|
HCDI -
Organization Description
The Healthy Capital District
Initiative (HCDI) started with a small group of public
health leaders discussing how the capital region could be
more effective in identifying and addressing public health
problems. Ten years later, we are an incorporated not for
profit that has helped
over 35,000 needy
children and adults in the capital region get health
services that they might not have accessed otherwise.
By working together, area
hospitals, health
insurers, county health departments, catholic charities and
others have been able to determine some of the major
barriers to health services and develop initiatives to
greatly reduce them. Our current initiatives – health
planning, facilitated enrollment for public health
insurance, elementary school-based preventive oral services,
reducing minority health disparities,
Poverello Center free
adult health services
- provide much needed
assistance to residents of
Albany,
Rensselaer, and Schenectady counties.
|
HCDI’s Seal a Smile program was recognized for
providing preventive oral health
services to more than 3,000 school children annually
in Albany and Rensselaer
Counties with the Healthcare Association of New York State 2006
Community
Health Improvement Award
Council of Community
Services of New York State 2001 Human Services
Program of the Year
The
New York State
Dental Foundation 2007 Give Kids a Smile Award
|
|
Albany County
Department of Health
Catholic Charities
of the
Catholic Diocese of Albany
Capital District
Physicians’
Health Plan
Ellis Hospital
Fidelis Care New
York
Northeast Health/
Samaritan Hospital/
Albany Memorial Hospital
Rensselaer County
Department of Health
Schenectady County
Public Health Services
Senior Whole Health
Seton Health/
St. Mary’s Hospital
St. Peter’s Health
Care Services
Whitney M.
Young, Jr.
Health Services
In collaboration
with the
School of
Public Health
University of Albany
with support from the
New York State
Department of Health;
Kellogg, W.T. Grant &
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundations
|
