What’s your vision of a healthier future?

What’s your vision of a healthier future? What helps you to be healthy and what gets in the way? What can we do to improve or help you to live your best life?

These are the questions at the heart of Columbia Pacific CCO’s story collection survey. Across the communities we serve, more than 1,250 people shared their experiences of health and well-being with Community Advisory Council members, staff and community partners from September through November. The stories we collected covered a variety of subjects, including food access and nutrition, housing, access to prescriptions or providers, mental health and many other topics. The results of the survey will be included in Columbia Pacific CCO’s Community Health Improvement Plan, which will guide our community health improvement investments from 2020-2025.

“Your story is a very powerful tool. Your voice says so much more about what is working and what could be improved than a typical health care survey can,” said Nancy Knopf, community health partnership manager. “The process we used allowed us to not only gather stories, but also to have participants tell us what their stories meant and what they most wanted us to know by rating their experiences. It provides a community view of what builds health and well-being that we will learn from and work with as we focus our efforts for the next five years.”