DESIRED RESULT
Compared to other Texas communities, McLennan County residents will live healthier lifestyles and access the best available care
HOW WILL WE GET THERE?
- Decrease the use of the Emergency Room as a source of primary care
- Decrease the percentage of Waco-area adults and children considered overweight or obese
- Improve women’s health indicators by reducing disparities of poor birth outcomes and the rate of teen pregnancy, while increasing the percentage of women receiving annual preventative care
- Decrease the use of the Emergency Room for mental health treatment and improve McLennan’s County ranking in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s component of “poor mental health days”