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Promoting Access To Healthcare Services
South Broward Hospital District 
Planning and Grants Department
3501 Johnson Street
Hollywood, Florida 33021
Project Director: Amy Pont, RN, BSN
Improving the accessibility of health care services is one of the principal hopes for the American health care system and a key element in community health initiatives.
Promoting Access To Healthcare Services (PATHS) will link a large, multi-facility, non-profit health care system with trusted community-based organizations in southern Broward County, Florida to demonstrate that a successful patient navigator program can reduce the burden of chronic diseases by removing socioeconomic, cultural and linguistic barriers to high quality health care services for our target population of high-risk, uninsured Blacks and Hispanics.
The South Broward Hospital District, the fourth largest public healthcare system in the Nation, is the safety net provider for the proposed 135-square mile service area.
Through PATHS, the South Broward Hospital District will partner with
- Hispanic Unity of Florida, the largest community-based organization serving the area's minority population,
- Coalition for a Healthy South Broward, a grassroots community organization consisting of 400 individuals from more than 75 agencies,
- Broward County Hispanic Bar Association,
- Nova Southeastern University,
- Broward Regional Health Planning Council,
- Broward County Health Department and
- Broward County Government.
The project will provide public health interventions that will increase access to acute, chronic and preventive healthcare, support healthier lifestyles and increase health literacy.
Promoting Access To Healthcare Services will train and utilize a diverse staff of five healthcare navigators recruited from the local community to decrease health disparities relating to heart disease, diabetes and cancer (colorectal, prostate, breast and cervical) for 2,200 uninsured Blacks and Hispanics during the 2-year implementation program.
This quality improvement initiative will ensure that patient care is
- safe
- timely
- effective
- efficient
- patient-centered
- equitable
This project will strategically place the healthcare navigators in four critical locations within the service area where the target population is at highest risk for “falling through the cracks” due to barriers in the existing system of care.
Page last updated: October 8, 2008
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