Collaboration Between Health Care and Public Health Workshop Summary (2016) / Chapter Skim
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4 Collaboration Between Hospitals and Public Health Agencies
4 Collaboration Between Hospitals and Public Health Agencies
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Nicole Carkner, executive director of the Quad City Health Initiative, then shared the perspective as 1 of the 12 partnerships featured in the report. Following the presentations, a discussion was moderated by Sunny Ramchandani, commander and medical director of the Healthcare Business Directorate at the Naval Medical Center San Diego.
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• o convince other potential partners, the message is that the work of col T laboratives such as Quad City Health Initiative is about community develop ment and community involvement (Carkner) • he contributions of the hospital and health system community are neces T sary, but not sufficient, and other partners are needed (Prybil)
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Prybil noted with gratitude the cooperation, candor, and interest the study team experienced at all of the sites. Site visits included oneon-one, confidential, in-depth interviews; small group discussions; and review of documents and records.
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5. Partnerships focused on improving community health should have a des ignated body with a clearly defined charter that is empowered by the principal partners to set policy and provide strategic leadership for the partnership.
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1 The Quad City Health Initiative oversees current projects on health promotion (especially in the context of workplace wellness) , mental health (including enhancing public awareness and improving service integration)
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For the first few years, the board operated as a voluntary association of organizations and individuals who were interested in improving the health and quality of life of the Quad City area. Later, the two nonprofit health systems became the founding sponsors of the Quad City Health Initiative, providing seed money to create an office to support the work of the initiative.
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During this past year, there was, for the first time, 100 percent participation by all of the community board members and/or their organizations in supporting the initiative. The Quad City Health Initiative has also been successful in obtaining grants at the regional and national levels and has just become part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Partnerships to Improve Community Health awardee cohort.
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Carkner responded that in the Quad Cities, both nonprofit health systems interact with the same population base in the community. In addition, the Quad City Health Initiative benefits, and has benefitted from, other community collaborative efforts.
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She stressed that the Quad City Health Initiative welcomes support from organizations outside of the community, but it is most helpful when the partners can design how they work together to respond to community needs. Bob Griss of the Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health asked how governments at the federal and state levels could leverage their major investments in health care delivery to create incentives for these collaboratives.
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Mary Pittman of the Public Health Institute asked about the next generation of leadership for these partnerships, including youth engagement. Carkner said that local city representatives and local elected officials are now part of the Quad City Health Initiative partnership, which paves the way for engagement of other sectors (e.g., housing and transit)
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Marthe Gold from the City College of New York asked what messages could help to bring along partners that are not yet convinced of the need for public health and health systems to collaborate. Carkner said that the Quad City Health Initiative has worked to engage the local private sector and to help partners outside of the health care sector understand their role in creating health and how improved health has an overall positive impact on the region's economic development and growth.
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Carkner said that the Quad City Health Initiative conducted its first bi-state community health assessment in 2002 as its first joint project, with additional assessments in 2007 and 2012, and one is planned for 2015. Joint planning among partners has allowed everyone to work from common information about health status, and that planning process naturally leads to discussion about implementation and strategy selections once the assessment piece is complete, she said.
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Kindig alerted participants that the roundtable will discuss the issue population health metrics at a workshop in July 2015.2 2 Information on roundtable activities and reports can be found at http://iom.national academies.org/Activities/PublicHealth/PopulationHealthImprovementRT.aspx.
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