Community Health Initiative
Faith Community Health Initiative (FACHI)
The Faith Community Health Initiative (FACHI) Maryland is a collaborative community based model between Health Kiosk for All and Concerted Care Foundation to equip and empower communities of faith, organizations, schools, youth and women groups to enhance the quality of health outcomes of blacks, minorities and people of color in the State of Maryland and other States through promotion of health information, education and communications, patient literacy, education on self-management, ensuring adequate health screening, protocols and hygiene practices, case identification and linkages through referrals to healthcare systems for care and recovery.
The FACHI Outcomes
Faith Community Empowerment & Ownership are increased, and communities are effectively engaged and supported to lead health including COVID-19 responses
Innovative Approaches and Partnerships Across Local Health Systems Providers to Enhance Community COVID-19 Prevention, Response and Recovery including links to Clinical Care.
Effective Linkages Are Established Between Church Congregation Communities and Health Systems.
In the current COVID-19 pandemic, maintaining social distance in patient evaluation becomes more critical in the prevention of transmission of the infection. The Health Kiosk will assist in facilitating the process of patient-intake through self-check Health Kiosk machines will enhance patients and clinical staff time efficiency in health care delivery.
Research Findings
The Health Kiosk Technology Program
Objectives
- Identity, establish entry points to care and deploy Health Kiosk self-check screening machines, products and services to enhance patients and health care providers experience,
- Improve patient-healthcare provider encounters at health facilities,
- Reduce workload for health professionals and optimize service delivery
- Improve long term health outcomes and healthy seeking behaviours for patients and their families.
Impact & Value Proposition
- Identity, establish entry points to care and deploy Health Kiosk self-check screening machines, products and services to enhance patients and health care providers experience,
- Improve patient-healthcare provider encounters at health facilities,
- Reduce workload for health professionals and optimize service delivery
- Improve long term health outcomes and healthy seeking behaviours for patients and their families.
International Market Survey
In an international market survey among healthcare providers and users of the Health Kiosk technology we found that: