Membership Benefits and Services

The Association for Community Health Improvement offers a premium benefits package to paid members. Download the complete membership brochure and review our member services below:

• • Annual Conference  ($100 discounted registration for members): ACHI hosts the premier national community health and community benefit conference.  More than 450 hospital, public health, and health community professionals convened in Atlanta, Georgia on March 5-7, 2008.  Join our next meeting March 11-13, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA.
  
  • Association Web site with up-to-date news, educational programs, case studies, member directory, interest group meeting minutes, and resource-rich links to valuable data, tools, funding sources and more.
  • Community Health Assessment Toolkit is a guide for planning, leading, and using community health assessments to better understand--and ultimately improve--the health of communities.
  • Weekly electronic newsletters on topics like access, prevention, finance, health status and policy news, and with announcements on funding, audio conferences, and conferences.
  • ACHI Career Center (a member of the National Healthcare Career Network) with targeted job opportunities and the right candidates for community health, community benefit, and healthy communities positions. $100 job posting discount for members.
  • Monthly, 60-minute educational audio/web conferences led by nationally-known expert faculty and Association members in interactive, accessible sessions that cover a range of current community health and community benefit topics.  (Members receive a 50% discount on audio and web conferences; see details on the audio/web conferences page.)

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  "This is the most useful organization to which I belong. I intend to use the community health model ACHI presented recently to make changes here; the audio conferences are well worth the investment."

  - Sister Gail Waring, RSM, Vice President, Mission Services, St. Peter's Health Care Services (Albany, New York)

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  • Interest Groups for focused discussion and education on specific topics, including access to care, chronic disease prevention, community benefit, and healthy communities.

  • Exclusive e-mail lists and an interactive member directory through professional networking site LinkedIn to help you to benefit from the experience of informed peers.

  • Discounts on valuable publications by Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley & Sons.
  
  ACHI members receive a 20 percent discount on all Jossey-Bass purchases!

  We strive to include all community health professionals by offering dues packages of value to those in large and small organizations, as well as to students and active retired individuals.