Faith–Health Collaboration to Improve Community and Population Health Proceedings of a Workshop (2021) / Chapter Skim
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5 FaithHealth Collaboration on Public Health Priorities
5 FaithHealth Collaboration on Public Health Priorities
Pages 39-50
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Faith communities also have a history of and experience in providing the wraparound services that help people to restore and rebuild their lives, bringing hope and healing to their neighbors in need. Brandon Lackey, chief program officer at the Foundry Ministries in Alabama, described how the Foundry has created a collaborative continuum of care by working with clinical and other partners in the community.
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Heintz sought to provide a healthy, faith-based community environment where the cycles of poverty, addiction, and incarceration could be broken. The Foundry's mission centers around rescue, recovery, and reentry, and the Foundry is best known for its recovery programs, Lackey noted.
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His role was as a Life Life -- -- -- - SNAP Resume Birth E L Leadership Visit Church Application Certi�cate Pro�le Churches Membership A O R SS Card Drivers License Full-Time Employment Join A Small Group Serve or Lead Find A Mentor V N E I Checking Account Savings Account Budget Counseling Relationship Plan Tobacco Cessation I T T Life Life -- -- -- - L To-Do-List Bible Reading Plan Read 3 Books E-mail Address Phone Service Legal Aid L E I A Credit Financial Computer Voter Health Healthcare V R Repair Class Class Registration Insurance E N GED Trade School Vocational Transportation Graduation I I Certi�cation Rehab Plan T T FIGURE 5-1 The life plan, illustrating the four main areas that Foundry recovery program participants progress through, with examples of tasks to be completed in each area. SOURCES: Lackey presentation, March 22, 2018; www.foundryministries.com (accessed May 20, 2019)
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The Huffington Post worked with the Foundry on a story about the role that faith communities play in meeting mental health care needs when services are scarce.1 The local health department provides naloxone training for Foundry staff and others. He added that an agreement was just signed for The UAB School of Nursing to open a clinical site at the Changed Lives Christian Center.
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Faith-based providers should go to meet clinicians, and clinicians should take their team to a faith-based organization. THE CONGREGATIONAL HEALTH NETWORK: THE MEMPHIS MODEL Cutts and Sharp described CHN, a collaborative partnership among congregations, community organizations, and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in the Memphis, Tennessee, area.
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M artin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, and the city still struggles with significant racism, elitism, and disparity. For example, Cutts said that African American families earn about half the median income of white families; Black residents have twice the rate of cardiovascular disease than white residents; the incidence of breast cancer mortality in African American women in Memphis is the highest in the country among the 25 largest U.S.
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In 2005, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare CEO Gary Shorb hired Gary G underson to bring his background in interfaith health programs and the asset mapping process to Memphis. Gunderson then tapped the chaplain at Methodist South Hospital, Bobby Baker, to be director of faith and community partnerships.
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In 2010, charity care costs at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare led Cutts and colleagues to use geocoding technology to identify hotspots of health care utilization and then target CHN and hospital resources to these communities to improve health. Cutts noted the high rate of comorbidity in Memphis, with most people suffering from four or five different chronic conditions.
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The vision of this faith-centered navigation approach was to align local hospitals, congregations, community organizations, and associated resources to positively impact health disparities in high-need areas, such as 38109. Sharp pointed out that this initiative elevated trust for the church in the community as a health asset and resource.
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Together, they develop a plan to modify the patient's health behaviors and reduce health care utilization. The community navigator provides nonclinical support to help patients overcome the socioeconomic barriers to good personal health and chronic disease management.
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She added that the cost savings of these programs are important, but it is also important to recognize that these programs ameliorate suffering and improve a patient's overall quality of life. Christensen asked how any savings might be reinvested in faithbased providers, such as supporting the extended-stay recovery programs at the Foundry Ministries that were discussed by Lackey.
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To address this, someone from the congregation would be with the patient when the nurse or case manager was coming for the initial home health visit. This increased the rate of home care uptake significantly, she said.
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