About Us

Mission

The Alliance believes that every Coloradan has an equal opportunity to obtain healthcare that personally addresses their medical, mental, emotional, social determinants, and spiritual health needs.

We are a group of individuals who promote policies, programs, and partnerships that:

  • Reduce and eliminate barriers to quality health care both within health systems and the community;
  • Reduce disparities in health outcomes;
  • And foster ongoing health equity.

Purpose

The purpose of The Alliance is to support the development of a financially sustainable model for patient navigator (PN), community health worker (CHW), and promotor(a) de salud roles as well as promote the value that these professionals bring to population health and the healthcare delivery system.

Activities

The values of The Alliance are reflected through the following activities:

  1. Advocate for recognition of appropriate PN, CHW,PdS roles with links to both the formal health system and the community through policies and initiatives that support minimum standards for the role and performance.
  2. Enable and support leadership to monitor best practices and share learning across the state in the implementation of PN, CHW and PdS.
  3. Advocate, implement, and educate regarding the strategies of a sustainable PN, CHW, PdS workforce utilizing financial and reimbursement strategies that provide fair and equitable wages to the PN, CHW, PdS community.
  4. Work with and through existing local health services and mechanisms to strengthen them; thereby avoiding the creation of parallel services, methods or competitive working practices, while reinforcing the supportive role played by communities.
  5. Establish standards and methods for the support of PN,CHW, PdS which are ethical, non-competitive, sustainable and locally relevant under a unified policy.
  6. Encourage local, regional and statewide networking opportunities between and among CHWs, PNs, and PdS.
  7. Support unified mechanisms for reporting and management of data that promote consistent quality monitoring and accountability to existing health structures and communities, thus reinforcing local use of data for decision making.