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Ideas into Action

To help North Dakota communities address the top health needs identified through their Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), models and examples are listed on this page as potential resources. Not all ideas listed will apply or be practical for all communities; rather it is a list of ideas that could be modified or tailored to fit your needs, or serve as a springboard for new ideas.

These ideas are not evidence-based best practices. Rather, they serve as additional qualitative data and can act as conversation starters to help think of activities that may have worked in other rural settings in North Dakota. For more information on evidence-based practices, check out County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 'What Works For Health.' It may be helpful to look at those and then cross-reference to these ideas for what is feasible in a rural context.

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Access to Needed Equipment/Facility Update

Acquire new or updated equipment (i.e. CT scanner)
Publicize when new equipment has been purchased to explain how it is beneficial to community
Update website to include information about new equipment and technology acquisitions

Aging Population Services

Promote public transportation services
Offer mobile screening services so seniors don't have to leave their home
Offer Meals on Wheels
Great Plains Senior Services Collaborative provides the following services in North Dakota: Aging Life Care Management that connects participants with an advisor to navigate later life care. Services include care coordination, crisis management, patient advocacy, and transitional care; Remote Caregiver uses technology to support senior caregivers as they take care of older loved ones; and Volunteer Companions provide social engagement and help with household chores

Attracting & Retaining Young Families

Develop hospital sponsored day care opportunities for staff and community members
Develop and offer health and wellness programs
Collaborate with other community organizations such as the school to offer health education programs and exercise equipment.
Promote Bismarck-Mandan Young Professionals Network
Market and promote the rural community culture – feeling of safety (low crime), strong education systems, active faith community, strong and vital health sector, lower cost of living
Contact North Dakota Department of Commerce for economic development ideas
Create leadership opportunities for community members in their 20’s and 30’s – hospital board, community health task force, membership and chairing a committee
Develop a community job site wellness program – contact North Dakota Department of Health and BCBSND
Fund (with other community organizations) a health career scholarship program with an obligation to return to the community for service for a specified period of time.
Consider Rural Health Outreach Grants, Network Development Grants, and Network Planning grants to address a number of ideas for both the community but also a regional network to address common issues.

Bullying

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Cancer

Form cancer support groups for patients and caregivers
Promote online support groups though Cancers Survivors Network sponsored by American Cancer Society
Promote skin cancer awareness at local events
Form a Knitting for Charity group to knit hats and blankets for chemotherapy patients

Chronic Disease Management

Provide space and equipment for fitness center
Offer mobile diabetic screenings in community
Organize a community event related to physical activity and/or nutrition, such as walk/run-a-thon, healthy food potluck, etc.
Organize speaker for community Senior Group to raise awareness of diabetes, serve a healthy meal, and distribute healthy eating recipes
Institute a wellness page on hospital website
Implement comprehensive, sustainable wellness and disease management program based on improving baseline health numbers (e.g., weight, BMI, body composition, cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure) through evidence-based practices, shared medical appointments, and a health coach
Implement health coach program in which coaches work with patients on self-management skills, nutrition counseling, etc. during the four-week period following hospital or clinic discharge; through either telemedicine or home visits

Concerns of Low Customer Service & Quality of Care

Provide comment box in waiting room to allow for anonymous customer feedback
Ensure a clean and quiet waiting room with updated magazines
Hold employee trainings on confidentiality

Cost and Adequacy of Health Insurance

Support community awareness of Medicaid Expansion
Promote open enrollment of Marketplace
Promote North Dakota Department of Human Services website for financial assistance and healthcare coverage application
Launch marketing campaign to increase access and awareness of Marketplace and other options such as sponsoring education, articles in the paper, interviews on radio

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Elevated Level of Uninsured Adults

Hire financial service counselor who can educate patients about insurance policies
Hire a Medicaid Expansion Navigator
Post requirements of Affordable Care Act on hospital website, along with resources relating to meeting those requirements
Distribute flyers in clinic about requirements of Affordable Care Act
Organize a speaker for senior groups or other community clubs about the requirements of the Affordable Care Act

Elevated Rate of Adult Smoking

Use social media to advertise availability of smoking cessation assistance
Promote nicotine replacement therapies in hospital waiting rooms
Set up tobacco prevention booth and give cessation presentations at oil field/business health fairs
Place information about quitting at “man camps”
Display visual representation of healthy vs. diseased lung at high school
Create smoke-free environments through policy changes

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Elevated Level of Excessive Drinking/Alcohol Use

Partner with Safe Co

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