The Public Health Institute of Oklahoma (PHIO) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving Oklahoma’s health outcomes and reducing health disparities by facilitating state-wide partnerships and providing support to community health organizations.
The design and delivery of health care is a complex equation most effectively solved at the community level. PHIO seeks to partner with the community utilizing County Health Improvement Organizations (CHIOs).
A CHIO is an organized group of stakeholders supporting health care improvement activities within a community, communities, a county, or multiple counties. Each CHIO is Certified by PHIO through a review process designed to ensure a multi-sectorial, inter-agency, equitable approach to improving health within an identified community.
The CHIO model focuses on convening the diverse partners required to advance health and socially focused efforts locally while promoting health equity, inclusionary community-organizing practices, and celebrating differing perspectives required to address the core health concerns of a population.
Through an extension system approach to health care improvement, the CHIO model supports the dissemination and implementation of population health projects and tiered programs designed to improve the health outcomes of all Oklahomans, including the most underserved.
PHIO's County Health Improvement Organizations