1. Schools and Hospital Partnerships: Where to Begin?
Margo Quiriconi, RN, MPH
Director, Community Health Initiatives
Strategic and Innovation Development

2. Ahead of Their Time… Alice Berry Graham Katharine Berry Richardson
Alice Berry Graham and Katherine Berry Richardson were sisters separated by eight years in age. Left motherless in 1861 when Katherine was three, they were raised by their father, Stephen, who educated his daughters and taught them that principles were more important than public opinion.  He instilled in them that, "The truly charitable woman is big enough to help children other than her own."  Alice, the older sister, worked as a teacher to put Katherine through school at Pennsylvania Women's Medical College.  Katherine returned the favor for Alice's dental schooling.  The sisters moved to Kansas City in    
Getting Started: The medical societies of Kansas City excluded women.  Undaunted, the sisters opened a practice but lacked success. Then, one evening Alice found an abandoned, crippled 5 year old girl on the street. The sisters restored her to health in a rented hospital bed.  With this simple act, they learned the need for medical care for ill, abandoned and poor children.  In 1897, they founded The Free Bed Association for Crippled, Deformed and Ruptured Children; by 1904 the name changed to Mercy Hospital and in 1916 Children's Mercy Hospital. 

3. THE EDUCATION PIPELINE ATTENDANCE, ACHIEVEMENT, ENGAGEMENT
From initiative-wide goals to a system of care…
Community-wide goals…Not isolated projects
Thinking beyond performance measures

4. Educationally Relevant Health Factors and their Connection to Academic Indicators
Vision
Asthma
Teen Pregnancy
Aggression and Violence
Physical Activity
Breakfast
Inattention and Hyperactivity
Discipline
Grades
Absenteeism
Truancy
Drop-out
School Climate
Graduation Rates
Charles Basch, Healthier Students are Better Learners: A Missing Link in School Reforms to Close the Achievement Gap, 2010,

5. Framework for School Health Services
Education
Parent focused
Student focused; health programs and workforce development
Staff Training and Support
Consultation
Environmental Health
School Nurse
Student Support
Healthy Lifestyles
Classroom-based Support
Policies and Procedures
Clinical Services
School Nurse Management
Social Work Services
Telemedicine
Service Line: Sports Medicine; Developmental & Behavioral Health
Assessment/Screening
School-based Health Center
Health Fairs
In-Kind Services and Supports

9. Community Health Needs Assessment and Identification of Priorities
Access to Health Care
Mental/Behavioral Health
Infant Mortality
Parent Support
Obesity/Food Insecurity
Early Education
Poverty
Violence
Employment
Housing
Priority Health Needs
Significant Health Needs
Children’s Mercy

10. What Matters? Geography- funding, resources, organization of services
Program focus
Opportunity
Partners
Target Population
Learning
Timing

11. Where to begin?

12. Where to Begin?
Identify the hospital or health system department or personnel involved in community engagement
Let the data lead you: Who is responsible for the CHNA?

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Contact Information
Margo Quiriconi
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