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COMMUNITY WELLNESS ASSESSMENT REPORT

ARBORFIELD

June 16, 2011

Arborfield Community Wellness Report 2011

2011 COMMUNITY WELLNESS ASSESSMENT REPORT ARBORFIELD

What is Primary Health Care?

Primary Health Care is a framework for providing everyday health care services. Health care professionals work proactively with intersectoral partners and community groups to address broader community needs.

Primary Health Care works towards:

• Preventing people from becoming ill or injured

• Managing chronic conditions

• Making the most effective use of health care provider expertise

• Treating acute and episodic illness

• Efficiency and co-ordination of services

• Accessing the right service at the right time

• Individuals playing an active role in their own health care

• Understanding that factors outside the health system influence individual and community health (Determinants of Health)

Introduction

A Primary Health Care Provider Team has been in existence in Carrot River/Arborfield/Zenon Park since 2001. The Team consists of health professionals and community representatives and meets on a regular basis to address wellness needs within the communities.

One way to identify wellness needs is through the use of a Community Wellness Assessment. The first community assessment in Arborfield was conducted on March 2008 utilizing a community forum to identify areas of concern, with 44 community members attending. In 2009, a different approach was taken to conduct the Assessment to connect with a wider cross section of the community. The team “went to the community to gather information” versus expecting the community to attend a public meeting. A booth was set up at the Arborfield Beeland Coop and community members were encouraged to voice their opinions on survey questions. In total 40 community members completed the survey questionnaire. The team shared the information gathered with local Mayor and Community Advisory Committee and developed action plans to address some of the identified needs. Needs that were beyond the Primary Health Care Team or local Advisory Committee’s ability to resolve were forwarded to the appropriate group/agency.

Within the community of Arborfield the Community Advisory Committee consists of community members, local health center administrator and nurse practitioner. This committee has been working collaboratively to address various local community issues for several years..


Primary Health Care Team and partners have accomplished the following since the last assessment:

• PARTY Program (Preventing Alcohol Related Trauma in Youth) has been offered to high school students in Arborfield and Zenon Park every second year.

• Primary Health Care Team continues to support the annual Tri-Unity Challenge partnership (community walk/run to promote physical activity). This will be the third year Primary Health Care has partnered with various agencies to support the walk/run.

• Depression Support Group

• Collaborated with Arborfield Advisory Committee and Arborfield High School to add CPR classes into curriculum

• Worked with Arborfield Advisory Committee to find meals on wheels coordinator for the community.

• Collaborated with Saskatchewan In-Motion for the development of an In-Motion park and walking trails signs in Arborfield

• Seniors Falls Prevention education offered in Arborfield and Zenon Park in 2009

• Developed directory of visiting health professionals services in English and French languages

• During months of Jan/Feb/March 2011 supported a “Fun Fitness Challenge” within the communities of Arborfield/Zenon Park and Carrot River. Zenon Park was the successful winner and received $6,000. The monies are designated to help build local walking or bike trails.

• Offered monthly grocery store bag stuffers and shelving labels depicting healthy food choices in communities of Arborfield and Zenon Park

• Organized a Healthy Cooking class for January/February which had to be cancelled due to lack of registrants

• Applied for and received a SGI ATV Safety grant to offer an ATV Safety Course to youth. Class was cancelled due to lack of registrants and grant monies were returned to SGI.

• February 2011 Team members and community representatives participated in Primary Health Care Strategic planning to look at ways to enhance or improve Primary Health Care services for Carrot River, Arborfield and Zenon Park

In 2011, members of the Primary Health Care Team and Arborfield Community Advisory Committee were present at the Arborfield Beeland June 16th 12- 4pm to conduct the Community Wellness Assessment. Community members shopping at the store were invited to complete the survey questionnaire. In total 65 surveys were completed. The Primary Health Care Provider Team extends a sincere thank you to the members of the Arborfield Advisory Committee for their assistance in conducting the 2011 Community Wellness Assessment.


New to the survey this year was the addition of questions 5. (e) and (f) – refer to attached survey questionnaire. The information gathered from these two specific questions will also be shared with Primary Health Care Program Awareness Team who are now investigating how community members are currently finding out about health information as well as how community members would prefer to find out about this information. This team will be making recommendations to health care teams on how best to create awareness of health information, programs and services within our KTHR communities.

Information received was categorized according to three Population Health Promotion Pillars:

• Accessible Nutritious Foods

• Active Living

• Mental Well-Being/Substance Use and Abuse

• and an additional category entitled “Other” (ideas beyond the scope of the Team)

Method

Location: Arborfield Beeland Co-op Grocery Store

Date: June 16, 2011

Time: 12 noon to 4 P.M.

Earlier in the month of June members of the community advisory committee had circulated the survey to various groups and individuals within the community. Also, the Primary Health Care Clinic staff had offered clients accessing services at the clinic an opportunity to complete the survey questionnaire


Arbofield Primary Health Care Community Wellness Assessment

1. Postal Code: S0E 0A0 (Arborfield) - 59 S0E 0L0 (Carrot River) - 3 S0E 1W0 (Zenon Park) - 2 S0E 0E0 (Bjorkdale) - 1 2. Please state your age category by placing an “X” in one of the following boxes: 10-14 - 3 15-19 - 12 20-29 - 6 30-39 - 6 40-49 - 2 50-59 – 12 60-69 -8 70-79 - 10 80+ - 6 3. Please state your gender by placing an “X” in one of the following boxes: Female - 38 Male - 27 4. Are you aware of the Carrot River/Arborfield/Zenon Park Primary Health Care Provider Team? Yes - 51 No – 14

- But I am not completely aware of what they are involved in - I am confused about all the committees. Are they all the same thing? Clarification of who is

who would be nice. - Heard the name, what do they do? - Communication could be better

5. Please answer the following questions:

a. What is HEALTHY about living in your community?

Accessible Nutritious Foods

Active Communities Mental Well Being/

Substance Use & Abuse Other Issues Beyond the

Scope of PHC - Grow your own food/

gardens x 3 - Ability to buy fresh

grown organic foods - Not many fast food

restaurants around - Fresh fruit, veggies - Our Co-op has a good

variety of fruits and veggies

- Space to walk/walking trails x 5

- Seniors exercise group x 3

- Tri-town fitness challenge x 2

- Hunting x 2 - In Motion x 2 - Activities x 2 - The sports that are

available to play in the community

- Clubs and organizations

- Lots of bike - Active school - Lots of opportunity for

sports and exercise

- We have a nurse practitioner x 7

- Support of health centre/services x 6

- Doctor x 4 - Nurses x 2 - ASCL x 2 - We can get blood

work done here and x-rays x 2

- Opportunity to volunteer and help our neighbors and residents of ASCL

- Having seniors get-togethers

- Lifestyle choices - Hospital within 50

miles

- Friendly/caring community x 17

- Clean/fresh air x 13 - Safe/low or no crime x

9 - Small town/

community x 8 - Close to family,

friends, and work x 6 - Wide open spaces x 3 - Know everyone x 2 - Education x 2 - Keep picking up

garbage - Place more garbage

cans around town - Clean water - Environment - Culture - Great





Scope of PHC - Lots of opportunity for

sports and exercise - All these people

walking around reminding me I should too

- There are RN’s working at the lodge for extra bandaging and blood pressure readings

- Everyone brushing their teeth

- Health care in community and 50 km away.

- Few smokers

- Clean - Freedom - Less pollution - Space that is healthy

to walk, run and play - We have a beautiful

country life. - participation - A very safe community

where I know almost everyone and where vandalism is rare.

- Freedom - Some people are taxi

drivers for older people.

- Peace and quiet - Good rural living - Love it - Churches - Senior housing and

ramps - Good friends - Community belonging - Supportive - Social life with friends - Caring supportive

church


b. What is Not HEALTHY about living in your community?




Scope of PHC - Additives in packaged

food - Limited grocery

purchasing (healthy choices)

- Expensive healthy choices

- Limited rec opportunities

- No winter walking trails

- No place to walk in bad weather

- Bad knees that keep me from the exercise I enjoy

-Have to wait for appointment up to six months – Doctor/NP x 4 - Not having a doctor x

3 - Travel/distance for

some services x 3 - Not everyone can

drive out of town for services.

- No way of travelling out of town if you can’t drive

- No hospital - Outpatient nursing

treatments – not available locally – especially on weekends

- Resident that are placed in nursing homes far away from their homes and families.

- No access to nurse on weekends

- Need nurse practitioner every day or at least on call

- Not being able to be here more often or someone to fill in for them

- Our emergency workers are low in numbers

- There is a shortage of RN’s at the Lodge and our NP is not here much

- You have to go to Arborfield if you need

- Smell from CanPro/dehy x 10

- Chemicals from spraying x 8

- 2nd hand smoke x 4 - Nothing x 3 - Garbage around town

x 2 - Litter - Beer bottles - Dust control - Air pollution from the

agriculture sector - Can’t think of anything

right now on the spur of the moment

- Too much relied on modern technology which is not always right

- Too many drunk drivers

- Too many highway vehicles going right through

- Roaming dogs - Speed limit not

enforced. - Cars and trucks

speeding at north entrance to town

- Getting old - Distance from service - Lack of choice of

friends


medical assistance - We don’t have enough

hours for our clinics - Not feeling safe when

I am very sick and not knowing where to go to see a doctor

- Being so far from specialist if I have appointments and having to find someone to take me since I don’t drive in the city any more. They have to give up a full day from their busy lives.

- We have to stay healthy. -Home Care issues

* Several issues around home care services will be passed on to appropriate people/department.

c. What can the Primary Health Care Provider Team and community representatives work on to

make your community a healthier and safer place to live, work, and play? - More NP and doctors closer - To keep a nurse practitioner in Arborfield x 4 - Provide or enable nursing outpatient treatments locally on weekends (home care, or health

centre – IV’s, dressings, etc) - Ensure the excellent service we get at Arborfield Health Centre remains – nurse practitioner,

lab, x-ray – consultation with various visiting therapies – foot care, dietitian, speech or therapist, etc.

- Have Arborfield Health Centre able to do dressings and other services on weekends instead of having to travel to Nipawin for a simple service.

- More being able to stay in your own community when you need care - Go to people’s houses to bandage them up and stuff - Have specialists closer - More support for seniors - More respite beds - Have someone (nurse practitioners) on call or at the care center available for nursing or

doctor services - Get us more clinic hours. - Have an RN or LPN on duty or call for people who have had surgery and need dressings,

injections and whatever else they may need - Keep our health care close to home and home care help - Bath by home care aid


- A need to have our health centre services continue as it is quite satisfactory now. There is a need for coverage for outpatient treatments for weekends. I feel home care is very beneficial for an aging population such as we have in our community. With home care we can stay in our homes longer.

- Keep more health care closer to home and home care help - More workers available for Home Care and EMT and more days for our Nurse Practitioner - Increase mental health councilors/staff - Healthy food choices at school canteen - Promote healthier diets - Bring in more fresh fruit trucks (maybe roadside sales) - Put information on town face book site to keep our town clean and not throw glass bottles

in ditches - Provide more policing of highway traffic (speed control) through town - Better sidewalks - More trees where old ones are taken down - Better paved roads - Make something like a work out facility in the community - In motion – tri-unity challenge - Have more exercise programs x 2 - Have more awareness sessions re: health issues pertinent to our community - Keep asking for the opinions of the citizens. See what you come up with - Better sidewalks for walking in town - Help people to realize the dangers of sprays and chemicals - We have already lost a lot from our town - Watch kids - Year round paid staffing to organize/coach recreational activities (volunteers are burnt out) - To talk about health and do presentations - More fluorescent jackets - Stop/ban smoking x 5 - Not too sure - Pick up garbage - More community clean ups - Get an all season, low chlorine pool installed. Even an actual injury was improved by 2 days

of swimming - The information is out there, it’s getting you to pay attention to it. - Hard community to figure out but keep doing what you have been - Enforce dogs fenced - Everything is fine - Keep home safe - Don’t know - Conduct a research project on incidences of cancer in this area. It must be very high so

there is a cause. - Put speed bumps at north entrance to town permanently - Demolish hotel and old unoccupied, dilapidated houses - Education, visibility


d. What type(s) of information or education do you require to live a healthy life? - CPR x 5 - EMT’s x 2 - More ambulances - First Aid x 3 - Educate people about what ingredients in our food really are and how they affect our health

(artificial coloring, flavors, preservatives, etc) - One on one when concerns come up - I think I live healthy and find the information I need to do so. - Most people are basically well educated about their health and well being. We are

bombarded with TV health shows. - Monthly newsletter on events regarding health care and events would be very helpful - Minimal - Awareness about harmful chemicals - None x 8 - Healthy food choices - Preventative measures - Screening information and resources - You need to know changes in healthy issues and how to get them - Health books, information pamphlets - General healthy living information, updated with new information every so often. - None until the need arises - Diet x 8 - Exercise x 8 - Motivational speakers are good for mental side of health - Very fortunate at this time to be fairly healthy - Need to keep school here and have more work here for our community - Keep our nursing home - To know medical care - It keeps changing every time you turn around. I think it has to be more stable. It sure

doesn’t help the service we receive. - To be informed of upcoming health concerns - To be informed on health care at home - Autism information - Make more accountable re fitness challenge, excellent but should have been tracked - More information on recycling - There is a lot of information if I need it. - Grade 12 - Better sexual education for students, not just teen aid. - Alcohol education not just fear of drugs propaganda. - How to prevent hypertension, high cholesterol, preventing colds and flu during winter - location of services, voice of conscience

e. How do you find out about local health program information (Diabetes, Home Care, Addiction Services, Public Health, etc?) - Dr. or Nurse Practitioners Office – 40 - KTHR Web-site – 29


- Free newspaper - 23 - Posters – 34 - Phonebook – 6 - Radio – 16 - Face book - 4 - Other – 15 E-mails

Word of mouth x 6 Local business Newsletter x 2 Mostly coffee row, and not always right Internet x 2

f. How do you prefer to find out about this program information? - Health care provider x 21 - E-mail x 2 - Bulletins - Posters x 9 - Free newspaper x 2 - Phonebook - Radio x 3 - Newspaper x 5 - These forms were not readily available around town (e.g. Post office) – better advertising

would be good for something so important - People not aware of this unless they got this form (referring to Arborfield Co-op date) - Public meetings - By someone who can explain it more deeply - Facebook x 2 - KTHR website - Community bulletin boards - Anyway will do as long as I know where to look - Health forms - Information day meetings - Being out in public - Newsletter x 5 - Web x 3 - Any of the above - People - Pamphlets - A notice in our post office box, something to have at home to refer to when needed. - Prefer to have someone give a talk on this to a group - It is good enough - Info board at school not used nearly enough - I think it would be convenient to get handouts at church

e. Would you be interested in participating on a sub-committee to address your suggestions?

YES - 14 NO – 49 N/A - 2


Arborfield Primary Health Care 2011 Community Wellness Assessment

1. Postal Code 2. Please state your age category by placing an “X” in one of the following boxes:

10-14 15-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80+ 3. Please state your gender by placing an “X” in one of the following boxes: Female Male 4. Are you aware of the Carrot River/Arborfield/Zenon Park Primary Health Care Provider Team? Yes No 5. Please answer the following questions:

a. What is healthy about living in your community?

b. What is NOT healthy about living in your community?

c. What can the Primary Health Care Provider Team and community representatives work on to make your community a healthier and safer place to live, work, and play?

d. What type(s) of information or education do you require to live a healthy life?

e. How do you find out about local health program information (Diabetes, Home Care, Mental Health & Addiction Services, Public Health, etc?)

Dr. or Nurse Practitioners office KTHR Web-site Posters Free newspaper

Phonebook Radio Face book Other __________ f. How do you prefer to find out about this program information? g. Would you be interested in participating on a sub-committee to address your suggestions? YES NO If you checked yes, please fill in the following information so you can be contacted:

NAME: PHONE NUMBER:

Thank you for your time! You have made an important contribution to your community.

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