About QCHI
Quad City Health Initiative was founded to connect partners across the region and coordinate action around community health. For more than two decades, this collaborative approach has helped shape projects and partnerships that improve quality of life in the Quad Cities.
What Drives Our Work?
Our Mission
To create collaborative action on health through community assessments, plans and partnerships.
Our Vision
All Quad Cities organizations recognize and act on their role to improve health.
Our Core Values
Commitment: We embrace our community and acknowledge our individual and collective responsibility for meeting our community’s challenges.
Collaboration: We work to bring the right people and resources to the right place at the right time and create strong partnerships for the greater good of our community.
Creativity: We approach each new challenge willing to experiment, take risks and learn.
The Quad City Health Initiative is important because it convenes all sectors of our community including government, education, and private sectors, helping to underscore that it takes all of us working in collaboration to make our community healthy.
Executive Director, Bi-State Regional Commission
What is a Healthy Community?
A healthy community is shaped by more than just physical health. It includes the conditions, environments, and systems that support overall well-being and allow individuals and families to thrive.
A healthy community includes:
- – Quality healthcare and services
- – Support for mental and emotional well-being
- – Safe and supportive environments
- – Opportunities for physical activity and healthy living
- – Access to nutritious food
- – Strong connections between people and organizations
- – Opportunities for education and employment
- – And many other factors
How Did We Get Started?
The Quad City Health Initiative (QCHI) emerged out of the interest of community members and leaders in improving the health of the Quad City region. In 1999, QCHI established a community Board which today includes local representatives from health care, public health, education, business, social services and government.
How Do We Make an Impact?
As an award-winning partnership, we create a healthy community by:
Assessment
Coordinating and disseminating the comprehensive bi-state Community Health Assessment every three years that facilitates collaborative and individual action on the community’s highest priority health needs.
Innovation
Working with community partners to create innovative, new approaches on important community health issues.
Action
Convening people from across community sectors, organizations, and geographic areas to discuss and act on projects that tackle major community health issues.
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