May 2019

New digital library offers wealth of health data

Are you searching for graphs of smoking rates by income, prenatal care trends or other Finger Lakes health data?

Common Ground’s new digital library called Insights can help. Located on the Common Ground website, Insights allows users to easily download more than 200 data visualizations about regional health outcomes.

We encourage partners to use the free data resources in grants, presentations, reports and other publications. With one click, images can also be posted to social media or emailed to others. Learn more and explore the site here.

New procedures helped rural practice improve

By putting in place relatively simple new procedures, Tri-County Family Medicine Program, Inc., achieved a 5-percentage point decline in patients with uncontrolled diabetes.

This improvement is just one of many recent advances that earned the rural practice “exemplary” status from the New York State Department of Health—and an invitation to present at the National CMS Quality Conference in January 2019. Providers, patients and payers who attended the conference from around the country heard about clinical and performance milestones that have made the practice more effective, efficient, accessible and cost-effective.

Learn how Tri-County achieved such progress here.

Partner spotlight:
Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative

Its goals are lofty, and its work is complex. Its timetable is urgent, but measurement of results will take years.

Despite these obstacles, the Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative is seeing early successes by harnessing the power of collaboration.

“One of the largely unheralded secrets of RMAPI’s success is in uniting groups working together to help them collaborate towards a shared aim,” said Wade Norwood, CEO of Common Ground Health. “Aligning the work of community partners to reduce poverty is long overdue, and it is something that RMAPI has helped bring about.”

Upcoming events

Join Healthi Kids and the Summer Meals Partnership of Rochester at the Spring Into Summer: Summer Meals Fest 2019 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. June 8 at Frontier Field, Rochester. Learn about summer youth camps, activities and summer learning opportunities. Free. Rain or shine. Learn more.

More than 50 Rochester locations will be participating in the community-wide play day in PlayROCs Your Neighborhood 2019 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 13. Healthi Kids is recruiting volunteers to help support sites. To volunteer, contact Jenn at jenn.beideman@commongroundhealth.org or 585-224-3151. Learn more.

We're hiring

Common Ground Health is seeking a director of research, a communications specialist for Healthi Kids, a systems administrator and an administrative assistant. Learn more.

In the headlines

Journal of Clinical Hypertension A community-wide quality improvement initiative to improve hypertension control and reduce disparities

Population Health News Business leadership, collaboration and community interventions lead to steady progress on hypertension

Minority Reporter Children march so they can play in safe neighborhoods See also related coverage: Democrat and Chronicle Fox Rochester Rochester Beacon

Bronx Times Reporter WELL Campaign focuses attention on healthy school lunch

Finger Lakes Times Public input sought for developing health priorities

WXXI News Walk audit highlights active transportation

Connections Discussing Rochester's bike lane problem and the benefits of active transportation Related coverage: WXXI News

May 2019 Common Ground Newsletter