CHC: Creating Healthier Communities
MetroHealth Partnership
MetroHealth and CHC’s new partnership will elevate the MetroHealth Model which integrates health equity into all aspects of the business and community, with proven health outcomes
The MetroHealth System and CHC: Creating Healthier Communities announced a new partnership that will document “the MetroHealth Model” in a case study to be disseminated nationally, serving as an example to hospital systems, associations, nonprofits, businesses and others about how to advance health equity in their communities through proven practices.
MetroHealth’s Model incorporates a comprehensive approach, addressing the social determinants of health in a community, focusing on everything from the environment and greenspace to education, jobs and housing, including building a new hospital in an underserved area.
MetroHealth Partnership key objectives include:
- CHC, a national leader advancing equity by addressing the barriers to good health, and its partner, the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI, will use 15 years of MetroHealth data to develop a case study and replication guide highlighting MetroHealth’s unique health equity model.
- The model will include a leadership profile on taking courageous action, how to weigh risk against doing the right thing, how to engage community stakeholders, interventions tested and piloted, business benefits and the investment case, plus the resulting community impact and strategies that have proven effective to accelerate health and equity in Cleveland.
MetroHealth and CHC plan to release the case study and roadmap in early 2023.
This partnership was announced in May 2022.
