COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PLAN
Community Health Improvement Plan
From late 2020 to spring 2021, health care leaders from Marion County and Polk County came together to create a plan, called the 2021-2025 Community Health Improvement Plan or “CHIP”. The CHIP identifies aims and strategies to improve the Community Health Assessment (CHA) priority areas, which include:
- Behavioral health supports
- Housing
- Substance use
To develop the CHIP, the group formed three workgroups – one for each CHA priority area. Each workgroup included community members, leaders, and experts. Together, they looked at information from the CHA and carefully chose aims and strategies. Then they wrote and shared the CHIP with other local key community organizations and groups for additional input before it was finished.
The CHIP’s overall strategies are:
- Partner with organizations who serve Black, Indigenous, Latino/a/x, Russian/Slavic, Asian and Pacific Islander communities to improve health.
- For community members that have been unfairly treated, work to better understand their health.
- Put language and culture first.
Marion-Polk CHIP Progress Reports
The WHC, in partnership with the Marion-Polk CCO, completes annual reports on our community’s progress in implementing the CHIP. You can access these annual reports below.
Marion-Polk CHIP Summary
The documents below provide a summary of the 2021-2025 CHIP in various languages.
Marion-Polk CHIP
The documents below provide a summary of the 2021-2025 CHIP in various languages.
