Healthy Capital District Initiative HCDI helping children and adults in the capital region get health services

Emergency Room Survey

You may have heard from Benita Zahn's news report on WNYT 13 about our project examining how people in the Capital District are using emergency rooms for health care. Please click on the following link to tell us about your experience through a very short survey:

Emergency Room Survey

Thanks for your input. We will share your experiences with the Hospitals, Health Insurers and Health Departments in the Capital District.

How Healthy is the Capital District?

After a two year community health planning process, the 2009 Community Health Profile is now complete! Hospitals, Local Health Departments, Community Health Centers, community organizations, members of the public and business representatives have all contributed their ideas about public health needs in the region through planning meetings; analysis of mortality, hospitalization and health behavior data; a health survey completed by over 1,100 people and a community health forum televised on our local public television station.

You can learn more about the health forum and the concerns raised by Capital Region residents about taking care of their health by watching our Community Health Forum (below) moderated by Ms. Benita Zahn. View the Health Profile by double clicking on the adjoining cover page.

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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.

The Healthy Capital District Initiative HCDI, 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.

Free or Low-Cost
Health Insurance

Child Health Plus,
Family Health Plus
and Medicaid

Over 4,500 people helped annually

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

MEMBER
ORGANIZATIONS

Albany County
Department of Health

Albany Medical Center

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; and
Kellogg, W.T. Grant, and
Robert Wood Johnson
foundations