based outreach through follow-up, support, breastfeeding management and the use of a "warm-line" that allows women to leave messages and requests for assistance that will be answered that day.  

Champs
$10,000
Health Hill Hospital for Children Foundation, Cleveland
Champs provides sports programming for disabled athletes aged 6 to 20 with cerebral palsy, head injuries and strokes. The program also teaches the skills necessary to compete on a local, regional, national and international level. Sports included in the program are bowling, boccia, swimming, cycling, slalom, soccer, track and field and weight lifting. Champs additionally helps to increase public awareness and educates the community regarding the potential and achievement of disabled individuals.

Community Prenatal Services
$6,667
Southern Ohio Medical Center, Portsmouth
Community Prenatal Services targets teens and low-income families to improve maternal and infant care in an area with one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the state. The program provides on-site classes on maternal care topics such as birth control, family adjustment and bonding and pregnancy, and on infant care topics such as smoking, safety, bathing and feeding. The program is in collaboration with several local social service programs including the Community Action Organization (CAO), Women Infant and Children (WIC) and Graduation Reality and Dual Roles (GRADS).  

Early Childhood Program
$7,000
Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz
The program provides parenting classes on nutrition, food preparation and food poison prevention in four separate sessions with three classes in each session. Parents participate in hands-on activities including how to use coupons, how to prepare food, food storage, reading recipes and food poison prevention and visit a grocery store as part of the classes. Education on food groups, calories, food content and the use of left-overs is also included. Parents also receive a recipe book and tee shirts advertising that they have completed the classes. Families who participate complete a health survey before attending the classes as well as follow-up surveys.

Health Ministry Program
$10,000
Greene Memorial Hospital, Xenia
The Health Ministry Program is designed to connect physical, spiritual, mental, social and emotional elements of people’s lives to encourage wellness, preventive medicine and promote healing by largely collaborating with Greene County churches, in addition to the Cedarville College nursing program and area social service agencies. In 2000, the program will focus the majority of its efforts on early childhood wellness and health and safety education programs. The program also provides programs for other groups such as health screenings, home visitation, seminars, health fairs, transportation and information on a variety of health and wellness topics.

Home Safe Home
$12,500
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
The Trauma Service of the Children's Hospital Medical Center, Every Child Succeeds and the Greater Cincinnati Safe Kids Coalition have established a program to increase use of injury prevention devices and practices among high-risk families with infants and toddlers to decrease injuries occurring in the home and on the road. As part of the program, 15 to 20 home visitors receive training in injury prevention. The home visitors provide to families injury prevention education and a safety basket that includes a small parts tester, potty lock, bath water thermometer, medicine cabinet latch, cord safety winder, cabinet locks, a small Phillips' head screwdriver for installation of the locks, corner guards, VCR lock, stove burner guard and sunscreen. Every family also receives a child safety seat and child passenger safety education. 

Infant Care Classes for Teen Parents
$12,500
Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center, Cambridge
The project provides parent education, family planning and referral services for teen parents with children 0-3 to improve the health, education and development of children and also decrease the subsequent births to teens. Classes include growth and development in the first three months, common newborn illness, emergency situations, infant CPR and adjusting to a new member of the family. Various collaborating agencies will also provide home visits and nursing visits in the hospital in addition to assisting with paternity issues and child support. Incentives for attending the program include baby care items and first aid kits. Childcare and transportation is provided for participants.

Meigs County Senior Fitness Project
$8,450
Holzer Medical Center, Gallipolis
The Meigs County Senior Fitness Project provides an activity director to train senior citizen volunteers to work with other senior citizens on increasing their physical fitness and stamina. The senior volunteers staff the fitness center at the Meigs County Council on Aging, the local senior citizen center, and do routine equipment maintenance. In addition to Holzer Medical Center, collaborators include Veterans Memorial Hospital, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Meigs County Health Department, Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Meigs County and Meigs County Council on Aging.  

Prevention of Home Injuries
$12,500
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
The Trauma Service of the Children's Hospital Medical Center, Every Child Succeeds and the Greater Cincinnati Safe Kids Coalition have established a program to increase use of injury prevention devices and practices among high-risk families with infants and toddlers to decrease injuries occurring in the home and on the road.

Public Health Task Force
$8,000
Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati
The Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati has created a Public Health Task Force to enable the private sector and the public health system to collaborate in order to improve community health status. The task force specifically addresses issues and challenges impacting various public health agencies and their clients. Building on the results of the 1999 Greater Cincinnati Community Health Status Survey, which measured Cincinnati residents’ health status, health behaviors and health opinions, the program represents hospitals, physicians, insurers and employers.

Rocking Horse Center’s Prescription-Assist
$5,000
Community Hospital, Springfield
Rocking Horse Center’s Prescription-Assist provides prescription drugs to low-income, uninsured and underinsured children, reducing preventable hospitalizations and emergency room visits. The primary focus is on the 0-3 age group. The program plans to coordinate with other prescription programs available at Mercy Medical Center and Community Hospital and increase by 10 percent referrals from other hospitals and community organizations.

Start Smart
$9,500
Mercy Memorial Hospital, Springfield
In collaboration with several local agencies, the program links prenatal moms and/or families with children 0-5 considered at risk to experienced moms from the community using a mentoring program. Those considered at risk could include teen parents, single parents, families with mental or social delays, history of drug/alcohol abuse, domestic violence, low income, non-supportive extended family, no or limited health insurance, high stress levels due to employment, illness and personal and/or environmental issues. All participants receive a well child screening, a series of either three parent infant classes or toddler classes and home-based preventative health, safety, growth and development and parenting education.

1999
Be Poison Smart
$13,270
Children's Hospital, Columbus
The Be Poison Smart! program involves educational, social service and medical providers working with parents and caregivers of young children to provide poison prevention education in Morrow and Scioto counties. The program uses a ten-minute face-to-face educational intervention between a parent and trusted person using visual materials and household products. The parent or caregiver also receives a Caregiver Packet containing prevention materials. In addition, the program conducts a six-hour advanced training session at each participating hospital to establish them as Be Poison Smart! Regional Centers. The program works with the Southern Ohio Medical Center and the Morrow County Hospital, and the Central Ohio Poison Center at Children's Hospital provides personnel training.  

Boot Camp for New Dads
$3,000
Community Health Partners, Family Outreach Center, Lorain
Community Health Partners Foundation in Lorain has designed an orientation  workshop for new fathers to involve and educate them in the experience of fatherhood, based on the national program, Boot Camp for New Dads. The three-hour workshop, taught by Boot Camp veterans and their babies, targets baby care, fatherhood and the needs of new mothers. "Rookie dads" get hands-on experience with baby care skills under the guidance of the "veteran dads."  

Building Strong Families
$7,390
Van Wert County Hospital, Van Wert
Van Wert County Hospital is providing parenting classes for parents of children ages 0-3 using the parenting series, Building Strong Families, developed by Michigan State University. The program provides health, safety and developmental information to parents to enhance their ability to respond to their child's developmental and safety needs. The twelve-week program meets once a week in 1 ½- to 2-hour sessions. Building Strong Families is composed of four units including How Kids Develop, Helping Kids Behave, Playing to Learn and Smart Living. Though the program is open to all parents, it provides extra support for parents limited in resources and support.

CASH Coalition
$6,300
Salem Community Hospital, Salem
The CASH (Coordinated Action for School Health) Coalition provides comprehensive school health programs for area youth by emphasizing a relationship between communities, school, health and learning. By using the building blocks of internal and external assets, the program helps Columbiana County children develop into healthy, caring and responsible adults. The program uses the Asset Building Initiative to decrease risk behavior among teens, increase developmental and external assets among teens, increase awareness in surrounding communities of the asset building framework, and provide community library materials targeting risk behaviors.

Childcare Gap Project
$10,390
Belmont Community Hospital, Bellaire
The Childcare Gap Project helps to bridge the childcare gap between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. when daycare is not available. Most often, it is older adults and grandparents that care for small children during this time. The program realized that though they may be excellent caregivers, older adults have lost some confidence in their skills. To combat this problem, the program offers a one-hour review session with the caregiver and a one-hour follow-up session with the caregiver, parents and child or infant. Topics covered include, basic baby care, treatment in an emergency, healthy snacks, developmental charts, C.P.R, infant and baby choking, Poison Hotline, pool and bicycle safety, and a list of tips.

Healthy Connections/Life Link Computer Network
$8,250
Healthy Connections Network, Akron
Summa Health System, Akron, and several Akron hospitals have created the Healthy Connections/Life Link Computer Network, designed to increase timely access to early prenatal care. The goal is a reduction of infant mortality and a decrease in the number of low-birth-weight babies born in underserved neighborhoods in Akron. The program began in January of 1999, and additional financial assistance was needed to fund ongoing technical assistance, training staff, additional software, upgrade the system and purchase assessment materials.

Healthy Partnerships
$2,500
Samaritan Regional Health System, Ashland
Healthy Partnerships was instituted in January of 1997 in the local school districts, Hillsdale and Mapleton. The program partners schools, the Public Health Department and Samaritan Regional Health System in providing health lifestyle education to first and third graders by stressing health maintenance. The children receive the education in 40-45 sessions, once a week. A variety of educational mediums are used including videos, hands-on activities, small group discussion and anatomical models. Topics covered are healthy heart functioning and anatomy, physical activity and fitness, drugs/alcohol/tobacco awareness, nutrition, infection control, disease transmission prevention and peer pressure/self-esteem/decision making.

Infant Development Monitoring Program
$14,818
Marietta Memorial Hospital, Marietta
Marietta Memorial is sponsoring an infant monitoring program for babies up to 36 months of age to identify children with developmental delays. The program targeted all Washington County families with children birth to 36 months by mailing 8 age-specific questionnAyres to evaluate the child’s development. The program informs parents of available resources and assists with referrals.

Occupant/Transportation Safety & Violence Prevention
$6,300
Injury Prevention Center of the Greater Dayton Area, Dayton
The Injury Prevention Center of the Greater Dayton Area (IPC), a collaborative partnership of all six Montgomery County hospitals and Wright State University School of Medicine, is expanding upon its collaboration with Montgomery County Head Start and child daycare centers as an occupant/transportation safety and violence prevention educational clearing center. Services are based on the need for programs to address the leading cause of injury and death for children in the United States. The program is working with childcare providers and parents to develop, administer and analyze a needs assessment that determines the structure of the educational programs.

Parents as Teachers
$12,000
Dunlap Memorial Hospital, Orrville
Dunlap Memorial Hospital, Orrville, is collaborating with the Orville City Schools to implement the program. Parents as Teachers seeks to prevent potential mental, physical and emotional health problems by monitoring the birth mother and the infant’s health through home visits and/or a group program. The children’s nutrition, growth and developmental stages will also be monitored. The program targets any new parent indicating a need for parenting skills and also first time and at-risk parents. They are contacted the second day after delivery and then again after two weeks.

Paulding County Family & Children First Outreach
$4,346
Family and Children First Council of Paulding County
The Family and Children First Council of Paulding County is offering a series of six, two-hour classes for new and expectant mothers free of charge on a quarterly basis. The classes enhance parenting skills and familiarize the mothers with area resources. The classes are open to all, but low-income mothers are targeted. In addition to general new parenting issues, the program addresses issues more common to low-income mothers. The program seeks to link mothers with area resources and agencies and to enroll at-risk infants in the Early Start home visitation program. Mothers are given educational materials and a gift certificate to a local store upon completion of all classes.

Service Worker Training Academy
$13,000
Center for Health Affairs, Cleveland
In collaboration with Cuyahoga County hospitals, The Center for Health Affairs, Cleveland, is linking workplace mentors with new employees for the Service Worker Training Academy. The academy will train and place welfare recipients in entry-level service jobs at Cleveland-area hospitals and other health care agencies. A volunteer job coach and mentor assists graduates of SWTA in their first two weeks on the job.

Sexual Assault Response Team
$1,000
Blanchard Valley Regional Health Center, Findlay
Blanchard Valley Regional Health Center is starting the Sexual Assault Response Team to provide care for sexual assault survivors. It also helps provide accurate documentation and proper collection of evidence with the use of interviews and extensive examinations with an evidence kit.

1998
Asian Health Initiative
$12,400
The Ohio State University Hospitals, Columbus
The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, developed a program aimed at overcoming cultural and language barriers to health care and social services for Asian Americans. Health care providers were also targeted to enhance their skills and knowledge in culture competency.  

Breathing for Two
$7,000
Lima Memorial Hospital, Lima
Lima Memorial Hospital implemented an educational program of smoking cessation for pregnant women. Goals of the program include increasing the health of newborns by reducing the risks associated with prenatal smoking and increasing the health of infants and young children by reducing exposure to second hand smoke. A respiratory therapist taught the program, held at the local YMCA. Babysitting was provided as needed.

Educate the Educators: Coping With the Asthmatic Student
$2,571
Fisher-Titus Medical Center, Norwalk
Fisher-Titus Medical Center, Norwalk, developed a training program for schoolteachers, administrators and nurses to help them cope with asthmatic students using Peak Performance U.S.A., a program for managing asthma in schools. A video presentation and an asthma test given before and after the program were also included in the training.

Gatekeeper
$15,757
Southwest General Health Center, Middleburg Heights
Southwest General Health Center, Middleburg Heights, formed a program to mobilize volunteers from community business and public service organizations to help identify the at-risk elderly. Those identified are referred for assessment or screening by a geriatric nurse and a social worker to improve their quality of life. 

Keeping in Touch
$5,388
Mercer County Community Hospital, Coldwater
Mercer County Joint Township Community Hospital, Coldwater, implemented a program to teach parents to use massage techniques to improve their infants’ development and reduce the risk of child abuse. Two maternal health nurses first learned the techniques, then passed the information along to staff, community service providers and parents.

Nurse for Post-Partum Outreach
$15,270
Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals Community Outreach Department, Columbus
Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals expanded its program by having a nurse make between six and seven home visits to mothers and babies during the infant’s first year. The goal is to reduce infant mortality in an area where it is above the national average.

Nurse Partners
$14,500
Providence Hospital, Sandusky
Providence Hospital, Sandusky, expanded the work of “Nurse Partners,” a program which pairs obstetrical nurses with expectant women early in their pregnancy to deliver healthier babies. The one-on-one approach offers education and support throughout the pregnancy. Participants received “Baby Bucks” for attending programs and taking positive steps toward a healthy pregnancy. “Baby Bucks” were honored in the hospital gift shop, cafeteria and at the local crisis pregnancy center, Heartbeat.

Partners for Safer Communities  
$8,112
Grady Memorial Hospital, Delaware
Grady Memorial Hospital, Delaware, extended a previously piloted program to promote agricultural youth safety and health through education, community development and youth leadership. Twelve training programs for community teams were created to organize local coalitions to implement the program.

Peacemaker
$5,382
Mercy Hospital of Tiffin, Tiffin
Mercy Hospital of Tiffin and Fostoria Community Hospital established a program using puppets to help educate the community on child and family violence prevention.

Project Fit America
$12,800
River Valley Health System, Ironton
River Valley Health System, Ironton, and Southern Ohio Medical Center, Portsmouth, with King’s Daughters’ Medical Center of Ashland, Ky. Began a Lawrence County collaboration to take advantage of a national program of health fitness education for public schools. The program is designed to develop cardiovascular health and lifetime fitness education, specifically targeting self-esteem, smoking, intervention, fitness as fun and personal responsibility for health.

Protecting Our Own
$5,910
Blanchard Valley Regional Health Center, Findlay
Blanchard Valley Health Foundation, Findlay, developed a program to enhance correct usage of care seats and seat belts. The program provided education on correct installation and consistent use of car seats and seat belts. Protecting Our Own intended to reduce the number of motor vehicle occupant-related deaths and injuries among children under 4 years old and 40 pounds.

Safe on Saturday
$6,200
The Children’s Medical Center, Dayton
Children’s Medical Center, Dayton, duplicated a successful Dayton children’s health and safety program for the Springfield area. The one-day program for children ages 5 to 12 focuses on hands-on, interactive learning. Topics covered include bike and helmet safety, first aid, tobacco dangers, nutrition, water safety, fire and burn prevention, seat belt and care seat usage, drug and alcohol abuse and more.

Senior Outreach
$15,590
Holzer Medical Center, Gallipolis
Holzer Medical Center, Gallipolis, established a program to train senior citizens to support other senior citizens with telephone calls, home visits and health education materials on topics such as exercise, diet, wellness and disease prevention. The goal is to help relieve feelings of loneliness and isolation.

Support for Hispanic Families
$15,315
Lake County Child and Family Early Intervention Collaborative
Lake County Child and Family Early Intervention Collaborative in Mentor implemented a program to provide early intervention and support services for Hispanic families, infants and toddlers, given their unique cultural and linguistic needs. Early intervention included education regarding development, early identification of at-risk infants, family support, service and transition planning and developmental follow-ups.  

The Terrific Twos
$4,783
Medina General Hospital, Medina
Medina General Hospital began a program to provide speech, hearing and developmental screening for 2-year-olds in low-income families in five targeted areas. The program provided individualized guidance to caregivers for specific concerns.

1997
Barriers to Pediatric Asthma Care Project
$5,000
Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, is working with public elementary schools and the Cincinnati Health Department to identify barriers to asthma care for children in low-income, inner-city, minority families. Some barriers are special cultural, social, psychological, educational and environmental issues and health beliefs and behaviors of parents. Asthma is a significant health problem for children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds.  

Caregivers Support Group
$6,500
St. Charles Hospital, Oregon
St. Charles Hospital, Oregon, joined the Commission on Aging and the Toledo Catholic High Schools to promote improved health status and communications between disabled seniors citizens, their primary caregivers and high school students. The students are trained to help provide respite care for the senior citizens so that their primary caregivers can attend support meetings with others in similar situations.

Doin’ the Right Healthy Thing
$2,500
Community Outreach Church Partners, Columbus
A Church Partnership Coalition including Grant/Riverside Hospitals, the American Heart Association and the Columbus Health Department, developed this eight-week, heart-risk assessment and education program targeting African Americans who are at risk for cardiovascular disease.

Guernsey County Character Education
$5,000
Guernsey County Family Service Council, Cambridge
Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center, Cambridge, and the Guernsey County Family Service Council are training local elementary school teachers and youth leaders to promote positive decision-making and self-esteem in children aged 5 through 10.  

Health on Wheels
$12,500
Adena Health System, Chillicothe
The Adena Health System, Chillicothe, and the Ross County General Health District offer health services, screenings, immunizations and wellness information from a specially equipped van. Ross County is the second largest county in the state and two-thirds of its residents are in rural areas. The program goals included providing improved access to health, information, referral and social services to the poor and rural residents.

Health Partners 2000
$5,000
Bellevue Hospital, Memorial Hospital, Fremont
Bellevue Hospital, Memorial Hospital, Fremont, and other local health care providers teamed up with the Sandusky County Health Department to develop a strategic health plan to address substance abuse and teen pregnancy, which were identified as priority concerns in a community health assessment.

Positive Parenting from Birth  
$15,000
Dunlap Memorial Hospital, Orrville
Dunlap Memorial Hospital, Orrville, and the Family Research Center at the Orville/Dalton YMCA teamed up to work with new parents using home visits and group meetings to improve parenting skills. After initial contact following birth, the program offers ten weeks of home visits and/or 18 months of a Parent/Infant group program. Prevention strategies included monitoring the physical, mental and emotional health of the mother and infant and the health, nutrition, growth and development of the infant.

Southeastern Ohio Dental Clinic
$15,000
Marietta Memorial Hospital, Marietta
A wide range of health care providers and government agencies cooperated to open a dental clinic for uninsured and low-income residents. Adequate dental care for low-income residents was identified as a priority in a community health needs assessment sponsored by Marietta Memorial Hospital in 1995. The clinic planned to provide a full range of dental services with an emphasis on preventative dentistry and education.

The Kid Sitter
$5,000
Columbus Community Hospital, Columbus
Columbus Community Hospital, The Prevention Education Coalition, Mothers Against Gangs and the Lighthouse Project, an organization working to reduce youth violence, began offering child care education and CPR training to adolescents in an urban area. Adolescents age 11 and up received a minimum of 12 hours of training in infant care, psychology of children, age appropriate behaviors and play ideas, conflict resolution, CPR and first aid. Training was offered at twelve different sites. Scholarships were available for those who could not pay the $10 tuition.

Tomorrow’s Healthy Families
$10,000
Toledo Children’s Hospital, Toledo
Children’s Medical Center of Northwest Ohio at the Toledo Hospital and the Family and Child Abuse Prevention Center joined to sponsor a program to help reduce child abuse and promote a healthy start for new families. This program worked with teen parents and other at-risk families through intense home visits for two years and other support services. Hospital assessment of the teens began in the third trimester.

Wheeling Health Right Clinic
$12,500
Belmont County Division of Wheeling Health Right
East Ohio Regional Hospital and The City Hospital, Bellaire, joined Wheeling Health Right to offer a free clinic for primary and preventative health care, health education services and pharmaceuticals to low-income, uninsured and underinsured residents of Belmont County. The hospitals and other health care providers donate services, space and materials to operate the program.

Youth Aggression Diversion  
$20,000
Southwest General Health Center, Middleburg Heights
Southwest General Health Center, Middleburg Heights, and Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, sponsored this program to teach young people alternatives to violence as part of the Quality Communities Partnership. The program served as an alternative to school suspension for students in grades 6 to 8 who have committed an act of aggression.

1996
Anti-smoking Mass Media Campaign 
$12,500
Toledo Children's Hospital, Toledo
Toledo Children's Hospital at The Toledo Hospital, worked with schools and other local organizations to build upon the existing school-based Tar Wars program to reduce youth tobacco use. The Toledo Program was augmented with a mass media campaign and results were compared against a similar program without a media campaign in Akron.

Caregiver Partnership Program
$5,000
Mercer County Joint Township Community Hospital, Coldwater
Mercer County Joint Township Community Hospital and the Mercer County Council on Aging worked together to keep ailing senior citizens in family settings by training family members to provide in-home care. Skills taken from training include self-care, bathing, feeding, assisting with activities, providing emotional support and ensuring patient and caregiver safety.

Clinton County Health Assessment
$20,000
Clinton Memorial Hospital Regional Health Systems, Wilmington
Clinton Memorial Hospital helped coordinate a comprehensive health assessment and development of the Coalition for a Healthier Clinton County. The coalition targeted accidental deaths, childcare, mental health, tobacco use, transportation barriers and weight problems.

Community-Based Osteoporosis Education
$15,000
Fisher-Titus Medical Center, Norwalk
This program was developed by Fisher-Titus Medical Center in Norwalk to work with schools, nursing homes and fitness centers in Huron County and with new mothers delivering at the hospital. The program’s intent was to reduce the incidence of osteoporosis and to provide diagnosis and treatment for those already afflicted. The program was directed at women of all ages with the objectives of increasing bone density, reducing fractures, increasing exercise and increasing understanding of the risk factors of osteoporosis.

Free the Children from Smoking
$10,000
Mercy Health Partners, Springfield
Mercy Medical Center of Springfield and Mercy Memorial Hospital of Urbana work with schools in Clark and Champaign counties to help prevent youth tobacco use and also to help adolescent smokers kick the habit.

Greater Cincinnati Outcomes Management Task Force Project
$15,000
Greater Cincinnati Community Health Foundation, Cincinnati
The Greater Cincinnati Health Foundation introduced a program to measure and improve health status of the community and the value of inpatient and outpatient care in a 14-county region.

Med Assist Program
$5,000
Mercy Health System, Springfield
The Mercy Health System/Western Ohio, in collaboration with other community organizations, began a program to provide prescription medications for uninsured, underinsured, working poor and low-income families in Champaign County. The project focused on people of all ages with chronic or long-term medical needs. Providing access to medications had helped reduce the burden of uncompensated care on hospitals, clinics and physicians.

Partners for Healthy Kids
$10,000
Mercy Healthcare Center, Toledo
Toledo area hospitals and the Toledo Public Schools collaborated to reduce absenteeism in inner city elementary grades by developing school-based health clinics for primary and preventative care. The goal of the program is to improve physical, mental, emotional and social health status of elementary age school children and their families.

Project L.O.V.E.
$15,000
The Columbus Health Department, Columbus
(Love Our Kids, Vaccinate Early!), is a collaborative childhood immunization effort of eleven Columbus area hospitals, physicians and local health departments, headquartered at Children’s Hospital. The goal was to increase the number of Franklin County two-year-olds fully immunized to 90 percent by the year 2000 by informing the community of the need for immunization, expanding immunization services, developing an immunization information system and linking kids to ongoing care.

RSVP
$5,000
Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center, Cambridge
Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center, Cambridge, and the Gurnsey County schools collaborated on the Responsible Social Values Project. RSVP helps students in grades 6,7 and 8 develop self-esteem and positive decision-making skills concerning sexuality, pregnancy prevention and drug and alcohol abuse. The program addressed the health issues through parent workshops, class instruction, peer groups, individual conferences and teacher in-service training.

St. Luke’s Action Against Tobacco
$12,500
St. Luke’s Hospital, Maumee
St. Luke’s Hospital in Maumee collaborated with four school districts and other local organizations to reduce tobacco use by teens in a two-prong approach. The eight-week tobacco cessation program, one hour per week, is available to teens seeking help to quit tobacco use. Secondly, students caught using tobacco are referred to the Saturday sessions at the hospital as an alternative to school suspension.

1995
Medical Care Clinic
$10,000
Greene Memorial Hospital, Xenia
Greene Memorial Hospital Inc., working with physicians and nurses who volunteer their time, established this outpatient clinic in 1993. The clinic provides cost-effective access to primary health care for medically indigent residents of Greene County who otherwise had no alternative but to seek care in the hospital emergency room department.

Wellness on Wheels
$15,000
Kettering Medical Center, Dayton
Kettering Medical Center, Dayton, developed the WOW Project with a specially equipped mobile coach. This community outreach medical program provides health care screening, treatment, referral and education to homeless, low-income and medically underserved people of Montgomery County. WOW also served as a community oriented primary care rotation site for medical students, resident physicians and allied health and nursing students.

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