Kishwaukee Community Hospital

Kishwaukee Hospital (kh), located in dekalb, Illinois, serves the residents of dekalb county and the surrounding areas by offering a number of programs and services for Community benefit, including charity care.kishwaukee Hospital believes that in order to be a true Community Hospital, we must be a resource for preventative and curative health information, education and services and that we must support the efforts of others who also are doing work for the Community good. Doing so helps build trust, respect and loyalty for our Hospital and strengthens our role as a partner in improving the health our citizens and the quality of life in the communities we serve.the Community benefit objectives of Kishwaukee Hospital include programs to improve access to health services by reducing geographic, financial, language, and cultural barriers improve and enhance public health, advance general health knowledge, and relieve the government burden of providing health services for the Community, and for the uninsured and underinsured. Community health needs are identified and addressed through Community outreach programs, by adding new services and by expanding others. Needs also are met through operational programs such as charity care, subsidized services and providing cash and in-kind donations to support organizations that also strive to meet Community health and quality of life needs. The Hospital identifies Community health needs in several ways. *american diabetes association*american medical association*american university survey*centers for disease control and prevention*community needs index*illinois department of employment security*illinois department of public health*illinois department of public health annual Hospital questionnaire*illinois department of public health, behavioral risk factors survey*illinois department of public health, Illinois county cancer statistics review incidence*illinois department of public health: birth defects and other adverse pregnancy outcomes in Illinois, 2004-2008*illinois Hospital association*illinois Hospital association, comp data*illinois public health Community map*national cancer institute*national cancer for health statistics*national heart lung and blood institute*northern Illinois university enrollment data*pioneering healthier communities*state of Illinois data by zip code*us census bureau 2010 data*internal review of outpatient and inpatient trends, especially emergency department usage*input from other Community providers. This includes providing Hospital leaders to serve on boards and committees that directly or indirectly impact the Community health or help the Hospital connect to underserved or vulnerable populations.using all these resources, the Hospital focused on the following Community health needs in fiscal year 2015.expand kish physician group (kpg) primary care providers in identified service areas.goal: provide greater access to care in the communities we serve, while utilizing the latest technology, equipment and education to provide the highest level of care.- during the course of the fiscal year, kish physician group expanded services to two additional locations including aurora and dekalb and added thirty new providers. The addition of providers includes the acquisition of the dekalb clinic providers which took place on march 2, 2015. Throughout the fiscal year there was approximately a 70% increase in the number of patient visits.define and identify opportunities for care coordination, disease management, chronic care programs, group medical visits and other innovative healthcare delivery options.goal: provide patient-centered approach to health care delivery.- during the past year much work has taken place to define and identify opportunities for care coordination, as kish health system employees work to develop a model which places the focus on the patient. Additionally, the teams working on this action item are focused on reducing readmissions for patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd), congestive heart failure (chf) and other respiratory disease. As the team develops the model, it is anticipated that disease and chronic care management programs and group medical visits will be components of the overall plan to address the health issues identified.- regional nurse care coordinator provided care for 129 unique individuals enrolled in ace through Illinois partnership for health- complex case management of 75 referred non-ace patients through kishhealth system entities- care coordination partnership with cardiac rehab to more effectively manage chronic chf patients in the Community- utilization of data to identify patients for disease management programs such as diabetes educationsupport the dekalb county mental health board work on the mental health Community needs assessment.goal: participate in the Community mental health needs assessment for dekalb county.- the dekalb county mental health board identified an area of need around training for partner agencies on issues focused on or around mental health issues. Kishhealth system, behavioral health services, is working with the board on a series of workshops and training to be offered. There was one event held titled mental health and the law and there were 40 participants in attendance.facilitate communication between health care organizations through the use of electronic medical record (emr) technology.goal: implement technology to foster shared information among emr users.- work toward this objective was achieved by the deployment of the medicity platform which will allow the sharing of information between emr systems. Kishhealth system is connected to several physician offices and we are rapidly expanding this reach. Additionally, kishhealth system beginning the testing of the meditech direct functionality that allows us to send information to providers that comply with federal communication and encryption standards on their emr solutions. This will allow additional connections that currently do not exist. Kishhealth system evaluates the connectivity to regional or state level health information exchanges (hies) that will allows communication to occur across regional or state providers of care. Expand coordinated approach to child health (catch) in dekalb county school age children.goal: promote policy a change in schools to implement catch curriculum or afterschool programs.- during this last year, catch curriculum was offered to dekalb, sycamore and genoa school districts with 844classroom visits took place and 22,374 students received education on healthy eating, increasing physical activity and decreasing screen time. - genoa park district also implemented catch in its after school program and summer program, with an estimated 16 sessions and 800 students receiving this program.- Kishwaukee family ymca summer program added catch as a component of the program, and in attendance at the six sessions were 3,200 children.- there are roughly 90 niu students that serve as catch instructors which help to make this program sustainable in the community.identify and develop programs for cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and diabetes considered to be high risk for readmission.goal: reduce readmissions for cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and diabetes through a coordinated approach.- during the past year work has taken place on this action item focusing on program development for cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and diabetes, as it relates to high risk for readmission. - this past year a pilot program on congestive heart failure was implemented with 56 participantssupport live healthy dekalb county (formerly pioneering healthier communities) in its policy and systems changes.goal: support the work of live healthy dekalb county through its policy and environmental changes to motivate people to eat healthy and be physically active every day.- on-going support to live healthy dekalb county is provided through in-kind staff time, as well as financial support. - environmental changes include an increase in Community gardens from 200 - 230 to support barb food mart (school based food pantry) and healthier food choices in schools.- implemented steps to achieve bike friendly designation assessment of criteria to gather needed resources to begin the work- enhanced connectivity of bike trail on bethany road by adding a 300 foot addition- extra free food drop added for county pantries facilitated by the food security councilprovide free or low cost diabetes education classes to identified populations.goal: empower people to appropriately self-manage diabetes.- throughout the year, diabetes education classes are offered at reduced price to individuals and there were 75 individuals that participated in this valuable programming.- world diabetes day event was held in november with over 150 participants.provide free or reduced cost cancer screenings for targeted populat