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Enhance Communication and Care Coordination
Effective communication and care coordination are essential to ensuring patients receive timely, connected, and high-quality care. Beacon Community Impact is committed to strengthening collaboration between providers within and outside the Beacon Health System through improved referral processes, data sharing, and cross-organizational partnerships. By leveraging existing health information exchange platforms and enhancing information transfer between providers, patients can experience more seamless transitions of care and improved access to the services they need.
These findings suggest a strong need to improve communication and care coordination across healthcare organizations to ensure patients receive timely, connected, and comprehensive care.
From 2026-2028, Beacon Community Impact will support initiatives that strengthen collaboration between providers within and outside the Beacon Health System. Our organization has adopted four focus areas of support:
Focus 1
Identifying and addressing communication barriers across healthcare organizations and data systems.
Focus 2 & 3
Expanding utilization of health information exchange platforms, including IHIE and MiHIN.
Increasing participation in secure data-sharing networks among healthcare providers.
Focus 4
Strengthening referral pathways and information transfer processes to improve care coordination and patient outcomes.
Community Partners
Community partners within this priority represent a wide range of programming aimed at improving the health of mothers and their children. Below is a list of our current partners with details on the programming they offer.
- Healthy Babies offers perinatal care coordination aimed at prevention, education and early intervention to enhance the health and lives of infants, young children and
- Healthy Families is a long-term home visiting program and that helps pregnant moms and parents of newborn infants by offering support about child development,
- The St. Joseph County Health Department (SJCHD) Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) Program examines the social, economic, cultural, health, safety and systems issues related
Beacon Community Impact Programs
In addition to our externally funded community partners, Beacon Community Impact provides the following programming within our Healthy Family Priority:
- Offered to low-income families in Elkhart and Saint Joseph Counties, the BABE Store provides basic supplies, such as diapers or clothes, in exchange for
- The Childhood Safety Class is designed to educate on a different safety topic each month. Topics are usually geared to seasons or any issue
- Program for fathers or father figures to build awareness of child development and the effects of ACEs. Program is designed to be an advocacy-based
- FISP provides basic prenatal care education and uses best practices to lessen the likelihood that infants in the program are born preterm or at
- Provides sickle cell education, resource material, outreach and awareness activities for professionals, students, and the wider community.
- Care coordination for infants who test positive for sickle cell trait.
- Provides safe sleep education to families to reduce instances of infant mortality through SUIDs. Participants of the program receive education about proper safe sleep
- 574.647.2100 or 574.647.2175 Women, Infants and Children programs provides supplemental foods, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding postpartum
