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2003 Global Vision Award Winners
WHA Foundation Announces 2003 Global Vision Award Winners
The WHA Foundation selected three programs for the 2003 Global Vision Community Partnership Award. The award was established in 1995 to recognize community partnership programs that meet the documented health needs of a community through creativity, innovation, and community collaboration. "I am constantly impressed with the quality of the projects that are submitted for this annual award," said Steve Young, WHA Foundation president. "Our hospitals do a great job of working to meet community health needs outside their doors, and this award is one way we acknowledge and celebrate these efforts," said Young.
Award winners were recognized at a luncheon during the WHA Convention and received a commemorative plaque and an unrestricted grant of $2,000 to support the program. Selection criteria for the award includes: nomination by a WHA member; the program has been in existence for two years; addresses a documented community health need; constitutes a creative or innovative approach to meeting the need, includes a collaborative or partnership approach in the development and implementation; and produces measurable results. The award winning programs are:
Award Winner: Waukesha Hispanic Health Initiative
Nominator: ProHealth Care/Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Beginning in 1999, the Waukesha Hispanic Health Initiative is the result of collaborative partnerships among Waukesha Memorial Hospital, Waukesha Family Practice Program, and the Center for Healthy Communities of the Medical College of Wisconsin and La Casa de Esperanza to address primary care and behavioral health needs of the growing Hispanic community in Waukesha County. The project's objectives include providing comprehensive, culturally appropriate care, linking the Hispanic population with primary care physicians, developing an Hispanic community health resource center and developing an Hispanic collaborative network.
Award Winner: IMPACT Child Development Screening Program
Nominator: Columbia St. Mary's
This 10-year-old program was developed to identify children with hidden delays and medical problems and facilitate early treatment and intervention. The partners in the program include Children's Outing Association, YMCA Family Center, Bay View Community Center, Milwaukee Health Department, Birth to Three Program and the Milwaukee Public Schools. A medical team composed of a physician, nurse, and speech, physical and occupational therapists provide assessments. Host sites promote the program availability, coordinate consents and provide space and privacy. In 2002-2003, IMPACT served 102 children at eight host sites.
 Award Winner: Infinite Boundaries
Nominators: Affinity Health System and Franciscan Skemp Healthcare-Mayo Health System, La Crosse
Infinite Boundaries retreats are designed to help women heal emotionally, spiritually and physically from breast cancer. A program of the Breast Cancer Recovery Foundation since 1999, the retreats for breast cancer survivors serve to meet a gap, identified by the National Cancer Institute as "...surviving cancer can leave a host of problems in its wake. Physical, emotional and financial hardships often persist for years..." The retreats were created by Ann Haney, foundation founder, to assure that breast cancer survivors, in addition to receiving state of the art medical care, receive added support that family, friends and support groups cannot always provide. Affinity Health System and Franciscan Skemp have identified patients who would benefit from attending a retreat, provided scholarships and have served as retreat staff. Additional partners include Aurora Sinai Medical Center, SSM Healthcare of Wisconsin, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital and the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative. This program has positively impacted hundreds of cancer survivors across the state.
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