Programs
Programs
HIP takes a unique approach to improving health care systems at the local level. By uniting public and private providers to improve coordination of services, increase access and reduce costs, HIP can surpass the scope of any one individual organization.
Key Initiatives
HIP's members have partnered on the following key initiatives:
- Healthy Kids of Santa Cruz County to cover over 13,000 low-income children;
- Safety Net Clinic Coalition, to support a strong, sustainable system of community clinics and other providers in order to provide quality, affordable care to low-income, publicly insured, or uninsured residents;
- Community Engagement to inform and involve a broad range of stakeholders including health care, government, business, labor, and consumers regarding policy changes to improve the health care system and Public Information to educate and raise awareness through health care data, studies, monthly news columns in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and legislative analysis;
- 52-10 initiative, in which HIP partners with Go For Health! to support a community-wide social marketing and advocacy campaign about the role of nutrition and physical activity in decreasing obesity;
- Make Your Wishes Known/POLST to promote planning for end-of-life care by involving hospitals, private physicians and safety net clinics to increase the number of adults with documented end of life plans;
- Other initiatives and partnerships to improve the coordination and delivery of care.
