Join the Hot Springs Health Care Team
Are you interested in joining a team to carry out one or more objectives of the Health Care Goal? Are you interested in realizing the vision of a new hospital? Or creating a series of classes that lead to making Hot Springs the “wellness capital of South Dakota” — a place where strong healthy children and adults are engaged in healthy outdoor activities, dropping weight and building muscle and bone; a destination place for tourists who want to heal body and mind — where fitness centers, spas, massage therapists, craniosacral, reiki and energy healers are fully booked. Where restaurants have specialty menus that feature whole foods, organic foods, vegetarian meals. Or would you be more interested in helping to set up a transportation system to help people get to medical appointments?
Come to the Horizons community dinner Feb 21 at the American Legion (6 p.m., lasagne, good food, good people) and sign up for a team, or — if you can’t make it — leave a comment here with your contact information and someone will get in touch with you.
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Goal 6: Address the issue of quality, affordable healthcare
for the Hot Springs community.
Goal 6 - Objective 1: Offer series of wellness education classes.
Implementation Steps Completion Date
1. Create a list of possible subjects……………………………..…………………… 04/01/08
2. Research and recruit competent instructors……….…………………….…… 06/01/08
3. Finalize list of offerings……………………………………………………….….…… 06/01/08
4. Find a location and schedule the classes………………………………….….…. 09/01/08
5. Advertise the availability of the classes……………………………………….….09/15/08
6. Begin the sessions…………………………………………………………………………10/01/08
7. Explore feasibility of providing wellness packages to tourists….……… 01/31/09
Method of Evaluation……………………………………………………………….Completion Date
Log number of attendees at each session………………………………………………… Each session
Elicit evaluations from attendees. ………………………………………………………..………. 11/31/08
Assess cost/benefits of program……………………………………………………….…..…….. 12/15/08
Decision whether to develop tourist wellness-package………….………………….…….. 02/15/09
Goal 6 - Objective 2: Provide support to construct new hospital.
Implementation Steps………………………………………………………Completion Date
1. Contact city council and county commissioners to solicit their support. 02/15/08
2. Work with Hospital Board to determine if local fund drive is needed…. 02/20/08
3. Provide help with the fund drive (if one is done)……………………………… 02/27/08
4. Help disseminate factual information about benefits of hospital by blogging, writing letters, speaking at civic groups…………………………………….…………….. Ongoing
Method of Evaluation……………………………………………………Completion Date
City and County officials have been contacted………………………………..…… 02/28/08
Fund drive support plan is in place …………..………………………………….…… 03/01/08
Goal 6 - Objective 3: Develop transportation system to help people get to their medical appointments.
Implementation Steps……………………………………………………….Completion Date
1. Inventory transportation that is currently available…………….……… 03/01/08
2. Provide questionnaires at local medical facilities to assess
need for help with transportation. …………………………..……………………04/01/08
3. Identify gaps in transportation coverage…………………..………………….. 05/15/08
4. Solicit responsible volunteers to provide rides .where
regular transport is unavailable or not feasible …………………………… 06/01/08
5. Develop a flyer to distribute community-wide offering the service….06/15/08
Method of Evaluation ……………………………………………………..Completion Date
Gather data from volunteers on frequency of use………………………………….. 09/15/08
Interview people who use the service……………………………………………….…… 09/15/08
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