Community Pandemic, What's Ahead

This just in from our friends at the DFW Hospital Council:  

The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council wants to remind you of public health considerations as we approach the fall and have three viruses ( COVID-19, West Nile and Influenza ) in North Texas. 

Please pass this information to your friends, family and business associates, especially on social media. These three diseases display many of the same symptoms, so prevention is key in reducing the spread.

 Wear a mask

Wash your hands

Watch Your distance

Get your flu shot early

Remove standing water on your property

Wear long sleeve shirts

Utilize insect repellent

 

We need to be prepared for the triple threat and we can help tap down the community spread of these viruses if we all work together to protect each other.

 

Thanks for your cooperation and support.

 

W. Stephen Love

President/CEO

Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

300 Decker Drive, Suite 300

Fairway Centre Building

Irving, Texas 75062

Telephone ( 972 ) 719 4900

www.dfwhc.org

Project Access lost. . .

CitySquare was one of the original partners in the formation of Project Access Dallas. We wrote the initial grant to fund the concept.  We provided a team of "health navigators" to serve the special needs of our patients.  After more than a decade leaders at the Dallas County Medical Society have decided to shut the project down.

Ironically, the change may result in even more services for the very poor in Dallas.  I hope so.  We will be working with our medical and hospital partners to continue to serve the poor and marginalized, hopefully on an even greater scale.  That's what we're looking to the hospitals to accomplish in our community, and especially on behalf of the poor and uninsured. 

Here's the story by Dallas Morning News reporter Sherry Jacobson that appeared in Wednesday morning's edition: 

Dallas County Medical Society to end program providing low-cost care for uninsured
by Sherry Jacobson

sjacobson@dallasnews.com

05 December 2012 11:25 PM

The Dallas County Medical Society will pull the plug early
next year on its Project Access Dallas, a popular program that
matches uninsured county residents with doctors willing to
provide them low-cost medical care.

The 10-year-old effort, which employed 30 people, will end
as early as March, after more than 3,000 current patients have
found a “new medical home,” said Dr. Rick Snyder,
president of the medical society.

More than 2,200 local doctors, many of them specialists, had
voluntarily provided low-cost care to uninsured patients,
including surgery, chemotherapy and chronic-disease
management.

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Costumbres Peligrosas

Kathy Bennett, our social work director at Community Health Services here at CtiySquare sent me the following information about a novella (soap opera) that our team produced with the help of our AmeriCorps team and an ExxonMobil intern.  I think you'll find this creative piece most encouraging.  We'll let you know when the finished product is set to air--complete with sub-titles!

We are using our ExxonMobil intern to direct this educational film in Spanish in the form of a Spanish novella (Soap opera.) We think this format is more interesting and appealing to the people we serve.


The completed video will have subtitles in English. I am happy with the response of our clinic family in all the help the patients and staff have given for this to be a success.  Almost everyone in the video is a patient and everyone associated with it except for the interns are volunteers. We have a long list for the credits of people to thank. I would love to hear what you think of the trailer. Of course we are all hoping the video is as good as the trailer.