Henry Ford Health
Detroit,
Michigan
Jaye I. Clement is the director of Community Health Programs and Strategies with the Office of Community Health, Equity, and Wellness at the health system. She is responsible for aligning the system's commitment to its communities by engaging new and existing partners around issues of community health and managing metrics and data sets to continuously improve strategies that contribute to engagement and community health improvement. She serves as a health care advocate and liaison to external audiences, including community, civic and faith-based organizations; volunteers; and other key publics. Besides working to align the HFH Community Health Needs Assessment and the corresponding implementation plans for each of its five hospitals, Ms. Clement also staffs the Detroit Regional Infant Mortality Reduction Task Force and holds administrative oversight for its nationally recognized and award-winning “Women-Inspired Neighborhood Network: Detroit” program. Ms. Clement helps staff CHANCE, the system’s community health steering committee, which aims to improve social and environmental factors affecting the health of communities. She also directs the system’s Community Health Worker Hub, which is responsible for the integration and deployment of CHWs throughout the organization. In 2017, she completed a three-year fellowship in the inaugural class of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Community Leadership Network. She also serves as chair on the board of directors for the Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance.
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