The 2025-2027 CHIP outlines key strategies to improve the health of our communities.
Providence Swedish released its 2025-2027 Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) for First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard and Issaquah campuses. The CHIP includes strategies that aim to address identified health needs across King County, promoting improved community health and increased access to quality care.
The CHIP is in response to the 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), which highlights community strengths and need areas, and helps inform community partnerships, programs and investments. It complements the Annual Report to our Communities, which is scheduled to be released later this month.
Focus areas and strategy
The CHNA identified several health needs in the King County area, informed by local, state and national sources and community members representing diverse populations. The Health Equity, Justice and Social Responsibility Committee of the Swedish Health System Board of Trustees identified two priority areas from the CHNA to focus on in the CHIP:
- Health care access and delivery, emphasizing mental and behavioral health for youth and adults
- Equity and social determinants of health
The CHIP includes strategies that Swedish campuses will use to help address these identified health needs, including:
- Enabling care navigators to improve access to medical care and resources for those in need.
- Providing mobile mammography services to help reduce disparities in cancer detection and prevention for underserved and low-income populations.
- Expanding access to pregnancy and postpartum care for members of BIPOC communities.
- Increasing behavioral health care capacity for youth and adults.
Strategies featured in the CHIP are intended to span 2025 through 2027, allowing time to implement and advance the work while tracking outcomes.
More about Providence Swedish’s community benefit programs, CHNAs and CHIPs can be found here.
About Providence Swedish
Providence Swedish has served the Puget Sound region since the first Providence hospital opened in Seattle in 1877 and the first Swedish hospital opened in 1910. The two organizations affiliated in 2012 and today comprise the largest health care delivery system in Western Washington, with 22,000 caregivers, eight hospitals and 244 clinics throughout Western Washington – from Everett to Centralia. A not-for-profit family of organizations, Providence Swedish provides more than $545 million in community benefit in the Puget Sound region each year. The health system offers a comprehensive range of services and specialty and subspecialty care in a number of clinical areas, including cancer, cardiovascular health, neurosciences, orthopedics, digestive health and women’s and children’s care.
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