Community Health Action Plan
For this assignment, you will assume your health care organization provides charitable care for a rural community, which is at a significant distance from the main health care facility. You will look at the Community Health Action Plan assignment that was developed in Unit 8 and the information below regarding a rural community to describe the types of changes that would need to be made to your Unit 9 assignment plan to meet the needs of this rural community. In addition, you will describe any missing demographics or information that would be helpful to know as you prepare for this charitable care health mission. You will be required to support the changes you make with evidence-based resources.
Description – Town: Landville.
•Population: 1034.
•Median household income: 34, 020 dollars.
•Poverty level: 30 percent live in poverty.
•English speaking: 87 percent.
•Spanish speaking: 8 percent.
•Ages: ◦Under 18: 20 percent.
◦Over 65: 19 percent.
For this assignment, be sure to:
•Describe any real or potential patient barriers to health and wellness.
•Describe any missing information or gap in information to make an informed health assessment. ◦What is missing? Why would this missing information help inform the health assessment?
•Identify communication strategies needed to promote effective teamwork and effective interdisciplinary collaboration that will address patient needs.
•Identify possible addendums or changes with current health action plan from the Unit 7 assignment that would have to be considered with this new community. ◦Make sure to incorporate cultural considerations into chosen outreach, clinical, and communication technique and strategies.
Describes any real or potential patient barriers to health and wellness, and describes the consequences if barriers are not addressed.
Describes gap in information given to make informed health assessment, and identifies reliable and effective ways to gather missing information.
Identifies strategies needed to promote effective teamwork and effective interdisciplinary collaboration to address patient needs, and identifies ways the organization can support and reinforce the strategies.
Incorporates cultural considerations into the chosen outreach, clinical, and communication techniques and strategies, and identifies criteria that could be used to measure the success of cultural considerations.
