Natividad Medical Foundation Inc

Programs: Funds granted to satisfy restrictions placed on contributions including support for medical equipment, language access services, spiritual care, medical staff education and basic needs like patient transportation. Continued expansion of the agricultural leadership council (talc) to more than 160 members who have donated more than $2. 3 million to nmf since 2010 for medical equipment and cross-cultural initiatives. Continued to fund the pilot of choice, a violence intervention and prevention program modeled after the proven university of california, san franciscos wraparound project at san francisco general hospital. More than 150 clients have enrolled, and the program has demonstrated a re-injury rate of only 1. 9%. With donations from employees of monterey county and grants from the marin community foundation's children in need fund and broadway cares/equity fights aids, nmf continued to meet urgent, basic medical needs for vulnerable patients, including women, children and people living with hiv/aids. Funds provide assistance for the most basic needs, including food, clothing, medication, emergency shelter and free indigenous interpreter services for the bates-eldredge child sexual abuse clinic; the emergency department; the neonatal intensive care, labor & delivery and the mother-infant units; and the lactation clinic. With a fourth year of grant funding from the community foundation for monterey county, provided diabetes prevention education for more than 150 low-income adults throughout monterey county through 5 steps to prevent diabetestm. 5 steps continues to demonstrate meaningful positive changes in lifestyle behaviors correlated with reducing the risk of developing diabetes, including increased consumption of fruits and vegetables; increased daily physical activity; and increased use of strategies to eat healthfully with a limited income.

expanded indigenous interpreting+, a service of natividad medical foundation, to provide trained interpreters for rare languages from mexico and central america, including mixteco, zapoteco, chatino and triqui four of the top ten most commonly spoken languages at nmc. Indigenous interpreting+ has expanded its interpreter network from 4 to over 200 and increased language offerings from 5 to 17.

through natividad medical foundation, the hospital continued its health promotion program activities through the american association of diabetes educators-accredited diabetes education center. The diabetes education center is the first and only center of its kind in monterey county providing a free, culturally appropriate, low literacy, diabetes prevention education program focusing on under-served individuals with diabetes types 1 and 2, gestational diabetes and pre-diabetes. From july 2015 to june 2016, the diabetes center, under the guidance of dana kent, md, provided diabetes self-management education to 458 people. Patients enrolled at the center achieved decreases in hba1c scores, demonstrating improved long-term blood glucose control.