The Health Care Improvement Foundation Inc

Cities changing diabetes is a global program to engage multiple partners throughout philadelphia to help communities understand their unique diabetes challenges, identify areas and populations at greatest risk, and design and implement targeted solutions. Hcif provides local expertise and project management as philadelphia becomes 2nd u.s. City and 25th city in the world to launch initiative. This is a planned 3-5 year initiative with 2019 serving as "year 0", supported by a year-to- year contract with novo nordisk. Hcif received funding for fy24-25 in the amount of approximately 1,000,000. This program ends june 30, 2025.

Collaborative opportunities to advance community health (coach) is an initiative that brings together hospital/health system, public health, and community partners to address community health needs in southeastern pennsylvania. Coach has provided a structure for participants to explore collaborative implementation strategies as hospitals/health systems respond to community health needs assessments (chna) through implementation plans mandated by the affordable care act. Coach focuses on two areas: 1.) food insecurity - with our partners, we are working on a dashboard that allows hospitals and social service agencies to understand where food resources are located throughout the city, 2.) trauma-informed care - we are developing assessments and educational opportunities for stakeholders to incorporate components of trauma-informed care in their processes. Pennsylvania department of health diabetes grant: through funding from the pennsylvania department of health and in supplement to the collaborative opportunities to advance community health (coach) program, hcif was able to develop a training series of five video-based modules on social needs and food security to prepare staff at multiple levels of a health system to respond to patients' social needs through action-oriented approach. Learners can watch each module in the suggested order or assign certain modules to team members depending on their role in assessing and addressing social needs. Coach is an initiative that brings together hospitals/health systems, public health, and community partners to address community health needs in southeastern pennsylvania. Coach is sponsored by the hospital and healthsystem association of pennsylvania (hap) and facilitated by hcif. Health literacy initiatives: hcif manages the pennsylvania health literacy coalition and brings together hospitals, healthcare organizations, and community-based partners to address the health literacy needs in the state. Under this project, hcif has also worked to improve immigrant health literacy. Hcif has been a sole contractor to the state for this program for over a decade and has trained thousands of health care providers and stakeholders regarding best practices in health literacy. Heart disease prevention (cdc 1817): hcif convenes a number of stakeholders to advance blood pressure self-monitoring and seeks to improve blood pressure and cholesterol control in the city, especially among philadelphians with medicaid coverage and residents of areas of the city shown to have poor cardiovascular outcomes.