Trinity Health Community Health & Well-Being Fund
We understand not all communities have equal opportunities to be healthy, or the same needs. That’s where Trinity Health steps in and steps up. We do what is necessary to promote good health for everyone.
When you donate to the Community Health & Well-Being Fund, you are directly supporting services to patients and communities experiencing poverty and other vulnerabilities. Community Health & Well-Being teams listen, partner, and make it easy by sending Community Health Workers to identify and meet patients’ social needs like access to food and housing; removing barriers to care and treatment plan adherence through peer-to-peer education and behavior change support; and collaborating with local organizations to understand community needs and make social change.
Better understanding our patients' health-related social needs leads to better care. In FY24, across the system, over 875,000 patients seen in primary care settings were screened for social needs. 28% of those screened identified at least one need.
Community health worker Mimi poses with Ms. Evans, for whom she helped coordinate medical transportation and home health care.
Here are some ways the CHWB Fund assisted patients:
- On behalf of someone experiencing homelessness, who has diabetes – ensuring access to a refrigerator to safely store insulin
- Assisting with searches and paperwork for permanent housing
- Accompanying a visit to the county department for social services to apply for temporary housing assistance, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- Coordinating emergency food availability
- Preventing eviction
- Providing culturally appropriate social support and coordination of care with clinicians
- Coordinating medical transportation, allowing patient the ability to keep appointments