Sound Partners - Quality of Care, Partnership Profiles

Circle of Care

admin — Wed, 24 May 2006 07:28:13 -0700

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In coping with chronic and terminal illness, good communication among a patient, family and health care team creates a patient-centered approach to healing. WHYY-TV and the Caring Community Coalition will present television stories for Circle of Care that use the arts to enhance communication and personalize the experience of health care. The Coalition will distribute programming to non-broadcast venues, and create accessible educational modules, a toolkit and resources directories on-line.

House Calls

admin — Wed, 24 May 2006 10:09:49 -0700

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KUYI-FM, Hopi-owned community radio, and the Institute for Health Professions Education have teamed up to expand the scope of the successful program, House Calls. It's a weekly, live call-in show providing answers for Native elders living in remote areas on the Hopi and Navajo reservations. The program engages Elders as cultural experts as well as recipients of health information, offering opportunities to learn, to teach and to enhance their later years. The project includes 4 live remote broadcasts and PSAs.

Breaking Myths About the Uninsured:The Working Uninsured Project

admin — Wed, 24 May 2006 10:09:49 -0700

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Through a 30-minute documentary and a companion outreach campaign, KQED-TV and the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium revealed who is really uninsured, the consequences of being uninsured, and connected San Francisco's most uninsured communities, Latino and Asian, with policymakers. Working Uninsured outreach included community events meant that engaged the public and policymakers.

Disability Matters

admin — Wed, 24 May 2006 08:28:12 -0700

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Disability Matters is a project of North Country Public Radio and the North Country Center for Independence. People with disabilities in rural communities face extraordinary challenges to lifelong wellness and well-being. NCPR and Centers for Independent Living collaborated to promote understanding between disabled and non-disabled people to influence public policy through radio commentaries, audio diaries and a year-long series of documentaries and features. Monthly community forums gathered people interested in shaping public policy. A website provides an archive of all programming

Health Without Borders

admin — Tue, 23 May 2006 14:51:50 -0700

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The El Paso/Juarez area makes up one of the largest and poorest border communities in the world. The Hispanic Health Disparities Center and KTEP-FM worked to help ordinary people access medical care in medically underserved communities through Health Without Borders. The project included a 12-part documentary series and 12 call-in programs as well as outreach to health care providers, consumers and policymakers that included translating vital on-line information into Spanish and making it applicable to the El Paso region.

Extreme Safety!

admin — Tue, 23 May 2006 14:31:01 -0700

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KZMU's second Sound Partners project, Extreme Safety!, highlighted Moab's unique health care network in an effort to make safety a top priority for residents and visitors alike. When 1,000,000 adventurers visit a community of 8000 each year, accidents happen. Resources are stressed. Partner Sageland Media produced two documentaries about local emergency agencies and the Four Corners Community Behavioral Health, Inc. created a safety campaign at trailheads and for distribution to local businesses. Working with the Voices of Youth teen radio project, KZMU produced eight one-hour

Youth in Radio for Health Campaign

Eve — Fri, 12 May 2006 11:07:01 -0700

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KTEP-FM and the Institute for Community Border Health Education formed a campus-community partnership to provide practical opportunities for youth to use radio programming as a community service for health education. The partners created “Youth Health Leader Radio Clubs” in each of the four communities to provide for the mentoring, training and support of high school age youth in the development of radio programming and health education skills. Weekly half-hour call-in programs called Health Without Borders, encouraged residents to talk with health

Immigrant Health Care Access in the Twin Cities

admin — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:09:49 -0800

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KFAI-FM in Minneapolis, MN, and its partner, Neighborhood Health Care Network, produced a series of eight call-in and discussion programs on the affects of welfare reform on health care for non-English speaking communities in the Twin Cities.

Project: Health

admin — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:09:49 -0800

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New Hampshire Public Radio and the Foundation for Healthy Communities launched Project: Health in January 2003. The project enhanced New Hampshire residents' understanding of health issues through on-air programming, the Internet, and community forums about health care services, disease treatment and prevention efforts, the high costs of health care and the shortage of health care providers.

Access to Health Care in the Yakima Valley (II)

admin — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:09:49 -0800

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Learn how KDNA-FM in Granger, Washington, Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic and Providence Health System of Central Washington produced a weekly one-hour program on issues pertinent to Latinos, with emphasis on health-care accessibility.