Prescription for a healthy home

A community-based health care story

When a child begins to exhibit chronic asthma symptoms, Children’s Mercy hospital works with a community partner, to get to the heart of the problem: addressing the hazardous environmental issues making him sick.

This partnership between families, Children’s Mercy’s Environmental Health “Healthy Homes” program, and local organizations like Westside Housing shows how we can co-create healthier living environments and communities through upstream health care — a proactive, preventative approach to tackling the root causes of illness.

This film is part of our “Partners in promoting health and equity: Stories of health care and community” series exploring a new role for health care organizations where partnerships like this one can enrich the health and well-being of the people they serve.