Community Health Improvement Plan
February 28, 2014
Healthy Pima
Our region is in the middle of a four-year experiment. It tests whether the community can define its most important public health challenges and then tackle them, as a community, rather than rely on government and large health providers. Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation, through its executive director, has been part of the planning process since 2010. The 2013-2017 health improvement plan looks like: 
Each priority area has different objectives, measurements and goals. TOMF is heavily concentrated within the Healthy Lifestyles priority. Staff members Nicole Struck, Ashleigh Day and Steve Nash attend separate monthly task force meetings with other community leaders to work on strategies to meet four objectives.
1. Increase access to resources and healthy options that support physical health and wellness
2. Increase access to resources that support behavioral health and wellness
3. Increase access to interpersonal violence prevention programs and resources
4. Establish new and improve current built environment and green infrastructure that support healthy lifestyles
None of this is easy, but because the community planned it, willing hands are working hard to make headway. Duplicative efforts are prevented and agency long-range plans are changed to ensure we are ALL working in the same direction.
Click here to download Pima County's Community Health Improvement Plan.