Better Health Partnership's mission is to bring together health care and other stakeholders to collaborate, share best practices and accelerate data-informed improvements in equitable population and community health. With a lens on health equity, we work at the intersection of health care and community to leverage cross-sector opportunities to achieve greater impact, inform policy and support providers in helping their patients meet non-medical needs. Our holistic approach includes our partnership with United Way of Greater Cleveland and its 2-1-1 HelpLink, which enables providers to connect their patients with a trained navigator at 2-1-1 HelpLink who helps individuals obtain resources to meet their needs. Expansion of the program to additional providers and populations is on the horizon.

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Watch one of the most anticipated sessions from our June 21st Learning Collaborative as ideastream's Mike McIntyre moderates a panel of experts from CWRU, University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Childrens, Bellfaire JCB and more who share data and research as well as a peer-support program created by high school students to kick the addiction to this burgeoning health crisis.

Watch the two-part video series.

If you weren't able to attend our Summer Learning Collaborative on June 21st or if you did attend and would like access to presentations from the day's inspiring speakers, we've now made them available on our website. Download presentations on topics like cross-sector data sharing for healthier communities, local clinic-to-community health linkages, the work of Cleveland Central Promise Neighborhood, the Community Pathways HUB and more. To access or download presentations, click here.

Our adult community health Report 23 includes 179,208 patients while our Children's Health Initiative Report 5 includes 264,550 children. Some key findings:

• As compared to 2015, an additional 29,587 adults now meet the BP < 140/90 standard.
• 32,855 children, or 16.4% have a BMI that puts them in the obese category.
• 16,247 children ages 13-18 , or 28.6% have either an elevated or hypertensive blood pressure.
• 45,465 children, or 17.2% have an asthma diagnosis.

We are also proud to present our 2018 'Gold Star' awards to 45 of our partner practices from 7 reporting health systems. To access and explore all of our latest adult and children's data and mapping click here.