Page 2 - Quad City Health Initiative Case Statement

CREATING Aligned with Q2030 goals, the Quad City Health Initiative creates

collaborative action on health to operationalize our community’s
A HEALTHY commitment to improved health and quality of life. Healthy people
make a healthy community with lower health care costs, higher worker
QUAD CITIES productivity, healthier families, higher educational achievement, and
safer neighborhoods.

As an award-winning partnership, we create a healthy community by:

ASSESSMENT

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1 Coordinating and disseminating the
comprehensive bi-state Community Health
ACTION Assessment every three years that facilitates
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community sectors, organizations, 3 collaborative and individual action on the
Convening people from across
community’s highest priority health needs.
and geographic areas to discuss and
act on projects that tackle major
community population health issues
such as physical activity and
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healthy eating. 2 INNOVATION

Working with community partners to create
“ health and person-centered care.
innovative, new approaches on important
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community health issues such as mental

The Quad City Health Initiative is important because it convenes all sectors of our
community including government, education, and private sectors which helps us to
understand that it takes all of us working together to make our community healthy.

Denise Bulat, Executive Director, Bi-State Regional Commission