Improving Health Through Community Collaborations

Our work succeeds to the extent that we form strong partnerships with organizations, churches, governmental agencies, other healthcare teams and many community volunteers. We will not meaningfully reduce housing insecurity, transportation barriers, food insecurity or addiction problems on our own—we must have partnerships with teams in our community who are also committed to this work. Thankfully, in our community, we have very engaged community members working with us on many projects and collaborations. Here are a few of our current collaborations:

Access to Covid education and vaccinations for vulnerable community members:

>200 community volunteers
Waynesboro YMCA
Staunton YMCA
Multiple churches
Schools Systems
Employers

Promoting access and health for LGBTQ persons in our community:

Shenandoah LGBTQ Center
CSHD
Augusta Medical Group

Promoting access and health for Latino community members:

Sin Barreras
Office of New Americans
CSHD
Molina Health
Multiple highly engaged community volunteers

Creating permanent and temporary supportive housing units in our community:

Community foundation
Valley Homeless Connection
United Way
Office of Youth
DSS
VCSB
CSHD
Emergency Management

Improving healthcare quality for adults with disabilities:

Local coalition for adults with disabilities
Wall Residences
Community Living
Office of Integrated Health
DBHDS
VCSB

Reducing food insecurity as a treatment for chronic diseases:

Blue Ridge Area Food Bank

Collaborating with local long-term care facilities to improve health of elderly community members

Augusta Nursing and Rehab
King’s Daughters
Envoy
Brightview
Baldwin Park

If you would like to partner with Augusta Health on an initiative or focus area to improve our community’s health, we would love to hear from you. Please call one of the members of our leadership team.

Clint Merritt, Chief Clinical Officer of Population Health (540-332-4422)