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Community Health Services, Inc.
Mission Statement
To promote the health and well being of the people of Pitkin County and the Roaring Fork Valley through the operation of an affordable public health nursing service.
Community Health Services, INC. is a private non-profit organization that contracts with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Pitkin County, City of Aspen, and Town of Snowmass Village to provide public health services to the residents, employees and visitors to Pitkin County.
10 Essential Public Health Services
- Monitor health status to identify community health problems.
- Diagnosis and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
- Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
- Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
- Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
- Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
- Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
- Assure a competent public and personal health care workforce.
- Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility and quality of personal and population-based health services.
- Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
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