The Bay County Health Department believes good health is about making sure everyone in our community has what they need to live a long, happy life.

To make that happen, we work with local hospitals, charities, non-profits, and businesses to create our Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP).

Our Roadmap: The MAPP 2.0 Process

The Bay County Health Department utilizes Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) 2.0, a nationally recognized, strategic planning framework developed by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

MAPP 2.0 is a community-driven, structured approach designed to achieve health equity, ensuring the conditions for optimal health are accessible to all residents. By aligning resources across public, private, and non-profit sectors, the MAPP 2.0 framework transitions public health data into collaborative, systemic action through three core, iterative phases.

Phase I: Build the Community Health Improvement Foundation

The initial phase establishes the infrastructure necessary for a sustainable, equitable community health improvement cycle.

  • Starting Point Assessment: The Health Department and Bay HSCC partners audit existing community resources, review past improvement cycles, and establish operational goals.

Phase II: Tell the Community Story (The Assessment Phase)

Phase II comprises the Community Health Assessment (CHA). MAPP 2.0 utilizes a robust, mixed-methods approach to cross-reference data from three distinct assessment sectors, effectively integrating local forces of change, trends, and environmental factors:

  1. Community Partner Assessment (CPA): An internal evaluation allowing participating organizations to critically assess their individual operational capacities, internal processes, and collective ability as a network to address systemic health inequities.

  2. Community Status Assessment (CSA): A quantitative data collection process analyzing population health metrics, morbidity and mortality rates, and social determinants of health (SDOH) to identify statistical disparities.

  3. Community Context Assessment (CCA): A qualitative assessment leveraging the lived experiences, unique insights, and perspectives of residents directly impacted by local social and economic systems.

Following data collection, these three assessments are used to develop comprehensive, "Issue Statements" that reflect the actual needs of Bay County.

Phase III: Continuously Improve the Community (The Improvement Plan)

In the final phase, data from the CHA is operationalized to form the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP).

  • Strategic Strategy Identification: Partners deploy the Health Equity Action Spectrum and MAPP Strategy Bank to formulate policy, systems, and environmental changes targeting the root causes of local health disparities.

  • Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): Rather than utilizing a static five-year report, MAPP 2.0 implements rapid-cycle improvements and ongoing performance monitoring. Strategies are continually evaluated, measured against established outcome metrics, and scaled or modified to ensure sustainable, data-driven community health transformation.

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What is the Bay Human Services Collaborative Council?

The Bay Human Services Collaborative Council (HSCC) is the central "hub" for community wellness, prevention, and rehabilitation efforts in Bay County. Bringing together executive leadership from local health organizations, schools, non-profits, and government agencies, the Bay HSCC acts as a driver for collective change. Rather than letting resources and information exist in silos, the collaborative design ensures that local organizations pool their data, funding, and programming to reduce duplicative efforts and advance public health. 

Bay HSCC transforms the findings in the Community Health Assessments into actionable, multi-year Community Health Improvement Plans. The Bay HSCC establishes dedicated workgroups around core priorities as identified in the community assessments, and work together to define measurable goals and work towards community benchmarks.

Are you looking to make a meaningful difference in our community? The Bay County Human Services Collaborative Council (Bay HSCC) welcomes local non-profit organizations and engaged members of the public to attend our meetings.

Whether you represent an organization eager to collaborate or you are a resident passionate about local human services, your voice and insights are valuable to us. Come see how we work together to strengthen network resources and support Bay County residents.

We look forward to collaborating with you!

Why Was Healthy People Healthy Bay Formed?

Bay County Health Department had not conducted a community health assessment or improvement plan since 2002.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires hospitals to conduct a community health needs assessment and improvement plan.

McLaren Bay Region and the Bay County Health Department, a long with Bay Health Plan and Bay Arenac Behavioral Health Association, decided to pool resources to conduct the health assessment.

As a result of the health assessment, Healthy People Healthy Bay was formed to create a plan to address the health issues in Bay County.

Bay County Priority Categories

The Bay County Priority areas were derived from the Community Health Assessment that was completed in 2012. Each priority area consists of sub focus areas. Work groups were formed around each priority area.

  1. Access to Care: This work group is focusing on assisting residents in establishing a medical home, obtain health insurance and establish a system of common intake and referral
  2. Behavioral Health: The focus is on creating a work plan dedicated to improving mental health among adults and youth and increasing resiliency in youth.
  3. Children's Health: The focus of this work group is on creating a work plan dedicated to reducing obesity, chronic disease in and abuse and neglect in children.
  4. Chronic Diseases: This work groups focus is on preventing and managing chronic disease in older adults.
Community Partners
  • Mclaren Bay Region
  • Bay Health Plan
  • Bay Area Human Services Collaborative Council
  • McLaren Bay Special Care
  • Pinconning Area Schools
  • Essexville Public Schools
  • Great Start Collaborative
  • Neighborhood Resource Center
  • Bay County Prevention Network
  • Sacred Heart Rehabilitation
  • Bay County Public School Academy
  • Child Abuse and Neglect Council- Great Lakes Bay region
  • Division on Aging
  • Bay Area Community Foundation
  • Dow Bay Area Family Y
  • Girls on The Run

The Community Health Assessment and Improvement plan was possible with support from the Bay Area Community Foundation, Bay Health Plan and a grant provided by The University of Michigan Public Health Training Center.

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