Wooster Community Hospital Viola Startzman Free Clinic

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Wooster Community HospitalViola Startzman
Free Clinic
An example of Community Collaboration
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• WCH is a public not-for-profit institution
• Led a community health needs assessment
• in 1991
• the Healthcare 2000 Community
• Committee

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Goal was to identify unmet healthcare needs in
the community.
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At the conclusion of the community needs
assessment (1992), they identified the need for a
free clinic to address care for indigent patients.
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• What was the hospitals involvement?
• Board set up the Committee.
• Provided clerical support for their work.
• Provided meeting space in the hospital.
• Provided a 6,100 square foot building on
• its campus to establish a clinic - 1 per
• year lease for 25 years. Opened in 1995.

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• Other hospital assistance
• Volunteer physician recruitment.
• Hospital pharmacist dispensed medicines.
• Maintenance assistance on facility.
• Hospital helped identify a new site and our
  foundation
• donated 100,000 to Clinic to help them
  purchase new
• facility.
• Hospital donates 15,000 per year (10 year
  agreement)
• toward lab work, etc.
• Hospital Administration and Board members
  regularly
• sit on Clinic Board.

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• Other collaborative efforts
• Community health screening programs
• Clinical training assistance

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What was the impact on Hospital ER volume?
Approx 15,000 pts/year in 1992 Approx 30,000
pts/year in 2008 Hospital did a major
expansion of its ER in 2005, and is
currently planning another one.
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What About Wayne County?
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Whats The Need In Wayne County?
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What Do We Do At VSFC?
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Building Relationships Between WCH and VSFC
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Results of Most Recent CollaborationServices
Offered By WCH
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Free X-raysAt cost medicationsShared
technologyDirect discussionsHospital staff on
our boardHandles free Mammogram ProgramWCH
nurses volunteer at the clinicPhlebotomy
training
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Impact

• What Patients Say
• Fewer ER Visits
• Healthier Community

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The Future?