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Community Health and Environment Stories

Collecting stories about innovative approaches and practices being used to address the environment as a driver of population health outcomes.
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About the Community Health and Environment Initiative

Background about why the initiative was founded, what it seeks to achieve, what it bases its work on and what its deliverables are.
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Community Health and Environment Resources

Explore the Community Health and Environment's resources, which can be leveraged to address the impact of environment on community health.

Maternal Health: Improving Quality Outcomes

Designing care that improves quality and patient safety contributes to improved pregnancy outcomes. These AHA resources highlight success stories of hospitals and health systems that focus on models of care aimed at improving their maternal care quality and outcomes.
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Community Investment for Health | Center

Resources to help hospitals and health systems use community investment/place-based investment to address social factors that influence health.

Community Health and Environment Technical Expert Panel

The TEP advises the Community Health and Environment initiative in its efforts to address environment as a social driver of health.
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Abstract: Transformation Talks, Leveraging the Community and Innovation to Improve Health

The spread of COVID-19 revealed systemic cracks in the social needs and public health infrastructure of communities — inequities that have existed for decades. A Kaiser Permanente survey of 2,900 of its members earlier this year illustrates the disproportionate impact the pandemic is having on the poor and people of color.
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Advocate Condell's pantry program is nourishing communities and connections

In Libertyville, Illinois, Advocate Condell Medical Center is tackling food insecurity through their innovative Rx Mobile Food Pantry Program, delivering fresh, nutritious food directly to neighborhoods in need.
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New center to study health disparities impacting rural, underserved communities in Pa.

Penn State College of Medicine has launched the Center for Advancing Health Equity in Rural and Underserved Communities. The center's initial focus is on reducing cancer health disparities and improving health literacy and education in cardiovascular health, cancer, and diabetes for minority, underserved, and rural populations.