Steering Committee

Essex County Mental Health Services

Essex County Mental Health Services is a New York State licensed outpatient health clinic. The main office is located in Elizabethtown, with satellite offices in Ticonderoga and Lake Placid. Services include psychiatric and psychological assessment, medication management, verbal therapy, case management, and crisis services. The clinic serves all Essex County residents, children, adults and seniors. Essex County Health Services will bill Medicaid, Medicare and other third party payers for services rendered. A sliding fee schedule is also available for those without insurance. The center operates from Monday through Friday, 8AM to 5PM.

Essex County Public Health

Essex County Public Health works to achieve a maximum level of health and well-being among the population of Essex County, seeking to cooperate with other community groups to provide multi-disciplinary and multi-agency health care. The divisions of Public Health and Preventive Services, Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA), Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program (WIC), and Children With Special Health Care Needs carry out the organization's programs. Services provided include immunizations, maternal-child health, dental care, communicable disease control, bioterrorism/disaster preparedness training, and health education.

Fulton County Public Health

Fulton County Public Health serves the residents of Fulton County, New York with a wide variety of health and prevention services, training, information and alerts. Information about the following programs and others can be found on their website or by calling (518) 736-5720: Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA), Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program (WIC), Children with Special Health Care Needs, immunizations, maternal-child health, dental care, communicable disease control, bioterrorism/disaster preparedness training, and health education.

Hamilton County Community Services

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Hamilton County Public Health

Hamilton County Public Health Services as both an Article 28 (diagnostic and treatment center) and an Article 36 (certified home health care) provider. We offer core public health services including community health assessment, disease control and prevention, family health services, and health education. We sponsor the WIC program throughout the county as well as offer Well Child and Immunization Clinics. We also administer the Early Intervention and Preschool special Education Programs for the county. We participate in many regional planning coalitions and workgroups centered around a variety of health education and emergency preparedness activities. The Saranac Lake District Office of the New York State Health Department provides support for environmental issues.

The Hamilton County Public Health Nursing Service is committed to providing preventative and restorative health services to the residents and guests of Hamilton County.

Hudson Headwaters Health Network

Hudson Headwaters Health Network is a not-for-profit system of community health centers providing care to the residents and visitors of a region more than twice the size of Rhode Island, 3,700 square miles of the Adirondack / Lake George / Glens Falls area in upstate New York.

Most of our patients live in communities where no other basic health services are available. In our mountain service area, we are the doctor for each of the school districts, the health officer for local towns, the doctor for area summer camps, and the medical director for many assisted living and long-term care facilities.

Hudson Headwaters provides a health safety net, caring for everyone in its communities regardless of financial or social circumstance. In many instances, we provide care to those who need it most yet can afford it least.

Hudson Headwaters operations are funded from patient service revenue and grant sources, most significantly a federal Section 330 Rural Health Initiative award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Hudson Mohawk Area Health Education Center

The Hudson Mohawk Area Health Education Center (HM AHEC) was established, as an independent not-for-profit corporation on September 28, 2001 to improve the health of local communities through workforce development. HM AHEC pursues this mission with the following activities:

Recruit:

• Implementing comprehensive programs that encourage area youth to pursue careers in the health professions in their own communities
• Linking academic and health care resources in programs that promote health careers
• Facilitating the placement of medical students, residents and students from other health professions, for training in underserved areas

Retain:

• Coordinating continuing education and clinical training programs for established health care professionals

Respond:

• Supporting local initiatives to create healthy communities

The HM AHEC service area encompasses nearly 8500 square mile in ten urban and rural northeastern New York State counties: Albany, Essex, Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren, and Washington. Nearly 20% of its more than one million residents are considered "underserved" in that they live in areas that are federally classified as having an insufficient number of health professionals.

Moses-Ludington Hospital and Inter-Lakes Health

Surrounded by mountains at the southern end of Lake Champlain, and serving remote areas of the Adirondacks including Schroon Lake, Ticonderoga, Hague, Putnam, Crown Point, Port Henry, North Hudson, and Moriah, Moses-Ludington Hospital (MLH) provides integral services to an underserved and underinsured population. MLH is a 501(c)(3), 15 bed Critical Access Hospital. An extensive 2001 renovation has helped to improve nursing services, health programs, mammography and bone density testing, Cardiac Rehabilitation, and Radiology and Diagnostic services. MLH works in conjunction with Inter-Lakes Health to provide services in Ticonderoga that people may have previously traveled many miles to receive, including occupational and physical therapy, lab work, family dental care, cardiac rehabilitation, and medical supply. In addition, Inter-Lakes Health offers Heritage Commons, an adult home, and Lord Howe Estates, an independent living arrangement for senior citizens.

Mountain Lakes EMS Council

Mountain Lakes Regional EMS council is a group of people selected from the EMS community and other business applications that is responsible for managing the Emergency Medical Services within Warren, Washington, Essex, Franklin and Clinton Counties. The Council is mandated by public health law articles 30 and 30A and provides guidance to all agencies within its region. A group of physicians form a Regional Emergency Medical Advisory Council which is a committee of the Mountain Lakes Council and is responsible for all practicing protocols and modalities provided in the field. It is an organization built to assist EMS agencies in delivering the highest possible care in the pre-hospital setting.

Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson

Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson (PPMH) provides family planning and primary care services in a 12 county area, empowering individuals to make responsible and informed decisions about sexual and reproductive behavior. PPMH covers the largest geographic area of any Planned Parenthood in New York State and operates health centers in Clifton Park, Cobleskill, Glens Falls, Gloversville, Granville, Herkimer, Oneida, Rome, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, Ticonderoga and Utica. PPHM serves a diverse community, including many in rural and low-income areas, providing thousands of family planning, STD testing, counseling, and prenatal visits each year.

Saratoga County Public Health

Saratoga County Public Health provides county residents with a wide variety of programs and services seven days a week. The scope of offerings includes immunizations, including a travel clinic, infants' and children's programs, HIV education, a bioterrorism program, and STD and communicable disease services. In addition, Saratoga County Public Health is certified by the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the New York State Department of Health as a Home Health Agency, and provides customized care, including medical and social services to individuals at their place of residence. Nursing or home health aids are available 24 hours a day.

Upper Hudson Primary Care Consortium

The Upper Hudson Primary Care Consortium is a not-for-profit corporation that is licensed under NYS Public Health Law’s Article 28 as a Central Services Facility. The Consortium was initially established in 1987 for the principal purpose of recruiting, employing and deploying health care professionals to medically underserved communities in northeastern New York. While still serving that function, the Consortium has evolved into a community-based corporation that conducts a variety of outreach, educational, public health and planning services on behalf of a large rural region located mostly in the Adirondack Mountains. The Consortium has developed organizational resources and core competencies that have allowed it to serve as incubator, lead agency, and coordinating boy for numerous projects of regional significance.

Warren County Health Services

Warren County Health Services is both an Article 28 (diagnostic and treatment center) and an Article 36 (certified home health care and long-term care) provider through its divisions of Public Health and Home Health Care. It works to prevent epidemics and the spread of disease, protect against environmental hazards, prevent injuries, promote and encourage healthy behaviors, respond to disasters and assist communities in recovery, and assure the quality and accessibility of health services in Warren County. Immunization, STD and well child clinics are available, as are childbirth classes. The Division of Home Care provides skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, nutrition, medical social work and home health aid services 7 days a week with 24 hour telephone support.

Warren - Washington Association for Mental Health

Established in 1948, the Warren-Washington Association for Mental Health, Inc. (AMH) is a not-for-profit provider of community mental and behavioral health services. Through the programs of AMH Behavioral Care, the Association assists children, adults and families to develop stability and explore opportunities for growth. AMH is committed to listening to the voice of the service recipient, and to collaborating in creative ways with other service providers in the community.

AMH is funded through private donations, contracts with state and county departments and through fees charged for some of its services. No one is refused service because of inability to pay. AMH’s clinical and residential programs are licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health, and all programs receiving county or state funding are operated under the supervision of County Community Services Boards. Membership and community support are important to AMH, since many of the people served are without insurance or income.

Warren and Washington Counties - Office of Community Services

The Office of Community Services for Warren and Washington Counties serves as the Mental Health Department for both Warren and Washington Counties. New York State Mental Hygiene Law directs local governments to either "provide or arrange for preventive, rehabilitative, and treatment services for the mentally ill, the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled, and those suffering from the disease of alcoholism and substance abuse."

The Office of Community Services accomplishes this mandate through contractual agreements with not-for-profit agencies within our community. The Office of Community Services is governed by a nine-member Community Services Board in each County, and the County Board of Supervisors. We also oversee a local planning process for the three disability areas through a subcommittee structure of the Community Services Boards.

The Office of Community Services is responsible for administering the local Single Point of Access (SPOA) for all referrals for mental health residential and case management services. We also coordinate the Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Program for Warren and Washington Counties. This program provides for an enhanced array of outpatient services, either through voluntary agreement or court order, for eligible individuals over 18 years of age with a history of non-compliance with recommended treatment.

Washington County Public Health

Washington County Public Health provides a variety of services and programs to protect and promote the health of the communities it serves. It offers core public health services including community health assessment, disease control and prevention, family health services, and health education and relies on the Glens Falls District Office for environmental health issues. Washington County Public Health operates a Certified Home Health Agency, Hospice and Palliative Care Program, and a Long Term Home Health Care Program and collaborates with others for the Personal Care Aide Program, and the Expanded in Home Services for the Elderly (EISEP) Program. It administers the Early Intervention Program and Preschool Programs as well as operating Diagnostic and Treatment Clinics, Well Child and Immunization clinics and contracting to provide HIV/AIDS testing and counseling and sponsor the WIC program.

Washington County Public Health relies on a combination of local appropriations, grants, state aid, Medicare, Medicaid, revenue from third party reimbursement and fees, and private pay to support its programs and services and to ensure the ongoing provision of service to Washington County residents.