The cost of preventing injuries at all costs

Article Abstract:

A community effort in the Dayton, OH, area to reduce its high rate of 500 injury deaths a year has been recognized with a Nova Award. Miami Valley Hospital organized the Injury Prevention Center with members of the Greater Dayton Hospital Assn, United HealthCare of Ohio, Sinclair Community College, and Wright State University. The Center designated the four target areas of bicycle safety, falls among the elderly, gun violence and safety, and car crashes involving alcohol and teenagers.

SOCIAL SERVICES, Social Services for Children, Youth, Child and Youth Services, Individual and Family Services, Social Services for Adults, Social aspects, Prevention, Achievements and awards, Community health services, Wounds and injuries, Injuries, Youth services, Children's services, Hospital and community, Dayton, Ohio

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Shuttered hospital's second chance

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Chicago, IL's St. Anne's Hospital closed in 1988 but community groups and churches raised enough money to re-open it. There is a primary care clinic operated by Cook County Hospital and a center that provides job training, family counseling, Head Start and child care. The community pulled together to re-open the facility within six months of its closure as West Side Holistic Family Services.

Chicago, Illinois

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Open doors, open minds

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New York's Rochester General Hospital did research to determine how minority groups view the US healthcare system. Local poor women had avoided healthcare because physicians were disrespectful, these women had to wait a long time to see the physician and these women did not have a personal physician. All these women wanted their doctors to spend more time with them.

Health aspects, Evaluation, Health care industry, Poor women, Rochester, New York

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