A Community Health Improvement Plan is a long-term, systematic effort to address health issues and concerns, and the factors that influence them. The CHIP is used by health care agencies, in collaboration with community partners, to establish priorities and to coordinate activities and resources to improve the health and well-being of community members, and the overall health status of the community.

Growing out of the community health improvement work that was initiated in 2012, the planning process and subsequent documents continue to improve with each iteration of the CHA and CHIP. Led by Healthy Klamath coalition leadership, the 2019 CHIP is based off the 2018 CHA and is the culmination of community health assessment and improvement planning efforts that began in December 2017. 

The 2019 CHIP outlines Healthy Klamath’s vision and values for a healthy community, how partner agencies are working together, and the Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) model and the planning process used in completing the CHIP. The six priority health issues are identified, and the relationship to other priorities, such as state and national priorities, and health equity and social determinants are described. Finally, fact sheets with goals and objectives for each priority health issue are included with a plan for implementation and monitoring progress.