Community Health Symposium in 2024
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) held its third annual Community Health Symposium on Nov. 20, 2024. The symposium was held in Luzerne County.
Sixty-two people from 10 different sectors and 24 organizations convened to deepen relationships and to share information, views and ideas about how they might best work together to improve community well-being.
The symposium reflected LVHN’s ongoing commitment to working with community partners to advance health improvement throughout the region. It focused on four goals:
1. To learn from local community partners about their insights into factors that influence health
2. To showcase local partners and their innovative work that expands the definition of health improvement
3. To highlight the evolving leadership role of large complex health care systems in addressing social determinants of health, using LVHN efforts as a demonstrable example
4. To summarize a collective path forward and short-term next steps that allow all partners to contribute to improved community well-being