Everyone deserves the opportunity to be healthy
Through strategic collaboration with our members and partners, we’re working to eliminate health disparities and achieve equitable health outcomes for all.
What is health equity?
Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The data is clear: Health disparities plague our community
By promoting health equity, we make everyone healthier
Community Health Needs Assessment
We can’t solve problems we don’t know exist, which is why hospitals participate in our recurrent Community Health Needs Assessment, a study designed to identify top health conditions, the root causes of unmet health needs, and barriers to healthcare services.
By collaborating with us and our many diverse partners, participants provide valuable data that illuminates trends across the region and informs actionable strategies healthcare providers can implement to improve outcomes.
Targeted Programs
Mama Certified
Our targeted programs convene healthcare professionals from across the region to develop and activate strategic plans to address health challenges. By combining the collective knowledge, experience and influence of our healthcare leaders, we can enact real change in pursuit of a healthier community.
We organize ongoing affinity groups that regularly connect hospital CMOs, COOs and CNOs, as well as short-term action groups and coalitions tasked with addressing a specific problem or issue.
Mama Certified, a national pilot and new certification launched in early 2024, brings together all birthing hospitals in Hamilton County to advance maternal health equity for Black families. A groundbreaking initiative powered by bi3, participating hospitals include Bon Secours Mercy Health, The Christ Hospital Health Network, TriHealth, and UC Health.
Developed in partnership with Cradle Cincinnati, The Health Collaborative, Queens Village and local Black Mothers, Mama Certified, is designed to provide Black parents-to-be with a meaningful way to assess and compare the maternal-related efforts of Hamilton County’s hospital networks and to encourage and support the hospitals’ increased efforts to ensure that Black parents-to-be and their babies receive respect and care.
Community Partnerships
Once we identify a need in the community, we connect with organizations who share our common goal to develop and activate programs that advance health equity. Initiatives include:
- A partnership with Hamilton County Public Health to increase HIV testing for adults
- Connecting medical care with social care to help people with needs like food, housing, and transportation
- [Connecting] hospitals with community mental health providers to strengthen transitions of care
