The North Puget Sound hospitals in Snohomish County have completed their 2025-2027 Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). This is a joint CHIP for PRMCE and Swedish Edmonds Campus. PRMCE can be found here: Community Benefit Annual Report: CHNA and CHIPs | Providence and Swedish Edmonds can be found here: Community Health Investment | Swedish). The CHIP is in response to our 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), which highlights community strengths and need areas, and helps inform our community partnerships, programs, and investments.
Within the CHIP are select strategies that work to address the identified, prioritized health need areas in Snohomish County. These are behavioral health, including substance use and access to care, while also recognizing equity and discrimination as underlying drivers of need. Examples of 2025-2027 CHIP strategies include:
- Enabling care navigators to improve access to medical care and resources for those in need.
- Increasing behavioral health care capacity for youth and adults through expanded services, community partnerships and investments
- Supporting chronic disease prevention/management and pregnancy/postpartum care for members of BIPOC communities.
- Providing community-centered health education and access to well-being resources.
Cross-functional teams across North Puget Sound will monitor and report on the progress of these and other strategies through the NPS Providence Swedish Community Health Improvement Plan Committee and other communication channels.
Please share the CHIP with your teams to further the conversation about ways we can collectively work to address identified health needs in Snohomish County. Finally, on behalf of our team, much gratitude for our caregivers and community partners who contributed to this process and for their dedication to the health and well-being of our communities.
