Events
The WHI event calendar includes details about workgroup and stakeholder activities. Each WHI workgroup meets regularly to advance its vision and improve community health, health equity, and health care.
CHRT Offices – The Dome
Washtenaw Health Initiative Finance Meeting
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe Washtenaw Health Initiative Finance Committee oversees the WHI operations budget and approves financials for WHI projects.
WHI Officers Committee
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIMembers of the Washtenaw Health Initiative Officers Committee meet monthly to discuss emerging challenges and priorities for future work. These meetings alternate between locations in Ann Arbor and Howell, Michigan.
Senior Services Work Group
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe Senior Services Work Group formed in late 2016 to identify senior service needs, to determine the cause of those needs, and to begin to address those issues so that Washtenaw County seniors–regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic status–can experience healthy aging. RSVP to attend.
SIM Work Group Meetings
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe Livingston and Washtenaw County Community Health Innovation Region, with funding from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, works to provide patient-centered, coordinated care to frequent utilizers of emergency department services. The initiative, which is now serving more than 250 residents in the participating counties, will continue through January 2020. A number of quantitative and ... Read more
New Member Orientation
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe Washtenaw Health Initiative offers new member orientations on a regular basis. If you are a new or newish member, or if you know someone who might be interested in joining the Washtenaw Health Initiative, please RSVP to Carrie Rheingans (crheinga@umich.edu) to attend. Carrie will share a brief history of the WHI, describe the WHI's ... Read more
Hospital community health assessments (UNITE)
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe Washtenaw Health Initiative's (WHI) Unified Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan Team Engagement (UNITE) Group, launched in 2015 by the region’s largest non-profit hospitals, works to identify Washtenaw County health needs, prioritize those needs with the goal of advancing public health and health equity, and inform hospital-driven activities that are designed to address priority needs.
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Work Group Meeting
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIChaired by Dr. Timothy Florence, medical director for Washtenaw County Community Mental Health, and Nancy Siegrist, director of behavioral health services for St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor, the Washtenaw Health Initiative’s Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Work Group includes representatives from dozens of the county’s behavioral health provider organizations.
WHI Steering Committee
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe 22 organizational and community members of the Washtenaw Health Initiative Steering Committee meet monthly to provide strategic oversight for the initiative and to set program priorities. Meeting agendas and minutes are regularly posted and available online.
WHI Officers Committee
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIMembers of the Washtenaw Health Initiative Officers Committee meet monthly to discuss emerging challenges and priorities for future work. These meetings alternate between locations in Ann Arbor and Howell, Michigan.
SIM Medicaid Health Plan Meetings
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe Livingston and Washtenaw County Community Health Innovation Region, with funding from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, works to provide patient-centered, coordinated care to frequent utilizers of emergency department services. Medicaid Health Plans collaborate with care coordinators to improve service delivery.