About CHDF’s Work
About CHDF's Work
Our Philosophy
Our efforts to improve community health are centered around three main goals: listening to local voices, connecting people to resources and social supports, and taking a community-specific approach to both preventative care and health education. We believe that individuals and communities are the experts on their own health needs, and create programs that honor and support that expertise, developing wellness solutions that put people first.
Our Programs
Patient Navigation
Our Patient Navigation service is a free, comprehensive resource referral and access program aimed to help members of our communities meet their social determinants of health needs.
With the help of a convenient online tool, our Patient Navigators assist clients to identify, understand, and utilize services that can improve their total health and well-being. Our high-touch program supports clients through every step of resource access, placing referrals and following them through to completion to ensure that clients actually receive the care they need.
Health and Wellness Programming
CHDF provides health and wellness programming designed to address the greatest unmet needs of our communities. We work with community members and local physicians to identify existing gaps in health and wellness resources, and then partner with nearby businesses, physicians, and nonprofits to offer programming and events which address those unmet needs.
Our programs range from healthy cooking demonstrations and ongoing health education classes on topics like cardiac health and diabetes management to preventative care education and health screening events. We also partner with other local organizations to create social determinants of health programming addressing needs like technology access, social isolation, and medical transportation.
Community Advisory Board
At each health center in which we operate, the Foundation establishes a Community Advisory Board to ensure that the services offered are aligned with the local needs. Area residents provide insights into their experience as patients, share their ideas for improvements, and collaborate to shape the future of healthcare in their community. Community Advisory Board feedback is key to the development and implementation of community-specific, culturally-relevant health and wellness programming designed for the people it’s intended to serve.
Patient Navigation 
Our Patient Navigation service is a free, comprehensive resource referral and access program aimed to help members of our communities meet their social determinants of health needs.
With the help of a convenient online tool, our Patient Navigators assist clients to identify, understand, and utilize services that can improve their total health and well-being. Our high-touch program supports clients through every step of resource access, placing referrals and following them through to completion to ensure that clients actually receive the care they need.
Health and Wellness Programming
CHDF provides health and wellness programming designed to address the greatest unmet needs of our communities. We work with community members and local physicians to identify existing gaps in health and wellness resources, and then partner with nearby businesses, physicians, and nonprofits to offer programming and events which address those unmet needs.
Our programs range from healthy cooking demonstrations and ongoing health education classes on topics like cardiac health and diabetes management to preventative care education and health screening events. We also partner with other local organizations to create social determinants of health programming addressing needs like technology access, social isolation, and medical transportation.
Community Advisory Board
At each health center in which we operate, the Foundation establishes a Community Advisory Board to ensure that the services offered are aligned with the local needs. Area residents provide insights into their experience as patients, share their ideas for improvements, and collaborate to shape the future of healthcare in their community. Community Advisory Board feedback is key to the development and implementation of community-specific, culturally-relevant health and wellness programming designed for the people it’s intended to serve.
Patient Navigation
Our Patient Navigation service is a free, comprehensive resource referral and access program aimed to help members of our communities meet their social determinants of health needs.
With the help of a convenient online tool, our Patient Navigators assist clients to identify, understand, and utilize services that can improve their total health and well-being. Our high-touch program supports clients through every step of resource access, placing referrals and following them through to completion to ensure that clients actually receive the care they need.
Health and Wellness Programming
CHDF provides health and wellness programming designed to address the greatest unmet needs of our communities. We work with community members and local physicians to identify existing gaps in health and wellness resources, and then partner with nearby businesses, physicians, and nonprofits to offer programming and events which address those unmet needs.
Our programs range from healthy cooking demonstrations and ongoing health education classes on topics like cardiac health and diabetes management to preventative care education and health screening events. We also partner with other local organizations to create social determinants of health programming addressing needs like technology access, social isolation, and medical transportation.
Community Advisory Board
At each health center in which we operate, the Foundation establishes a Community Advisory Board to ensure that the services offered are aligned with the local needs. Area residents provide insights into their experience as patients, share their ideas for improvements, and collaborate to shape the future of healthcare in their community. Community Advisory Board feedback is key to the development and implementation of community-specific, culturally-relevant health and wellness programming designed for the people it’s intended to serve.
Partner with CHDF
Do you live in a community which could benefit from CHDF’s work? Do you work in a current CHDF community and want to suggest a partnership? Reach out to us through the form below, and we’ll get back to you soon to create wellness solutions – together.