Community Health and 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 and Well-Being Fund, you are directly supporting services to patients and communities experiencing poverty and other vulnerabilites. Community Health and 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, Trinity Health provided nearly 875,000 "social care encounters" across our system.
Here are some ways the CHWB Fund assisted patients:
Coordinating emergency food availability- Newborn baby needs (diapers, car seats, cribs)
- On behalf of someone experiencing homelessness, who has diabetes - ensuring access to a refrigerator to safely store insulin
- Providing connections to temporary shelter and assisting with paperwork for permanent housing
- Benefit Enrollment Support: 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)
- Medication delivery for persons unable to leave their home
- Preventing eviction and emergency rent/utility payments
- Providing culturally appropriate social support and coordination of care with clinicians
- Coordinating medical transportation, allowing patient the ability to keep appointments
Your donation is a lifeline for patients and those we serve in the communities.