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America's City for Health

Interlocking between DMC, Olmsted County and Rochester City and Community organizations to ensure social impacts are factored into DMC project evaluation process and City Comprehensive Plan (P2S).

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

 


Collaborators 

Lead Organization: DMC EDA

Contact: Kevin Bright ; Email: kevinbright@dmceda.org ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: DMC EDA ; Diversity Council ; Lotus Health Foundation ; Olmsted County Community Services ; Olmsted County Housing Redevelopment Authority ; Olmsted County Public Health Services ; OpenBeam ; Rochester Area Family Y ; Rochester Community & Technical College ; Rochester Public Library ; United Way of Olmsted County ; Well Living Lab (A Delos and Mayo Clinic collaboration)

Potential Collaborators: AARP Rochester, MN ; Community Mobilization Resource Coalition (CMRC) ; In the City for Good Steering Committee ; Salvation Army/Samaritan Medical Clinic


Related Projects

Bus Rapid Transit (2nd Street SW Link) ; Community Health Assessment Process ; DMC Discovery Square ; Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; Discovery Walk Co-designing ; Envisioning a 21st Century City: Regional Issues, Global Perspectives ; Executing on Planning 2 Succeed: Rochester 2040 Comprehensive Plan ; Families Matter Mental Health Collaboration ; Housing Alliance Coalition ; Lifestyle Wellness Awareness Month ; Rochester Y Community Health Living Index Assessment (CHLI) ; The Village Community Garden & Learning Center (VCGLC) ; Update Intercultural Cities Initiative (ICI) Index


Impacts 

Major Impact:  Vision/Identity

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Aging, Best Practice, Business Process, Civic Engagement, Commitment, Diversity and Inclusion, Governance/Public Policy, Health, Housing, International, Intelligence, Mental Health, OpenBeam, Sustainability, Technology Enablement, Transportation, Workforce Development

Level 2:

DMC Impacts:

Livable City, Health & Wellness, Education/Learning Environment

Community Health Impacts:

Comprehensive


Type of Project

Planning, Special  

 

 

Detailed Description

Need a system and process to manage and track various formal community inputs to DMC and the City to build a "Community for Health".
The following was presented to DMC Board in its April 23, 2015 public forum:
There is a need for a social system to ensure:
  1. Policies that bring potential health and social impacts into the decision-making process.
  2. Project approval criteria that evaluate the potential health and social impacts of a project before it is built.
  3. Metrics that gauge progress toward positive health and social outcomes that promote and sustain an inclusive and healthy community.

 

CNG Letter to DMC

 

 


 

Public Health Recommendations

 

 

 


Key reports on: America's City for Health


Use of "America City for Health" as moniker to attract DMC investment (February 25, 2023)

Feb 2023 Business Development status; Nov. 2021 Presentation to DMCC Board in November 2021 Board Meeting. Focus on attracting more companies coming in.  America City for Health as lead generation asset. 

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ACH 2022 Info Log (January 22, 2022)

January 2022 Meeting Review Workgroup purpose (mission, vision, and values) and OpenBeam comments. 

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2019 Community for Health Workgroup Log (December 20, 2019)

DMC EDA initiated Community For Health group effort notes 2018 and 2019 logging of notes and activities. 

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Olmsted County Public Health, Pete Giesen, presents to CNG regarding health-based policies (January 31, 2016)

In the 2016 January CNG meeting, Pete Giesen presented to CNG an approach to engage City Comprehensive Plan based on healthy community design principles.

Pete asks CNG friends and community members to consider the following healthy community principles as we evaluate the 3 P2S scenarios.

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Key reports on: America's City for Health


Use of "America City for Health" as moniker to attract DMC investment (February 25, 2023)

Feb 2023 Business Development status; Nov. 2021 Presentation to DMCC Board in November 2021 Board Meeting. Focus on attracting more companies coming in.  America City for Health as lead generation asset. 

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ACH 2022 Info Log (January 22, 2022)

January 2022 Meeting Review Workgroup purpose (mission, vision, and values) and OpenBeam comments. 

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2019 Community for Health Workgroup Log (December 20, 2019)

DMC EDA initiated Community For Health group effort notes 2018 and 2019 logging of notes and activities. 

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Olmsted County Public Health, Pete Giesen, presents to CNG regarding health-based policies (January 31, 2016)

In the 2016 January CNG meeting, Pete Giesen presented to CNG an approach to engage City Comprehensive Plan based on healthy community design principles.

Pete asks CNG friends and community members to consider the following healthy community principles as we evaluate the 3 P2S scenarios.

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General reports on: America's City for Health


March 29, 2019 America’s City for Health Memo's

Engage area leaders about the need to converge various health/wellness initiatives to drive collective impact. (1) Memo to CNG Steering Committee (2) Memo to Mayor Norton re Community City of Health conversation. 

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March 01, 2017 2017 Policy Brief: Incorporating Healthy Community Design Principles into the Rochester Comprehensive Plan

"As we get closer to the public comment period for the Rochester Comprehensive Plan, I thought I’d pass along the “final” version approved by the Public Health Services Advisory Board.  Content hasn’t changed significantly since last year, but put into a different format (2 documents attached).  Feel free to share with CNG."

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April 23, 2015 CNG advocacy letter to DMCC Board in support of community health design principles.

CNG advocacy letter to DMCC Board in support of community health design principles.

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Other Community News and Reports having impacts on:

Aging, Best Practice, Business Process, Civic Engagement, Commitment, Diversity and Inclusion, Governance/Public Policy, Health, Housing, International, Intelligence, Mental Health, OpenBeam, Sustainability, Technology Enablement, Transportation, Workforce Development  
June 02, 2023: Building Racial Equity into the Walls of Minnesota Medicaid
(1) May 26, 2023 DHS Report on Progress Toward Building Racial Equity into the Walls of MN Medicaid (2) March 2023; December 2022; February 2022 newsletters

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May 25, 2023: Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Barriers Study
(1) DBE Study Session to City Council April 17, 2023 , (2) Memo to DMCC Board; 

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April 25, 2023: Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan 2022
1. 2022 Strategic Plan and extracted sections. 2. RPS Strategic Plan Building Blocks 

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March 29, 2023: Accessory Dwelling Unit Pilot Program Open for Applications
The Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Pilot Program supports and encourages property owners in the city of Rochester to develop ADUs on their properties.

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March 23, 2023: 1Q 2023 Destination Medical Center (DMC) Reports
March 2023 Executive Committee Meeting; Feb 9 2023 DMCC Board Meeting and City, County, DMC Collaborative Session

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March 23, 2023: Bryk Apartments March and May Status
March and May reports to DMCC including video, documents and presentations. 

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March 11, 2023: Preserving community area resources knowledge
Rochester Area Resource List sourced from Diversity Council and link to Beam search engine.

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Last modified by allnode on 2023/05/13
Created by allnode on 2015/04/25

 

 

 

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