The Healthy Communities Institute has designed a system and strategies to help local public health departments, hospitals and community coalitions to measure community health, share best practices, identify new funding sources and drive improved community health.
Our information system can be used to promote transparency, best practice sharing, collaboration and civic engagement. This web-based technology is highly efficient and affordable, and already being used in the United States to improve public health and efficiencies. And this community tracking, collaborative-building system has tools available for performance measures that are linked to public health interventions that improve health outcomes.
We provide solutions for:
Strategic Planning
Community Needs Assessments
Various regulatory requirements at city, county and state levels
Information & Referral Search
Community Planning
Custom Community Portals
Our clients include
County, City and State Government (Health Department, Board of Supervisors, etc.)
Community Coalitions
Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations and Councils
Institutes
Universities
Called the Healthy Communities Network, this system provides you with an organizing system and tools to:
Understand what is working and not working in the community via transparency and dashboards
Efficiently participate in Best Practice sharing of successful community programs around the nation
Easily connect people to their local resources
Gain collaboration amongst organizations and key stakeholders
Engage the community as part of the solution to improve public health
Gather key stakeholders from your departments of health and public health, hospitals, economic development, public safety, transportation, education, and environmental services in order to drive multi-stakeholder collaboration to improve (local) public health
Educate the local and state political process around the value of public health
The Healthy Communities Network system is available now to counties, regions, cities and hospital coalitions to help you achieve model local governance, improve health tracking and status, and lower costs.