PROCLAMATION from Fred Camillo, First Selectman
WHEREAS, The Greenwich Community Health Improvement Partnership, known more commonly as GCHIP, emerged from a Greenwich Hospital/Greenwich Health Department alliance to conduct a comprehensive Community Health Needs Assessment in 2003 in collaboration with other Greenwich agencies, associations, and Town departments, under an Affordable Care Act clause; and
WHEREAS, The Greenwich Community Health Improvement Partnership has been a voluntary alliance of for-profit, non-profit, and municipal organizations for more than 20 years; with more than 40 members/agencies participating in monthly meetings; and
WHEREAS, The Greenwich Hospital Association (GHA) has provided resources for over 2-decades to support the many GCHIP projects, programs and initiatives implemented or fostered by professionals from many diverse organizations, but also for the services of a professional facilitator for monthly meetings; and
WHEREAS, GCHIP’s mission is to improve the understanding of the health needs of Greenwich and to plan health improvement strategies to address identified data-supported issues, gaps, and challenges by facilitating targeted services, and programs; and
WHEREAS, For more than two decades, GCHIP has facilitated health improvement programs under 3-multi-disciplinary agency task forces; Access to Care & Services, Healthy Living/Healthy Bodies, and Behavioral Health/Healthy Minds; and
WHEREAS, GCHIP’s 20 years of accomplishments are too numerous to list, they include creating a computer-interactive Mental Health Matrix, supporting the need for four dedicated psychiatric beds in the GHA emergency department, the creation of a Youth Coordinator position for the Town of Greenwich, and supporting hundreds of healthy living and behavioral health education programs, along with numerous Health/Health & Wellness fairs and many multi-themed conferences for professionals and the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, l, Fred Camillo, FIRST SELECTMAN OF THE TOWN OF GREENWICH, do
hereby proclaim November 14, 2023 as
Greenwich Community Health Improvement Partnership Day