A Grand Junction-based organization has scheduled an event designed to promote collaboration among medical and behavioral health care and social services providers across Colorado.

The Quality Health Network will host the Healthier Together 2024 Summit from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., April 25 at the Colorado Mesa University Center ballroom in Grand Junction. More than 200 participants are expected to attend.

“We are excited for a day full of valuable information and collaboration,” said Marc Lassaux, executive director and chief executive officer of the Quality Health Network. “Even though our roles in community wellness vary, we all are very much connected in the work that we do. It’s important that we all have similar priorities and we are moving in the same direction to achieve the goals of the communities we serve. We truly are better together.”

Keynote speakers at the summit are scheduled to include Kim Bimestefer, executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing, and Craig Zablocki, a motivational speaker.

Hot topic sessions will explore the connections between health care and child care, the potential for the use of artificial intelligence in health care and determining priorities on a county level.

A resource fair will feature 30 organizations from across Colorado showcasing their services and educating summit participants about how the organizations can meet public needs.

“New resources for the public pop up every day. This is essentially one-stop education for our participants,” Lassaux said. “We’re bringing all these resources under one roof. It’s important that the people serving our most vulnerable community members know what’s available and how to best utilize these services. The resource fair is a great way to highlight these entities for our summit participants.”

The 2024 summit will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Quality Health Network. Lassaux and others will discuss what the next 20 years will hold for the organization.

The Quality Health Network serves as a health information exchange for all the hospitals and 90 percent of providers in a region spreading across 30,000 square miles. In 2020, the organization launched a community resource network, a social information exchange to better coordinate services among nearly 600 organizations.

For more information, visit the website located at www.qualityhealthnetwork.org.