WHO ARE WE?

    The Northwest Georgia Healthcare Partnership is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization serving Murray and Whitfield Counties since 1992.  Governed by a 30-member board of directors, the Healthcare Partnership is a collaborative effort between health care providers, business and industry, local government, educators and public health agencies.

GOALS

• Improve the overall health status of the community while controlling costs
• Improve accessibility to health care
• Promote high quality health care
• Empower local citizens to shape health care in our community

NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED PROGRAM

    In 1995, the Partnership was one of only 25 collaboratives to be awarded a three-year matching grant funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and administered by the HRET of the American Hospital Association.  Along with receiving the grant, the Partnership participated in the National Community Care Network Demonstration Program and served as a model for emerging partnerships across the country.
    Because of this program’s success, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation committed additional funding to establish Phase II of the program.  The Partnership was notified in late 1999 that it was one of eight sites selected to participate in the three-year Phase II program.  The demonstration program concluded in 2002.