Center for Community Health and Evaluation
The Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE) designs and evaluates health-related programs and initiatives throughout the United States. Much of CCHE's experience comes from its evaluation of multi-site community-level interventions with an emphasis on implementation and outcomes. Formerly the evaluation team of the Group Health Community Foundation, CCHE is now part of the Group Health Research Institute.
CCHE specializes in matching evaluation strategies to the needs of stakeholders, including the community, program staff, clinicians, and policy-makers. Highly interdisciplinary, CCHE has designed health promotion interventions, evaluated both large and small health-related initiatives, organized national conferences, and published widely.
Recent CCHE work has focused on chronic disease prevention and assessment of sustained, broad-based community participation. Clients include foundations, local, state and federal government agencies, national voluntary organizations, universities, and community-based nonprofits.
CCHE News
CCHE recently completed an evaluation report "Kaiser Permanente's ALL/PHASE Initiative in the Safety Net." This evaluation was based on a retrospective study on the implementation of ALL/PHASE among community health center and public hospital facilities from 2006– 2008.
ALL/PHASE was initially launched by Kaiser Permanente in 2003 to address the high rate of heart attacks and strokes among its diabetic members at highest risk. The effective spread of ALL/PHASE among all eight of Kaiser Permanente regions and its impact on reversing the trend of cardiovascular mortality was the impetus to translate this practice to the broader community, particularly among the most vulnerable and underserved.
According to Winston Wong, Kaiser Permanente Medical Director of Community Benefit, "The evaluation highlights the success of ALL/PHASE implementation among the first cohort of safety net grantees who took up the challenge of translation and deployment in their settings. The report outlines the important steps that took place in meeting the challenges of implementation. Moreover, the report affirms a larger, more significant story than the ALL/PHASE project itself; that is, in partnership, Kaiser Permanente and vital safety net providers can establish a well designed, evidence based population management approach that will save lives, engage patients, and save precious health care dollars and resources."
Read the summary of CCHE's evaluation findings.
Evidence. Equity. Empowerment. Evolution.
Presentations and audio recordings from the July 9, 2008 Los Angeles conference on public health-community partnerships are available for download. The conference was sponsored by The California Endowment and organized by CCHE. For more information, please contact Clarissa Hsu, hsu.c@ghc.org.