I-HOPE (Indiana Healthy Opportunities for People Everywhere)

I-HOPE (Indiana Healthy Opportunities for People Everywhere) is sponsored by Purdue University. A collaborative initiative addressing health disparities in Indiana by partnering with nearly 100 organizations to improve conditions affecting health, such as nutrition, housing, transportation, and employment.

Indiana Healthy Opportunities for People Everywhere - Indiana Primary Health Care Association Indiana Healthy Opportunities for People Everywhere Indiana Primary Health Care Association joins Indiana Department of Health and Purdue University in a statewide initiative to ensure more equitable access to health services Indianapolis (Nov.

29, 2021) — The Indiana Primary Health Care Association (IPHCA) today announced its partnership with the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH), Purdue University , and dozens of other organizations as part of a statewide initiative that aims to ensure Hoosiers have better access to the resources they need to improve their health.

The two-year Indiana Healthy Opportunities for People Everywhere, or I-HOPE, initiative will deploy teams across the state to facilitate community-level conversations, resulting in strategies to address the factors that prevent people from living their healthiest lives. The work will examine longstanding risk factors, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Hoosiers’ health. The effort is being funded by a $34.

8 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In addition to addressing chronic disease, food insecurity, opioids, obesity, smoking, and other Indiana health challenges exacerbated by pandemic-related isolation and treatment delays, I-HOPE partners will address factors that make it difficult for people to get healthy and stay healthy such as limited access to healthcare, affordable housing, transportation, childcare, and safe and secure employment.

“The Indiana Primary Health Care Association (IPHCA) is pleased to be part of this important statewide initiative to address the needs of communities across our state who have suffered disproportionately from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: said Ben Harvey, IPHCA CEO.

“As a membership association of Community Health Centers, who provide care to individuals, regardless of their ability to pay, IPHCA has been working side by side with health centers to help them meet the needs of their patients.

” As a partner in this I-HOPE initiative, IPHCA’s focus is on sustaining and expanding the data infrastructure to support health centers response to COVID-19 and support their patients who may have delayed care during the pandemic.

By improving access to clinical information and information about social needs, health centers can better coordinate and manage transitions of care from hospitals and specialists and make community referrals to support needs around access to food, housing, employment and other services.

IPHCA is also reviewing how patients have been served by virtual services like Telehealth and remote monitoring of vital signs throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. IPHCA hopes to learn from our experience over the past 18 months to inform how these virtual services can be expanded in the future to care for more patients in their homes and keep them out of high cost care settings.

During the two-year grant term, Purdue University’s Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering will deploy statewide teams to collaborate with the many I-HOPE partners working on projects statewide as well as 30 Indiana counties that have been most impacted by the pandemic. I-HOPE will support stakeholders with innovative tools aimed at building collaboration, hearing the voice of the community, and guiding participants to action.

For more information about I-HOPE, visit http://i-hope. purdue. edu.

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