Improve the quality of life for all who
live, work and learn in Linn County

Healthy Linn Care Network was established to conduct a community health assessment and develop the Community Health Plan. HLCN acts as a catalyst for community partnership and collaboration to create and support programs that promote community health and well being and foster the continuing development of partnerships among state and local officials, health and human service providers, and community members. HLCN and its workgroups follow a “healthy communities model” as developed by Tyler Norris and his associates at Community Initiatives. Healthy community change is fostered by:

  Diverse citizen participation & widespread community ownership
  Building capacity using local assets and resources
  Program benchmarks and outcome measurement
  Focus on “systems change”

Hundreds of community stakeholders came together to develop the Community Health Plan under the direction of the Healthy Linn Care Network and continue to participate in the different workgroups. Their goal is to improve the quality of life for all who live, work and learn in Linn County.

The Community Health Plan provides the following:

	A historical snapshot and analysis of community health problems identified by the 2004 Community Health Assessment.
	A model for broad-based, collaborative planning efforts aimed at securing grants and improving community health care in the coming decades.
	A blueprint for implementing a community health system that fosters strong collaboratives among organizations dedicated to acute care, public health, human services, and education.
Click here to access the Community Health Plan. Click here to access the statistical data for the Community Health Plan. To view the vision/mission and link to partner websites for each workgroup, click on the name of the issue on the left.