Areawide and Local Planning for Health Action records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 3376

Scope and content

Studies, printed material, and correspondence of the Areawide and Local Planning for Health Action, Inc. (ALPHA) and its parent organization, the Community Health Information and Planning Services, Inc. (CHIPS). Includes raw source material used to develop studies, such as computer printouts, questionnaires, statistical data, check sheets, financial statistics, and correspondence; books, documents, and abstracts used in studies; former employee files. Completed studies include ALPHA's Utilization Review Project, which studied patient use of hospital facilities and services; ALPHA's Manpower Task Force, which worked to increase numbers of health aide personnel; CHIP's Baseline, Long Term Care and Cerebral Palsy Studies.

Dates

1956-1973.

Creator

Areawide and Local Planning for Health Action (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

ALPHA is a non-profit comprehensive health planning agency serving the central New York counties of Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Oswego and Tompkins. The agency evolved from the Onondaga County based health planning body, Community Health Information and Planning Services, Inc. (CHIPS), established in Syracuse, N.Y. in 1966. CHIPS and other health planning agencies were established as a result of the 1966 "Partnership for Health Act" which provided matching fund grants. In 1968, CHIPS sought and was awarded a grant to set up a comprehensive health planning agency that would serve the several counties of central New York. In March 1971, ALPHA became operational. The agency has helped in the planning of new health facilities, conducted surveys and studies, provided statistical data to individuals and agencies, and sponsored conferences.