Juniper connects people with evidence-based classes and community programs that support healthy aging, independence, and connection. Through partnerships across Minnesota, Juniper helps make proven health programs easier to find, access, and sustain.
What Is a Community Care Hub?
Health is shaped by much more than medical care alone. Access to transportation, nutrition, social connection, physical activity, and community support all play an important role in helping people live healthier lives.
The Juniper Community Care Hub brings healthcare organizations and community providers together through a shared network that helps people access the programs and services they need. By coordinating referrals, partnerships, and support services, the Hub helps improve outcomes while reducing barriers to care.
Why Organizations Participate
Partners join the Community Care Hub to connect people with the right services at the right time. Through a statewide network of healthcare, public health, and community organizations, the Hub simplifies coordination, supports evidence-based programming, and helps demonstrate measurable impact.
Community Care in Action
Research consistently shows that many of the factors influencing health occur outside traditional healthcare settings. The Community Care Hub helps bridge that gap by connecting healthcare organizations with trusted community-based resources that can support people where they live.
Through coordinated partnerships, organizations can extend their reach, improve access to services, and help individuals navigate the resources available in their communities.
Why the Community Care Hub Matters
Healthcare providers, community organizations, and public agencies all play a role in helping people live healthier, more independent lives. In this video, Dr. Jane Pedersen shares why coordinated community support is essential to improving health outcomes—and how partnerships through the Community Care Hub are helping make that possible across Minnesota.
A Community Care Hub is a coordinated network that connects healthcare organizations, community-based organizations, and public agencies to improve access to evidence-based programs and services. The Hub streamlines referrals, supports program delivery, and helps partners measure outcomes that improve health across communities.
The Hub welcomes a wide range of partners, including healthcare systems, health plans, clinics, public health agencies, Area Agencies on Aging, community-based organizations, and other organizations that support healthier aging and chronic disease prevention.
The Hub creates a shared network where partners can connect individuals to trusted programs and services. Juniper helps coordinate referrals, supports participating organizations, and provides administrative infrastructure and outcome reporting that make collaboration easier.
Partners gain access to a statewide network, evidence-based programming, coordinated referral pathways, and reporting that helps demonstrate impact. Together, organizations can reach more people while improving health outcomes and reducing unnecessary duplication of effort.
Yes. Juniper’s Community Care Hub is focused on serving communities across Minnesota through partnerships with local healthcare organizations, community providers, and public agencies.
Organizations interested in participating can contact Juniper to discuss partnership opportunities and determine how the Community Care Hub can support their goals. Visit the Get Involved section or contact our team to start the conversation.
“If we’re really going to tackle the health of the population, we have to have programs like Juniper that support people in their day-to-day lives.”
Dr. Jane Pedersen, Chief Medical Quality Officer, Stratis Health