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We were built to close the gap between care that exists and care people can reach.
Community Health Access Alliance is a national nonprofit expanding access to healthcare by bringing services, partnerships, and pathways to care directly into underserved communities.
Healthcare has made extraordinary advances. Yet across the country, millions of people still face barriers that delay or deny the care they need — not because the medicine doesn't exist, but because access to it is broken.
Our founding story
Why we exist
Community Health Access Alliance was founded on a simple but urgent belief: access to healthcare should never depend on a person’s ZIP code, income, race, insurance status, or whether their community happens to have local services.
Too often, healthcare is available but not accessible. Specialty services exist but remain out of reach because of distance, cost, workforce shortages, limited health information, or the simple absence of a trusted local connection. These barriers fall hardest on rural communities, underserved urban neighborhoods, and families who have historically been left behind.
“We don’t just improve access to healthcare — we build the pathways that make access possible.”
So we built an organization designed to do two things at once: expand access to care in communities and build the partnerships that keep that access open long after an event ends. Rather than asking people to come to healthcare, we work alongside healthcare and community partners to bring health education, screening, care navigation, and connections to services closer to where people already live, work, worship, learn, and gather.
What we do
Care delivered. Partnerships built. Access expanded.
Our work begins where trust already exists. Through our flagship national program, Screening Access Across America™, we bring targeted screenings, health education, and connection to care into the communities that need them most — starting in California with Healthy Skin. Healthy Communities.
We meet people where they are
Skin health, diabetes, HIV, and cardiovascular screenings — focused on the conditions that go under-detected in the communities we serve, where early detection changes everything.
We connect people to what they're looking for
Clear, culturally grounded information that helps people understand and act on their health..
We work alongside communities, not over them
We don't replace existing healthcare systems — we strengthen them. We don't replace community organizations — we empower them. We don't work for communities — we work with them.
We build for the long term
Lasting impact comes from sustained partnerships, not isolated events. We leave communities stronger — with more knowledge, more capacity, and more access than before.
MISSION
To advance healthier communities by improving access to healthcare through trusted partnerships, community-based health access initiatives, health education, healthcare access navigation, and collaborative solutions that connect people to the care and resources they need.
VISION
A nation where every person has equitable access to quality healthcare, preventive services, health education, and the support needed to achieve lifelong health and well-being.
Our guiding values
The principles behind every decision.
More than ideals — these are the standards we lead, collaborate, and deliver by.
Compassion
We lead with humanity.
Partnership
We accomplish more together.
Equity
We remove barriers to care.
Integrity
We earn trust every day.
Excellence
We pursue meaningful impact.
Our promises
Five promises behind every action.
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We go where care is needed.
We bring healthcare into communities where barriers to access exist.
02
We build trusted partnerships.
We collaborate with organizations and leaders who understand and serve their communities.
03
We deliver meaningful services.
We provide screenings, preventive services, health education, and community-based initiatives.
04
We connect people to care.
We help individuals find the resources and care they're looking for, beyond a single event.
05
We strengthen communities.
We leave communities stronger by expanding knowledge, building partnerships, and improving local access.
Leadership
Our Board of Directors
Community HAA is guided by a board committed to equity, accountability, and the communities we serve. Our board is currently being formed; additional members and full bios will follow.
Abdulai Sheriff
Board Member
Jometra Hawkins
Board Member
Autumn Robinson
Board Members
To Be Nominated
Access is created by all of us, together. Whether you’re an organization, a clinician, a sponsor, or a neighbor — there’s a place for you in this alliance.
