Nationwide grant places $600,000 towards Payette neighborhood’s well being care wants

A partnership of well being care organizations will use a nationwide grant to higher meet the wants of the agricultural Payette space, based on a information launch from the Western Idaho Community Action Partnership.

WICAP received a nationwide grant for greater than $600,000 of funding and extra sources to deal with well being disparities in Payette, the discharge stated. Payette is considered one of 13 communities within the U.S. that have been chosen for the three-year BUILD Well being Problem grant.

“As Payette is by far the smallest and most rural neighborhood to ever obtain this prestigious funding and help, the neighborhood will function a mannequin for addressing key well being considerations round housing, behavioral well being and entry to well being take care of different communities in Idaho and throughout the nation,” the information launch from WICAP stated.

WICAP will use the help over the subsequent three years to help its work with Southwest District Well being, Saint Alphonsus and St. Luke’s well being methods, Blue Cross of Idaho Basis for Well being and the Western Idaho Group Well being Collaborative.

Intermountain Well being, LEAP Housing Options, Payette metropolis authorities and others will present extra help, the information launch stated.

To deal with well being disparities, the grant will work to extend entry to, and use of, present well being care providers and sources, with a give attention to psychological well being and power illness. The mission additionally will give attention to social and racial fairness and entry to reasonably priced housing within the space.

The grant will deliver “nationwide sources and alternatives” to Payette that may “raise the voices of the residents in co-designing the housing and providers that they need and want most,” Saint Alphonsus Well being System Director of Group Well being & Nicely-Being Rebecca Lemmons stated within the launch.

“BUILD Payette will amplify the present sources locally and draw upon the experience of residents to determine urgent well being wants with modern options to deal with them,” Southwest District Well being Group Resiliency Program Supervisor Emily Straubhar stated within the launch. “Via this collaboration, BUILD Payette will create a more healthy Southwest Idaho.”

The nationwide grant program is supported by several national and regional organizationstogether with Trinity Well being, which owns Saint Alphonsus Well being System.