Salina Regional Health Center - Community Health Investment Program

What is it?

Salina Regional Health Center tithes a portion of its operating margin each year to the Salina Regional Health Foundation's Community Health Investment Program (CHIP). CHIP provides grants to organizations that, like the hospital, are working to improve the health of the people in north central Kansas.

Salina Regional Health Center established the program in 1994, and it continues to provide the primary funding – tithing $8,049,339 to the program to date. The Salina Regional Health Foundation manages the program and has awarded $4,946,347 in grants, oftentimes in the form of a community challenge to leverage additional funds for community causes.

Some of the grant recipients have included the Salina Cares Clinic, which provides medical services to people who have no medical insurance; Child Abuse Prevention Services, which funds a business manager for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Child Care Center; and Hospice of Salina, to provide outreach bereavement services for the community.

Who is it for?

At-risk, low-income, families, children and teens.

Why do they do it?

CHIP was created to assist organizations and programs that are working to increase health maintenance, health education, access to care, prevention, wellness, health information systems, and other health-related services or activities.

Contact: John Berggren
Public Relations Coordinator
Telephone: 785-452-7830
E-mail: jberggre@srhc.com

Contact: Beth Vinson
Marketing Director
Telephone: 785-452-6824
E-mail: bvinson@srhc.com