Delaware County Rural Healthcare Alliance collaborative projects include:

    

·         Educating area youth on careers in health professions – proactively

       addressing healthcare worker shortages.

 

·         Coordinating joint training of healthcare workers – increasing

       availability of continuing medical education at a reduced cost to the

       healthcare delivery system.

 

·         Increasing capacity of health services by securing federal designations that

       increase opportunities for clinician recruitment and retention. 

 

·         Increase access to oral health services.

 

·         Facilitating a countywide emergency medical services volunteer recruitment and

retention campaign.

 

·         Funding nutrition education curricula development to address the childhood

       obesity epidemic locally.

 

·         Providing educational and nutritional information to promote healthy weight gain

during pregnancy.

       

·         Developing a directory of local health care and human services providers.

 

·         Engaging in applied research to increase understanding of the relationship

      between obesity and breast cancer risk.