HSP Community Healthcare Collaborative
Turn community health priorities into coordinated action.
The HSP Community Healthcare Collaborative is a 13-week implementation experience for healthcare organizations and community partners ready to strengthen the systems, ownership, coordination, and accountability behind their community health strategies.
Participants do more than discuss implementation. They work on the actual conditions required to move priorities forward.
Designed for organizational teams, not individual professional development.
After the CHNA
The CHNA is complete. The strategy is approved. Now the real work begins.
Healthcare organizations invest significant time and resources identifying community health needs, establishing priorities, engaging partners, and developing implementation strategies.
But implementation rarely belongs to one person, one department, or even one organization. Priorities cross functions. Resources compete. Community partners have different capacities. Ownership can become unclear. Data and reporting systems may sit in different places. Leadership attention changes. And activity can continue without anyone having a clear view of whether the implementation system itself is working.
The HSP Community Healthcare Collaborative is designed for this part of the work.
Good strategies do not implement themselves.
What the Collaborative does
Build the operating conditions behind community health implementation.
During the Collaborative, participating organizations examine their current implementation environment, identify structural gaps, and strengthen the mechanisms needed to carry priorities from strategy through execution.
Clarify
Clarify priorities, ownership, decision rights, responsibilities, and the conditions required for implementation.
Sequence
Determine what needs to happen first, what depends on what, and how priorities should move through the organization.
Resource
Align people, partnerships, capacity, information, funding, tools, and leadership attention to the work.
Activate
Build the cadence, accountability, learning loops, and measurement practices necessary to keep implementation moving.
This connects directly to HSP’s ISRA™ methodology, Identify → Sequence → Resource → Activate.
What participants work on
Your organization is the case study.
Participants bring their own community health priorities, implementation challenges, organizational realities, and partner relationships into the Collaborative. The work is applied directly to what the organization is already responsible for delivering.
The goal is not to create another plan. The goal is to strengthen the system responsible for carrying the existing plan forward.
The Collaborative experience
Structured enough to create momentum. Small enough to do real work.
13 weeks
A focused implementation cycle designed to move organizations from diagnosis into practical action.
90-minute sessions
Facilitated working sessions centered on real organizational implementation challenges.
Bi-weekly implementation labs
Dedicated working sessions for applying concepts, solving implementation problems, and advancing organizational work between core sessions.
Organizational team format
Participating organizations enroll a working team of approximately three participants plus an executive sponsor.
8–16 organizations
A deliberately limited collaborative designed to support meaningful interaction and cross-organizational learning.
Who should participate
Built for organizations responsible for community health outcomes.
Especially relevant for teams asking:
Who should be on the team
Implementation is a team responsibility.
HSP recommends that each participating organization identify approximately three working-team members plus an executive sponsor. Suggested participants might include individuals responsible for:
Executive sponsor
The executive sponsor does not need to attend every working session. Their role is to provide visibility, remove barriers, reinforce accountability, and help connect Collaborative work to organizational priorities.
Executive Sponsor
Core Implementation Team
Internal + Community Partners
Not just a certificate.
An implementation system you can actually use.
You should be able to see what is moving, what is stuck, who owns what, what requires leadership attention, and what happens next.
The HSP implementation system
The Collaborative is built on Implementation Architecture™.
Implementation Architecture™ is Hall Strategic Partners’ approach to designing the organizational conditions that turn strategy into repeatable results. Within the Community Healthcare Collaborative, participants examine the structures that determine whether community health priorities can actually move across people, departments, partners, resources, decisions, and time.
ISRA™
Identify → Sequence → Resource → Activate
Implementation Architecture™
The conditions that carry priorities forward.
Organizations may revisit Identify, Sequence, Resource, and Activate repeatedly as priorities evolve, not once and then move on.
Why a collaborative
Because implementation improves when organizations can learn without pretending they have everything figured out.
Organizations working on community health often face remarkably similar implementation challenges while operating in very different environments. The Collaborative creates a confidential, facilitated space for participating teams to examine those challenges, learn from other organizations, test assumptions, and strengthen their own implementation systems. This is not benchmarking for the sake of comparison. It is structured learning in service of better execution.
Cross-organizational learning
See how other organizations are addressing implementation challenges without assuming one model fits everyone.
Facilitated problem solving
Work through real barriers with structure and outside perspective.
Protected implementation time
Create dedicated space for work that can otherwise be overtaken by immediate operational demands.
Leadership translation
Turn implementation complexity into information senior leaders can understand and act on.
Program opportunities
Two ways to engage, depending on scope.
Summer 2027 · Begins May 2027
Community Health Implementation Intensive
A shorter, focused implementation experience for organizations that want to examine a defined community-health implementation challenge and strengthen the architecture behind it.
Fall 2027
HSP Community Healthcare Collaborative
Fall 2027 enrollment details will be shared first with the Collaborative waitlist.
Is this the right fit?
A candid look at both sides.
May be a strong fit if your organization
May not be the right fit if you are seeking
The Collaborative helps organizations strengthen their own implementation capacity.
The strategy already exists. Let’s strengthen what happens next.
If your organization is preparing to move community health priorities from planning into sustained execution, the HSP Community Healthcare Collaborative provides a structured environment to examine the implementation system behind the work.
Not sure whether the Collaborative is the right starting point? A short conversation can help determine where your implementation environment stands today.