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Vision, Mission and Organizational Values

June 24, 2019

Vision

Local coalitions will work as a cohesive network of stakeholders to achieve optimal community health improvement.

Mission

To assist hospitals, public health departments, and other stakeholders to collectively move the needle on reducing health disparities and improving community health throughout Southern California. 

Organizational Values

Collaboration, Community, Integrity, Quality and Respect for People.

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Who We Are

June 24, 2019

Communities Lifting Communities (CLC) was established in 2017 as an initiative of the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) to assist hospitals, community clinics, Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans, and community stakeholders, working together with public health departments, to address social determinants of health through effective care coordination and cross sector collaboration.

CLC serves the HASC Region including Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. CLC is an affiliate 501c3 nonprofit organization under HASC. HASC serves as the backbone organization for CLC and provides accounting, contracts management, and other organizational and employment support services.

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Board of Directors

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Board of Directors

February 23, 2012

Our member Board of Directors is comprised of hospitals, health plans, community clinics, public health, and related health association executives.

  • John Calderone, PhD, Retired Hospital CEO, Chair
  • Dr. Elaine Batchlor, CEO Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, Vice Chair
  • Dora Barilla, President and Co-Founder, HC2 Strategies, Inc., Secretary
  • Will Garand, Vice President, Planning & Managed Care, Community Memorial Health System, Treasurer
  • George Greene, President and CEO, Hospital Association of Southern California, Vice Chair/Ex Officio
  • Thomas Priselac, President/CEO, Cedars-Sinai Health System

 

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Advisory Committee

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Advisory Committee

June 17, 2021

​​The Communities Lifting Communities Advisory Group members represent hospitals, health plans, community clinics, public health, and related health association executives. 

  • Alina Moran, President/CEO, California Hospital Medical Center

  • Audra Strickland, Regional Vice President, Santa Barbara/Ventura Counties, HASC

  • Barbara Masters, Director California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative

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Our Team

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Susan Harrington, MS, RD
President

March 22, 2021

Susan Harrington, MS, RD, President, Communities Lifting Communities, Hospital Association of Southern California. Susan is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and has worked in public health for over 32 years. She is a former director of the Riverside County Department of Public Health and is a public and community health consultant. In July 2018, Susan joined the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) as the Executive Director for Communities Lifting Communities (CLC).

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(213) 538-0717
sharrington@hasc.org
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History of CLC

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Our Story

June 25, 2019

In January 2017, the board of the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) approved a new community health improvement initiative focused on reducing health disparities in the HASC region of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.

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Mission, Vision & Values

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Our Vision, Mission & Values

June 27, 2019

VISION

Local coalitions will work as a cohesive network of stakeholders  to achieve optimal community health improvement. 

MISSION

To assist hospitals, public health departments, and other stakeholders  to collectively move the needle on reducing health disparities and  improving community health throughout Southern California. 

 

FUNDING 

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Strategic Planning

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The Planning Process

June 24, 2019

The CLC strategic planning process began in 2017 when CLC founding partners conducted an environmental scan and met with hospitals and local health departments to identify collective opportunities to improve community health and reduce health disparities.
 

CLC Priorities Areas

2018 – 2021 CLC Initiatives include six priority areas:

1. Community Health Improvement Initiatives

Maximize and support relationships between hospitals, public health departments and other stakeholders. These initiatives can also help develop quality improvement projects addressing clinical care, organizational change, and community engagement. Initiatives will focus on improving birth outcomes, diabetes prevention, homelessness and behavioral health.

2.  Hospital Advancements in Community Health Improvement

Showcases hospital efforts to improve community health and collaboratively create healthy communities through a variety of innovative population health strategies, initiatives, and partnerships.

3.  Hospital Strategic Leadership Training

Builds knowledge and understanding of population health improvement strategies. This training can also increase institutional capacity and alignment, and achieve greater equity, while engaging diverse stakeholders to address the social determinants of health.

4.  Innovative, Sustainable Financing Models for Prevention Initiative

Researches and identifies best practices and emerging examples of innovative financing models in the HASC region. A Capstone Roundtable at the 2020 HASC Annual Meeting will convene experts on innovative financing, community development, health care, and public health to discuss strategies and next steps for implementation.

5.  Community Planning and Investment

Facilitates regional convenings with health care, public health, and community stakeholders to explore specific strategies for alignment based on community health data, health needs, and community health improvement priority areas.

6. Data Analytics, Evaluation and Measurement Initiative

Integrates community and clinical data to develop community profiles, evaluates improvement interventions and can be used to recommend policy solutions that advance healthy community conditions.

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Partners

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Center to Advance Community Health & Equity

July 9, 2019

The Center to Advance Community Health & Equity (CACHE) is housed at the Public Health Institute and has expertise to help nonprofit hospitals, health systems, and other stakeholders translate data into better community investments. CACHE helps users interpret data from Community Benefit Insight, and couple it with existing tools and resources for strategic community benefit implementation. 

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News

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Advancing Supplier Diversity: Going Above and Beyond AB 962

January 31, 2022

The passage of Assembly Bill 962 in October 2019 came with a far-reaching goal. AB 962 requires California hospitals with operating budgets of $25 million or more to annually collect and post data showing how much of their procurement spend goes to diverse-owned businesses. The bill is intended to expand economic opportunity for minorities, women, LGBT people, and veterans, particularly in marginalized communities, by increasing the amount hospitals spend on supplies and services provided by diverse-owned companies.

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Contact Us

April 6, 2011

For general questions, please complete and submit the form below. For questions about Communitie Lifting Communities initiatives, programs and trainings, please make sure to specify the name on the topic.

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Fax: (213) 629-4272
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