Prime Health is working to grow the Colorado Health Innovation Community (CHIC) and are looking to have up to 18 Colorado-based community health organizations to join the next learning cohort. The 2025-2026 CHIC learning cohort will focus on making advancements in health equity for Coloradans by identifying and reducing disparities in access, quality, and health outcomes for populations served by Colorado’s health safety net with a focus on at least one of the following patient populations: people living in rural areas, Black / Indigenous / Hispanic, Latin American / Asian American / Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander communities, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.
OPPORTUNITY
Participating organizations will receive $10,000 in funding to support participation in the CHIC 2025-2026 learning cohort which can be used to cover staff time to participate in the program and for expenses related to innovation pilots and program participation.
Teams will have access to the following:
$10,000 in grant funding
Health Equity & Community Engagement Curriculum
Training in human-centered design through the Center for Care Innovation’s award-winning Catalyst curriculum
Optional coaching support from peers and industry leaders on sustainable innovation and digital health technology
Access to networking opportunities with decision-makers and innovators in Colorado’s Health Innovation Ecosystem
Opportunity to join an established peer innovation network
Invitation to CHIC exclusive events hosted by Prime Health and partners
Prime Health and the Center for Care Innovations will host an information session October 29th at 12pm to provide additional information and answer any questions. The application process will close on November 17th at 5pm. For more information click any of the buttons below. If you have any questions, please reach out to Kaytia King at kaytia@primehealthco.com
Apply to Join the Colorado Health Innovation Community (CHIC)
CHIC is a collective of Colorado based safety net providers, rural hospitals and clinics, FQHCs, and community based health organizations that works to better address the health of underserved Coloradans through innovation.
The Colorado Health Innovation Community (CHIC) provides opportunities to learn, innovate, and share ideas across the ecosystem. CHIC members also have an opportunity to engage with CHIC’s Learning Cohort Program, Catalyst, a flagship curriculum program covering human centered design, equity training, community engagement, and pilot design and implementation created and facilitated by the Center for Care Innovations. The program culminates with our safety net organization participants receiving microgrants to support them in identifying, piloting, and evaluating health care innovations with the intention of improving care experiences for low-income Coloradans.
Outside of the Learning Cohort Curriculum, the broader initiative of CHIC aims to create a supportive environment for organizations to take advantage of existing technologies and innovations that strengthen the health and health care of historically underinvested communities. At the same time, CHIC remains uniquely positioned to inform Colorado’s evolving policy landscape and create new opportunities to explore approaches to strengthen care delivery
See below for more details on our flagship Learning Cohort curriculum offerings
What is CHIC?
We’re offering in-depth training, coaching, and mentoring on human-centered design skills. Teams are learning how to effectively define problems and design, test, evaluate, and implement innovative solutions. These skills are essential for organizations interested in creating a culture of innovation and developing leaders for change.
We’re helping improve each organization’s capacity for adopting technology relevant to serving Colorado’s Medicaid and uninsured populations. That means identifying, prototyping, testing, and refining technology-enabled solutions to improve access to high-quality comprehensive primary care, behavioral health, oral health, or strengthen community health in the safety net. We expose teams to technology entrepreneurs and vendors, as well as their peers who have effectively implemented similar solutions.
To support peer learning and field-building, teams frequently share back their lessons learned from their pilots programs.
We host events that allow teams to plug into the broader Colorado innovation, safety net, and health care ecosystem with a broad array of stakeholders, including government, funders, health systems, payers, entrepreneurs and others in Colorado.
