STRATEGIC EFFORTS
Closing the Gap
These primary strategic initiatives were confirmed at the 9th State of Health of Chicago and Strategic Programmatic Board Retreat held in July 2024. The Institute of Medicine of Chicago defined it primary strategic initiatives resulting from its bi-annual convening with ten leaders from healthcare, public health and social agencies, its Board of Governors, and input from its members. These convenings serve as the 'report card' to evaluate conditions and determine initiatives for advancing health equity by reducing healthcare disparities for the Institute's next two years efforts.
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Maternal and Child Health
- Improve access to entry-level OB care
- Establish a Level II Ultrasound OB facility on the south side
- Address transportation issues for people seeking upper-level OB care
- Promote the importance and necessity of Implicit Bias Training - hospitals and providers, and educate patients
- Create an open network for OB care for Medicaid-managed care plans
- Address the issue of malpractice rates for OB-GYN physicians
Social Determinants of Health
- Promote awareness and support unsheltered (homelessness) as a public health issue as part of the critical infrastructure
- Ensure the system addresses all issues (medical and non-medical) in treating the unsheltered (homeless).
- Collaborate with agencies and groups to identify and integrate quality of living against unsheltered (homeless).
- Secure safe housing and security for the unsheltered
- Address the patient safety record of nursing homes and staffing ratios
Behavioral Health
- Identify the mental health challenges and improve options for car
- Describe the opioid crisis and its relationship to behavioral health
- Relate the human, economic and social impact to costs to communities
- Collaborate to improve access to care
Pathways to Lead - Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children and Communities
(Collaboration with The Lead Abatement Resource Center Foundation)
- Develop a Community Education Program - primary focus 'hot zip codes' with elevated lead levels, then communities and groups
- Provide assessment and solutions, as a collaborative partner. to parents, county Dept. of Health, educators, communities, and groups - focused on reducing elevated blood lead levels , supporting healthy cognitive development in children, and disease prevention
- Identify, manage and and create healthy wellbeing
- Act as a collaborative research partner in disease prevention, environmental health, and community health management
Check out programs on these topics in IOMC's video library here.
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Contact Deborah Hodges, MA-IDS, IOMC, at dhodges@iomc.org or send an email to sponsorship@iomc.org.
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