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Connecting A Transdisciplinary Public Health Systems Approach to Frontline Impact in the Gulf Region - The ACA and Beyond
Through the PCCP, the Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI) collaborates with public health and nonprofit organizations from all four GRHOP states, the other GRHOP project leaders, and the Alliance Institute. LPHI is a statewide, nonprofit organization that coordinates and manages public health programs and initiatives in the areas of health systems development and health promotion/disease prevention and provides an array of services to help meet the needs of local and national partner organizations.
The project goal is to expand sustainable access to integrated, high quality, community-based primary care by developing the capacity of community health centers (CHCs) to deliver integrated healthcare services that:
- emphasize the patient centered medical home,
- advance the Community-Centered Health Home model,
- improve quality of care and operations,
- enhance patient-referral relationships with specialty and social services providers, emphasizing mental health and environmental health specialists,
- improve community disaster preparedness and resilience, and
- support and sustain local community health assessment, planning, and implementation efforts.
LPHI has based its GRHOP activities upon a series of community health needs assessments to guide its efforts. The CHCs involved in the PCCP are typically Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). This session describes how LPHI emphasizes an evidence based approach to expand capacity and capability of FQHCs, and collaborates closely with other GRHOP projects to strengthen coordination and enhance service delivery to meet overall GRHOP goals.
Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadershipChronic disease management and prevention
Environmental health sciences
Occupational health and safety
Provision of health care to the public
Social and behavioral sciences
Learning Objectives:
Discuss evidence-based strategies to build primary care capacity along the U.S. Gulf Coast as envisioned through GRHOP.
Describe the community capacity building approach based upon community assessment utilized by the Louisiana Public Health Institute to implement the Primary Care Capacity Project.
Explain sustainability and resilience in building collaborative projects across gulf coast underserved communities.
Keyword(s): Community-Based Health, Emergency Preparedness
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Leslie M. Beitsch is on the faculty at the Florida State University College of Medicine as Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Center for Medicine and Public Health. He is currently Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine. Previously Dr. Beitsch was the Commissioner of the Oklahoma State Department of Health and worked for the Florida Department of Health at the state and local level for a dozen years.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.