Nebraskans utilize preventive health screenings and experience improved coordinated health services.
Why Is This Important?
The Community Health Hub is a framework where public health resources are passed down to the community throughout collaborative teams and activities in a structured manner that improves access to high-quality preventive screening services, enhances community linkages, and strengthens data collection and utilization.
Story Behind the Curve
Nebraska SHIP Priorities 1 & 2: Nebraskans will have reduced heart disease, stroke and cancer mortality, morbidity and associated risk factors.
For this SHIP goal, several activities were planned for implementation:
- Develop and evaluate community health hubs.
- Develop standard guidance templates for community health hubs.
- Disseminate best practices for community health hubs.
- Implement a statewide education campaign to promote health screenings at community health hubs.
How We Impact
In 2012 the DHHS Division of Public Health, Office of Women's and Men's Health initiated a Community Health Hub pilot project in six regions across the state. This SHIP objective provides for the support the the Health Hub framework designed to provide coordinated health services and screenings.
Strategy
A map of the Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Community Health Hubs among local health department districts.
This scorecard is created to track performance, therefore the demonstration of data (numerical and narrative) describes what we define as success. In some instances, a trend may be moving in the wrong direction, but still may be within our 'Target for Success' area. The use of Color Arrows (and sometimes also Color Bands) help to define the Target for Success and Current Progress.
Green, Black and Red color arrows are used to reflect our 'Current Progress' status.
- GREEN Arrow = We're getting better!
- BLACK Arrow = We're maintaining our position.
- RED Arrow = We're going in the wrong direction.
Green, Yellow or Red color bands are used to reflect our 'Target for Success' zones.
- GREEN Color Band = We've reached our Target for Success!
- YELLOW Color Band = We're making progress, but not quite there yet.
- RED Color Band = We're below our Target for Success.
Data is described with the Time Period, Actual Value, Target Value, Current Trend and Baseline Change %. These mean:
- Time Period - The most current time period for which the data were available.
- Actual Value - The actual level of achievement, the most current data point for the indicator, also shown in a Color Band to reflect if that value is or is not within our Target for Success zone.
- Target Value - The desired level of achievement for the data indicator.
- Current Trend - The direction of progress is shown by a Color Arrow to reflect our Current Progress status, and also noting for how many data points the direction been occurring.
- Baseline Change % - The percentage of change between the baseline data point and the current data point (actual value); also shown with a Color Arrow to describe Current Progress status.
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