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Behavioral Health: Community Partnerships

The resources on this page showcase stories and the steps to achieving successful behavioral health community partnerships and expand access to behavioral health services at the right time, place and level of care.
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Health system’s Community Investing Program fosters positive changes

A recent community health needs assessment conducted by Saint Francis Hospital and local organizations in Hartford, Conn., indicated that 26% of Hartford residents have difficulty paying for food and 17% have difficulty paying for housing.
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Hospital Stories

Explore stories of hospitals going above and beyond to care for their patients and communities throughout America. Search by location using state, category, or hospital name in the interactive map, or sort stories by category using the filter.
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Rural Connecticut hospital customizes behavioral health care to meet community needs

Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, located in Torrington, Ct., and part of Hartford HealthCare, is continuously “expanding and tweaking” its behavioral health offerings to ensure the people it serves in northwestern Connecticut communities get the care they need.
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Age-Friendly Health Systems | Center

AHA and partners provide transformational insights, ideas and actions for addressing the unique care needs of older adults.
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Community-based Partnership Resources | Care Transformation Framework: Community Settings

Hospitals are adopting strategies to address societal factors at the community level that impact swaths of the patient population. While health care alone cannot change community circumstances, hospital partnerships with multisector community stakeholders can influence community ecosystems to provide an environment in which all community members can thrive.
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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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Mental Health Urgent Care opens in Vermont, addressing critical community health need

To provide a safe alternative to the ED and help people before they experience a mental health crisis, University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Vt., and several other organizations worked together to open the Mental Health Urgent Care in October 2024. the Mental Health Urgent Care offers mental health services, peer support and help accessing follow-up services to guests
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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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Mobile health team promotes wellness, addresses substance abuse disorders in rural Maine

MaineHealth Community Health Farmington, which includes MaineHealth Franklin Hospital, offers health and wellness services and education focused on disease prevention to communities in rural Franklin County.