Chautauqua County Health Network

Office of rural Health quality improvement grant: program that has allowed unique primary care clinics to merge their data into one system for the purposes of doing population wide, practice specific, provider specific and patient specific reporting. Those reports provide a basis for developing quality improvement plans for implementation. Enabled by the necessity of more virtual interaction due to covid-19, deliberate progress and efficiencies have been acheived in transitioning from face-to-face interactions with geographically dispersed partners and practices to on-line working group. More proactive and innovative efforts have led to more preliminary consultations with local foundations, local cbos and local/county government signaling a more integrated approach to address social determinants of Health in the future, which is more resilient to new challenges and less dependent on external funding.

Chq Health collaborative: public Health initiative (in response to covid-19 pandemic) to become a trusted source of accurate, local public Health information and to bring about collaboration between Health care providers and cbos. The program supported the creation of microcampaigns through a comprehensive media toolkit. Target groups include veterans, educators, food pantries, Health services care coordinators, childcare workers, Health care providers, move.chq physical activity promotion to general population, and school nurses and physicians.

Creating healthy schools and communities: program to help prevent obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other chronic diseases. This program addresses the ongoing need for sustainable policy, environment, and systems changes to support better physical and nutritional Health. Chsc assisted six school districts to adopt local wellness policies and hosted two community conversations. Planning in progress for collaboration with local governments to create safer pedestrian and cycling routes through a partnership with go bike buffalo

Public Health: strengthen cooperation or partnerships with local providers to improve key public Health or Health care outcomes. Participated in numerous meetings/conference calls with regional coalitions/board for covid repsonse. Enhanced our abilities to communicate with practices through contact management and mass email marketing platforms.

The purpose of this program is to expand public health capacity by supporting health care job development, training and placement in rural and tribal communities. The expected impact of this program is to enhance clinical and operational capacity in order to adequately address the population health needs of rural communities affected by COVID-19, including those dealing with the effects of long COVID1. The RPHWTN program addresses the ongoing critical need in health care facilities for trained public health professionals serving rural communities. This is done through the establishment of networks to develop formal training/certification programs