Recorded Webinar: Engaging Your Local Community Through Youth Oriented Programs

The third and final installment of the Community Health Needs Assessment Webinar Series hosted by Eide Bailly and the Oklahoma Office of Rural Health. Programming to positively impact youth is an effective approach for hospitals to engage the local community. Two hospitals in Oklahoma, Mercy Hospital Kingfisher and Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center (EOMC) in Poteau, present their efforts at fostering collaboration among their local youth population. Brian Denton, CEO of Mercy Hospital Kingfisher, discusses his hospital’s Student Careers Council and Tiffany Griffis, DNP APRN FNP-C from EOMC reviews how the hospital is leveraging telemedicine to provide school-based care in southeastern Oklahoma. The video lasts approximately 1 hour.

Community Health Needs Assessment: A Valuable Tool for Oklahoma's Rural Hospitals & Communities

From the November 2015 edition of the Oklahoma Osteopathic Association's Oklahoma D.O., Corie Kaiser, M.S., discusses how rural communities in Oklahoma utilize the community health needs assessment (CHNA) process offered by the Oklahoma Office of Rural Health. Her article begins on page 16.