Community Innovation and Action Center Partners with Community Health Commission of Missouri

The Community Innovation and Action Center (CIAC) is expanding its partnership with the Community Health Commission of Missouri (CHCM) on a variety of community health-oriented projects.

CHCM aims to achieve zero health disparities through community and health system partnerships across Missouri. They approached CIAC in early 2023 to help evolve its Access to Care data efforts, which had previously required manual data extraction and packaging work across major local health systems and federally qualified health centers. CIAC is in the process of brokering local relationships with state intermediaries — in particular the Missouri Hospital Association and the Missouri Primary Care Association — to ensure that local data is easy to use for an analysis of healthcare access (emergency, primary, and specialty care) across local providers, which they are organizing as a “St. Louis Community Health Data Hub.” Creating stronger pipelines to healthcare data intermediaries will also help dive deeper into geographic health disparities across the region in collaboration with healthcare providers, public health departments, and intermediaries like the RHC.