Catholic Healthcare Collaboration

"We are the living Body of Christ, and together we will go out to live the Gospel by serving as Christ to those most in need.”

~ Archbishop Paul D. Etienne, May 2022

The Catholic Healthcare Collaboration (CHC) combines the expertise and efforts of our five Catholic entities to address the needs of our communities. Working together we will transform the way Catholic organizations collaborate and respond to the cry of the poor - finding solutions that we could not accomplish on our own.

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Goals

Called together by Archbishop Paul D. Etienne in Spring, 2020 (during COVID), the CHC is a collaboration between the Archdiocese of Seattle, Catholic Community Services of Western Washington and the three Catholic Healthcare Systems in Western Washington including PeaceHealth, Providence Swedish and Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. The goal of the Collaboration is for these organizations to work together to improve or enhance services to poor and vulnerable and provide services that could not be accomplished alone.

Objectives

As the first collaboration of its kind in Western Washington, the Catholic Healthcare Collaboration is a true blending of expertise across the healthcare and social services spectrum. The collaboration aims to:

  • develop innovative and enduring collaborations and structures.
  • enhance individual and shared ability to provide integrated, community-based physical/mental health care and other services.
  • meet commonly identified, specific community health and housing needs.
  • promote community-based capacity building, skills development and foster educational opportunities in diverse communities throughout Western Washington.
  • champion and support community-wide health equity. 

First projects

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Community Health Workers

This project aims to increase the number of Community Health Workers in local communities to help marginalized people access healthcare and services.

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Medical Respite and Recuperative Care

This project aims to develop a place-based medical respite and recuperative care strategy to develop solutions for homeless patients who need a place to recover outside a hospital setting.

Meet the Members

For more information please contact:
Jilma Meneses
JMeneses@ccsww.org