KATHY TRACE, M.H.A., B.S.N.
director, Community Health Programs and
Area Health Education Center
2016 M. Bridget Wagner, D.O., Humanitarian
Award, Ohio Osteopathic Association
STATEWIDE
RECOGNITION FOR OUR
COMMUNITY SERVICES
HERITAGE
COMMUNITY CLINIC
13,601
Clinical and screening encounters provided
through outreach programs across 15 counties
either at low cost or no cost to clients
7,260
Service learning hours provided by 364
students across our three campuses
Free vaccines provided,
more than threequarters for children
2015-2016 Free
Clinic of the Year, Ohio
Association of Free
Clinics and the Ohio
Department of Health
Miles traveled by our
mobile clinics to provide
services
NAVIGATING
NETWORKS
OF DIABETES
CARE
The Diabetes Family Navigator program, initiated as a trial in 2013, expanded in 2015
with funding from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. Through the
program, a full-time and a half-time family navigator meet with patients with diabetes
to address barriers preventing them from successful disease management. Over the past
year, 125 patients in southeast Ohio have been referred to the program, with 81 people
having received or in the process of receiving services.
One of our 23 COMCorps/Americorps members provides critical services as a school
patient navigator. This navigator provides the connection between the patient’s doctor,
the school and the families of children with or at-risk of diabetes. In 2015-2016, the
school patient navigator assisted 30 students across 14 schools and attended 32
physician visits.
Both programs are managed through our Diabetes Institute, with services provided
through our Community Health Programs and other community partners.
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ERADICATING
CHAGAS DISEASE
Our Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute, in
collaboration with Pontifical Catholic University
of Ecuador, carried out five research and service
projects in Loja Province, Ecuador, through their
Healthy Living Project. Students, faculty and
local partners constructed three houses with
anti-Chagas disease features and facilitated the
construction of a new drinking water system
supporting 35 families, this in collaboration with
Rotary Clubs in southeast Ohio and Ecuador.
1,668
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