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Foundation Appreciation to Outgoing Trustees

The Foundation gives gratitude to our outgoing trustees for their eight years of dedicated service to our organization. Our appreciate goes out to Bob Jeffrey, Ann Mech, Steve Sachs, Dr. Robert Sheff, and Jim Truby.

Their work has left a lasting impact on the Foundation, as well as contributed to the overall health and wellness of our Howard County community.

 

(L-R:) Jim Truby, Dr. Robert Sheff, Ann Mech,
Steve Sachs, Bob Jeffrey




Foundation Announces Two-Year Pilot for Real-Time Language Interpretation Services at Howard County General, Chase Brexton and Healthy Howard Access to Care

Community leaders, local politicians, and representatives of the county's Spanish-speaking, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, and Deaf communities joined the Horizon Foundation and its partners on December 15th  to launch a new video interpretation service designed to make health care more accessible in increasingly-diverse Howard County. Through a two-year grant from the Horizon Foundation, the Howard County General Hospital, Chase Brexton Health Services, and the Healthy Howard Health Plan will pilot test the new service to determine whether this technology can improve health care access and reduce institutional health care costs. Read more::

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Curious About the Foundation's Healthy Lifestyle's Initiative?

We've created a section to outline our work to promote healthy lifestyle choices for those who live and work in Howard County - read more about it here.

Howard Health
Counts

Howard Health Counts displays health data on Howard County and compares it to other local jurisdictions on the most current basis possible. Integral to the system is a set of heath dashboard indicators - visual representations of health and lifestyle data gathered from local, state and federal sources. Howard Health Counts also includes analytic tools and is a source of best practices information. 

www.howardhealthcounts.org