Common Table Health Alliance Current Initiatives
Memphis Breast Cancer Consortium (MBCC)
January 2016 marked the first phase of an innovative, comprehensive, aligned, and intentional community-wide effort to address the higher mortality rates of African American women versus Caucasian women in the Memphis metropolitan area.
MBCC convened resources addressing the disparity gap and potential contributing factors such as screening rates, capacity to provide services, lack of knowledge, fear, inadequate or no health insurance, lack of transportation, and geographically appropriate mammography locations.
MBCC represents 36-member organizations including survivor groups, health systems, consumer advocacy groups, universities, health plans, the Shelby County Health Department, and the Tennessee Department of Health
Learn more about MBCC here…
Better Together Youth Health Alliance
“Better Together Youth Health Alliance” (BTYHA) is our newly established collaborative. The purpose of BTYHA is To improve the health, health equity and wellness of youth in Memphis and Shelby County through a comprehensive and collaborative community-wide approach. Common Table Health Alliance has brought together over 15 initial partners to address the health needs of youth in the greater Memphis region as a unified force to tackle the alarming rates of children’s poor health and preventable diseases as adults.
Learn more about Better Together Youth Health Alliance here…
Let’s C.H.A.N.G.E. B5210, 5210, 85210
A community-wide partnership created to maintain a broad base commitment to eliminating childhood and family obesity.
Adopted best practices to address policy and system changes that promote health and wellness, through healthy eating and active living.
Learn more about Let’s C.H.A.N.G.E. here…
Common Table Health Alliance Past Successes
Diabetes for Life (DFL)
Reduced BMI and A1c levels of African Americans with diabetes in five local primary care practices via a comprehensive educational and health literacy program.
Improved self-management skills of 600 patients though culturally tailored case management.
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q)
A national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Standardized race, ethnicity, and language (REL) data collection by health systems.
Coached small medical practices to successfully obtain National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Patient Centered Medical Home recognition.
Results include: hospital-wide distribution and education of advance directives, new systems of care for African American males with hypertension, and the initiation of a safe sleep campaign to address high infant mortality rates.
The Memphis Quality Initiative (MQI)
Supported the efforts of the hospitals in Shelby County to adopt a city-wide no-smoking policy for all of their campuses, affecting 50,000 -75,000 employees.
Reduced infection rates by 25% through a city-wide hand-washing campaign, impacting 100,000-125,000 patients each year.
“Believe in a Healthy Memphis” Obesity Summits
Launched Healthy Eating and Active Living obesity reduction annual summits created in partnership with the Shelby County Health Department and 25 other organizations.
The Healthy Shelby Initiative (HSI)
Facilitated for the County Mayor and City Mayor, a Triple Aim effort in Federally Qualified Health Centers and area health systems to improve population health, a Memphis Region initiative with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Noted results included: hospital-wide distribution and education of advance directives, new systems of care for African American males with hypertension, and the initiation of a safe sleep campaign to address high infant mortality rates.
Shaping America’s Youth
Addressed the alarming childhood obesity rates in the region, which resulted in a comprehensive movement adopted by 30 organizations to reduce obesity rates.
Framed the adoption of nutritional content disclosure policies, such as menu labeling of calories by hospitals, schools, and caterers.