Community Health Needs Assessment 2012 - Saint Joseph Hospital
Community Health Needs Assessment 2012 - Saint Joseph Hospital
Community Health Needs Assessment 2012 - Saint Joseph Hospital
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Focus Groups<br />
• Purpose: Meet with community groups to determine<br />
community health needs<br />
• Held in different locations to ensure diverse representation<br />
• There were six focus groups:<br />
– Senior Citizen Advisory Group<br />
– Berea Head Start Center<br />
– Shannon Johnson Elementary<br />
– St. <strong>Joseph</strong> Berea employees/volunteers<br />
– First Responders<br />
– Farristown Baptist Church Event<br />
• Total of 61 participants plus facilitators<br />
Focus Groups – <strong>Health</strong> Issues That Have<br />
Impacted You or the <strong>Community</strong><br />
• Obesity<br />
• Diabetes<br />
• Heart disease<br />
• Cancer<br />
• Oral health<br />
• COPD 2<br />
• Alzheimer’s disease/dementia<br />
• Stroke<br />
• Drugs/alcohol<br />
• Mental health<br />
• Kidney disease<br />
• Shortage of providers in the area<br />
• Limited healthcare services in Berea<br />
overall<br />
• Wait times to see providers<br />
• Medicaid MCO’s not accepted<br />
• Kentucky Spirit ending contract<br />
• Medicaid recipients treated differently<br />
at providers’ offices<br />
• Falls<br />
• Arthritis<br />
• Joint pain<br />
• Vision<br />
• Fibromyalgia<br />
Focus Groups: What is Your Vision of a<br />
<strong>Health</strong> <strong>Community</strong>?<br />
• Outpatient services for mental health issues<br />
• Better access to health care for all:<br />
– access to free/low cost health assessments: blood pressure, diabetes, etc.<br />
(Preventative care)<br />
• Hiking, recreational trails, walking paths, exercise programs, playgrounds,<br />
weight management programs to address obesity<br />
• Incentives for providers to come to Berea (not travel to Lexington)<br />
• Stay at home services for seniors<br />
• <strong>Health</strong>y meals: food banks, fast foods, meal services, education<br />
• Support programs<br />
• Smoking bans<br />
• Environmental concerns: control fumes from factories<br />
<strong>Saint</strong> <strong>Joseph</strong> Berea <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Needs</strong> <strong>Assessment</strong><br />
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Appendix 2/19/2013
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