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.
• Concordia Rural Services Project
  The Concordia Rural Services Project was designed to serve six rural parishes in central Louisiana that generally lack access to basic, yet critical, health care services.
• 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.
• Dubach Health Outreach Project
  The purpose of the Dubach Health Outreach Project is to provide access to a multidisciplinary community-based intervention to combat obesity and related chronic diseases.
• 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.
• Louisiana Learning About Pregnancy and STDs
  This project was designed to address the health care status of rural teenagers in three poor, rural parishes by providing peer-based health education, recruiting and training peer health educators in each parish, and conducting presentations on STD and teen pregnancy prevention to local civic groups, churches, and schools.
• 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.
• South Cameron Memorial Hospital Rural Health Outreach Grant - Telemedicine Project
  The outreach project has established seven Telemed sites throughout southwest Louisiana - five in rural hospitals, one in a facility for the developmentally disabled, and one in a mobile telemedicine clinic (a 36-foot Airstream recreational vehicle that travels to rural sites for health screenings and telemedicine encounters).
• 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.