Everyone deserves equal access to quality care
Equitable access to quality, affordable healthcare services and education are critical for all of us. This includes issues such as lack of transportation or health insurance, availability of doctors and proximity to them, and strengthening the relationship between patients and their healthcare providers.
Initiatives we’re supporting
Rural Health Transformation
As the lead organization for the Central Michigan Regional Care Collaborative, MiHIA is responsible for convening cross-sector partners to strengthen healthcare referral networks and care coordination across 10 rural and partially-rural counties.
Funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ Rural Health Transformation Program, MiHIA will spearhead evidence-based interventions with a particular emphasis on improving diabetes and hypertension prevention, management, and control.
Project Partners:
- Michigan Public Health Association
- Michigan Center for Rural Health
Northeast Michigan Healthy Food Initiative
The Northeast Michigan (NEMI) Healthy Food Initiative, fiscally sponsored by MiHIA, collaborates with federally-qualified health centers (FQHCs), school-based clinics, and regional health systems to connect patients of Prescription for Health and Produce Prescription programs to healthier food options.
With funding from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund, the NEMI Healthy Food Initiative has created a “Healthy Food for Northeast Michigan Health” network that engages over 20 organizations resulting in increased coordination and support for existing and proposed new healthy food programs. This project has also increased community access to healthy, locally produced foods by expanding produce prescription programming at two regional FQHCs and increasing the number of market sites at senior centers.
Project Partners:
- Michigan Farmer’s Market Association (MIFMA)
- Sterling Area Health Center
- Thunder Bay Community Health Service
- Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities
- Sunrise Side Farm Co-op
- Fair Food Network
CAREing Quick Response Team
While the State of Michigan has seen a dramatic improvement in overdose deaths since 2021, Saginaw County continues to experience disproportionately higher rates of drug overdose activity compared to the rest of the state and is one of the highest ranked counties for both fatal and nonfatal overdoses.
The Quick Response Team is a collaborative effort funded through MDHHS aimed at reducing harm for those who use substances and serve those who have survived overdose with compassionate care and follow-up to the survived event.
Project Partners:
- Peer 360 Recovery Alliance
- Mobile Medical Response
- Great Lakes Bay Health Centers
- Ten16 Recovery Network