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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 ; Families Matter Mental Health Collaboration ; Housing Alliance Coalition ; Lifestyle Wellness Awareness Month ; Planning To Succeed: Rochester 2040 Comprehensive Plan (P2S) ; 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

 

 

 

Strategy

OpenBeam Observations: 

  • Nothing official
  • Several initiatives have potential to drive toward a common purpose
  • Bottom up is the reality
  • Several "top down" projects that deliver the common good

 

2022-07-28

  • Co-designing to be leveraged.
  • Still no system-wide coodination

 

2021-11-20

Economic Front Presented to DMCC Board 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metrics

TBD

 

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

 

 

 

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Project Phase Definitions
The following defines the various project phases:
  1. Available - a product, program or service is in production
  2. Develop - program or application is being developed
  3. Plan - idea is solid, stakeholders are identified, and there is strong commitment to go forward from all parties.
  4. Concept Phase - idea scoped out with enough details to give an early sizing and/or to build a proof of concept
    demonstration
  5. Pre-concept Phase - an early idea or a requirement.
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