Community-Integrated Health Care Interest Group

ABOUT THE INTEREST GROUP

Network with peers and exchange strategies and practices for improving the health of patients and communities that essential hospitals serve. 

In 2019, Essential Hospitals Institute released Outside the Hospital Walls: An Update on Essential Hospitals’ Efforts to Improve the Health of Their Communities, a resource designed to define and describe the notion of community-integrated health care (CIHC).  

America’s Essential Hospitals defines CIHC as “a strategy by which health care providers work with other sectors (e.g., government, private entities*, social service, community development) in both complementary and collaborative ways to improve health. We envision successful community-integrated health care yields a connected system that meets the physical, mental, and social needs of individuals and improves the structures and conditions that influence those needs.”

*2025 addition to 2019 definition

Join the discussion and discover innovations—both in and beyond essential hospitals—to establish the structures and conditions that support CIHC.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Member hospital employees interested in community-integrated health care

OBJECTIVES

• Discuss opportunities to improve the structures and conditions that influence the mental, physical, and social needs of our communities, including through connections with community-based organizations
• Showcase essential hospital programs and national resources that support that mission
• Provide a safe space for members to share honestly about barriers and facilitators to their work
• Share guidance on mission-aligned health care, including organizational practices, internal policies, and clinical processes

MEETING FREQUENCY

Virtually on the first Tuesday of every month, 2–3 pm ET, unless otherwise noted

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Céleste Cullors at ccullors@essentialhospitals.org