Perry County Health Coalition

The Perry County Health Coalition’s mission is to bring together Perry County organizations, schools, faith groups, local businesses, County Officials, and community members to improve the health and well-being of the people of Perry County. The coalition is working to build a healthier Perry County by:

• ​Ensuring residents can access the high-quality, affordable services they need to get and stay healthy.
• Sharing information and raising awareness about health and well-being, as well as local health-related community resources available to residents.

Visit the Perry County Health Coalition’s website to learn more: https://www.perrycountyhealthcoalition.org/

In 2022, we joined with the Perry County Health Coalition to commission a health assessment of leading factors influencing health conditions in Perry County. Led by faculty from Dickinson College, the findings are drawn from focus groups and quantitative data analyses. The report documents how access to basic health services in Perry County has remained stagnant or worsened in the past 10 years. The 2022 Executive Summary & Call to Action (Complete Assessment also available) makes five major recommendations for forward progress. A prior assessment conducted in 2015, Executive Summary- Perry Health Market Analysis, provided a host of practical steps to improve the availability of health services in Perry County.