Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare

Please come and join us to watch and discuss “Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare”

When: 4/4/13 6-8:30pm

Where: The Hangar on the Wharf Ballroom (http://www.hangaronthewharf.com/)

What:  Screening Event

·         Viewing of 90 minutes documentary (Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare” http://escapefiremovie.com/trailer

·         Following discussions by panelist

o   Dr George Brown (local pediatrician)

o   Kate Slotnick (Public Health Nursing)

o   Jayne Andreen (Public Health)

o   More to invite – let me know if you want to be one of panelists

·         Some questions to ask:

o    75% of the 2.7 trillion dollars we spend on healthcare in this country is spent on treating diseases that are largely preventable, such as heart disease and diabetes. Why do you think this is happening? What can be done to change this statistic?

o   According to the film, why are primary care physicians so important?

o   Roy Litten is a patient in the ER who has had several heart attacks and a stent placed in his heart, but continues to eat eggs and bacon and to smoke. He has stopped taking his medicine because it is too expensive, and he doesn’t have his own doctor; when he started having chest pains he had to resort to going to the ER. What could be done by each of the stakeholders in the healthcare system to help a person like Roy start on the road towards good health? What are the challenges and obstacles in the way?

o   What do you think of workplace financial health incentive programs like Safeway’s? Should private and public insurance implement similar “behavior as currency” strategies?

·         ESCAPE FIRE is more than a film. We hope to help fuel a campaign that empowers individuals and organizations to take responsibility for changing health and wellness in this country.

Who: hosted by Juneau Public Health Center and State Public Health agency partners, Alaska Public Health Association, and American Public Health Association

Juneau Forces of Change Assessment Data 2012

 Juneau Forces of Change Assessment Data 2012

Five Juneau MAPP Goals!

All children living in our diverse community will have access to quality, affordable, sustainable childcare and family support services

All members of our diverse community will have access to clean, safe, & affordable (no more than 30% of income) housing

All members of our diverse community will have access to activities that promote healthy community and family connections and relationships

All members of our diverse community will have access to quality healthcare including education, prevention, treatment, & support regardless of ability to pay

All members of our diverse community will invest in activities that promote physical, mental, spiritual, & cultural well-beings

Invitation to "Identify Strategic Issues" Forum

Juneau MAPP “Identify Strategic Issues” subcommitee would like to invite you all to attend

A grand forum to identify strategic issues in our community.

When: 12/12/12 8:30am to 11:30am

Where: Frontier Suits Hotel meeting room - http://www.frontiersuites.com/index.html

What: To brainstorm and identify strategic issues in our community based on four MAPP assessment findings

Quick Announcement:

-   Our community health profile has been updated – please share with others (posted 9/26/12).

-   If you are interested in becoming a part of the subcommittee, please let me know. We are meeting on 10/31/12 10-11am at the Juneau Public Health Center to further plan for this forum.

-   Will send you more detailed invitation in November – please RSVP then.

Objectives for this phase “Identify Strategic Issues”

-   To analyze and synthesize the data from all four MAPP assessments

-   To determine which issues are critical to the success of the local public health system

-   To identify the fundamental policy choices or critical challenges that must be addressed in order for a community to achieve its vision

Tentative agenda

8:30am to 8:45am Meet and Greet/Brief overview of MAPP

8:45am to 9:45am Small group discussions – subcommittee members

-   Which issues suggested by the assesmsne findings must be addressed in order to achieve the vision?

o   Strategic issues are important and forward-thinking and seize on current opportunities

-   What are the consequences of not addressing this?

9:45am to 10am bathroom and networking break

10am to 11:15am large group discussions

-   Arrange issues into an ordered list – reflecting which issues should be addressed first.

o   Logical, Impact, or Temporal order

11:15am to 11:30am wrap-up and adjourn

Updated Juneau Health Profile

Correction on Life Satisfaction data.
Juneau Health Profile

Local Public Health System Assessment Report

Juneau MAPP LPHSA Report

Juneau Local Public Health System Assessment Answers

#1 Essential Service - Monitor Health Juneau Answers
#2 Essential Service - Diagnose and Investigate Juneau Answers
#10 Essential Service - Research Juneau Answers

Next Juneau MAPP Local Public Health System Assesment Subcommittee Meeting

Dear community partners,

Our next Juneau MAPP local public health system assessment (LPHSA) subcommittee meeting is on 3/22/12 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm at the Juneau Public Health Center 1F conference room.

We will be answering the following two essential public health service questionnaires.

Agenda

1:35pm-2:30pm: #1 – Monitor Health Status to Identify Community Health Problems

o   Accurate, periodic assessment of the community’s health status

o   Utilization of appropriate methods and technology, such as geographic information systems, to interpret and communicate data to diverse audiences

o   Collaboration among all local public health system components, including private provides and health benefit plans, to establish and use population health registries, such as disease or immunization registries

2:35pm-3:30pm: #2 – Diagnose and Investigate Health Problems and Health Hazards in the community

o   Epidemiological investigations of disease outbreaks and patterns of infectious and chronic disease and injuries, environmental hazards, and other health threats.

o   Active infectious disease epidemiology programs

o   Access to a public health laboratory capable of conducting rapid screening and high volume testing

Please review the attached questionnaire before the meeting.

Essential Service #1 Monitor Health Questionnaire
Essential Service #2 Diagnose & Investigate Questionnaire

Juneau MAPP Local Public Health System Assessment Subcommittee Kick-Off Orientation Meeting

26 community partners came to our LPHSA orientation meetig!
If you were unable to come to the meeting, you can still learn about LPHSA.
Local Public Health System Assessment Orientation Presentation
Local Public Health System Assessment Orientation Slides/Go with the Presentation Above
Let's Start a Conversation About Health . . . and Not Talk About Health Care at All
Juneau MAPP Overview Slides

Juneau MAPP Progress Report

Juneau MAPP Progress Report March 2012

The above link takes you to the Juneau MAPP progress report as of March 2012.

Invitation to Juneau MAPP Local Public Health System Assessment Orientation meeting 3/1 at 1:30pm

Dear Friends and Community Partners:

We’re pleased to invite you to attend the inaugural kick-off meeting of the Juneau MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships) Local Public Health System Assessment Subcommittee.

This local public health system assessment is one of four Juneau MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships) community health assessments and is integral in gathering necessary information for our next phase identifying strategic issues in our community. 

A public health system is made up of all public, private and voluntary entities that contribute to the delivery of essential public health services within a jurisdiction. On March 9, 2011, a group of fifty-plus community members met, brainstormed, and collectively gave life to their vision for a healthier community:  “Juneau, a thriving community – engaging in a diverse and intergenerational population and ensuring access to an exceptional quality of life.” 

In order to measure the performance of our local public health system, it is important to have those representatives from organizations and sectors involved in our local public health system participate.  The CDC will analyze our completed assessment, and provide feedback- in a report that can be easily used to identify strengths and weaknesses of the public health system in Juneau.

As a Juneau resident, being a member of the Juneau MAPP group provides you with a unique opportunity.  A person with your agency’s experience and insight would be the perfect partner in spreading the word with people, just like you, who want to help improve the quality of our health and life by contributing their input a vision of a healthier Juneau.

Our orientation and first assessment meeting will be conducted in the Egan Room of Centennial Hall on Thursday, March 1, 2012. The full process will run from 1:30pm to 4pm.

We will begin promptly at 1:30pm with registration, followed by a brief orientation at 1:45pm, with the actual assessment process at 2:30pm; a packet containing the assessment tool will handed out we will discuss and complete it together, and finish at or before 4:00pm.

Subsequent meetings to complete the rest of the assessment tool will be held on Thursday, March 22, 2012, Thursday, April 5, 2011, and Thursday, April 19, 2012 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm at the Juneau Public Health Center. 

We forward to having you join together with other community partners in taking a close look at our public health system. 

We are also most grateful for your willingness to grant us your time on such short notice.

Please RSVP to Lisa Anderson by emailing to (lisa.anderson1@alaska.gov) or calling her at 465-3353.

Juneau Asset Mapping

Juneau Asset Mapping

11/21 Juneau MAPP (Community Health Status Assessment & Community Themes and Strengths Assessment) subcommittees meeting minutes

1.       Discussed plans to present the data

(See Attached- Juneau Community Health Profile; Community Themes and Strengths/Needs)

·         CBJ assembly meeting/Human Resource committee

·         Our website (http://healthyjuneau.blogspot.com)

·         Town Hall meeting

o   To be discussed

·         To create a 10 minutes “canned” presentation for everyone to use

·         1/14/12 (tentatively) Local Public Health system Assessment Orientation meeting

·         Bartlett Regional Hospital medical staff meeting, board of directors

·         SEARHC

·         AWARE/Juneau violence prevention task force

·         Mental Health Trust/Mental Health board

We need your input!       

·         Please review the attached community health profile and send me 3 community health indicators that are important to you, your organization, and our community by 12/2/11.

·         Erin and Masayo will be creating a short presentation to share with you by 12/9/11.

·         Please review the attached community themes and strengths report and send your input to me as well.

·         We will be sending you a final Juneau asset mapping via email soon and please review it and send your input to us as well.

Next and our last CHSA/CTSA subcommittee meeting – 1/30/12 1:30pm-2:30pm at Juneau Public Health Center 1F conference room

 Information about Juneau MAPP – http://healthyjuneau.blogspot.com

MAPP assessment info:

http://www.naccho.org/topics/infrastructure/mapp/upload/Four_MAPP_Assessments_Chart.pdf

http://www.naccho.org/topics/infrastructure/mapp/upload/MAPP_Components_Pyramid.pdf

9/27/11 Community Themes and Strengths Assessment Subcommittee Meeting Minutes

Identified Themes and strengths:

• Volunteerism
• Cultural and recreational opportunities
• Strong sense of community
• Nature/environment
• Quality educational infrastructure;  including optional programs
• Health and social services available
• Diversity of jobs available
• Affordable energy (hydropower)
• Large percentage of population votes (statistic was first cited as 87% of population, then a 66% citation found

 Identified Needs:

• Quality Childcare
• Affordable housing
• Better Mental Health Services
• Healthy relationships
• Youth activities
• Access to health care
• Transportation –(still some discussion/uncertainty whether this is an identified need)
• Employment opportunities/equal pay for equal work
• Substance abuse prevention and treatment

Our next step:

·  How are we going to present this to the community? 

Please send your ideas to Masayo by 10/21.

• Asset Mapping will be shared by 10/21/11.
• No meeting time scheduled at this time.

9/12/11 Juneau MAPP Community Health Status Assessment Subcommittee meeting minute

On 9/12/11, Juneau MAPP CHSA subcommittee met at the United Way of Southeast Alaska. We reviewed the draft 2011 Juneau Community Health Profile. We will be meeting again on 10/24/11 2-3pm at the Juneau Public Health Center to talk about 10 community health indicators to monitor over the next 3-5 years and ways to present the data to our community.

We need your input by 10/15! Please comment here: Draft 2011 Juneau Community Health Profile

Community Themes and Strengths Assessment Subcommittee meeting 8/16/11

We had a great MAPP CTSA meeting on 8/16 – 18 people attended!

Here is a quick summary:

In this assessment, we want to know:

·         What is important to our community?

• How is quality of life perceived in our community?
• What assets do we have that can be used to improve community health?

These are themes and strengths identified after reviewing existing assessment/review of information for special groups:

·         Coalitions/Groups/activities

·         Facilities/Infrastructure (fitness, arts, etc.)

·         Transportation

·         Nature/environment (including trails, etc.)

·         Educational infrastructure

·         Access to health care

·         Affordable housing

·         Better mental health services

·         More jobs/higher wage (seafood industries, fishing, tourism, government, mining, health care, etc.)

·         Affordable energy (hydropower)

·         Quality & quantity child care

·         Violence prevention & education

·         Healthy relationship

·         Substance abuse prevention and treatment

·         Youth activities

·         Respecting diversity

 Next step:

·         Is this enough information we need to answer the questions?

o   On 9/27/11, we will be looking closely at the 2005 COMPASS assessment themes and strengths

·         Nee three levels of information gathering –

o   Open discussion to elicit community concerns, opinions, and comments in an unstructured way. Asking open-ended questions ensures that issues of concern and interest to the community are raised.

o   Perceptions regarding community quality of life. Questions about quality of life in the community can identify specific concerns. Information on perceptions about quality of life in a community can be gathered through a community survey/or community discussions.

o   A map of community assets. Asset mapping is an important tool for mobilizing community resources. It is the process by which the capacities of individuals, civic associations, and local institutions are inventoried.  (Nursing student, Eddie Locci to create a asset map of Juneau)

·         Compile the results of the community themes and strengths assessment and share it with the entire community.

o   How? (We will be discussing this on 9/27/11)

·         Summarize key findings (two to five pages) for guiding work during the Indentify Strategic Issues phase. (in future)

Our next meeting is 9/27/11 2-3pm at the Juneau Public Health Center.

7/12/11 Juneau Community Themes and Strengths Assessment Subcommittee meeting minutes

The community themes and strength assessment answers the following questions:

·         What is important to our community?

·         How is quality of life perceived in our community?

·         What assets do we have that can be used to improve community health?

We reviewed the following existing documents:

·         2009 Capital forum list

·         Out of School Plan

·         Middle School Afterschool Coalition report

·         United Way COMPASS II 2005

·         CBJ Housing Needs Assessment

·         2011 Homeless Connect Event Survey Data

·         JEDC 2010 Juneau Economic Indicators

·         Juneau YRBS 2009

Pending documents to review:

·         2011 Juneau Community Indicators

·         2009 Current Status Child Care

·         Best Beginnings Assessment

·         Assets survey by Association of School Boards

·         Senior Needs Assessment

Some themes/Strengths Identified:

·         Coalitions/Groups

·         Facilities/Infrastructure (fitness, arts, etc.)

·         Transportation

·         Nature/environment (including trails, etc.)

·         Educational infrastructure

·         Access to health care

·         Affordable housing

·         Better mental health services

·         More jobs/higher wage (seafood industries, fishing, tourism, government, mining, health care, etc.)

·         Affordable energy (hydropower)

·         Quality & quantity child care

The followings are more areas/population groups we would like to research to answer the important three questions:

·         Active coalitions/groups/neighborhood association/business association

·         Existing programs/activities for Juneau people

·         Food

·         Violence prevention/intervention

·         Senior

·         Adolescent

·         Youth

·         Young children/infant

·         Culture

·         Immigrants

·         Adult

·         Connection to outside world

Next meeting 8/16/11 at 2pm at Juneau Public Health Center 1F conference room

Everyone will research data and share summary at next meeting.

Everyone will think of gaps in data and ways to collect data to answer three questions:

• What is important to our community?
• How is quality of life perceived in our community?
• What assets do we have that can be used to improve community health?

Please take a look at United Way COMPASS II assessment document as well:  http://www.hss.state.ak.us/hspc/files/Juneau_CBA.pdf

Community Health Status Assessment Subcommittee meeting minutes 6/27/11

We reviewed findings and synopsis for each category:

1. Demographic Characteristics  – aging population, more diversity, report shared
2. Socioeconomic Characteristics  - pending report
3. Health Resource Availability – divide between people with access and without access, there are a lot of people who don’t get to medical care, report shared
4. Quality of Life – report shared
5. Behavioral Risk Factors  – report shared
6. Environmental Health  - report shared
7. Social and Mental Health - report shared
8. Maternal and Child Health   - some data was not local, pending report
9. Death, Illness, and Injury  – leading cause of death, injury, cancer, heart disease, pending report
10. Communicable Disease  – was not able attend, pending report
11. Sentinel Events - pending report

We discussed about next steps:

• Combine all data into a health profile
• Review the health profile & make comments
• Disseminate the health profile and findings for the community
• Discuss indicators to monitor in future and identify challenges

We also talked about Juneau Commission on Sustainability and their sustainability indicators. This might be good information for Juneau MAPP to review.
Their website - http://sustainablejuneau.blogspot.com

Next Juneau MAPP Community Health Status Assessment subcommittee meeting - 2-4pm on 9/12/11 at United Way of Southeast Alaska.

A draft of Juneau Health Profile will be shared with our group members 1-2 weeks before the meeting. Please be prepared to give comments regarding data/findings.