The Healthy Community Collaborative (HCC) is a stakeholder group of community partners who have been working together since 2011 to implement strategies identified in the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) for El Paso County. The HCC consists of over 60 representatives from city and county governments, hospitals, community health systems, non-profit organizations, schools, and interested citizens.
Our Vision
The vision of the HCC is to increase life expectancy for all in El Paso County by removing barriers that prevent people from achieving optimal health. The HCC will achieve this vision by building an integrated system of community partnerships that puts practices into place that provide residents the opportunity to have better health outcomes.
Priority Areas
- Barriers to accessing health care
- Suicide
- Drug overdose
- Housing
The HCC and El Paso County Public Health (EPCPH) will monitor its collective progress in these priority areas through the EPCPH dashboard, which can be found here.