Improving the Health of Our Communities
Population health is a team endeavor, requiring the alignment of diverse perspectives and expertise to improve health equity and access to healthcare. Creighton is connected to the communities that surround us in a variety of ways across several disciplines. The Institute for Population Health sits at the intersection of these initiatives and more.
Since its founding in 1878, Creighton has made it a priority to engage with our communities, working to make our shared home a better, healthier place to live and work for everyone. As an embodiment of Creighton’s mission, the IPH builds authentic, trusted partnerships in the community for the purpose of improving health and health equity in the communities we serve.
Creighton’s Work in the Community
The IPH works with community partners and health systems to address the many factors that impact our individual and collective health. By bringing together a wide range of stakeholders—healthcare providers, educators, business leaders, social service providers, community organizations, policy makers, clergy, and more— we can better promote healthy behavior, improve access to primary and preventive care, and reduce health disparities.
Learn more about our current initiatives and how you can get involved.
Learn more about our current initiatives and how you can get involved.
Creighton Community Collaborative
The Creighton Community Collaborative operates under the auspices of the Institute for Population Health as a concentrated effort by community-based organizations and programs, managed care organizations, academic institutions and other invested stakeholders to reduce barriers to health through services and resources. A primary focus of the collaborative addresses social determinants of health needs at the community level through a referral system.
ALIGN Nebraska
IPH Executive Director Scott Shipman, MD, MPH, is a member of the statewide quality measures group for ALIGN Nebraska’s Maternal Child Health project. The project aims to improve the quality of healthcare provided to children and pregnant women by increasing access to quality prenatal care to help reduce the rates of preterm births and other maternal/neonatal complications and through ongoing quality improvement projects with healthcare clinics.
CommonSpirit Health
The IPH has partnered with CommonSpirit Health to provide implementation and evaluation support for its community health worker programs and maternity care doulas, and to provide implementation support for its social determinants of health screening programs. IPH Executive Director Scott Shipman, MD, MPH, also serves on the organization’s national Optimizing Clinical Care Subcommittee and the CHI Value-Based Team Care Board.
