We place community health nurses in community health centers, on travel nurse contracts. Our travel nurses offer a range of medical services from routine check-ups and diagnostic tests, to vaccinations, chronic disease management, prevention and health education, triage, consulting, and program design and development.
We offer 3 and 6 month contracts, with optional extensions. We work with community health centers and our travel nurses to build a realistic timeline for all parties.
Our travel nurses are focused on community health centers in rural and medically underserved communities, in whatever shape that takes. These can range from small remote Alaskan villages to large urban community health centers. Our priority is in supporting community-led CHC's.
That's our goal! We work to connect skilled community health nurses with the health centers that need them in order to provide care. We review all staffing requests as they arrive and cross reference against our nurse availability to see if we can collaborate on a timeline that works for everyone.
The high demand for nurses often dictates our timelines. Our goal is to start as soon as possible but our process involves reviewing staffing requests as they arrive, cross referencing against our nurse availability and building a timeline and contract that works for everyone.
Our focus. If you were having an emergency you would probably want a team of ER nurses with you, and if you were going in for a surgery you would definitely want a team of OR nurses nearby. The same is true for Community Health. CoPop specializes in partnering with community health centers and the preventative services, case management, triage, and population level health initiatives that interrupt disease processes before they become much bigger problems, and with the cultural humility your community deserves.
We focus on CHC's to advance health equity. Health and disease are distributed unevenly in the U.S., as a result of forces that include structural racism, sexism, and classism. Someone's specific zip code and ability to routinely access things like stable housing, reliable transportation, medical care, living-wage jobs, and affordable fresh vegetables can dictate to what extent it is even possible to be "healthy." CHC's rose out of the civil rights movement, and of communities disproportionately affected by disease based on these social determinants of health. Our mission is to support and advance these efforts.
Community health actively centers culture, promotes healthy living, helps prevent or manage chronic diseases and brings the greatest health benefits to the greatest number of people in need. It also helps to reduce health gaps caused by differences in race and ethnicity, location, social status, income, and other factors that can affect health downstream of the systemic disparities present in our society. Whereas traditional western medicine often focuses on reacting to one persons acute illness after it has started, and often via hospital-based care, community health focuses on preventing and effectively managing illness across entire populations disproportionately affected by it, and from the comfort and familiarity of their own community and culture(s).
Population health refers to the health status of an entire group of people rather than considering the health of one person at a time. To improve population health it is necessary to influence the social drivers that affect health outcomes through population-wide policies and interventions.
We always welcome hearing from our community health people out there. Use the "Contact" page above to reach out with any questions you have! All are welcome.
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