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CHI Health Good Samaritan - Buffalo County Community Partners
CHI Health Good Samaritan is an anchor of Buffalo County Community Partners, a coalition of community members, organizations and businesses launched in 1995 to improve community health. Eleven coalitions work to make a measurable difference in community health indicators, including high-impact prevention services, elimination of health disparities, active living and healthy eating, injury-free living and sustainable communities.
What is it?
CHI Health Good Samaritan is an anchor of Buffalo County Community Partners, a coalition of community members, organizations and businesses launched in 1995 to improve community health. Eleven coalitions work to make a measurable difference in community health indicators, including high-impact prevention services, elimination of health disparities, active living and healthy eating, injury-free living and sustainable communities. For more information, please visit the website.
Who is it for?
Buffalo County residents
Why do they do it?
Through grassroots problem-solving, the coalition can improve the health and quality of life of everyone in the community.
Impact
Among the partners’ many accomplishments are the state’s only rural public transportation system and the HelpCare Clinic, a volunteer-based clinic for the uninsured, opening in 2015. The coalition builds sustainable community processes with more than 1,000 volunteers who have reduced tobacco use by 50 percent, reduced teen binge drinking by 42 percent and saved $1.2 million in emergency department costs.
Contact: Marsha Wilkerson
Regional Director, Marketing & Communications
Telephone: 308-865-7972
Email: marshawilkerson@catholichealth.net
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