The Virtua Community Health Institute (CHI) is dedicated to eradicating health disparities in our community. The Institute is comprised of a wide range of health care clinical and public health professionals working together, along with our community partners, to advance health equity.
The Institute unites existing resources to expand services and strengthen outreach and collaboration. The Institute also conducts research to improve the identified health and social needs of our community.
The Virtua Community Health Institute (CHI) is committed to reduce health disparities and promote health equity through partnerships, collaboration and innovation.
Communication and collaboration
Listening and sharing are the foundation of our ability to accomplish what our community needs from us.
Respect
It is our honor to serve our community and advance health equity.
Data-driven efforts
Data collection and analysis allows us to measure our impact, make adjustments as needed, and ensure that we are responsible to our community of patients.
Servant leadership
We foster a shared sense of mission among our team for the ultimate benefit of our community.
Innovation
Thinking differently is our persistent goal, leading to new and more powerful ways of serving those in need.
• The Institute works in a collective impact model, setting a common agenda, fostering shared data, coordinating purposeful community outreach and delivering continually enhanced clinical and community programming.
• Our team of cross-functional professionals identify and address the health related social determinant needs of our patients. Through our internal collaboration, we eliminate blind spots and ensure improved access to care and increase health education precisely where it is needed.
• The Institute serves as a resource with other like-minded organizations.
• As the bridge to the Virtua Health System and Virtua Medical Group, our Institute team works in collaboration with the Virtua Foundation to deliver clinical and community solutions to improve patient outcomes.
Brings gardens of green produce to neighborhoods in need.
Means more women get screened for breast cancer – close to home, no transportation required.
Virtua Fair Share Hospital Collaborative Executive Director Jenn Mancuso visits with Virtua senior vice president of government affairs and team at the FSHC advocacy day at the State House on March 26, 2018.
To help combat food insecurity in the region, Virtua employees volunteer to provide fresh and nutritious meals to local children through the Food Bank of South Jersey’s Summer Meals Program.
Virtua's Community Health Institute is impacting lives by taking on the social determinants of health.
Hear about the programs Virtua offers to its communities that are making a difference.
The Virtua Community Health Institute (CHI) is closely aligned with a variety of community partners dedicated to advancing health equity in our region.
April Schetler, Assistant Vice President, Community Health Engagement
As chair of the Institute, April provides oversight and direction for the development and implementation of a robust enterprise-wide community health strategy. April advances health equity by creating and guiding community improvement programs that address health disparities like lack of access to healthy food, transportation, and housing.
A Personal Health Navigator can help you find a doctor, schedule appointments or classes, and help you find a service or location.
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