In the Headlines

November 22, 2017 - The Healthi Kids Coalition, a children's advocacy group at Common Ground Health, is asking City of Rochester officials to lower the speed limit on neighborhood streets from 30 mph to 25 mph.  Parents' biggest concern stopping them from allowing their children walk to school or playgrounds is the traffic and the current speed limit.

November 21, 2017 - In this Health Affairs blog, Common Ground Health Senior Consultant Howard Beckman and colleagues were lauded for their “pioneering” efforts to improve the quality of health care. The article cites an intervention in California that relied on conversations with clinicians and performance metrics to reduce overuse of five treatments for back pain. This approach mirrors the structure of our clinical work around high blood pressure and practice transformation that Beckman has helped guide.

November 20, 2017 - Nov. 20, 2017 - In this blog for National Physical Activity Society, Mike Bulger, healthy communities project coordinator at Common Ground Health, discusses the root causes of health inequity in low income neighborhoods and how engagement with residents is essential to developing effective solutions.

November 6, 2017 - Nov. 6, 2017 - “Rochester still leads the country as a beacon of high performance on cost and quality,” writes Ian Morrison in H&HN, a publication of the American Hospital Association. He credits several of our initiatives for that success, including the Community Technology Assessment Advisory Board, the 2020 Commission and our clinical innovation and high blood pressure projects. 

October 26, 2017 -   Dina Faticone, director of community health and engagement, along with Erick Stephens, parent engagement specialist and Jenn Beideman, policy and research associate discuss Healthi Kids on CityWise, Rochester’s government cable access channel. See the interview here.

October 8, 2017 - Common Ground Health employees Susan Hagen, director of communications, and Phyllis Jackson, community wellness project manager, were featured on the second half of 13Wham's Many Voices

October 5, 2017 - Common Ground Health has produced a white paper with analysis focusing on Rochester's five poorest zip codes.  Albert Blankley, director of research and analytics says that while more people are insured through the Affordable care Act, health outcomes haven't necessarily improved.

September 25, 2017 -  Wade Norwood, Common Ground Health chief strategy officer and pastor of Holy Jersulem Spiritual Church was the keynote speaker at the Health is a Spiritual Matter Conference, which was supported by our high blood pressure initiative. Read the Good News article here.

September 22, 2017 -  Fran Weisberg, president and CEO of United Way of Greater Rochester Inc., is slated to leave the nonprofit organization on Dec. 31.  Prior to joining United Way, Weisberg served as CEO of Common Ground Health, then called Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency.  Under her leadership, the agency convened the 2020 Commission, a committee of local community, business and health care leaders that investigated expansion planned by several local hospitals.

September 8, 2017 - In this story on the dangers of stage 2 hypertension, Dr. Matthew Devine, medical director of Accountable Health Partners and a Common Ground Health consultant, describes the agency's high blood pressure registry which shows that approximately 35 percent of adults in our Finger Lakes region have hypertension.

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September 6, 2017 - Sept. 6, 2017 – The Healthi Kids Collaborative and Parent Leadership Training Institute conducted a survey before primary day asking city candidates their positions on children’s health and well-being.  Visit playrocs.org to view their responses. More here.