The Healthy Village

Healthy Villages are communities of varying scale created at the intersection of neighborhood planning and community health. Through the coordination and integration of investments and services, Healthy Villages focus on improving quality of life and enriching the vitality of the neighborhoods while protecting their heritages, histories and residents.

Healthy Villages are located in economically challenged neighborhoods and are designed to enhance the traditional safety net hospital model. The partners are typically organized and engaged according to investments in the Social Influencers of Health:

• Economic stability (e.g., meaningful jobs and careers)
• Safe neighborhoods (e.g., housing, transportation, parks, retail services)
• Education (from literacy to higher education and everything in-between)
• Food security (including good nutrition)
• Social support (e.g., childcare, adult daycare)
• Health care (e.g., emergency services, short-term stays including observation beds, post-acute care such as behavioral health and skilled nursing, primary care, care management and access to quality specialty care when needed)

Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic/Saint Francis Hospital collaborated with Dynamis Advisors to imagine, design and help finance The Healthy Village® and its components.