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PARTNERS | HEALTHY CITY | HOW HEALTHY | VISION | SUMMIT | PRIORITIES | FUNCTIONS | CITY OF FALL RIVER |
Participants
in a community-based partnership involving New Bedford and Fall River and led
by the City of
New Bedford Health Department, the Southeastern Health Initiative for
Transformation (SHIFT) Program, were invited by Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) officials
to attend a Learning Session on June 3, 2014 at the Double Tree Hotel in
Westboro, MA. The project is part of the Prevention and Wellness Trust Fund
(PWTF), a new, first-in-the-nation, $60 million grant opportunity
created by the MA Legislature to reduce
health-care costs related to tobacco use, hypertension, pediatric asthma,
and falls among the elderly. The SHIFT
Program will focus on two ZIP codes in New Bedford and Fall River with
some of the highest incidences of these conditions in the Commonwealth.
The partnership includes more than 25 different clinical, community and
municipal partners. Click
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(Top row) MA Department of Public Health staff members Jessia Aguilera-Steinert, Susan Svencer and Bonnie Andrews outline the day's events. (Middle row, left) New Bedford Public Health Director and Project Director Dr. Brenda Weis, standing, talks with team members from New Bedford and Fall River. (Middle row, right) Nancy Langhans, M.D. of the Greater New Bedford Community Health Center, center, talks with the group during a break. (Bottom row, left) Project consultant Charles Deustch of the Harvard School of Public Health and David Weed of Partners for a Healthier Community chat after one of the sessions. (Bottom row, center) Dr. Nancy Dluhy of the UMass-Dartmouth School of Nursing goes over her algorithm for falls prevention at one of the workshops. (Bottom row, right) Dr. Weis, center, talks with Khurram Mir of Southcoast Hospitals' IT Department during a break. |
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