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    Community Vision Council: Health and Caring for All

    GOAL:
    To promote health and wellness through education and prevention initiatives.

    PRIORITIES:
    • Reduce and prevent tobacco use because of the tremendous health cost to individuals and the community.
    • Reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

    RESULTS:
    Tobacco Reduction Initiative. The Cuyahoga County Comprehensive Partnership for Tobacco Reduction concluded its five years of CVC funding in 2007. It will continue to be funded by the Ohio Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation in 2008. During the CVC funding period, the Partnership joined with 30 government and nonprofit health and human services organizations to prevent and reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke. This initiative has achieved the following successes:
    • 16,547 fourth to sixth-grade students in seven Cuyahoga County school districts received tobacco prevention programming.
    • 1,794 adults attended smoking cessation classes.
    • 70 percent of those who completed the classes were still smoke-free thirty days after the end of the program.
    • In 2007, four companies implemented 100 percent Tobacco-Free Campus Worksite policies.

    The Comprehensive Clinical Data-Sharing Network Initiative Work Group commissioned a research study that found that a clinical data-sharing network would save the three core hospital systems, participating community health centers and the payers who fund care for the targeted com-munity health center population more than $3 million per year by eliminating unnecessary medical visits and duplicate tests. The Center for Health Affairs was identified as the initiative's lead agency.

    NEXT STEPS:
    The Clinical Data-Sharing Network Initiative Work Group will endeavor to begin implementation of the electronic medical records network among the participating hospital systems and community health centers in 2008.
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