Advocacy
Whether through time, talent or financial contributions, we are proud to support our communities. We listen to our residents and provide them with the specific help that they need – when they need it.
In the Spotlight
No Kid Hungry
The new documentary, "Hunger Hits Home," takes a first-hand look at the crisis of childhood hunger in America through the eyes of the parents, children, anti-hunger activists, educators and politicians on the frontlines of the battle. The film is part of an ongoing partnership between Food Network and Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry Campaign to end childhood hunger in America by 2015.
Webstream: Collaborations in Healthcare Delivery
On Feb. 21, WGTE Public Media and ProMedica hosted a free, online webstreaming event to discuss collaborations in healthcare delivery to effect positive change. Guests included: Randy Oostra, President and Chief Executive Officer from ProMedica; Karen Davis, President of the Commonwealth Fund; and Dr. David Grossman, Commissioner of the Lucas County Health Department.
Grants and Charitable Giving
ProMedica approved grants in 2010 totaling nearly $500,000 to eight area nonprofit organizations that provide food, clothing and shelter to combat the growing concern of homelessness and hunger in Ohio. And, in 2011, ProMedica donated a refrigerated box truck to the Toledo Seagate Foodbank to help the organization serve its 18-county area. These contributions were made possible by the ProMedica Advocacy Fund, which was created in 2009 with the Toledo Community Foundation in accordance with our mission to improve your health and well-being. The fund is designed to assist nonprofit organizations located in and providing services for residents of ProMedica’s 27-county service area with programs that provide food, clothing and shelter. In 2010, the ProMedica Board of Trustees approved grants totaling nearly $500,000 to eight area nonprofit organizations.
These organizations received awards:
- Associated Charities of Lenawee County
- Cherry Street Mission Ministries
- Erie-Huron Counties Community Action Commission
- Mobile Meals of Toledo
- Saint Vincent dePaul Society of Fostoria
- The Salvation Army of Hillsdale
- Toledo Seagate Food Bank
- United Way of Defiance County
Helping Communities Fight Obesity
Our communities have also been affected by the national obesity epidemic. More than 30 percent of children and adolescents in Ohio are overweight or obese, according to the Ohio Department of Health, and more than 65 percent of adults fall into the same category. These statistics place a significant percentage of Ohio communities at risk for heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and more. To that end, ProMedica introduced the Fields of Green initiative in 2008 to raise awareness about proper nutrition and exercise and to increase access to healthier food in under-served areas. Within this program, the Healthy Kids Conversation Map® program was developed to empower elementary school children and their parents to make good decisions related to eating and physical activity. We have also partnered with The Center for Innovative Food Technology to establish the first vertical hydroponic garden in the Toledo area.
Learn more about fighting hunger through the Come to the Table initiative.
Being Advocates for our Communities
We further support our area residents through government relations efforts. We work with public officials, community stakeholders and our own hospital departments to ensure that local and national healthcare policies best serve the needs of our communities.
Learn more about Government Relations.
Additional Resources
Hospitals brace for budget cuts
It's clear that the healthcare industry will need to shoulder some of the burden of national debt reduction, Community Hospital President Jim Ulrich told the hospital's board of directors.
Proposed cuts could be devastating to hospitals
Meyersdale Medical Center, Somerset Hospital and Windber Medical Center — among all other rural hospitals in the nation — are facing huge cuts in federal funding if the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction cuts Medicare.
This Is Not a Drill: Speak Up for Rural Hospitals
This is not a monthly test of your outdoor warning siren. I have worked in rural health for over thirty years. We have never faced a situation as threatening as the federal cuts that may hit rural hospitals. Senator Tom Coburn (an Oklahoma Republican) speaks for many when he said he understands the need to be careful when scaling back government spending. As he told Fox News, “to continue to waste $350 billion a year in the federal government, that’s pure waste or fraud or duplication.”
United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, colloquially referred to as the Supercommittee and Supercongress, is a joint select committee of the United States Congress, created by the Budget Control Act of 2011 on August 2, 2011. The act was intended to prevent the rapid process of sovereign default that would have resulted from the 2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis, and has been interpreted as a reaction to frustration over prolonged partisan political disputes during an uncertain economic struggling to recover from the late-2000s recession.
National Rural Health Association
The obstacles faced by health care providers and patients in rural areas are vastly different than those in urban areas. Rural Americans face a unique combination of factors that create disparities in health care not found in urban areas. Economic factors, cultural and social differences, educational shortcomings, lack of recognition by legislators and the sheer isolation of living in remote rural areas all conspire to impede rural Americans in their struggle to lead a normal, healthy life.
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