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2005 Global Vision Award Winners
WHA Foundation 2005 Global Vision Award Winners
Award Winner: Dean/St. Marys Neighborhood Asthma Clinic
Nominator: St. Marys Hospital Medical Center, Madison
Since 1998, the Dean/St. Marys Neighborhood Asthma Clinic has helped break down the barriers facing medically underserved patients in its community by providing quality screening, diagnosis, education, treatment, and medication assistance. The clinic’s primary goals are to improve identification of asthma and quality of life for asthma patients, decrease the number of hospitalizations due to asthma, and teach patients and their caregivers asthma self-management. St. Marys Hospital Medical Center, Dean Health System, Dean Health Plan, and the Dean Foundation collaborate to offer the clinic, which is staffed by volunteer physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and students. The clinic works with public health nurses, the Madison Metropolitan School District, Head Start and others to connect patients in need with the clinic services. While the clinic is only open for two hours each week, it had 444 patient visits in 2004. More than two-thirds of the clinic’s patients report that the primary reason for a lapse in taking their asthma medication was cost. The clinic collaborators work with pharmaceutical manufacturers to secure donated medications needed to treat its patients, and pharmaceuticals valued at $12,000 per month are given for free to those in need.
Award Winner: House of Mercy Homeless Center
Nominator: Mercy Health System, Janesville
The House of Mercy Homeless Center is dedicated not only to assisting its clients with their immediate needs of food, clothing and transitional shelter, but also to helping them find lasting housing solutions. Residents receive the services of a housing resource counselor and social worker, and support services have grown to include parenting classes, stress management training, free childcare, rent assistance and budgeting education. Opened in 1996, the House of Mercy operates thanks to more than 80 volunteers donating more than 8,000 hours annually. Twenty of the 28 founding volunteers are still with the Center, and many former residents are volunteers, providing unique insight and hope to current residents. Community collaborators providing support, programming and unique services include Rock County Human Services, Salvation Army, YWCA, First Call for Help, Community Action, Inc., ECHO, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and Mercy Health System. In addition, many churches and other local organizations help by holding drives for food, clothing and personal care items. Since its inception, the House of Mercy has sheltered almost 1,200 households for more than 71,000 shelter nights. That represents 2,511 individuals, including 1,384 children. In 2004, less than 10% of residents served required a second stay, and even fewer returned for a third.
2004 Global Vision Award Winners
2003 Global Vision Award Winners
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