Links & Resources: Success Stories

• Better Health for the Delta
  The Southeast Louisiana AHEC grantee for the Louisiana Mississippi Delta initiative combined our activities during Phase I and Phase II with the Robert Wood Johnson RWJ) Southern Rural Access Grant Program (SRAG) rural loan fund component and created "Better Health For the Delta".
• Chronic Care Education Outreach Program
  The consortium for the Chronic Care Education Outreach Program will expand an existing chronic illness self-management education program to focus on the elderly in Woodruff and Prairie counties in the Arkansas Delta region.
• Delta Community Partners in Care
  Delta Community Partners in Care (DCPIC) is a coalition of partners serving a rural area in the Mississippi Delta region of northwest Mississippi. Its target population is the uninsured or underinsured who have a diagnosis of diabetes, hypertension, or both.
• Dubach Health Outreach Project
  The purpose of this health outreach project was to access a multidisciplinary community-based intervention to combat obesity and related chronic diseases in Dubach and the neighboring communities.
• EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
  Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
• Franklin Parish Hospital Service District Mental Health Project
  The overarching goal of this project is to establish a primary care-based behavioral health program in the Franklin Parish region.
• Healing Center Helps Children
  Dedicated to enriching the lives of children with disabilities in middle Georgia, The Healing Center provides financial assistance in physical, occupational, music, massage, speech, hippo, aquatic and mental therapies.
• Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project
  Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project is a health education and screening project targeting obesity and related diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke in at-risk African American adolescents and adults in the parishes of Bienville, Lincoln and Jackson.
• IT Project Connects Rural Louisiana Hospitals
  Describes how Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange (LARHIX), an information technology project bringing together 24 rural hospitals and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport (LSUHSC-S), works to fill the gaps in patient record sharing among rural Louisiana hospitals.
• Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker Program
  The Vanderbilt Center for Health Services’ Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) program provides early intervention services to low income families in Nashville as well as other urban and rural areas in Appalachia and the Mississippi delta, including Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
• MS Shine Teen Health Network
  A four county collaboration in Mississippi working to improve teen health and well-being in their communities.
• Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
  Examined three community transportation models for non-emergency medical services.
• Northeast Missouri Rural Health Network Prescription Drug Assistance Program
  This program assists individuals by gathering the needed data and completing the necessary enrollment forms for free medications available through pharmaceutical companies, generic prescriptions through RxOutreach and/or TogetherRx drug discount cards depending on their income level.
• Rural Alabama School Sets High Standards
  Dedicated teachers, and a "sense of community" figures prominently in the academic success of the rural Fruithurst elementary school.
• Shared Information Technology (IT) Services
  The Community Health Network was formed to share information technology (IT) resources among varying sized community health organizations across Tennessee, from one doctor, one location, to much larger groups in multiple locations.
• The CEI: Project Outreach
  This project aims to improve many aspects of healthcare in St. Mary and surrounding Parishes.
• Transportation in Rural Louisiana Communities
  Provides transportation to medical care for needy residents.
• Van Transportation Service - Healthy Community Alliance
  Provides van transportation services for three rural New York communities.