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Health Care & Population Health

Making health care—and health—accessible, affordable and effective for all

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  • 85% of hospitals surveyed committed to population health
  • 263K Californians with access to CHW services
  • 10K+ healthcare internship hours worked by at-risk youth

Our Work

Access to high-quality, affordable health care is critical in creating healthier populations. Yet much of what makes people healthy is determined outside the doctor’s office—from housing and safety to education and employment. That’s why physicians today investigate housing conditions to prevent asthma, why banks invest in childcare centers, and why hospitals address hunger in neighboring communities. To ensure successful collaboration and better health, PHI brings together a broad cross-section of partners. PHI programs help align resources, guide strategic investments, and uncover financing and payment mechanisms that make healthcare—and health—accessible, affordable and effective. For everyone.

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Building Health Equity

PHI’s Faces for Future Program supports underserved high schoolers academically and socially, and prepares them for medical careers. In 2019, FACES students in Denver completed Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) coursework; preparing them to take the CNA exam by the end of the school year and receive their certifications: giving them access to entry-level positions right out of high school; stabilizing their incomes; and launching their health career paths. In 2019, 100% of the 866 FACES students across the US graduated from high school on time. 99% of them are continuing on to post-secondary education.

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PHI’s Alameda County Care Alliance Advanced Illness Care Program™ (ACCA-AICP) is a faith-based, person-centered, lay care navigation intervention serving predominantly African American adults with advanced illness and their caregivers—bridging the gap between health delivery systems, community organizations and faith-based communities.

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The last few years have been immensely challenging for communities around the globe—in some cases, setting back public health gains by years or decades. But these last few years have also demonstrated what works: Sustained investments in communities, health and equity, and policy change to support them. Now is the time to strengthen these successes, to ensure that no community falls behind.

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