Many viewed their participation in this research study ultimately as a form of social justice. They felt their participation in this study was giving back to future generations within the community. They saw our program in a way as Mayo giving back. It has been fulfilling and an honor to have the opportunity to grow personally and professionally through our work. We initially partnered with three churches in Rochester and have now doubled the number of churches in our expanded program to the Twin Cities in a relatively short time frame.
All churches and study participants have provided us with exceptional input which has resulted in the evolution of our program from face-to-face, in-person sessions to an innovative mobile health mHealth intervention. As a study team, we learned that the churches wanted a way to share this information with their family and friends.
We decided as a community and research team to develop a digital app. There's an app for that. The suggestion from the community to remix FAITH to harness mobile technology was something I never would have imagined. It shows the power of community partnerships and learning through listening. In its current form, FAITH is easily adaptable and can be easily distributed and tailored toward any community. It would be my dream for it to be a national initiative to protect heart health in underserved populations.
I am extremely grateful to lead this program as a junior staff faculty member because it has helped me to realize my potential. It has further inspired me to be a go-getter to take my research to the next level. Joy Balls-Barry , Dr. LaPrincess Brewer , Dr. Sharonne Hayes , Dr.
About Sharing Guidelines Activity. Make an appointment. Visit now. Explore now. Choose a degree. Get updates. Books and more Donate now. Toggle navigation. We were able to meet that need by bringing health care directly to them, using donor-funded supplies and volunteer manpower to make sure they got the medical treatment they needed in a place that was convenient for them.
My coworkers and I worked tirelessly to reach out to them and demonstrate that they could be known and still loved, and that they had infinite worth and potential that had yet to be realized. In my role as a temporary medical assistant, I was able to help the staff take extra time with patients to make sure their social needs were also addressed, including a staff-run food and clothing pantry in the attic for any patient who had nowhere else to turn.
As part of my Rural Community Health certificate program through CHM, I have been able to immerse myself more deeply in rural communities where access to health care is not an issue on paper but becomes a huge problem in practice. I want to have a personal connection with the patients I see every day, and I want to provide a place where they can be known and appreciated by an entire staff of community members who want the best for them.
All the same, I believe that if we're not challenged in our practice, our work can become stale and we can lose our skills as physicians. The variety is exciting and helps us enjoy learning from our patients; in doing so, we can also build strong relationships with them. Making "achieving health possible" is really the primary mission of CHCs.
Those of us who have taken this mission to heart have found a great purpose in our lives. Since we are driven by a mission that focuses on patients who are most in need, this creates a sense of unity and family. Finally, CHCs are centers of innovation that also recognize that every individual patient has a story. They are well positioned to give patients the tools they need to write new chapters of greater health and well-being and to make a difference in both the lives of patients and in the delivery of health care in our country.
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Luis Garcia, M. He focuses on caring for the Spanish-speaking community and spending time with his wife and two daughters. His hobbies include gardening and photography. The opinions and views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent or reflect the opinions and views of the American Academy of Family Physicians. This blog is not intended to provide medical, financial, or legal advice.
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Invalid email. Reach Out happened in many different settings and without a defined model. Thus, we could not address such questions as what sources of care, if any, patients might have used in the absence of the Reach Out project. However, direct observation of many flourishing projects supports a claim of real impact on the lives of many. A major expansion of Reach Out would not solve the growing problem of access to health care. One thousand organized programs, performing as the Reach Out projects have on average, would provide care to about 5 million uninsured and underserved persons, a small but important fraction of the large national problem.
Moreover, projects would recruit nearly , physicians, a very high proportion of practicing clinicians in the nation. Sensitizing this large cadre of physicians to the problems of underserved persons would draw respected voices that otherwise might be silent into the political debate over access.
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