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Annual Report (1995): Connections Lehigh Valley Health Network Lehigh Valley Health Network LVHN Scholarly Works LVHN Annual & Statistical Reports 1995 Annual Report (1995): Connections Lehigh Valley Health Network Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlyworks.lvhn.org/reports Recommended Citation Lehigh Valley Health Network, "Annual Report (1995): Connections" (1995). LVHN Annual & Statistical Reports. https://scholarlyworks.lvhn.org/reports/32 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by LVHN Scholarly Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in LVHN Annual & Statistical Reports by an authorized administrator of LVHN Scholarly Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL ••• HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY 1200 S. CEDAR CREST BLVD. POST OFFICE BOX 689 ALLENTOWN, PA. 18105 A FFORDABL.E HEAL. TH INSURANCE OPTIONS ••• EMPL.OYEE WEL.L.NESS PROGRAMS ••• EARL.Y PRENATAL. CARE FOR L.OW- INCOME WOMEN ••• INTERVENTION TO KEEP TEENS FROM SMOKING ••• THROUGHOUT THE LEHIGH V AL.L.EY, CONNECTIONS ARE BEING FORGED - BETWEEN LEHIGH VAL.L.EY HOSPITAL. AND HEAL. TH NETWORK AND ITS COMMUNITY, EMPL.OYEES, PHYSICIANS AND AREA EMPL.OYERS. As WE EMBRACE A NEW HEAL.TH CARE MODEL., FOCUSING INCREASINGL.Y ON PREVENTION AND HEAL.TH PROMOTION, THERE IS RECOGNITION THAT EVERY INDIVIDUAL., 1 EMPL.OYER, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AND HEAL. TH CARE PROVIDER MUST BE PART OF THE PROCESS. EACH MUST WORK, ONE WITH THE OTHER, TO REDUCE HEAL. TH CARE EXPENDITURES, UTIL.IZE COMMUNITY- BASED RESOURCES, ENHANCE KNOWL.EDGE AND IMPROVE PHYSICAL., EMOTIONAL. AND SPIRITUAL. WEL.L.- BEING. THROUGH SUCH PARTNERSHIPS, QUAL.ITY OF L.IFE WIL.L. BE IMPROVED AND OPTIMAL. HEAL. TH STATUS ACHIEVED. THE LEHIGH VAL.L.EY WIL.L. BE A HEAL. THIER PL.ACE TO L.IVE, WORK, GO TO SCHOOL., RAISE A FAMIL.Y AND GROW OL.D• •-'- . The health care needs of our community continue to change. From the increasing need for outpatient and preventive health services to demands for streamlined costs in a managed care environment, changing community needs have meant that health care providers must deliver care in new ways. Central to delivering care in new ways is the need to expand our resources beyond our walls to enhance not just the health, but the overall quality of life in our community. • This point was illustrated at a recent forum of national health care leaders who asked people all over the country to define health care. Participants did not mention medicine or medical technology in their definitions. What they did mention were issues like teen pregnancy rates, homelessness and family life. The results of this forum sent a clear message that health care is increasingly tied to the social conditions of the communities we serve, and in order to serve the needs of these communities, health care providers must become more involved in social issues. • In 1995, Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network continued to make significant progress in leading this change in health care and extending our servicesbeyond our walls and into our community. We broadened our already extensive community outreach programs and recently established a department of community health and health studies to focus our effort on measurably improving the health of our community. • We also continued to improve how we provide care within our walls. We a teaching hospital and adopting new collaborative are redesigning processes to create patient-centered tools such as teleconferencing; and with our care - reducing the time our care providers spend community by reaching out to identify and serve a on administrative duties, and increasing the time broad spectrum of needs. .• As the definition of they spend with patients. This process, which has health care and the needs of our community change, relied on the input of physicians, employees and our ability to provide effective care is increasingly patients, includes changing our facilities and finding linked with every part of our society, from business new ways to provide the care our community and government to social service agencies, schools, needs. As a result, our 17th & Chew site is emerging clergy and each individual citizen. We are also as an ambulatory and preventive care hub for our linked with other health care providers, as illustrated M community, and our Cedar Crest & 1-78 site by our integrated delivery system, PennCAREs • continues to develop as a leading acute care center It is through these connections that Lehigh Valley 3 and regional resource. • In addition, we've Hospital and Health Network is able to lead the continued to take steps to remain in the forefront change in health care. • These connections are of medical advances as a leading teaching hospital, the theme of this year's annual report, and we invite strengthening our affiliation with Penn State you to read the pages that follow. We invite you to University's Hershey Medical Center where we have ask questions, to get involved with our health care over 300 physicians on the faculty. This affiliation organization, and ensure that our direction reflects helps create a vibrant atmosphere of constant your needs. • We also thank you, as well as our learning, and gives us a skilled, professional staff physicians and employees, for the support that has with access to leading-edge technologies and new made our success possible. We will continue to ideas.• Underlying all of our accomplishments look to the future, and work diligently to meet the in 1995 are the connections we have created. We health care needs of today and tomorrow. have connected with business by looking for ways to contain costs and improve the health of their employees; with our employees by asking for and acting on their input on how best to care for our patients; with physicians by strengthening our role as because Jorge was afraid to handle a baby. Now he does everything for Kasserine and takes care of her when I'm working.- "There were so many times that I would get upset or frightened or worried. My outreach worker was always so supportive. She helped us through all the paperwork glitches and kept me focused. She taught me how important it was to eat well and take care of myself And look forward to the future. - Now that Kasserine is born, someone still comes every week to check on 5 her. There have been tough times, of course, but I wouldn't change a thing. Next semester, I'm planning to start college, and someday I hope to work in the medical field. I'd like to make a difference like the people from the Perinatal Partnership have made a difference in my life.- They have helped our family so much. And they continue to reach out. They always tell me to call ifI need anything and I know they mean it. They care about Kasserine and Jorge and me. They really care about what happens to us." CITIES IN SCHOOL: TURNING KIDS AROUND Every year, nearly 600,000 kids nationwide drop COALITION FOR A SMOKE-FREE VALLEY: out of school. In the Lehigh Valley,the Allentown REVERSING THE STATISTICS School District and Lehigh Valley Health Network Tobacco use results in $65 million in health care are working to keep at-risk students in school expenditures each year. In the Lehigh Valley,28 through participation in the national Cities in percent of ninth graders report that they are regular School program. In 1994, 50 high school students smokers; most say they started around age 12. By participated in the initiative, by attending classes at working with schools, community agencies and Lehigh Valley Hospital and spending one day a health providers, Lehigh Valley Hospital- as a week shadowing a profes- member and primary funder of the Coalition for a sional mentor. The result: Smoke-Free Valley - is striving to change the way almost 90 percent of the young people view tobacco. The effort also extends students improved in math to the business community. The coalition has and reading, and atten- successfully helped secure smoke-free policies in dance increased 71 percent. many public places including 450 local businesses. SPIRIT OF WOMEN: FUNCTIONAL PLAN: TRANSFORMING TODA Y'S FOSTERING COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FACILITIES 7 ACTIVISM In meeting changing health care needs, Lehigh In 1995, more than 600 Valley Hospital and Health Network is redesigning people attended the Spirit physical facilities and work processes. Community of Women conference, groups and neighbors are helping guide the sponsored by Lehigh Valley process. The new functional plan will enable the Hospital and Health hospital to continue serving the region, creating Network and a coalition of new efficiencies and improving patient care. Acute area organizations, colleges, inpatient care will be consolidated at the Cedar community service agencies and businesses. While Crest site. Future plans there include an addition the conference was designed to explore women's for inpatient maternity, gynecology, neonatology, changing family,work and health roles in the 1990s, psychiatry services and a 21st century approach to it has evolved into something bigger. An offshoot diagnostic and testing services. The 17th Street of the conference is a breast cancer early detection site will become a hub for outpatient, diagnostic campaign in conn~cti()r: with the Lehigh Valley and primary care services, a focus of the health Junior League. Reportedly one in eight women will care system of the future. suffer from breast cancer. Early detection offers the best chance for survival. Lehigh Valley Hospitals David Zimmerman, of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, helps an area teen say no to cigarettes. FAMILY RESIDENCY: A LESSON IN PRIMARY CARE In an effort to provide primary care to patients at the Lehigh ValleyFamily Health Center in proximity to downtown Allentown, as well as in the hospital and privatephysician offices, Lehigh Valley Hospital has developed a three-year family practice residency THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER: program.
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