Better Health Partnership

The Board of Directors of Better Health Partnership (BHP) has announced that current BHP President and Chief Executive Officer Rita Navarro-Horwitz has decided to retire at the end of 2024. Over her 43- year career in the healthcare market, Rita has held leadership roles that included innovative, ground-breaking ventures in ambulatory care, corporate-based wellness, and community health improvement. The last 13 years she held positions in Better Health Partnership as Director of Business Development, Chief Operating Officer and in 2017 was selected as its President and CEO following a national search conducted by the Board of Directors to replace the founding CEO, Dr. Randy Cebul.

Don't miss the opportunity to attend Better Health Partnership’s Annual Report to the Community webinar and learn more about collaborative efforts with providers, payers, public health and the community in Northeast Ohio to improve access to and quality of children's well care on Wednesday, May 29 from 12:00 - 1:15 p.m.

Public health department leaders will share learnings from community outreach they have conducted in Cleveland Heights, North Hill and Slavic Village. Perspectives from Akron Children’s Hospital and UnitedHealthcare leaders regarding the critical importance of this collaborative work and the impact they intend to achieve will also be shared.

Community health worker (CHW) Fonda McLaine and her client, Nadine Head, who are participating in Addressing Cardiometabolic Health Inequities by Early Prevention in the Great Lakes Region (ACHIEVE GreatER), a research project funded by the National Institutes of Health, were featured in a recent WKYC news segment. ACHIEVE GreatER, highlighted during a 2022 Better Health Partnership webinar, is a multi-stakeholder partnership among Better Health Partnership, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, Wayne State University and the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), operating in both Cleveland and Detroit.