PARTNERS WORKING TOGETHER

PRAB’s Community Partner Award recognizes a local institution that embodies the spirit of genuine partnership, and benefits PRAB and the Central New Jersey community it serves.

In selecting Healthier Middlesex as the Community Partner Award recipient, PRAB determined that it exemplifies the best that an institution has to offer a community. In particular, PRAB noted that Healthier Middlesex (formerly the Community Health Consortium for Central Jersey) has created and administered a joint community health improvement plan (CHIP) for Middlesex County and Somerset County/Franklin Township. This has brought together a diverse group of stakeholders representing numerous community institutions, which has established a roadmap for the future health of individuals and families in its target communities. Already, Healthier Middlesex has conducted a few community health needs assessments, and has been addressing critical health issues affecting residents. It has identified and linked community assets, leveraged expertise and resources, and enhanced initiatives already underway to create healthy and prosperous counties with a clear vision for a better future. Certainly, these efforts have contributed to efforts beyond the work of the two contributing hospitals.