| Community Health Collaboratives |
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| General Information |
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A community health collaborative is broadly focused, bringing together diverse stakeholders. Community Health Collaboratives enlist a range of activities to increase access for low-income and vulnerable community members, coordinate care across the healthcare delivery system and promote strategies that improve community health and well-being.
A community health collaborative convenes, coordinates, incubates and communicates local efforts that improve health. Specifically, a community health collaborative effort:
- Facilitates communities working together to improve health
- Coordinates community response to improve access to needed services that promote health
- Leverages existing community resources
Recognizing that an optimal health care delivery system must be responsive to the uniqueness of geographic locations, populations, and infrastructure, communities throughout Oregon are reorganizing themselves to deliver more effective and efficient health services in a sustainable fashion. These local efforts vary in design and implementation, however, each community-created solution is committed to collaboration and doing business differently.
The Office of Health Systems Planning provides technical assistance and community development to community health collaborative efforts across the state. Health Systems Planning supports communities in a variety of ways including; fostering community engagement, assessing community readiness, board development, governance, leveraging local resources and sustainability planning.
Health Systems Planning just culminated a two-year Learning Institute for community health collaborative leaders. The objectives of the Learning Institute were to:
- Provide an opportunity for members of community health collaboratives to learn from one another;
- Share progressive approaches to increasing healthcare access with members of community collaboratives;
- Provide an opportunity for members of community collaboratives to review, comment and advise on issues of state and local health policy; and
- Develop leadership and other resources necessary to sustain the work of community collaboratives
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| National Models |
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Hundreds of communities across America have mobilized to increase health care access and eliminate racial and socio-economic health disparities. These trailblazers are part of a national grass-roots movement to transform health care from the ground up. Bookmark this page to learn about some of the most promising models, as Communities Joined in Action continues to expand its membership.
To learn more about community efforts around the nation, please visit www.cjaonline.net
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Community Health Collaboratives for Change:
Action, Access and Outcomes summit
November 13, 2008, Portland
The summit convened Federal, State, and Local policy makers as well as other public and private health and community stakeholders in order to:
- Highlight evidence-based community solutions that improve access to needed health services and the health of people and communities.
- Recognize the importance of community health collaborative efforts and develop strategies to support them.
- Celebrate community enterprises and leaders contributing to better health for more people at less cost.
- Secure offers and commitments to specific strategies that support community-created solutions.
Conference materials
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| In the News |
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| Reports and Tools |
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