Cultivate Health

Rod Carter, Pharm.D.Leticia Shea, Pharm.D.

The Neighborhood Location and Description

What is Health?

• What does health mean to me?

• How are aspects of health connected?

• What can I do to promote health?

Visualize Health

Spiritual Interprofessional Team

Mental Neighborhood based

Physical Prevention

Impact of Health Behaviors

Health and Well-being

Health Care

Healthy

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Active Living

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Enhancing Health in the Built Environment

Provide spaces for intergenerational recreation

Provide infrastructure to support biking

Provide pedestrian oriented landscapes

Support on-site gardening /farming

Facilitate Social engagement

Urban Land Institute (ULI)

Healthy Eating

Sister Gardens

Permaculture Gardens

Cultivate Health – Infrastructure Improvements

Cultivate Health Center

ADA/Senior Fitness Zone

AdultFitnessZone

Bicycle Racks

Intersection Improvements

Wayfinding Signage Throughout

Cooking Matters

Community Garden

Connection to Regis T

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Aria Gardens and Production Farm

Median on Federal

Community Engagement

Strategy

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Resident-based needs assessment

Activities

• Healthy Living Coordinator • WalkDenver Walkability

Report• Bicycle safety classes• Regis Neighborhood

Space• Academic Interactions

Regis Neighborhood Health• Fully integrated with Healthy Living and Healthy Eating

• Totally interprofessional focus with frontline health providers• Nurse practitioners• Pharmacists• Physical therapists• Counselors

• Focus on empowering individuals to be healthy• Health packages

Health Packages

• Healthy Me, Healthy Weight

• Jump to a Positive State of Mind

• Being True to Your Heart

• Living in Good Health with Diabetes

• Steps to a Healthy Pregnancy

• Enjoying a meal again:

Overcoming the heartburn dilemma

Regis Neighborhood Health• Integrated with Healthy Living and Healthy Eating• Totally interprofessional focus with frontline health providers

• Nurse practitioners• Pharmacists• Physical therapists• Counselors

• Focus on empowering individuals to be healthy• Health packages

• Designed to be self-sustaining• Medicaid/Medicare• Private insurance

Regis Neighborhood Health Timeline

Aug 201

5

• Health services for Regis employees• Health classes for all

Jan 201

6

• Open to dependents of Regis employees

Summer 201

6

• All neighbors regardless of insurance

Pharmacists in Cultivate Health• See every* person in RNH• Regis pharmacy student involvement

• Neighborhood assessments• Participate in community projects• Intern at RNH

• Partner with local pharmacies• Source of medication*• Reinforcement of plan (communication)

Beyond Cultivate Health?• Rather than focusing on chronic disease shouldn’t we

be promoting chronic health?

• A blend of primary care and public health?

• Model for rural communities or other urban neighborhoods?

• Fit with the Medical Home models?

Questions??