Communities Lifting Communities
We work to provide transformational systems change and promote intercultural health equity in Southern California.
Strategic Initiatives
Local coalitions work as a cohesive network of stakeholders to achieve optimal community health improvement.
Health Equity Innovation Lab
A virtual space to identify priorities and strategies to address social drivers of health inequities collectively by bringing together multi-sectoral stakeholders to co-design human-centered solutions and identify priorities and strategies.
Birth Equity Initiative
CLC is working with hospitals, community clinics, and stakeholders to assess the needs and identify collective strategies to improve birth outcomes and the care experience for birthing people, particularly communities of color.
Advancing Community Health
CLC facilitates regional convenings with health care, public health, and community stakeholders to explore community health data, priorities, and improvement strategies and identify opportunities for alignment across institutions.
Health Equity, Inclusion, and Collective Action
CLC is committed to diversity, inclusion and addressing health, racial and social inequities by fostering a culture that values shared experiences while recognizing that meaningful change requires uplifting and addressing our differences.
Serving Southern California
Communities Lifting Communities (CLC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit affiliate of the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC). HASC is comprised of 176 member hospitals and 31 health systems with numerous related professional and associate members, all with a common goal: to improve the operating environment for hospitals and the health status of the communities they serve.
We are dedicated to effectively advancing the interests of hospitals in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.