Blue Ribbon Health & Wellness
Planning Team
Sarah Nail, MA
Community Outreach Coordinator,
Bothwell Regional Health Center
Megan Webb, MPH
Nutrition and Health Education Specialist,
University of Missouri Extension
A planning team is born
● Established in 2005 and is a subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Plan
Steering Committee
 Mission: To provide leadership in securing comprehensive health &
wellness education, information, and services across the continuum of
care.
 Vision: Our vision is for a community, who shares responsibility to
become the premier model of a healthy community by embracing
lifestyles of wellness.
Who are we?
 Members of the planning team are:
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John Dawes, President & CEO, BRHC
Cheri Heeren, Exec. Director, PCCP
JoAnn Martin, Administrator, PCHC
Donna Weston, President BHECU
Amy Carr, RN, Nurse Instructor, SFCC
Chris Stewart, CEO, KTCH
Mary Lou Shane, Pettis Co. Health Center
Pat Sturgis, Sedalia District 200 Schools
Jeanean Sieving, PCHC
● Planning team subcommittees: Healthcare Professions Recruitment and
Retention Group, Adolescent Health Coalition, Breastfeeding Coalition,
Clean Air Sedalia and Healthy Living Action Group
How we work
Blue Ribbon Steering Committee
Arts & Rec
Provider Recruitment
& Retention
Economic Dev.
Health & Wellness
Adolescent Health
Coalition
Education
Breastfeeding
Coalition
Local Government
Clean Air
Sedalia
Social Services
Healthy Living
Action Group
Health & Wellness Planning Team
● Hosts annual health summit
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Topics included tobacco use, childhood obesity, adolescent risky behaviors
and Affordable Care Act
Several of the task groups were created based on feedback from health
summits
 Hosted stakeholder meetings with business leaders, educators, physicians
and healthcare providers, and social service agencies to gain feedback on
their understanding of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(Health Care Reform)
Healthcare Professions Recruitment and
Retention Group
● Members include hospital CEO, CEO of FQHC, hospital medical staff
coordinator and mostly community members (insurance agent, banker, city
director, etc.).
● Objective: Recruit and develop health-care providers to meet the needs of
the communities we serve.
● Accomplishments:
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Hosts Doctor’s Day appreciation events
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Planning a welcome party for new providers
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Provide personalized experiences for prospective physicians during
site visits.
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Net of 20 new providers and 12 minority health professionals
recruited to Sedalia/Pettis County in the past year.
Adolescent Health Coalition
Objective: To enable adolescents and parents to
access information to help adolescents develop
healthy lifestyles
Adolescent Health Coalition
● Starting with the health summit in October 2012, the Adolescent
Health Coalition has held meetings with parents and guardians to
provide educational materials and tools for communicating with their
teens
● Develop and deliver a school based sexual health education program for
9-12 grade students
● For the 2012-2013 school year, the AHC plans to provide programming
to the Sedalia 200 and Northwest school districts
● Develop a half day prevention workshop for 7-9th graders on internet
safety, impact of drug/alcohol use, and safety in personal relationships
Adolescent Health Coalition
 Started Start Now Talk Now website through the Missouri Department
of Health and Senior Services
 Billboards to advertise the website
 Recognized through the Missouri Department of Mental Health to focus
on suicide and drug abuse in adolescents
 Arranged for a Megan Meier presentation for high school students
 Working with the Missouri DHSS to become a provider for an evidence
based pregnancy prevention program – Teen Outreach Program,
developed by the Wyman organization
Breastfeeding Coalition
 Joined Health and Wellness Planning Team in March 2012
 Members represent Early Head Start, Bothwell Regional
Health Center, Birthright, LaLeche League, Pettis County
Health Center, midwife from private practice, and SFCC
nursing faculty
 Activities:
 Developed a breastfeeding resource guide for the county
 Started a local LaLeche League Group for mother-to-mother
breastfeeding support
 Made and distributed breastfeeding cover-ups to new mothers
 Started the Mother-Friendly Workplace Initiative
Clean Air Sedalia
A coalition of community organizations, agencies,
and individuals working together through education
and empowerment to promote smoke-free indoor air
and tobacco-free lifestyles
Clean Air Sedalia
● Presented to Sedalia City Council about the effects of
second-hand smoke
● Contacted most council members individually
 Made presentations to local restaurants and bars
recognizing them as tobacco-free establishments
 Purchased lighted signs to highlight tobacco free
restaurants and businesses throughout Sedalia
Clean Air Sedalia
● Surveyed likely voters to determine the interest in an indoor
smoking ban – 61% in favor of a smoke free law.
● Collected signatures in favor of a smoke-free ordinance
● Received support from ACT Missouri to purchase banners to
be placed around the community promoting stopping tobacco
use.
● Billboard on highway 50
● Sedalia Parks have now become smoke free in designated
areas
Healthy Living Action Group
● Objective: Inspire and motivate the Pettis County
community to make lifestyle changes that result in
weight loss, and create a culture where healthier
choices are encouraged
● Members represent Bothwell, Katy Trail Community
Health, Pettis County Health Center, Pettis County
Community Partnership, Boys & Girls Club of West
Central Missouri
Healthy Living Action Group
● Started in January 2012, after two years of planning
● 12 students selected from 142 applicants
● Students must share with others about their weight loss
journey through media, blogging and social media
Healthy U Results
 540 pounds lost to date
 10 of 12 have lost more than 10 percent of their starting weight
 Tracking BMI, inches lost, physical fitness (flexibility, balance,
agility, push-ups, sit-ups), blood pressure, cholesterol,
Hemoglobin A1c,
 Students have indicated their immediate family members have
experienced weight loss as well
https://www.facebook.com/HUPettisCounty/app_20335173967
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Healthy U Community Components
 Moving 101
 Cooking demonstrations
 Restaurant items
 Community Support Group
 Textbook
http://issuu.com/bgckids/docs/hupettiscounty_textbook
 Community Contest
 75 registered
 Dozen lost 60 pounds in the first 3 weeks
Health and Wellness Planning Team
● Focus on health literacy and health care delivery
system
● Continued support and growth of task groups, and
identify any gaps
Questions?
Thank You