
Community Health Improvement Week
Thank you for sharing your activities, resources and stories with us during CHI Week 2024!
Save the date for next year's CHI Week: June 9-13, 2025.
AHA's Community Health Improvement (ACHI) network presents Community Health Improvement Week 2024, a time to honor those working in partnership to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities and advance health equity.
To get involved, check out the "Ways to Celebrate" guide, share your community health improvement stories with us and join the national conversation taking place online.
Highlights from the 2024 Accelerating Health Equity Conference

Accelerating Health Equity Conference Playbook
Browse a recap of the 2024 Accelerating Health Equity Conference, with key takeaways from conference sessions.

Thriving Together: Transformational Practices for Advancing Health Equity
Building effective frameworks and partnerships helps hospitals and health systems create healthy, thriving communities.

Hospitals, Public Health & Government: A United Front to End Homelessness
Hospitals and health systems are critical partners in multisector efforts to support people experiencing homelessness.

Attendees Share Community Health Improvement Stories
Accelerating Health Equity Conference attendees shared how they are collaborating with partners to improve health in their communities.
Thought Leadership

Together We Can Do So Much to Improve Community Health
Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., 2024 AHA board chair, writes that collaboration and partnership are key to successful efforts to improve community health. Hospitals, health systems and a variety of community organizations across the country are partnering to develop creative solutions and innovative programs in this critical work.
This chair file highlights three examples of health systems working with community partners to improve the health and well-being of their communities and accelerate health equity.

Supporting Community Health by Partnering with Patients
AHA’s Chris DeRienzo speaks with the WISH Center team at SSM Health about their work to prevent opioid use and protect the health of new mothers and their babies.
Making Impact Investments to Drive Health
AHA Chair Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., and David Zuckerman of the Healthcare Anchor Network, discuss how hospitals and health systems are building healthier communities by making investments that address social drivers of health.

Community Cornerstones Investing in Community Health
Kinneil Coltman describes how Advocate Health works with local partners to improve community health.
Community Health Improvement in Action
Discover how organizations across the U.S. are improving community health and advancing health equity.
Prescriptive Food Pantry Addresses SDOH
Stormont Vail Health’s robust prescriptive pantry addresses food insecurity and helps patients manage diabetes.
IU Health’s Barbershop Initiative
Indiana University Health’s iHEART collaborative addresses health disparities in historically marginalized communities by embedding health resources in barbershops and other community spaces.
Penn State Health has partnered with community organizations in over 80 locations to increase access to healthy food.
In early 2025, a new $73.8 million critical access hospital will bring health care to the only county in Wyoming currently lacking a hospital.
Community Health Assessment Toolkit
New CHA Toolkit Case Studies
Community Health Assessment Toolkit case studies provide real-life examples of how hospitals are implementing CHA strategies and tactics. Check out examples from BJC HealthCare, Children’s Mercy, Freeman Health, Hackensack Meridian Health, Outer Banks Health, Providence Health & Services, Renown Health, Sharp HealthCare and Wagner Community Memorial Hospital Avera.

Improving Health for Older Adults:
Success Story from Chicago's South Side
This June 13 webinar features Monica Long, nurse educator and project site coordinator at the SHARE Network. Long will discuss how implementing the Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms model has improved care for older adults in Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
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Thank you to Hippos Healthcare and Do Tank Health for sponsoring CHI Week 2024!

