COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC

Community Health Services, Inc.(CHS) is a private non-profit organization that contracts with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Pitkin County and the City of Aspen to provide public health services to the residents, employees and visitors to Pitkin County.CHS offers preventative health programs such as:Child, adult and travel immunizationsWomen's health screeningsHIV and sexually transmitted disease testingCommunicable disease surveillancePublic health emergency preparedness and community outreachMission StatementTo optimize the health and well being of the people of the Roaring Fork Valley through the promotion of healthy lifestyles and the delivery of accessible preventive public health programs10 Essential Public Health ServicesMonitor health status to identify community health problemsDiagnosis and investigate health problems and health hazards in the communityInform, educate, and empower people about health issuesMobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problemsDevelop policies and plans that support individual and community health effortsEnforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safetyLink people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailableAssure a competent public and personal health care workforceEvaluate effectiveness, accessibility and quality of personal and population-based health servicesResearch for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems