HIA in the News: Community Health Partnership Receives Kaiser Permanente Grant for HIA
April 27, 2010
Kaiser Permanente
"Kaiser Permanente, one of America's leading health care providers and nonprofit health plans, announced today it approved more than 250 grants and donations nationwide totaling approximately $7 million in the first quarter of 2010. The grants focused on expanding access to nutritious food, providing safe spaces for all ages to increase physical activity, increasing opportunities for continuing education, and eliminating health disparities...
The Community Health Partnership is the recipient of a $139,000, two-year grant for a Health Impact Assessment of urban planning in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood of southeast Portland, Ore., which is one of the city's most underserved and rapidly diversifying neighborhoods. Results of the HIA will be used to convince the city's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability to include health as a consideration in the city's comprehensive plan, which could eventually guide planning for parks and access to fresh produce through farmers markets in the neighborhood..."
