Our Mission
To inform, connect and support efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in Arizona. In all that we do, St. Luke’s Health Initiatives seeks to be a catalyst for community health.
Priorities
Improving health is no small task. Given the complexities and interdependence of the landscape, simple cause and effect relationships can be either misleading or difficult to isolate.
From the point in 1995 when St. Luke’s Health System sold its medical facilities and created the public foundation known today as St. Luke’s Health Initiatives, the organization has pursued how to most appropriately invest and leverage the extent of its available resources and assets in concert with those of the community and partners.
Today, our work coalesces into four overarching priorities:
1. Increase access to care and insurance coverage — Because people with health coverage achieve better well-being and health than those who do not, Arizonans deserve access to reasonably affordable and available high-quality health care.
2. Work with municipal leaders to promote healthy community policies and practices — Because health is created where we live, work, learn, and play.
3. Improve the effectiveness of community-based organizations — Because dynamic and healthy communities are based on civic participation that develops and propels policy and systems change.
4. Promote innovation and collaborations among community organizations to achieve improved healthcare and/or understanding of health — Because policies and systems are transformed for the better by aligning insightful partners and taking significant risks.