Vail Health Asks an Important Question at Annual Community Meeting and Gets Some ‘Phenomenal Feedback’

Various community stakeholders, elected officials, leaders, and residents joined Vail Health at Hovey & Harrison in Edwards on Monday for the healthcare organization’s annual community feedback meeting. Furthermore, the meeting provided Vail Health patients and partners—including those from nonprofit, for-profit, and governmental sectors—with an opportunity to tell the organization what it’s doing well and what it could improve upon.

Monday’s discussion primarily centered around the priorities identified in Vail Health’s Community Health Needs Assessment. For instance, the assessment names 42 community partners, many of whom attended Monday’s session. Representatives attended from Eagle County Public Health, Avon Police, SpeakUp ReachOut, Eagle County Paramedic Services, Your Hope Center, Mountain Family Health Centers, Colorado Mountain College, Habitat for Humanity Vail Valley, Vail Resorts, and more.

Program spending has included expanding care with the Wiegers Mental Health Clinic, starting construction on the Precourt Healing Center, expanding the community health program on the MIRA Bus, service through Olivia’s Fund, supporting Eagle County Paramedics’ community paramedic program, and more.

Discussions touched on the increased quality and quantity of care offered, the need for “culturally-sensitive care” in addition to translation services, what specialties community members wish were offered locally, what will happen when providers retire (and what Vail Health is doing to build and support career pipelines), a need for more integrated services and medical records between Vail Health and Colorado Mountain Medical and more.

“We got some phenomenal feedback,” Lavigne shared as she closed Monday’s event.

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