The Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative Mayor-President Melvin L. “Kip” Holden Annual Report 2014 healthybr.com The Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative Annual Report 2014 Annual Report 2014 The Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative Mission Table of Contents To identify and coordinate efforts aimed at healthy living and an active lifestyle into a unifying Message from the Mayor-President . 1 commitment to better health. Message from Board Chair . 2 Introduction Board of Directors . 3 Assessing community health needs and developing the appropriate plans to address these needs are Healthy BR Partner Organizations . 6 essential to improving and sustaining the health of our community. To do so, we must understand our Obesity . 7 community, the needs identified, and the process for moving forward to improve the health of Baton Rouge. The concept of a Community Health Needs Assessment is reinforced by the Patient Protection Family Fit Day . 9 and Affordable Care Act, which contains requirements for tax-exempt hospitals to conduct community health needs assessments and to adopt implementation strategies to meet the health needs identified 5210+10 . 10 through the assessments. We are proud to be the first community to follow a unified Community Health Healthy Eating . 11 Needs Assessment with a unified Implementation Plan. Red Stick Mobile Farmers Market . 11 Through the Community Health Needs Assessment, developed by all area hospitals and published in 2012 (and updated in 2015), we have identified the specific areas of Baton Rouge that have the greatest Food Access Policy Commission . 12 health needs and are able to target these areas with programming and interventions. Healthy Corner Store Initiative . 13 The Community Health Needs Assessment also identified 10 health issues that are our greatest challenges. From those 10, partner organizations within the Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative prioritized 4: Farm to School Program . 13 Obesity, HIV/STIs, Mental and Behavioral Health, and Overuse of Emergency Departments. Cooking Matters Classes . 14 In this annual report, you will see the progress and programs that the over 70 partner organizations of the Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative have collaborated to make possible in Baton Rouge. While there is Eat Healthy BR Restaurant Program . 14 still much work to be done, the Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative has built an impressive infrastructure of Summer Food Service Program . 14 collaboration that is capable of making population health change. Active Living . 15 Project Fit America . 15 It’s Your Life . 15 HIV/STIs . 17 Community HIV Summit . 19 Testing and Treatment . 19 Education and Stigma Reduction . 19 Mental and Behavioral Health . 21 Human Services Transportation . 22 The Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative Annual Report 2014 Annual Report 2014 The Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative Table of Contents Message from the Mayor-President Overuse of Emergency Departments . 23 Since my first day as Mayor-President, I have been committed to the health and wellness of Baton Rouge. As a former chairman of the NLC Council on Affordable Care Act . 24 Youth, Education and Families and a distinguished member of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign, it is a priority of the City of Baton Rouge to Telemedicine . 24 address obesity in our community. Seeing how afflictions like diabetes and Other Projects . 25 cancer have affected my family, I remain determined to help the people of Baton Rouge develop healthier lifestyles. I truly believe that to be the Next Tobacco-Free Campaign . 25 Great City, Baton Rouge has to be a Healthy City. The City Key . 25 In light of this belief, the Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative (MHCI) was formed in 2008, with a mission to identify and coordinate efforts aimed at healthier eating and more active lifestyles across the City- References . 26 Parish. Given the abundance of local health and wellness resources available, the MHCI is able to combine resources, organizations, and professionals in order to increase positive impact throughout our community. This organization has since become a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with over 70 health organizations under its umbrella, working together to increase the health of Baton Rouge citizens. The innovative MHCI places Baton Rouge squarely on the cutting edge of population health management. The collaborative relationships between the hospitals, nonprofit organizations, for-profit businesses, schools and governmental institutions that the MHCI cultivates are truly unique and serve as a best practice model for cities that aspire to bring stake holders in community health together. Only with this kind of collaborative spirit can our city, state, and nation combat the health challenges that are projected to keep our children’s life expectancy lower than those of their parents and grandparents. We know that with a holistic approach to health, we can join forces to increase food access, healthy eating habits, exercise opportunities, and education for children and adults, and stop the rise in obesity and related illnesses that are threatening our children’s future. Thank you for your support of the Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative. I sincerely hope that you will consider joining our efforts to make Baton Rouge a healthier city for all of its citizens. Sincerely, Mayor-President Melvin L. “Kip” Holden 1 The Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative Annual Report 2014 Annual Report 2014 The Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative Message from Board Chair Board of Directors “Never underestimate the ability of a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens to change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that has ever made Coletta Barrett, RN, FACHE sustainable change”. paraphrased from Social Anthropologist Margaret Vice President of Mission Meade. The Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative is a living example of Dr. Meade’s Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center theory in action. With the support of Mayor Kip Holden, the legitimacy of the MHCI Board of Directors’ strategic direction, the commitment of the more Chair of the Board than 70 community organizations and groups, and Baton Rouge’s spirit of Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative volunteerism—Healthy BR is a social movement for making sustainable change in the greater Baton Rouge Community. By embracing the rich diversity of our community and asking partners to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate efforts, we Mayor-President will harness the collective efforts of the community at large and focus on specific achievable goals and Melvin “Kip” Holden move our community forward to health. Coletta C. Barrett, RN, FACHE Dr. William Cefalu Vice President, Mission Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Executive Director Pennington Biomedical Research Center Terri Fontenot, FACHE CEO Woman’s Hospital Darrin Goss President and CEO Capital Area United Way 2 3 The Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative Annual Report 2014 Annual Report 2014 The Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative Board of Directors Board of Directors Dr. Jimmy Guidry John Spain Medical Director Executive Vice President Louisiana Department of Baton Rouge Area Foundation Health and Hospitals Adam Knapp Dr. Bernard Taylor President Superintendent Baton Rouge Area Chamber East Baton Rouge Parish School System Secretary-Treasurer Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative Caroline McKnight Dionne Viator Superintendent Executive VP BREC Baton Rouge General Hospital Eric McMillen Scott Wester CEO CEO Ochsner Baton Rouge Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Mike Reitz CEO Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana 4 5 The Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative Annual Report 2014 Healthy BR Partner Organizations American Cancer Society Health Centers in Schools American Heart Association Healthy Lives AmeriHealth Caritas HIV/ AIDS Alliance for Region Two (HAART) Arthritis Association of Louisiana Hurt, Help, Heal Hope, IV Home Retreat Center Baton Rouge Advocates for Safe Streets Interfaith Federation Baton Rouge Aids Society Jump Start Your Heart Baton Rouge Area Foundation Knock Knock Children’s Museum Baton Rouge Bike Club LAHPERD Baton Rouge Children’s Health Project Lake After Hours Baton Rouge Community College Lane Regional Medical Center Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center Louisiana Business Group on Health Obesity Baton Rouge Dietetic Association Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living Baton Rouge General Medical Center Louisiana Center for Health Equity Berean Wellness Louisiana Healthcare Quality Forum Better BR Louisiana Hospital Association Big River Economic & Louisiana Public Health Institute Agricultural Development Association Louisiana Rehabilitation Services Bike BR LSU Ag Center Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana LSU Community-University Partnership BREC LSU Health Sciences Capitol Area Human Services District March of Dimes Capitol Area United Way Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Capitol City Family Health Center National Pharmacy Infusion Cardiovascular Institute of the South Ochsner Health System Center for Planning Excellence Office of Public Health—Region II City of Baton Rouge—Parish of East Baton Rouge Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center City-Parish Ryan White Program Pennington Biomedical Research Center City-Parish HeadStart RocketKidz Foundation Delta Service Corps Slow Food Baton Rouge Department of Health and Hospitals Southern University Ag Center Division of Human Development and Services, Spectrum City of Baton Rouge—Parish of East Baton Rouge Sunshine Foundation East Baton Rouge Parish Redevelopment Authority Together Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge Parish