The Bexar County Community Health Collaborative (better known as The Health Collaborative) has developed into a powerful network of citizens, community organizations, and businesses. The result is a more robust, less duplicative, more synergistic approach to solving critical community health needs, while efficiently utilizing resources.
Our Mission: Improve the health status of the community through collaborative means.
Our Vision:
- Enhance positive community health outcomes by leveraging appropriate resources.
- Play a leadership role in evaluating, developing, funding, and implementing health initiatives
- Increase the number of partners in The Health Collaborative
- Decrease duplication of health services in the community and promote coordinated efforts for the best possible community health outcome
- Adopt an appropriate community health improvement measurement system
Our Values:
- Dignity: Respect for the worth of every person, recognition and commitment to the value of diverse individuals and perspectives, and special concern for the poor and underserved.
- Integrity: Honesty, justice, and consistency in all relationships.
- Excellence: High standards of service and performance.
- Compassion: Service in a spirit of empathy, love, and concern.
- Stewardship: Wise and just use of talents and resources in a collaborative manner.
Community Health Workers, or Promotores de Salud, increase wellness by reaching out to, connecting with, and engaging underserved families and communities to help improve health outcomes for themselves, their families, and the communities in which they live.
Methodist Healthcare Ministries' Community Health Workers are certified by the Texas Department of State Health (DSHS).
Services include:
- Establishing positive, trusting relationships with community residents in or from underserved communities.
- Helping patients/clients, families, and underserved communities overcome barriers in language and culture to better connect to quality health care services and resources.
- Connecting underserved populations to health care services and resources.
- Providing informal counseling, support, and follow-up home visits for patients/clients.
- Aiding in the creation and maintenance of community partnerships, collaborations, programs, and services.
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