Healthy Communities
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The Western Idaho Community Health Collaborative (WICHC) is aligning healthcare, social services, and public health to work together and invest in communities towards a common goal of improving health outcomes and saving costs.
WICHC creates and sets the table for groundbreaking collaboration across multiple sectors.
Community Spotlight
WICHC is partnering with Elmore County to complete the four-year Get Healthy Idaho grant.
About WICHC
The Western Idaho Community Health Collaborative (WICHC) aligns health care, public health, and social services to improve the social influencers of health.
WICHC is a groundbreaking model for collaboration across multiple sectors to address these complex community health issues.
Our Goal:
Unite local leaders in the common cause of improving health through upstream, strategic efforts.
Creating an enduring platform to support health
When multiple institutions across varying sectors work in alignment, we create better health outcomes for everyone.
Health Equity
Everyone, irrespective of where they live, should have an opportunity to be healthy.
Maximized Resources
Partnerships enable the best use of public and private resources by driving dollars towards the most impactful health solutions and reducing duplication.
Prevention
Prevention and working upstream is proven to be the best long term strategy to improve community health.