Healthy memphis common table Milestones

2010
• The HMCT Board of Directors adopted four key strategic imperatives: promoting healthy life style changes, preventive care messaging to the general public, consumer friendly health and quality public reports, and environmental policies which focus on health equity.
• Launched hospital compared data on our web site and converted consumer tools and quality reports to Spanish.
• Launched an aggressive public awareness media campaign.
• Launched our third public report on quality on our web site.
• Doubled our staff from three to six.
• Hosted the National Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes.
• Launched our new Facebook site.
• Previewed our consumer magazine on quality.
• Launched our new weekly calendar of events for our community partners.
• Held our first annual meeting that included our community partners.
• Added five new board members and elected a new slate of officers.
• Partnered with the Nursing Institute of the Mid-South on their first nursing leadership conference.
• Conducted a quality forum on palliative care targeted to physicians, nurses and social workers.
• As a result of the series on patient experience featured by the Commercial Appeal, we received over 5,000 web site hits from consumers seeking information about their physician and their patient experience rating.

2009
• HMCT hires its first Executive Director, Renee’ S. Frazier, MHSA, FACHE.
• Received a $2.0M grant from the Merck Foundation to address health disparities in diabetes care over the next five years with a focus on self management.
• Take Charge for Better Health community partnership is launched encouraging stronger partnerships in the community to take responsibility for better health and health care for everyone.
• Also launched a quality checklist for providers and patients to use in partnership to support a focus on chronic disease management and health care.
• The first Take Charge for Better Health reports are released to help consumers better understand their health and health care quality.
• The patient experience survey results were also launched in partnership with Consumer Checkbooks, The Memphis Medical Society, and Bluff City Medical Center.
• HMCT opens its first official office in Lenox Park.
• Adopted a new vision “to become one of America’s healthiest cities” and a mission “to mobilize greater Memphis to achieve excellent health for all”. 
• A more consumer centric web page was launched and designed to encourage all sectors of our community to “Take Charge for Better Health”!
• Also launched an aggressive public awareness media campaign to reposition new brand and look of the Healthy Memphis Common Table.

2008
• HMCT is designated the first Charter Value Exchange in the U.S. by the Department of Health and Human Services.
• Received $1 million in additional funds for Phase II of the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative and continuation of Phase I. 
• The Common Table expands efforts to fight chronic diseases and health care disparities among consumers, in collaboration with physicians, hospitals and others.
• Received a three-year grant from the Assisi Foundation in Memphis to start addressing health care issues in certain Memphis-area neighborhoods with health disparities.

2007
• As Phase II of the Healthy Memphis campaign, HMCT and the Commercial Appeal start a weekly series of easy-to-read health improvement articles in the newspaper (“Family Health…Take Charge!”) every Monday.
• Memphis Quality Initiative (MQI) agrees to work with the HMCT to improve quality in hospitals.  MQI becomes the Common Table’s third initiative.

2006
• HMCT serves as a local host for the first national Shaping America’s Youth 21st Century Town Meeting.
• More than 1,000 Memphians join Governor Bredesen and other local and national leaders in Memphis to identify ways to overcome the plaque of obesity affecting our children.
• HMCT facilitates work of Community Partners to launch more than 25 projects to battle the rise in obesity and diabetes.
• HMCT receives Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) grant for $600,000.
• Memphis becomes one of four national pilot AF4Q projects, recognized for its leadership in health care system change.  Later RWJF expands to 14 markets.
• AF4Q becomes the Common Table’s second major initiative.

2005
• HMCT Community Partners launch 18 projects focused on reversing the obesity and diabetes epidemics in Shelby County.

2004
• HMCT hosts a community partner organizing meeting and more than 40 key community and health care leaders attend.
• Working groups are formed.
• The Common Table conducts its first Community Partner Meeting and 120 people attend.
• Working groups review data, set goals, and develop action plans.
• A Community Partner Working Group meeting develops soon after and action teams are formed.
• HMCT Working Groups and their Action Teams develop plans.
• At its 2nd Quarterly Community Partners Meeting, the Common Table announces that its community partners will propose health improvement projects to help reverse the obesity and diabetes trend in the Mid-South.
• The Healthy Memphis campaign, a city-wide obesity and diabetes project, is launched by the Commercial Appeal and WREG-TV Channel 3 including HMCT.

2003
• HMCT forms as a collaborative.  Representatives of health improvement coalitions, agencies, and passionate individuals meet in their homes around dining room tables to discuss ways to improve health in the Mid-South.
• Just Health Foundation joins other coalitions in this effort.
• HMCT becomes a 501©(3) Corporation, assuming the Just Health Foundation tax ID. 
• The Common Table is introduced to the public at the UT Norfleet Forum.
• Don Berwick (IHI) and other national leaders help to focus the community on diabetes and obesity.
• Nearly 460 people generate ideas for action.
• Local leaders pledge support of the new HMCT and ask it to coordinate the health improvement activities of the entire community – a coalition of coalitions, businesses, organizations, and individuals.

2002
• Dr. Bob Waller, CEO Emeritus Mayo Clinic, calls for a common table in Memphis as a way to get people to solve problems in our community.

2001
• Just Health Foundation becomes a 501©(3) public benefit Tennessee Corporation.

2000
• Just Health Foundation, a non-profit organization, is formed to improve public health education and encourage people working together to improve health care systems.