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Quick Facts About Kaweah Delta:
• 400 Open-Heart Procedures Each Year
• 4,200 Cath Procedures Each Year
• 4,000 Babies Delivered Each Year
• 60,000 Treated In Our Emergency Department Each Year
• 3,200 People Employeed by the District
• 400,000 People In Our Regional Population
Creating a healthy community takes dedication, compassion and strong partnerships.
Kaweah Delta's Community Outreach Department regularly develops new partnerships
to enhance the education, awareness and prevention activities it conducts.
Community Outreach currently has six areas of focus: Diabetes Outreach, The Bridge, USC Mobile Dental Clinic, Bi-National Health
Week and the Samaritan Center
Diabetes Outreach
The mission of Diabetes Outreach is to provide the necessary tools for the management of type 2 diabetes in order to minimize the severe complications and cost burdens for Tulare County residents who suffer from the disease. This mission is accomplished through a series of outreach activities including direct patient education (delivered one-on-one in a clinic setting or through home visits, or in group visits), facilitation of support groups and walking clubs, participation in screening and public awareness events, and partnering with agencies who share a similar focus.
The Bridge
ED Frequent Users Program
The Bridge is a collaborative effort between the South Valley's three hospitals
and many other community agencies designed to help frequent users of the emergency
department. The program assists patients who are uninsured or underinsured by
linking them with primary health care providers, continuous health insurance,
mental health or substance abuse counseling and treatment, and various other
social and medical services. Targeting adults who visit the emergency department
8 or more times in 12 months or 5 or more times in 6 months, the program aims
to improve the quality, outcomes and delivery or care, while working to minimize
the financial impact on hospitals resulting from inappropriate use of emergency
departments.
USC Mobile Dental Clinic
Each year, Kaweah Delta partners with students of USC's School of Dentistry to provide dental care to 100 or more children in a school within the District. A different school is chosen each year and the dental students are on hand for a week to provide underserved children with desperately needed dental care. To date, over 1,200 children have received services valued at more than $1,200,000.
Bi-national Health Week
Binational Health Week is an annual weeklong series of events that take place
in 26 California Counties and 15 states in Mexico. The goal of the eventful week
is to highlight immigrant health issues and elevate them as a policy priority
in both countries. Kaweah Delta partners with several agencies to provide health
education and screening events, an exchange program with physicians and health
professionals from Mexico, cultural competency training, and many other activities
that support migrant families.
Samaritan Center
The Samaritan Center is a free clinic operated by the Visalia Ecumenical Charities
that offers health care to uninsured Visalia residents. All services are provided
by volunteer medical staff. Kaweah Delta partners with the Center by providing
staff support in the form of an on-site administrative clerk and promotora, the
only non-volunteer staff. Kaweah Delta also provides vouchers to Samaritan Center
patients who can not afford ancillary services.
For more information about Community Outreach, please call (559) 624-2520.
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