Cape Cod Community Partners
Cape Cod Partners
- Helping Our Women
- Outer Cape Health Services
- Truro Council on Aging
- Quality of Life/Care Planning Task Force, Cape Cod Hospital
Helping Our Women
Gwynne Guzzeau, Executive Director
487-4357
www. helpingourwomen.org
Helping Our Women, HOW, is a long-serving resource center for women living with chronic or serious health conditions in the Outer Cape towns from Eastham to Provincetown. Through personalized outreach they educate, support, and empower women to take control of their healthcare, well-being and diverse needs. They gather their community for many events, including a Now's The Time. Make Your Own Care Plan presentation to help adults make their own care plan using the Honoring Choices Getting Started Tool Kit. Learn more at (508) 487-4357.
Outer Cape Health Services
Patricia Nadle, BSN, M.Ed. Acting Chief Executive Officer www.outercape.org
Outer Cape Health Services is a non-profit community health center which provides comprehensive primary care, walk-in care and specialty care at their three location in Provincetown, Wellfleet, and Harwich. They offer a range of supportive services, to residents, workers and visitors, including internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics and osteopathy. Outer Cape Health also provides extensive outreach and support services through Healthy Connections, which helps uninsured people with publicly funded health insurance and social services programs. The staff at Outer Cape is committed to helping adults explore their care goals and choices, and deliver quality care that honors their choices when healthy, managing chronic illness, or coping with serious illness. Their mission simply is to promote the health and well being of all who live or visit the eight outermost towns of Cape Cod. You can contact the staff at the Provincetown Health Center at 508-487-9395; the Wellfleet Health Center at 508-349-313; and the Harwich Health Center at 508-432-1400.
Truro Council on Aging
Michelle Peterson, Deputy Director
508-487-2462
The Truro Council on Aging administers various programs provided to enhance the health and well-being of seniors. Their mission to identify the needs and interests of the community's older adults; to educate the community and enlist the support and participation of all citizens concerning these needs and interests; to design, promote, and carry out programs; and to coordinate existing services within our community. Michelle Peterson, Deputy Director, gathers her community to engage in an interactive consumer webinar, Now's The Time. Make Your Own Care Plan, to help adults make their own care plan using the Honoring Choices Getting Started Tool Kit. Learn more at 508-487-2462.
Quality of Life/ Care Planning 62 Member Task Force, Cape Cod Hospital
Cape Cod Hospital is has brought together a dynamic 62 Member Task Force of area care providers, to provide a common, unified health care planning language and set of Massachusetts tools to every consumer and care professional on the Cape. The Task Force is helping adults start planning discussions, make a health care plan, and connect adults to person-centered care all through their lifetime. We are working on several projects together. On June 1, 2017, they will host the second in the series of MOLST: Meeting the Challenge Workshops for care providers. For more information, contact Tina Soares, BSN, RN, CHPN, Quality of Life Management, VNA of Cape Cod/ Cape Cod Healthcare, tsoares@ vnacapecod.org
Here are the Task Forces' participating members:
Broad Reach Healthcare
New England Organ Donor Bank
Wellness Paths
Harwich Council on Aging
Elder Services of Cape and Islands
Emerald Physicians
Cape & Islands EMS Systems Inc.
Cape Cod 5 & Trust , Asset Management
VNA of Cape Cod Public Health and Wellness
Kindred Hospice
Duffy Health Center
Interpretive Services CCHC
Bench Mark Senior Living, Harbor Pointe
The Pavilion
Hope Health
Ellen Abramson Estate Organization
Visiting Angels Home Care
MA DPH, Cancer Prevention Program
Elder Services of Cape and Islands
CCHC Survivorship Program Manager
Natural Death Care Collaborative
Outer Cape Health
Bridges by Epoch
Kindred Home Health and Hospice
Windsor Skilled Nursing
Internal Medicine
What if Workshop EOL Care
Nauset Family Health
Orleans Fire Dept.
Preferred Physicians Network, CCHC
Barnstable Council on Aging
Wellness Advocates
Caregiver Homes
VNA of Cape Cod, Public Health and Wellness
Harbor Point
VNA of Cape Cod Homecare and Hospice
JML Care Center, Director of Social Services
Beacon Hospice
Outer Cape Health
Cape Cod Healthcare Foundation
Highland Financial Group
Maplewood Senior Living
Elder Services of Cape and Islands
Cape Cod Hospital
Falmouth Hospital
HomeInstead Senior Care MA
Karen Hanesian Esq.
Julia Carson, MD Martha Byron
Joyce Hammond